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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Kinda woulda appreciated a way to break the loop. Scary.

Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Even better than I thought! One basic class, two different "private" classes to handle the differences, fluent interface for convenience. Turned out quite nicely. There seems to be some "AI', checking my grammar here. WTFup with that?

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

I really, well, kind of, want a new Mac Mini. But I surely don't need it, and I fear setting it up, despite little or no troubles in the past.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Over a couple of sessions, I have made them identical except for the setup, which is perforce different, and the access, which varies because of the spacing. Next, I'll combine them into a single class that will be smaller than the larger of the two, and likely smaller than the smaller. It'll […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Y'know what's fun? I had two small classes, one processing a series of vectors a fixed distance apart, and one for vectors at varying distances. They both had to answer the same couple of queries. Because of how I wrote them, separate in time and space, they were similar but not the same, doing […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

It seems likely that we'll begin hearing from GOP candidates distancing themselves from the rapist in chief. The only question the press should ask is "Where were you when it mattered?"

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

What's fascinating to me now though is that we havea real-world example of something that everyone powerful claims has incomparable power, but that looks like a ridiculous parlor trick, and that tends to corrupt the minds of the people who use it. And there's nothing supernatural going on! No […]

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Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️‍⚧️🍳 @gildilinie.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I'm sorry but anyone who says AI produces good results because "100% test coverage" doesn't understand software engineering. Source: I have a PhD in software engineering

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I feel this. The comments over on lobste.rs are ... interesting. Is the point of programming the production of "software"? What if, just if, it isn't?

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Luxury! When I was a child, computers hadn't been invented, and if you've never had a file drawer stuck into your bottom, well, let me tell you, it's an experience!

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mcc @dryad.technology · 16/10/2026

Look. The argument is very simple, I'll explain. 1. Consciousness is mysterious; neuroscientists don't quite understand how it works 2. LLMs are mysterious; LLM vendors don't quite understand how they work 3. Therefore, LLMs are consciousness. In logic we call this an "extremely correct syllogism"

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

To be clear, when Trump threatens to revoke Ilhan Omar’s citizenship and when he asserts his authority to end birthright citizenship, he is seeking to take America back to the “blood purity” laws of yesteryear. This is the same program that the Nazis drew upon when they were formulating the […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@timbray I started using FORTRAN in 1961. Found and fixed a bug in the compiler, probably 1962. Beginning of a long mostly love affair with computers.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I am not pro-violence in any sense. That said, if some folx wanted to start eating the very rich, I might look the other way.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The system of the world is incredibly jagged and busy and complex, all the way down to the atoms and all the way up to life and to society, which is life interacting with life. Yet it seems to me--and this can't possibly be right--that the good lies in simplicity, in grace, in smoothness. That […]

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Jessie Kirk @thejessiekirk.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I don't care if the homeless person we house or the refugee person we welcome is a "good investment". Humanity is not a business. I just want as many HUMAN BEINGS to be warm, happy, safe and healthy as possible. Wrap that up in whatever political affilliation you care too, it's how we should […]

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John D. Cook @johndcook.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The regions with the same color have the same area. www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/14/p…

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Love to see this sort of thing! Gives e hope, which I sorely need.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Very interesting and adept. I hope he does the opposite one, but there is probably much less meat there.

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Talking of good memes, I don't know who created this, but I am stealing it...

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Bunneh Usagi-Chan @bunnehusagichan.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Bunneh says #HappyCaturday ! Even eppy kittens should be allowed to sleep in on #Caturday !

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Just Laughing @laughingaboutitall.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

No one can ever say, they didn't know. We Germans told you all along, what path you are venturing on. #USA #politics #neofascism #farright #GOP

Side by side, the USA's minister of war and the leader (Führer) of the Third Reich.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I can think of nothing that could go wrong with this situation ...

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Vote! Vote for the lesser evil, every time. We'll whittle away at the evil. Maybe we can prosecute some criminals, and chow down in some rich along the way.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@glyph Yes. I don't get it, and am glad to be out of it. I wish they didn't work as wellXXXX non-poorly as they do. And I do understand the pressure to go along, and to find the least bad way to live with them.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

So is it ok to use an immoral tool to compete with a vendor few people like?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Please let's get these stupid evil crass grifters out of office ASAP, even if we just replace them with slightly less stupid evil crass grifters. Start a trend toward intelligent good civil workers.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This is important, and speaks the truth. I wish my "AI"-using friends would heed it. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair www.brainyquote.com/quotes/upton_si…

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If the devil was running against Mike Rogers, the devil would get my vote.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Today I reread "Superluminal", by the late great Vonda McIntyre. It is a stunningly good book which you should read. It has been >30 years since I last read it. Superluminal was published in 1983. I found this on pages 37–38 of the original, hardcover edition […] [Original post on federate.social]

Ever since she had left the water, her message signal had been glowing, a pinpoint of light just behind her eyes. Granting acceptance, she received the messages through her internal communicator. They scrolled across a screen she imagined in her mind, and she scanned each one quickly.

A note from a friend pleased her; junk announcements broadcast to everyone on the port irritated her. She killed

each one as soon as she had read far enough to identify it. The people who wrote them got cleverer and cleverer. Orca’s message bank contained a strong filter that was meant to discard most advertising and other solicitations. Some of the circulars had confused the program enough to make it let them through. Orca would have to rewrite it and strengthen
its criteria. The escalation never ended.

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