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@mattwilcox I'd also argue that why it's predominantly men who do it, is important. On fact probably very significant. Therefore trying to gender neutralise it, is unlikely to help.

@mattwilcox I'd totally disagree, the people who Manspain are unlikely to listen, especially to logic. Given that it mainly comes from a mix of: arrogance, lack of empathy and Dunning-Kruger. Telling them they are being sexist is likely simpler and more likely to make an impact. Plus 99.9% of people I've seen do it, are men. I really don't think tying it to gender has any difference on preventing it.

Poll for the #postgres folks out there... how often do you tend to upgrade major versions (roughly)? Replies with extra context super welcome 🙏

@bigcalm @alex the STM32 will almost certainly have a SPI controller. However that will require writing custom firmware. Probably better off looking for a USB SPI dongle. Or just using the power monitor board with a PI Zero or similar. Or building a custom SPI interface.

@bigcalm @alex based on a quick look, the RTK.GPIO is just using a microprocessor (STM32) on the 3nd of a USB interface. To Linux sends USB commands to STM32 to twiddle the pin states. You don't want to bit bang SPI unless you really have to, especially from userspace in Linux. The power monitor board will be using SPI to be able to poll the ADC relatively fast, making bit banging SPI via emulated GPIO poor.

@xahteiwi cloud providers' revenue and new and improved problems, seems to be the most common.

Google likes to claim it loves the web. Google fucking broke the web.

Cookie notices on every fucking website? They need those because they use Google Analytics or Google Ads.

Recipe sites that go on for fucking days? That’s because Google penalises websites when you leave too quickly, and they can’t show as many ads.

Obviously-bullshit machine-generated “content” designed to entice you to click ads? That’s because Google Search is a monopoly.

I’m so tired of Google.

@alex rather unlikely that it should be connected to the Normally Closed contact. One hopes its actually a PE and not someone totally mis-using a cable.

Hi, I work with generative machines. Everything from Markov chain generators to GPT-3. I’ve trained and tuned many models with GPT2 and 3, all with the intent of simulating human interaction.

I know a fair bit about generative machines, both how they work, and how to tune and interact with them to get particular results.

I need you to hear this: they do not know or understand anything. They are complex probability tables.

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Excellent evening listening yo Darkside (darksidefloydshow.com/) playing The Dark Side Of The Moon, 50 years and 2 days after the original release.

There are things I should have done today.
There are things I _did_ do today.
There are also things I did not.
#NormalForMe

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" would make a good title for a blog post about prioritization at tech companies.

@deavid Your 22 degree image looks much closer to a isometric projection than the 45 degree, feels much more normal.

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