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hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 08:47
“…a student in a wheelchair at the bottom of the stairs, looking up at her classroom, which she can’t get to. Words on the stairs read: “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."”
Damn. That is good. A+ on that Art Activism class.
@hugo https://social.treehouse.systems/@hugo/112698132775613874
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 09:28
It’s a good day to focus on a little more desert #BloomScrolling
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 14:11
Prepping for a DevOps interview by playing Factorio.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 16:26
“When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject’s taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject’s metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject’s brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”
Douglas Adams foreseeing LLMs.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 16:27
Phrases from Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy periodically pop into my head unrequested, and “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea” showed up while I was arguing with an Ollama-powered chatbot.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 16:51
@genehack I’ve found it useful on many occasions myself!
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 19:16
Jumpy Dog, very sheltered, sniffs with great interest, every new curiosity.
Bouncy Dog, more familiar with desert life, sniffs with interest but should something seem even slightly off he jumps like he’s dodging an invisible snake.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 19:17
@genehack I liked her early albums.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 19:37
An anecdote from tonight’s walk for any average-hearing folks curious what “moderate to severe hearing loss in one ear” is like:
If there’s a cicada blasting its tunes on my right, I hear it in my left ear — kinda, because even then it blends with the tinnitus — though I can’t tell from where until I swivel my head like a busted radar dish.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:32
Here. Watch this. I know a few of you are fans of Akira, architecture, history, and visual design.
The Strange Origin Story behind this Iconic Megacity - YouTube
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:41
@rafial If you use Markdown, you may want to add clues for clients that don’t support it^H render the HTML portion of the message.
More useful for complete lines with unified formatting.
“some terribly clever quote”
(a whole line of emphasis, which I usually use as a parenthetical aside)
Still working through when to use clues for inline formatting and how much to add. I usually let it slide for em and strong.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:46
The problem with the analogy of Factorio to DevOps is that this kind of stuff gets boring a lot quicker if you aren’t getting paid for it.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:50
@rafial it would be great if @trunksapp supported happy rendering of Glitch .soc Markdown.
But there’s still all the other clients, and the official Mastodon interface. They invariably render some aspect incorrectly, so I have to be careful with Markdown I use, when, and the intended audience.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:54
@trunksapp very very close! There’s a strikethrough in there as well.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:56
Am I saying I would be more interested in mastering Factorio if offered a six figure salary to do so?
Yes. Yes I am.
hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 21:02
@bitprophet primarily that’s the British Columbia accent, or at least what I hear around Vancouver & Victoria.