Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
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Seems like classic "correlation, not causation" to me.
Nearly all humans have empathy for those close to them, but to gain empathy for strangers typically requires being exposed to a lot of different people you don't know... AKA everyday living in high-density locations.
Likewise, bikes don't work anywhere near as well in spread out areas, but they work great in dense urban areas where everything you'd ever need is only a couple blocks away. And, let's not forget that such locations often have better and cheaper delivery coverage, filling in the gaps for bikes, making them more viable.
To draw a connection between the two, other than "they both work well in population-dense areas" seems silly and fallacious.
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🤔 Do bicycles create empathy? Or do people that care about other people, tend to care about bikes? Why is there such a big overlap between "bike in...
This is great news.
Next, let's get the local police departments to safely destroy *their* chemical weapons.
"I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition" in its #chemicalweapons stockpile. -- President Biden in a ...
So, Magic Leap's hardware was... not impressive. Unfortunately, it won't work for my many intended use cases for AR.
That said, though, their customer service is top notch. Despite the enormous cost, they were kind enough to allow me to refund the hardware after I explained how it wouldn't work for my use case.
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I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:
* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?
And not:
* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?
Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.
It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.
The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.
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it's genuinely wild how we heard nothing but long winded platitudes on how innovative silicon valley was for like 20 straight years and it's all culminated in a bunch of the dullest, most petulant billionaires imaginable all just copying each other's version of a very basic chat app
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It took a bit but I have a post about SCOTUS's 303 Creative decision last week.
If the length seems daunting, just read up to the bold headings. Or even the 1st paragraph, which sums up the bottom line.
As does the title: "In 303 Creative, By Happily Helping One Bigot, SCOTUS (Perhaps Inadvertently) Helped The Larger Fight Against Bigotry"
(Otherwise it's written in sections explaining how aspects of the decision serve the greater good, so you can pace yourselves.)
Step 1: Fire all your best employees to cut costs.
Step 2: Your competitors hire those employees, and become more competitive as a result.
Step 3: Throw good money after bad and pay lawyers to sue your competitors for seizing the opportunity you yourself created for them.
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, alleging Meta has "engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade sec...
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It began with the forging of the Great Platforms. 3 were given to the Blueskies, self-assessed wisest and fairest of all. 7 to the Twitter Edgelords, great memers and alt-right craftsmen. And 9, 9 rings were gifted to the race of Mastodon, who above all else desire content warnings. But they were all of them deceived, for another platform was made. Deep in the land of Meta, in the Fires of IG, the Dark Lord Zuck forged a federated platform, and into this he poured his cruelty, his malice and his
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"I am not the Lord of Darkness" Ron DeSantis calmly assured reporters while signing a new bill that bans Florida citizens from uttering the phrase "Lord of Darkness".
The final flare in the landing really clicked for me finally today. I wasn't just going through the motions; I understood how and why it worked so I was able to make adjustments on the fly and achieve smooth (not just safe) landings.
My approaches however... could use some work still. Came in too high and fast on two regular traffic patterns, but did much better on an extended pattern.
If all goes well, I'll be making my first solo flight in about two weeks. Very excited.
Idiots across the lake from me are setting off big fireworks... while it's still broad daylight 🤦♂️
What a waste.
If your holiday explosives are smaller than your hand, you may need to upgrade.
Curious. Apparently Bing AI Image Creator allows "pistol" and "rifle" but does not allow "grenade" in prompts.
I will never understand the people who invent their own parking spots in a nowhere-near-full parking lot, blocking regular traffic, just so their car can be a few feet closer to the entrance.
Like, how pathetic do your parents have to have been to raise you with no understanding whatsoever of the concept of your actions affecting those around you?
Working on a topographic line renderer. This is after less than a day of work, so it still has a long way to go.
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I see a lot of posts here saying “#Mastodon should do xyz if it wants to become mainstream/grow/appeal to more people”. Yes, lots of features could be made more intuitive or easier. But the reason it’s “behind” is also the intrinsic good at its core - Masto isn’t “competing” against anyone, it doesn’t have growth targets or marketing campaigns. No one is paying to buy your data here, there is no profit incentive to get people to join. Doing things the right way takes time #fediverse
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Any self respecting math olympics team from a high school in Alberta's capital better call themselves the Edmonton Eulers
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
