Reminder that if you're arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
I play fetch with my cat. I wave her mouse toy in front of her face to get her attention. Then when I have her enthralled I wind back and throw it. She stares as it arcs over her head.
And does nothing. So I have to fetch it so I can throw it again. #caturday
Friendly reminder that you can use massgrave.dev (and audit their scripts if you don't trust to run them) to activate Windows, as well as activate Extended Security Updates (for Windows 10), and more for free, should you need to run Windows!
I absolutely do not condone doing this for a computer used in a business, as that can land you in a lot of hot water should MS bother to audit, but for personal use? Who gives a shit! Don't pay for a license!
then add chick peas from the can. Remove the water with a sieve and wash before adding them. Season with salt, pepper and curry powder until it tastes good and is all hot and then...
it's funny because we got this metaphor from an early 2000s book on quality software design and i'm pretty sure the source of the quote is today a slop purveyor
In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly beside a jumble of bizarre, useless objects that are "tools" in name only.
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(boost OK) Anyone know where I can buy a stack of empty Gemalto/Thales DIS RFID/Chip cards using the A1011108 chip design? I can't quite find the product name but it was sold around '07 and might still be in sale by authorised resellers. The product name is still Gemalto IDCore it seems, but I can only find the A1047808 (World Combi) chip design
Relocating group 2816's inode bitmap to 92274689... Relocating group 2816's inode table to 92274690... Relocating group 2817's block bitmap to 92274946... Relocating group 2817's inode bitmap to 92274947... Relocating group 2817's inode table to 92274948... Relocating group 2818's block bitmap to 92275204... Relocating group 2818's inode bitmap to 92275205... Relocating group 2818's inode table to 92275206... Relocating group 2819's block bitmap to 92275462...
badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 183744 badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 183808 badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 183872 badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 184128 badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 184256 badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 184448 badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 184640 badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 184704 badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 184960 0.01% done, 2:10:04 elapsed. (0/0/53600 errors)
I found out ANOTHER friend joined mastodon today with her bf!! Thatโs another win for the #fediverse! Welcome @Fragolina also @stux sheโs in the Netherlands, brand new user to mastodon. Roll out the red carpet will ya. Letโs go.
Which is most of the problem; there are people, and they have agency, but the machine doesn't. It's remarkably similar to those stories about magic mills that can grind out anything, and someone gets greedy and instead of winding up with salt in the oceans we wind up with a vast quantity of the seductive whispers of demons, that have no knowledge of good and evil and so aren't even lies.
Doggerel is fun. Writing doggerel is how you learn the craft of writing more serious verse. Here is some fun doggerel written by Samuel Johnson as parody of bad poetry:
I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand.
Perfect meter, but nothing to say. And of course "The Night Before Christmas" is definitely doggerel, and also fun.
i'm probably going to be told tomorrow that i'm being laid off, so if anyone has a lead on a decent remote embedded software engineering or unix/linux systems job, i've got a resume to send you.
i don't like discussing the specifics of who my past clients have been in public. however, my most recent position was contracting with the kernel team of a major CDN and cloud services provider that i know many people on fedi are also current or former employees of, maintaining their internal linux distribution (an customized Ubuntu downstream) for their custom server platforms, porting forward and cleaning up patchsets to newer versions of the distribution, fixing issues in toolchains and libraries, etc.
i've also done embedded software work for a large variety of devices including medical, cellular technology, and industrial control equipment, in addition to some consumer products. i've done board bringup and BSP development with Yocto/Openembedded, Buildroot, FreeRTOS, etc, on most major SoC and microcontroller families. when doing business logic, I am most comfortable in C
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i'm probably going to be told tomorrow that i'm being laid off, so if anyone has a lead on a decent remote embedded software engineering or unix/linux systems job, i've got a resume to send you.
i don't like discussing the specifics of who my past clients have been in public. however, my most recent position was contracting with the kernel team of a major CDN and cloud services provider that i know many people on fedi are also current or former employees of, maintaining their internal linux distribution (an customized Ubuntu downstream) for their custom server platforms, porting forward and cleaning up patchsets to newer versions of the distribution, fixing issues in toolchains and libraries, etc.
i've also done embedded software work for a large variety of devices including medical, cellular technology, and industrial control equipment, in addition to some consumer products. i've done board bringup and BSP development with Yocto/Openembedded, Buildroot, FreeRTOS, etc, on most major SoC and microcontroller families. when doing business logic, I am most comfortable in C and Lua, but fine working with C++ codebases, and can learn to work with other languages if a project needs it.
Next best thing is to add them in your comments. Like maybe #FediHire in addition to the catchwords inside your description. #Unix #Linux #systems #coder #EmbeddedSoftware look to be likely hashtags for what you do.
I don't think adding tags after posting will make the post show up to those who follow those tags anyway. At least, I remember reading this somewhere. I might be wrong.
as i think a smurf is uniformly colored it depends on wether the sky is one color only and if it is the same color. Also the velocity of the smurf has to be low enough not to burn it up by air friction or to cause red shift.
Your timing is perfect. I actually wasn't sure to include the strawberry example in my blog post I published earlier today. Guess that's still a thing!
It could be, or it could be just that they're plagiarizing human authors' discussion of the problem from the past couple years, now in their updated training sets.
@AmeliaBR I particularly like that the source cited there discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-maโฆ contains the prompt sample โHow many "r"s are in "strawberrry"?โ (note the intentional misspelling)
I donโt know what to say. All Gemini 2.0 models answer โ3โ for this question: How many "r"s are in โstrawberryโ? S T R(1) A W B E R(2) R(3) R(4) Y Can the Gemini dev team do me a favorite? Combine the reasoning of DeepSeek R1 + the massive token โฆ
I think it would be a great coding challenge to see how many ways people could implement a letter count program in different languages as an answer for this facepalm output...
I'm confident that even the most complex approaches (like firing up a Win98 with Excel97 and execute a VBScript on a virtual machine) would still cost less, consume less energy and be far more accurate than these... I don't even have words for them anymore.
So, I just checked this out. the first time I worded it differently and it got the answer correct. then second time I worded it like you have here and it was incorrect. I love oddities like this! Thanks for the chuckle.
tillian ๐ฆ ACAB
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