Like cryptocurrency is straight out of the comic books, it's so mustache-twirlingly, capital E evil. How can we burn up the planet even faster while creating zero value, and get a shitload of heartless chuds in on it out of pure greed? This is straight out of Lex Luthor's workshop except I think even he'd consider it too much.
All this time I was looking into Ziggy Stardust makeup so that I could do crime without facial recognition software catching me
Maybe all I need is a handwritten sign to hang around my neck that says "Justin Trudeau"
https://openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/
H/T @BlayneyAJ
HOWTO:
$ mkdir -p ~/src/myproject
$ cd ~/src/myproject
$ git init --bare
$ cd ~
$ git clone ~/src/myproject
$ cd myproject
There, done. Now you have a 100% fully functional git repo that doesn’t require a network connection and supports every single git feature. Pull it, push it, branch it, revert it, whatever: it’s your own repo and you can do whatever you want with it. And you don’t have to sign up for anything or agree to a Terms of Service or share your work or trust a company you dislike.
I upgraded my phone recently, so in the past couple of months I've gone from Android 9 to Android 11. The OS seems to be getting worse rather than better. I'm constantly fighting with it to get it to do things it used to do easily. Can't help thinking that this will be my last Android phone. Are there any phones, on sale now, that don't use Android or iOS?
RT @OTI@twitter.com
With antitrust action against tech platforms looming, @RossSchulman@twitter.com worries that without real alternatives “consumers may end up no better off even after the most comprehensive of remedies." Here are a few decentralized platforms that offer real change. https://www.newamerica.org/oti/blog/decentralization-competition/
#cli Publish text snippets directly from the command line😉
echo "Hello world" | ix -n 1
Computer science pioneer, compiler nerd and first woman to win the Turing Award, Frances Allen has passed away.
kill your heroes. believe in ideas, not in the people who pioneered them. the picture of your hero that you hold in your mind is always more perfect than they were in reality -- and when you attempt to defend them from criticism, because you have built your beliefs on that person, you will inevitably betray some of your own ideals.
Honestly it costs nothing to be a decent human being and treat others with the respect you'd want from them too
“What are you without #racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? Still smart? Do you still like yourself? ...If you can only be tall because somebody’s on their knees, then you have a serious problem.”
- #ToniMorrison, 1993 Charlie Rose interview
humanist/internationalist
engineer/scientist
husband/father
live in Britain/keen European
Pronouns, he/him or they/them