- nightmare
- wake up
- leave bed
- open company Slack
- new Slack feature, on by default, begins with tutorial
- go back to bed
- choose nightmare
Before and after. Sometimes I really do love my work. Not always, but sometimes. It is nice to give kids a bit of humanisation on this dull hospital waiting rooms. They love to search the characters (there is a panel with all 53 characters to search for) #illustration #GraphicDesign
A reminder that literal children use git forges like GitHub and Codeberg. It will generally be obvious, because they will use excessive amounts of emojis and emoticons and they'll lol and joke and most of all, they'll have a lot of self doubt.
Do NOT be a dick to them!
If they're failing to do something, politely and kindly help them to do it the right way.
If they have self doubt, explain to them that none of us know what we're doing and remind them that the beauty of FOSS is that you can learn in public and get tips from people from all over the world.
Don't preach that "meritocracy" bullshit at them.
Don't talk about "wasting your time".
Don't discourage them.
Be nice. You are the adult in the room, and there's a non-zero chance you are a role model to them. Do not crush their spirits. You have a responsibility as a FOSS maintainer to make your project a safe and welcoming space to new comers and that includes kids.
Do not be rude and destroy their dreams like some kind of monster.
That's not my reading (more like, today's tech shows that something is possible even if we might prefer to do that with some tech that is similar in abilities but made in a different way), but I'm not him and I don't care enough to argue this further, so, meh 🤷
Meanwhile it is certainly possible to see ways, in well prescribed and clearly delineated circumstances, where the tech can be used for good. In my reading, that's everything he's been arguing.
To say that it's not possible at all because it's not possible today is being dishonest with yourself about the truth.
I didn't see anyone disagree with the statement that it's not possible today, so to argue that is a waste of everyone's time.
It is a prerequisite to using, yes, but not a prerequisite to seeing the possibilities of the technologies and/or arguing that there are good uses of the technology.
OP has mentioned multiple times in this thread that he's not supportive of everything about today's version of the tech, so to tell him that there are terrible parts about it is preaching to the choir.
It's possible to argue for a technology that you can see could theoretically exist even if you don't see it existing today.
I mean, someone in the early eighties had a rant about a printer and decided he wanted to argue for a free operating system.
@mjg59 @petko
why do people say stuff like this because now i gotta get doom running on a cpap machine
Very! I can consistently reach D2, though only barely and with a lot of air and not a lot of volume. If I had a lot of alcohol and/or not a lot of sleep the night before, I can *sometimes* reach C2, but it's rare.
I once sang with someone who could reach G1 (not a typo). Now *that* was impressive. And beautiful.
@bytebro
I can reach E4 without warm-up. With warm-up I can get a little bit higher than that, sometimes up to G4.
I however did not say it was easy, nor that it is something I can sustain for long stretches of time without hurting my throat 😉
@bytebro
Well during my recent audition I got to F above middle C without resorting to falsetto, which when the conductor told me (I don't have absolute pitch) surprised me, but only a bit.
Would have been able to get a bit higher but that probable would've hurt my voice so I didn't
@bytebro
GCC at the time was thought of as something no volunteer could build.
They did it anyway.
There is nothing inherent about the technology behind LLMs that can't be built by a sufficiently determined group of volunteers.
The fact that current LLMs require whole data centres to run has more to do with (a) the fact that companies take performance shortcuts because they have money to burn and it takes them to market faster,
@mjg59
I mentioned it in the post, but: 2nd bass, ever since I was 18 or so.
@AweThatSparkle @mirabilos