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My poor paraphrase of Dave:

We're past the point where instructivist vs constructivist model is a relevant discussion.

Constructivist approach is the only thing that really is feasible; the only way to get students to invest in doing the work is to get them to care about the work they're doing—but that's not the model we have.

Formerly, we could punish people for not doing the work. But now we can't.

We should take the radical, dangerous approach of treating students as humans.

The only way to prevent sensitive personal information from being leaked/stolen is to not collect it (exhibit #3,834,584) https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/112167053122494926
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Remember the EU #Chatcontrol proposal that would have Europol keep a registry of everyone with photos flagged as potential child sexual abuse material? Even false positives? They appear to have lost track of some very personal data: https://www.politico.eu/article/europol-internal-agency-eu-police-agency-engulfed-in-clean-up-over-missing-files/

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Everyone said get a Brother printer so I bought a 3-in-1 scanner and printer. There seems to be something wrong with it though. I plugged it into a Linux laptop, opened a document, pressed print, selected the printer, and it printed. Then I opened simple-scan, pressed scan, and it scanned.

This isn't how printers and scanners are supposed to work. Where do I install the drivers that don't work properly etc? This was no fun. I demand a refund.

"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."

-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy

@rust I plan to start prepending "Being fully aware that we have no control over how the Universe works or what the future holds," to all my emails.

I anticipate a long future of an ambiguous meaning of `@\unchecked Sendable`:

Meaning 1 (the official meaning):
This type is Sendable, but it cannot be proven due to limitations of the compiler, language, or frameworks.

Meaning 2 (the…other meaning):
This type is totally NOT Sendable, but I am way too tired to make it so. Please forgive me, those who suffer what I do today.

I fear in the not-to-distant future we will regret that these have the same spelling.

I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

My wife and I decided we do not want to have children.  We are going to tell them tonight during dinner.

This really drives home something about LLM systems. They’re very expensive to run, both to train and per-query, and hard to make cheaper. I expect them to get more expensive to run. They’re currently sold at a big loss to establish monopoly power and then raise prices dramatically. That’s the *stated* business plan.

If you’re building your business to rely on LLM, you need to factor in what you‘ll do when they pivot to making money, or they pull back because they can’t.
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Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues Microsoft is asking investors to "temper" expectations for quick financial returns from Copilot amid efforts to convince customers that paying "substantial" sums each month is actually worth it.… #theregister #IT https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/microsoft_copilot_moneymaker/

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