[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 22 points 2 months ago

I was worried about this since people were whipping a frenzy about how this had to be antifa.

The shooter is a white male gun enthusiast Republican. How awkward for MAGA.

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago

Yes and no. I compare it to a graphing calculator: I know how to graph a parabola by hand already, but I don’t want to have to do it over and over already. That’s just busy work for me.

LLMs are similar that way. There’s often a lot of boilerplate to get out of the way that’s just busy work to write over and over again. LLMs are great at generating some of that scaffolding.

LLMs have also become a lot more helpful as Google search has gotten worse over time.

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 12 points 7 months ago

Yeah, angrily jabbing a phone screen realllllyyyy does not have the same satisfaction whatsoever.

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

According to the report, while 54 percent of developers canvassed said there had been no layoffs at their company over the last year, 35 percent said either they or their colleagues had lost their jobs.

Yeah, its 35% of the people canvassed for this report. Even then, not all those people were laid off - some of them are people who know somebody who was impacted.

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

Really glad to see this. I’m appalled at how little grad students are paid given their very large role in keeping universities afloat (teaching classes and helping with research).

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 16 points 8 months ago

Might just be me looking at the game with rose colored glasses and the game may not have aged well - but I remember having a blast playing Golden Sun as a kid. I think you’d enjoy it if you like JRPGs.

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 13 points 8 months ago

I think Xi is counting on the west to be too distracted by Ukraine and Israel to effectively support Taiwan.

Also, speculation on my part - but this feels like the usual posturing/distraction playbook. China’s economy isn’t doing so hot and the government’s bungling of COVID is still fresh in everyone’s minds, so what better way to make people forget about that than to saber rattle?

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia

Based on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and preceded by the CIA-operated Radio Free Asia (Committee for a Free Asia), it was established by the US International Broadcasting Act of 1994 with the stated aim of "promoting democratic values and human rights"

Uh wow… TIL. Absolutely not an unbiased source whatsoever.

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 17 points 9 months ago

Maybe it’s just morbid fascination with the slow motion trainwreck that’s Twitter?

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

Fedipedia? I guess you want the wiki bit in the name, but Fedipedia really rolls off the tongue.

[-] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

Yup. That’s been my experience too.

I also get aggressively pushed some conservative news sources in my main feed even though I never subscribed to any of those.

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