Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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This is... not entirely surprising
"Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI's codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant."
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange So I should note that my background is in teaching software development and all the associated practices (not just architecture but also eg. interpersonal stuff). With that said:
I've found that videos are exceptionally good at making people *feel* like they've achieved something, learning-wise, but the actual retention is disastrously bad. In other words: it's a dopamine machine. Which probably also explains their popularity.
I've actually tested this with quite a few students, polling their understanding after watching a tutorial video vs. after reading a technical article. Pretty much without exception, retention after the video was nearly zero. Best case they could repeat some of the points verbatim, but showed no conceptual understanding of them.
To some degree, this seems to have to do with "do X, then Y" tutorials themselves, regardless of whether they are videos ("following an IKEA instruction manual makes you feel accomplished but doesn't actually teach you any furniture design"), but video as a format definitely seems to worsen this problem further.
There's a special case here for videos that explain specific topics (!= tutorials) that requires heavy visualization - here, videos seem to do better than typical written articles. However, written articles with interactive in-article visualizations seem to be optimal here.
(This is the short version of my answer; I have... feelings about the way software development is taught, and how depressingly few people seem to actually be interested in the didactic aspects of it...)
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Anti-transmasculinity, transphobia, death, TERFs
On Aug 27 2022, a transgender activist named Malte C. was beaten to death for defending two lesbians against homophobic abuse. On cue, TERFs mocked him for dying and claimed that he would have been able to fight back had he been born male. The transandrophobia cult reflected the same sentiment. I won’t forget Malte’s sacrifice. What happened to him could have happened to anyone, but he is the one who chose to act. I think about this a lot.
Where on earth is this remaining sort operation coming from??
So apparently removing the DISTINCT cuts the query time in half, but it's still very slow...
With DISTINCT: https://explain.depesz.com/s/cOeV
Without DISTINCT: https://explain.depesz.com/s/QAIM5
@davidak@chaos.social "Preview"?
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pixie.town statistics:
42 users
one little gnome running through the internet pipes delivering all the toots
oh, actually only 4 minutes when the system isn't under load 🙃
now to wait for the 13 minute `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` query to complete
@kim I already gave it so many cores though :( I was having load averages of 40+!
well crap, it knocked over the container and now I've lost three whole CPU cores...
feeding my datasheet search engine database its favourite treat, a whole CPU core
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meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
Heads-up for any folks on hachyderm.io: I would recommend picking a different instance, as it seems likely that it'll get defederated from quite a few places at some point.
They seem to not only be happy with corporate accounts[1], but also apparently seek to "introduce trust with corporations" [and draw them to fedi?], which uhhhh yeah no.
This is a space for people, not for corporations. Let's not repeat the errors of the FOSS community (that eventually led to near-total corporate capture of FOSS) by inviting corporations into our spaces, not even "as long as they play nice".
[1] https://github.com/hachyderm/community/blob/main/accounts/corporate-accounts.md
@tailscale@hachyderm.io That policy seems quite likely to get Hachyderm defederated from other instances, tbh, if it mixes in corporate with personal accounts.
And my concerns about corporate accounts exceed "what I personally wish to see" - it's about their effects on the broader community, and precisely that dangerous area of "corporations that act like they're a community member but ultimately always act in their own best interest". This is precisely how eg. corporate capture of FOSS happened.
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re: galactica nonsense
@ct_bergstrom (specifically, 1. it doesn't expand on the "not always", 2. static typing doesn't *always* require explicit declaration, inference also exists, and 3. from a research perspective it's highly debatable whether it's true at all - ie. exactly the kind of errors I would expect a neural net to make)
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Here's the kicker. It's not that Galactica picked the wrong law. It is that the Padua economist to whom Galactica attributes the law, Gianni Brandolini, DOES NOT EXIST.
Galactica's phrasing of the law itself? That does not exist either. No one has ever said that phrase online (rather a surprise, tbh).
Galactica doesn't let us "access and manipulate what we know about the universe." It generates *pure bullshit* — which, incidentally, will be orders of magnitude more difficult to clean up.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
