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Catastrophe posted:We're like 5 hours away from the richest man on the planet trying to convince us to invest in his Amway scheme We're about a week away from his vague posting about psyops metamorphosing into just "JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS".
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Zugzwang posted:Unbanned Trump still hasn’t tweeted 🤣🤣🤣 
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Dec 4, 2022 21:45
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Just love that ol muskys biggest stans probably consider themselves futurists while simultaneously calling for the creation of science fiction technology by the person most likely to deliberately want to create the torment matrix. Like, imagine what brain upload technology developed by a billionaire would look like.
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Dec 6, 2022 01:52
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It's a sad irony that anyone who has read just about any speculative fiction regarding human augmentation and doesn't realise that it's a gateway to dystopian nightmare will never be afforded the intelligence augmentation that they so clearly need.
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Dec 7, 2022 01:42
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Breetai posted:We're about a week away from his vague posting about psyops metamorphosing into just "JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS". So I was off in the timeframe I guess.
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Dec 12, 2022 02:02
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Ups_rail posted:aww your sweet. Imagine reading this particular thread about this particular topic and watching it unfold, and then reacting to criticism of your words by adopting the strategy of Posting Through It™.
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Dec 24, 2022 13:03
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Just spent 5 minutes earlier this morning @ing old musky a different insulting message every 10 seconds including the Australian Word and twitter bans/autobans still haven't killed or even suspended my account, my attempts to suicide my twitter account are being thwarted.
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Jan 1, 2023 05:01
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Breetai posted:Just spent 5 minutes earlier this morning @ing old musky a different insulting message every 10 seconds including the Australian Word and twitter bans/autobans still haven't killed or even suspended my account, my attempts to suicide my twitter account are being thwarted. Sadly as to unlock the account I first need to remove the offending tweet and to do that I would need to give them my phone number for a confirmation code the account is stuck in painful limbo forever and I can't even manually delete it.  "You can't delete your account without first giving us your PII" gently caress off. Also "we don't have your phone number to confirm it's you so please give us a phone number so that we can make sure it's actually you" is stupid on so many levels, it's like the digital equivalent of a checkout operator getting you to sign the back of your credit card in front of them and then checking it against your driver's license.
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Jan 1, 2023 12:09
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N74 looks amazing but I would love to see it try to navigate the slightest of driveway inclines.
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Jan 2, 2023 07:57
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Frank Frank posted:Why does anyone even bother reporting on the dumb poo poo he says at this point? It drives engagement. Clicks are cash and things that are divisive get clicks so the dumb and the hateful and the toxic rule the attention economy of our social media age.
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Jan 9, 2023 06:48
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But I was informed that twitter was going to show me a gizmo and I could click on the gizmo so that I could order the gizmo.
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Feb 19, 2023 12:14
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What makes me waver between laughing out loud and cursing profusely is that stupid loving code review bullshit that he insisted upon. "Show me a sample of code that you wrote that is spectacular and that will wow me/show your worth to the organisation" is so unbelievably wrongheaded that it's hard to describe exactly how terrible it is, but I'm going to try. Apologies for a rambling infodump but I'm going to try to explain it in a way that non-full-time code monkeys can understand it So I'm a programmer on a Maintenance team for the scheduled reports that my organisation creates. Our job is to keep the programs running when there are changes to databases or our physical infrastructure, and to fix any identified problems with the code. One such task I was given was when a program kept on outputting different results with the same input. You could run it twice on the same data, even on the same day, and the results were grossly inconsistent. None of the values that were actually critical for the report for were inconsistent, but every other value was - this was taken as a sign that the report's accuracy was suspect. I had to look at the program, which I had never seen before, figure out where the inconsistencies were coming from, and fix it. This involved basically unpicking thousands of lines of code that someone else wrote to work out what did what, and running it multiple times in stages to try to work out what was happening. Eventually I found the cause. Basically, the data table that was feeding into the report contained transaction data for a large number of customers. This included an ID# for the customer on our system, 3 columns with the data values that we cared about and which were critical to the report, and a bunch of other columns that we didn't really care about the contents of. Now several customers had multiple entries in this data, but we didn't want them to appear several times in the output report. As the ID# for the customer and the values we cared about were the same across every entry for each individual customer, the guy who had written the program included a step that basically told the program to only retain rows that contained the first time a customer appeared in this data table. The issue was that the program was written in a way that when it created that data table it sorted the data by the customer ID# and the 3 data values that we cared about, and that was it. As our system runs on multiple processors, it divides up tasks according to what the load on the system is, and this means that different chunks of information are potentially handled in different order each time a program is run. When the data was being sorted it sorted by the 4 explicitly defined sorting variables just fine, but any rows that had the same values for those sorting variables but different values for other variables could potentially be returned consecutively but in any order. So when the program subsequently took the step to only retain rows that contained the first time a customer appeared in this data table, the values for the 5th variable onward were essentially selected nondeterministically. Hence the inconsistencies. Basically the way that the results were returned for each customer looked something like this, with the first 4 columns being the variables that they were sorted on:  The above is dummy data that isn't anything like the info we were looking at, but the point is this is how they were differently ordered despite being sorted by the first 4 variables. In the first run it would retain the data from Service #1, but in the second run it would retain the data from Service #4. It took me ~8 hours to investigate, test, check and double check a solution, and submit my changes for review. A lot of this time was spend waiting for the program to finish running so I did other work concurrently, but essentially the whole thing took a full day of work to solve. The solution that I found which adhered to the principal of making the minimum change necessary to result in the desired outcome was to add an additional variable to the sorting step - this variable was a transaction number unique to individual transactions, which meant that the data would be sorted in the same way each time, which meant that taking the first row that a customer appeared in would always return the same data given that the input data was the same. The actual code that I wrote for this full day's work was exactly this: code:Now imagine being asked to provide a code sample for a half-witted egomaniac of a boss to justify what you've been doing with yourself, and all they see, devoid of all context and understanding of what you've actually been working on, is " , trnsnmbr". Granted it's a bit of an extreme example, but I think it illustrates the difference between required effort, impact, and the actual volume of code produced. And consider that this kind of thing - small changes that solve issues with minimal impact - is generally the purview of teams responsible for maintaining and upkeeping existing code. Particularly consider it in the context of Twitter's current performance. I'm not saying that he actually personally reviewed the code that he was provided - that was clearly just fodder for his fanbase who thinks that Elon is a real-life Iron Man who is capable of instantly assessing a coder's worth from a snippet of contextless code sample. But if his selection of who to cut was in reality based in any way on metrics that included volume of code produced, then maintenance teams would tend to be disproportionately represented, wouldn't they?
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Concerning.
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Mar 7, 2023 10:48
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Take a screenshot of the desktop and then set it as the background and hide all desktop icons.
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Mar 10, 2023 14:51
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bird with big dick posted:Do they let you suck it Buddy,
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Buce posted:did anyone say blowjob uniform yet? 
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Mastodon is the Linux of social media sites
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goatface posted:Soon they'll be abandoning the germ theory of medicine. Soon?
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Deptfordx posted:Lol, goddamn. I've never seen that before. "Build up base to prepare for expansion" this motherfucker has been playing Red Alert too much.
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Further Reading posted:Based on math someone did in the main thread: My favourite phrasing of this kind of thing is "you immediately stop being biology and start being physics".
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Chapelle's Equimanity and the Bird Revelation is the single most repulsive standup performance I've ever had the misfortune of seeing. 15 minutes in he tells a story about a fan who wrote him a letter begging him not to make transphobic jokes because it was genuinely enormously hurtful and distressing to them, and he mocked them to the audience and immediately launched into a barrage of the most unfunny punching down transphobic 'jokes'. Don't know how long he kept it up because that's the point I stopped watching and haven't listened to a single minute of the fucker since, but he showed no signs of stopping and was basically gleeful at the prospect of hurting people via his performance.
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Jul 17, 2023 13:36
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I mean he's become a total tool, but don't act like "walking away" wasn't totally justified. He was doing a skit where he was in black face, dressed in a straw hat and overalls, talking about how good fried chicken was. Then he realized the only ones laughing were the white crew members and writing staff. He realized who he was didn't matter, just the color of his skin to enable these pricks to jeep telling the same racist jokes they've been doing for years. So now he's telling the same transphobic jokes for years because he's just as much of an unempathetic bigot.
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Parkingtigers posted:https://twitter.com/paleofuture/status/1689489799349207040?s=20 If anyone wonders why ol musky is sending this barely coherent dude to bat for him. The guy's name is Nick Pickles. He's pickle Niiiiick!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:There was a kerfluffle in the SF community because Zelina Vega, a wrestler, cosplayed as Juri, but wore some cool Nike sneakers instead of going barefoot. Pictured: the actual in-game "here comes a new challenger" screen that pops up for that character.  The end of her super move is somehow even hornier. https://youtu.be/dRUYHCcenn8?si=Ed8Y4n5jalG_qIdZ Capcom know exactly what they're doing.
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Data Graham posted:"Woke mind virus" "Everyone who doesn't agree with me is mentally ill" is a gently caress of a thing to say. "We need to cure them by force" is the unstated second stage. But elons political stance is inscrutable.
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Sep 3, 2023 02:31
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mobby_6kl posted:Yes but... the point I think is that both countries ended with the same number of excess deaths, so Australia didn't gain anything (well a few people lived a bit longer) by doing lockdowns. In the first instance, Australia gained from not having their emergency services completely overwhelmed,as has been discussed upthread. Secondly, if you can't see the benefits of several thousand people being alive for an extra two years then I'm at a loss as to whether you're a great moral or intellectual vacuum, and I hope you remember your shithead opinion years from now when you're old enough to feel your mortality encroaching.
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Sep 13, 2023 09:18
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Note that moments after inadvertently encountering child porn and dutifully reporting it, he was still in the mood for a wank.
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kazil posted:Well his AI is even dumber than I imagined. 
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Profanity posted:Elon Musk Biopic in the Works at A24 With Darren Aronofsky Set to Direct Tommy Wiseau.
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...! posted:Goddammit, now you've made me pull out my Robocop blu-ray to watch it yet again Funny way to say thank you.
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Three Olives posted:I get that my perspective is skewed, I live in an upper-middle class single family neighborhood that is very close for people that work around the CBD, also upper-middle class professionals, but... https://twitter.com/ProBirdRights/status/368542088897372161?lang=en
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ilmucche posted:I always thought an incel's real desire was to have a woman genuinely like them, but since they tend to treat people like trash that doesn't happen. It's why they get so angry when a woman does like them because they don't believe it's possible Nah, it evolved well beyond that a long time ago, and is now 100% about hating women. That's it. There are no other actual objectives, and anything else that you see is just a bullshit smoke screen. The only reason why they are so enamoured with the concept of AI women is that they want to be abusive to a woman who has zero agency (which is what they wish all women were.)
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rowkey bilbao posted:I don't believe people should worry about incels like they're a statistically meaningful group and not some anecdotal but very visible internet byproduct. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Incel-related_violence
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Now find the stats for murders committed by recently divorced men or men that have just left a relationship. Which do you think is the more dangerous group? A thousand apologies, you are quite obviously right: it's impossible to be concerned about more than one thing at once, and that group of misanthropes on the internet who are devoting most of their free time to radicalizing themselves and others probably isn't going to be a problem.
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temple posted:The thing about Dune as a cultural phenomenon is it never had a definitive adaption (at least until the most recent film). You had to read the book and grapple with all of it's ideas. Then, Paul was like a pomo-hero that understood he was fake but yet living out a myth. Herbert did a great job of immediately deconstructing him and the monomyth by the second book. So, even the books themselves don't glorify themselves the way something like LOTR or Star Wars does. Lastly, it's space opera but mostly takes place on a desert. It's epic but still grounded in a way that a lot of sci-fi epics aren't. Dune is about Frank Herbert taking the question of what would happen when a chosen one ordained by prophecy decides to answer the call to action, and responding that it would naturally lead to a universal jihad and the deaths of billions. Thoroughly agree that you should read it up to the end of god emperor of Dune, which is frankly the thematic and storyline closure of the whole thing, and avoid the two books that came after that which were both written when Frank was very very horny indeed.
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Jestery posted:I think gaming just progressed past the dead end that is the formula creating a serviceable worms clone has kinda been done to death and the genre can only get esoteric with ninja rope challenges and poo poo Or real time like liero.
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Earwicker posted:i dont understand the "smol bean" movement The more you eat the more you toot.
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Anybody who states that they have the goal "terraform mars" and doesn't have the intermediary goal of "unfuck earth as an easy-mode test case" is 100% a grifter.
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Rosalind posted:I agree with the sentiment but I am a pragmatist. If we have a technology that saves lives, we should use that technology to save lives. We shouldn't just sit here idly while we hope society will suddenly see the error in their ways and reorganize the entire American way of life around public transit (as much as that would be better for us). Except we don't currently have the technology. Self driving, even non-tesla self-driving, is just not loving there yet, and as evidenced by the chucklefucks who are on their phone or playing games or otherwise completely oblivious to the road when they have an obligation to remain alert in case of an emergency or a failure on the auto drive's part, there's still a massive cultural shift around personal responsibility while using a self driving car that would need to be applied.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yes, you've given them water today. Now what about ensuring they will still have water tomorrow while you're off digging the next well to give someone else water today? This is the fundamental problem. Please provide a numbered list of all of the things that you've done to enact long lasting positive change in the lives of others, unless of course you are the president of the society for ensuring that the perfect is always the enemy of the good.
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