A neat fact: the longest filibuster in history was the against the Civil Rights Act in 1957. 24 hours and 18 minutes. Civil Rights Legislation passed two hours later.

Booker has done a 10-day hunger strike, so I imagine he sees that as child’s play.

That’s great, but then how do we know that the grammar matches what we want to do - with some sort of test?

The core language model isn’t a nueral network? I agree that the full application is more Markov chainy but I had no idea the LLM wasn’t.

Now I’m wondering if there are any models that are actual neutral networks

Oh, well, that’s good, because I have a ton of people who work with Angular and not React.

Ha

None of us would have jobs

Being ASD definitely makes it harder to enjoy April Fools pranks that are harmless and clever.

My ASD friends and family will frequently perceive the omission of information as an offensive lie, when the reality is us not on the spectrum didn’t consider it information worth sharing. Extend this to April Fools Day jokes, which should be intentional, harmless, clever pranks, and they just can’t.

Really good ones stick in my mind forever. Guild Wars once turned all the players into stick figures. I still laugh at that. Prior to enshitification Reddit had some great ones, like Orange Red vs Periwinkle. RuneScape always released upcoming features at the beginning of the month, and April Fools Day was always a fake one that sounded almost believable. I had friends swap clothes and classes for an entire day in college. I had a physics professor teach biology to each of his classes - a different lecture in each period. I had two friends announce they were ending their friendship on Facebook but intended to remain roommates, and continue to hang out with the rest of us.

It’s a social norm. Just like how sarcasm is difficult for some ASD to pick up. But, a lot of us non-ASD do need to choose our audience more carefully. I don’t play pranks on my family and those friends. I also refrain from sarcasm and exaggerating too.

4 and a half hours now. Might be symbolic, but there are a lot of angry GOP senators who probably have to stay there.

“Mistakenly”

Just like the innocents murdered by the death penalty?

Party of cruelty at its finest.

The compressed text only dump is about 25gb.

It only grows to many terabytes if you include all revisions and media files

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Goddamnit, here we go again.

What is it with the right-wing fascination with Jews?

Not yet at least!

The only thing I can respond with is:

wut

It’s some new mental illness? Is it just sociopathy?

Is it fried ketamine brain?

You can download Wikipedia.

Anyone can actually.

No you wanna know how fucked up a human can get:

Frank Herbert wrote an entire series of novels about a guy who put his finger in a box and was told “An animal caught in a trap will gnaw its leg off to survive.” Then the dude goes on to cause 66 billion deaths and have a son that lives for 7500 years as a giant worm/human hybrid

Wait

What happens if they try to pull my passport but I don’t have one

Uncalled for

You get to actually work on your code?

Instead of 6 hours of meetings it’ll just be 8 hours of meetings

By “interface” I meant the data interface between systems. Not a User Interface.

Additionally, it’s been my experience that I rarely get to design the full stack - we inevitably have to handled data exchange and legacy systems. Those legacy systems are a type of “user” in this instance that we have to program for. We can take a 13:30 string, and store it in UTC, but without location or time zone being provided through that (which the message queue that we pull from doesn’t have), it doesn’t do us anything.

The solution for these type of problems usually involve find another source of data and mapping the time that way. This inevitably ends up being far more work for us because of the security, traceability, auditing, etc.

It’s like you didn’t think I had real life scenarios that didn’t fit into this fix.

What happens when the interfaced system provides a date without timezone information? What happens when they provide multiple timezones? What happens when they have more than one site location, and they just send you a 12-hour time and date?

You can always point to the customer - say “hey, we need better data.” But what happens when you have 4000 customers scattered all over the world?

Or another scenario - you are doing optical character recognition, and the document always has a date/time on it. The date and time is usually printed, but sometimes it’s handwritten. Maybe part of the process is to verify that date matches with a date in a legacy system. The date in the legacy system is local to your business, but there is no information on what the datetime on the document is.

I’ve run into so many problems with time in my career that I’m fairly certain it’s created more work than any other problem.

Yes but

It makes programming hard