N-gated Hacker News2d ago
Ah yes, the 'groundbreaking' ENTSO-E #report on the 2025 #Iberian #blackout - a thrilling read for those who enjoy sifting through an alphabet soup of #acronyms and #bureaucratic #jargon. 🤯 Apparently, the solution to blackouts is drowning readers in more committees and #data #portals than you can shake a PowerPoint at. 🙄⌨️
https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/ #ENTSOE #HackerNews #ngated
28 April 2025 Blackout

Calishat4d ago

#politics #acronyms

'The bill in question is the “Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act,” introduced last month by Brennan and Assemblyman Ravi Bhalla (D-Hudson), who also represents the 32nd Legislative District.'

https://jcitytimes.com/profanity-hidden-in-title-of-anti-ice-bill-prompts-ethics-complaint-against-katie-brennan/

Profanity Hidden in Title of Anti-ICE Bill Prompts Ethics Complaint Against Katie Brennan

First-term Democratic Assemblywoman Katie Brennan is facing a complaint from one of her Republican colleagues over an expletive laced into the title of a bill that targets U.S. Immigration and Cust…

Jersey City Times
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 4
Unsloth's "guide" to fine-tuning #Qwen3.5 is the digital equivalent of watching paint dry, but with more #acronyms and chevrons. 🤦‍♂️🚀 If you enjoy reading a glorified list of links and buzzwords, you'll be in heaven—otherwise, pray for a faster MoE escape plan! 🏃‍♀️💨
https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/fine-tune #Unsloth #guide #techboredom #digitalescape #HackerNews #ngated
Qwen3.5 Fine-tuning Guide | Unsloth Documentation

Learn how to fine-tune Qwen3.5 LLMs with Unsloth.

Yvonne PerkinsFeb 12

I have had a hard week but done very good work. I have found myself a delightful cafe in a working class suburb that has BOOKS!

I am reading Don Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words over breakfast. It was sitting in a small bookcase amongst the usual fantasy books and books about sporting greats.

I am loving the intro. After talking about the manipulation of language by totalitarian states and how the subdued masses adopt that language, Watson says:

"The same mimicry can be expected wherever the official language is a kind of code that we must at least appear to understand, or be excluded. It happens in democracies, and in business and government departments."

How often have you found when starting a new job that you ate desperately trying to use the acronyms, the phrases and names that are bandied around the office to show that you fit in, that you are a 'valuable team member'?

#jargon #acronyms #Management #TechnicalWriting #TechWriting #WriteTheDocs

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@ifixcoinops
I don’t think this is “Old man shouting at cloud” - it’s a different (more lively) way of being
& it’s good to read about it. 🙂 Expands our possibilities.

Pushed me to look up IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (seen the acronym often but never knew what it stands for, but pretty sure it wasn’t International Red Cross 🫢). Learn that it’s a “text-based chat system for instant messaging… designed for group communication in discussion forums [channels] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer including file sharing.
[more here incl. refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC]

Say it again: Expands our possibilities. 😁

#IRC #InternetRelayChat #acronyms #instantMessaging #text-basedChat #GroupCommunication #discussion_forums #privateMessages #dataTransfer #FileSharing

IRC - Wikipedia

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RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116025395253576967

Yes please! 🙏🏻 for saying this! 😁

#acronyms #bestPractice #contextMatters

Book NotificationFeb 4

Getting lost with all the #acronyms you see online (lol) ?

@carefulchatting is back with more acronym definitions.
#books #readers #socialmedia #bookstodon

Book NotificationJan 21
Struggling with #acronyms? Our #SocialMediaManager, Care, has you covered. Today ... what's an ARC?
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🌸 VårgubbenJan 17

When @trending posted that ”#TOTP is now trending across Mastodon” my initial response was ”Oh. F–k! Security flaw or leak, whatever it is this can’t be good.”.

Turns out it was about Top Of The Pops™ , not Time-based One-Time Password.

#acronyms can be confusing sometimes.

Book NotificationJan 16

Ever feel totally lost in a sea of #acronyms ?

Tbh, us too. No, fr. 😉

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#bookstodon