66 105 110 97 114 121

A=65, and a=97, you guess the rest

I can actually believe that JK thinks she’s doing the right thing. She’s losing friends, money, reputation for saying what she truly believes, no matter how messed up. She never pretended anything but.

Elon is not like that. Elon knew how to play the progressive part and have a progressive wife, and do/say progressive things to make himself look good when it suited him. The face-mask reveal and the 180 turn as he ditches his old friends (they served their purpose) for new ones, whilst his wealth skyrockets… this man surely deep down can’t believe that he has noble intentions.

nods impassively, and then ignores you politely

It’s pretty amazing. Something about the symmetry of it, the faux-orderliness of the embossed fonts against the stark blue defiant scrawl, the crowd of people in the distance against the few cops in the foreground. The upwards curve of capitol hill building vs the downward curve of the hats of the cops. The blue sky and text imploring clarity and freedom vs the brown uniforms and dead grass.

All of it incidental, but captured like it was a planned painting. There’s more I’m sure I’m missing, but yeah, this is an amazing photo.

you just made every italian cry

I have to admit, PDF parsing being such a hot and profitable topic in computer science was really something I never saw coming.

PDFs? The things you can select text from? And when not, there’s decent OCR? And when not, you just ask the person to send you an email or a word doc?

It sounds like LLMs are looking for a new unpolluted source of historical data that they can learn from, and this source exists in the form of old scanned-in paper documents. That’s the only reason I can fathom as to why this is such a big thing now.

I do wonder what their end game is. History surely will not look on them favourably, so who would want to be the villain on the world stage? Yes history is written by the victors, but only for a short while until the truths come out. I just can’t understand why anyone would deliberately want to be on the wrong side of history.

Hmm! I never considered checking to see what loginctl was doing

And yep I think you’re right, the most portable way of doing this is to maybe write my own service with hooks for OnBoot OnShutdown OnSleep OnWake (if that’s a systemctl hook…)

WOO!

I notice that when I’m tired, dehydrated, or starving, my mind gets razor sharp and I become hyper focused.

I used to think that made me think better, but over time I’ve realised that sharpness =/= smarter.

Whatever logic I was holding in my head at 2am that I needed to put to screen actually wasn’t as amazing as I thought it was, but my tired yet focused brain convinced me that it was genius.

Once I made that connection, I just started leaving TODOs in my comments of roughly what I was going for, and then go to sleep, reassuring my panicked brain that its “genius” can genuinely wait until morning for a clearer perspective.

I liken the experience to potheads who reach some half-baked inspiration that they can no longer put to words once cogent. It was never a great idea, it just interested you a lot in that heightened state.

In short: let go of your ideas. If they’re truly amazing they’ll still be there in the morning with a fresh pair of eyes.

I think it might be closer to Children of Ruin territory - I can imagine an animal trainer of some sort (or entomologist if one exists at the time) to train their animals to form logic gates and wires.

I mean hell, if Game of Life can do it, why not ants.

“I am a computer scientist, I can write elaborate grammars for processing data, I require only a mere computer.”

King: (scratches chin)

Later:

“You! Move those line of rocks to the right and discard the remainder. You! Remove those line rocks except to put one where one was not there previously. You! Put down that rock! I said put it down! Please…!”

I dont know about that. There was a point a few weeks ago where I stopped linking images because Lemmy would try to cache them automatically, but those cache links never worked

I see thanks

I love wealthy people like that.

It’s like they know on some unconscious level just how small and insignificant they really are, but can’t pair it mentally with the fortune they find themselves in.

So rather than deal with the idea of luck and circumstance being the main factors of their existence, they lean hard on the idea that they deserve it by merit of simply being a superior being to others, and reinforce this belief into their head everyday with small acts of needless cruelty.

I laugh at the sheer insecurity of it.

Hey, do you know who ELSE is really cool?

Do you wear those angel wings wherever you go?

It looks like all the Odd A’s are being decimated by that diagonal, whilst all the Even A’s are being left alone and being given a share of what used to be the Odd A’s.

This is political!

Same in Germany. Though you can technically get around it by simply not mentioning it, and seeing if the landlord makes a fuss.

I guess uptime monitoring of any host, with specific timestamps for when the system is suspended/resumed.
(Yes I understand that a server ideally shouldn’t sleep)