Posts by maybenot@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #Ad2RVWkpQmu0S4UCfI by maybenot@mstdn.social
2023-12-21T15:01:17Z
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@kravietz >perspective of “Ukraine losing” is entirely caused by a dramatic changes in perceptionpretty much thisalso, because of the significant success of the 2022 counteroffensive(s), hopes were set unrealistically high for the 2023 one, even w/out the media hypealso also, to the same effect, "180 units" is not really "saturated with Bradleys"
(DIR) Post #AdRGIj4jOa81pp5Hqy by maybenot@mstdn.social
2024-01-02T14:53:55Z
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(this is about mstdn_dot_social)does anyone know whether advanced search is disabled as a policy, or as damage control / temporarily?i couldn't find any announcement to that end (not least because search is limited :) @stux #fedimeta #search
(DIR) Post #AdRGO1hNa7w32fgmdE by maybenot@mstdn.social
2024-01-02T14:55:17Z
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@stux great, thanks!
(DIR) Post #AoPa2aH7TIyh2flO4G by maybenot@mstdn.social
2024-11-25T19:59:21Z
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@futurebird >[...] if one can simply say the bacteria, algae and fungi were just designed all at once to work together in their symbiosis?surely, if designed, it would've been a single part to reduce costs and shorten the BOM...
(DIR) Post #Ar3MAGGtki6E40AWO0 by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-02-12T19:29:11Z
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@lain @feld @malwarejake any effort to limit/slow-down the deployment of these systems is commendable.the genie cannot be put back in the bottle, but the lamp-holding oligarchs can be forced to ration their wishes. and not only does this disrupt the entrench-fast-become-irremovable shock doctrine ploy, it also means a bunch of ppl not laid of /yet/ can still pay rentthe whole "harm reduction is pointless, i only deal in Axiom and Absolutes" really needs to be put on ice.
(DIR) Post #Ar3MAHjIKcPMaMSiHo by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-02-12T20:11:58Z
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@feld @malwarejake @lain yes, i do think working on a pointless widget and getting paid is better than being laid off and having the widget be made even shittier by genai, while one starves.there's now a surplus of tech workers (and "creatives" too), all the investment is tied up in bullshit, and the shitty widget may well be the least-bad option available for many.
(DIR) Post #Ar3MAOm28pl4QsnV1k by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-02-12T20:12:08Z
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@feld @malwarejake @lain anyway, the important part where we disagree (i think) is whether the current push to entrench these technologies (with the explicit goal of owners/funders/providers riding out the crash) is gonna make the whole thing worse for everyone except the c-suites and a-round investors
(DIR) Post #Ar3Oot6WzZcxzcoroW by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-02-12T20:40:20Z
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@feld @malwarejake @lain oh i love this video,all this is true. and you would be right in these conclusions were it not for the dreaded political aspect of this.the "shitty 90s era cgi" is being forcibly baked into everything now, with the intent to then have it mandated by laws that practical effects are illegal. and if you want to have *any effects at all* you have to pay one of the 3 vendors.also, then there's the small sidenote that these things have more malicious uses than 90s cgi
(DIR) Post #Ar9FLkIIw3yvdF7Byq by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-02-15T16:28:25Z
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@futurebird @davep but who needs such frivolous unproductive things like poetry when the mallet is right there striking your head
(DIR) Post #ArUV0853emgChhbEq8 by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-02-25T22:32:42Z
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a whole bunch of assholes are about to find out that (surprise surprise):1. laws of physics cannot be waived by presidential executive order and 2. aviation is a fragile thing and it has a lot of requirements in the skill tree looking forward to the new golden era of passenger rail in the us of a.
(DIR) Post #Arg59O7GQSjVXcgH2G by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-03-03T12:39:37Z
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@futurebird a t-shirt with some humorous framing of the issue could maybe pass as socially acceptable?'ppl keep making assumptions concerning malice about my "ppl keep making assumptions concerning malice" t-shirt already answered by the t-shirt'not sure how to frame well it tho
(DIR) Post #AuYvbvbKS0YcOf3ahE by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-05-28T11:49:34Z
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@Nick_Stevens_graphics @Kierkegaanks but at elon companies even the engineers have to be "Hardcore", not just the poor saps getting maimed by machinery
(DIR) Post #AuYvc6afanZATnpihE by maybenot@mstdn.social
2025-05-28T12:09:42Z
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@Kierkegaanks @Nick_Stevens_graphics anything less would be quiet quitting.also, afaik, spacex has been doing regular purges of "low performers" for a long time. that is also definitely helping retain institutional knowledge.surely the guy who spent a lot of time *thinking* about why the thing keeps failing did not produce many lines of code / cad revisions / whatever is the metric du jour amongst their mbas