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Mark 1d ago

@lrhodes Have you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling ?

Fear and Trembling - Wikipedia

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Mark 5d ago

@europe Me too. It was actually the second word I picked that I didn’t think was a word.

Mark 5d ago

Wordle 1,756 5/6

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What the hell was that? Last two picks I was just entering random letters!

Mark 6d ago

Need to create a Facebook/Instagram account for business purposes. But it literally won’t let me. I get automatically denied and my automatic appeal is automatically and permanently denied. Time was they were scraping everyone’s address book and dragging people on to it…

Mark Apr 7

I was wondering when a nuke would go on the table. He can’t hammer Iran enough to make them want to stop hurting the US with oil prices and tempting them into what would be a deeply unpopular ground war. They won’t say or do anything that allows Trump to leave and save face. And so he must eventually threaten everything. But they will not let him go. Not yet. But in the final analysis he might do anything to avoid looking weak.
#trump #iran

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Mark Apr 7

@ccferrie It’s a bad state of affairs when you have to apologise for not being cynical about the kind of thing that brought routine joy to people everywhere a few decades ago.

I get it, but… its important to have some joy in life!

Mark Apr 7

Not trying to have a go at the poster, but I feel this is the kind of joyless virtue mincing that drives people away from mastodon.

Mark Apr 6

Wordle 1,752 2/6

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Good start to the day!
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Mark Apr 6

Being opposed morally to AI is all too often conjoined with the position that AI is snake oil and does not work. People want to cloth a moral statement like “AI is awful for humanity” in a scientific statement like “AI just produces slop code that must be reworked (and therefore reduces productivity)”. Then there are these disparaging middle statements like “AI is not intelligent/does not code it just copies and plagiarises” which is a moral statement intended to have scientific heft.
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Mark Apr 6

I understand the antipathy towards AI, and even the “Luddites were right”, but there are large numbers of people on here that deny AI code assistants/agents provide any value at all. I attest from experience that they can comfortably speed up work by a factor of 4 when used properly. I get “there is literally no evidence” and a block.

A weaver can see clearly that the weaving machine is quicker even if they have to redo some work. Have a stance but don’t deny reality. #ai 1/2

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