tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
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#JavaScript: What is 10e3?
More information on JavaScript’s number literals: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_numbers.html#number-literals
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Today at #tpac2023, at one of the meetings, someone introduced a really cool cursor parking lot.
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Tonight in "Coralie puts random things in perspective", I wanted to point out that #OpenAI losing US$ 540M last year is roughly equivalent to what it would cost to run #W3C for 60 years.
W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium —which is responsible for creating the open standards that make the Web work across platforms and devices— and was created 29 years ago by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
Yes, the same Web that is scraped for generative AI training.
Fund the better causes!
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#Seville is beautiful, as I remembered it. But I'm surprised to see the streets in the city centre so littered with rubbish.
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mask goes over the nose
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Sign Mozilla's petition to stop car companies from vacuuming up your data. Some companies even collect "sexual" data. 😲 (See earlier retoot) #Privacy https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/car-companies-stop-your-huge-data-collection-programs-en/
Me fascinan estos cantamañanas. ¿Se lo creerán de verdad?
> _«Soy mujer medicina, sanadora de hombres y mujeres que necesitan recuperar su identidad para encontrar su camino y expresar lo que son desde su esencia. El Camino por el que yo he transitado mágico y maravilloso posibilitó una gran transformación que me ha hecho Creer en Mí y vivir desde lo que Soy. […] Empezando por el Psicoanálisis pasando por el Masaje Metamórfico y siguiendo por la Kinesología, El Coaching Ontológico, La Acupuntura, La Desprogramación Medular, El Chamanismo, Canto Armónico, Las Constelaciones Familiares, Terapia de Integración Hombre y Mujer, La Osteopatía, Espiritulogía, La Física Cuántica y Registros Akáshicos, Chamanismo espiritual y el Tantra, todos ellas me ayudaron a conectar conmigo, destapar emociones escondidas que habían hecho que cada vez estuviera más alejada de mí, porque esa es la clave estar conectado e integrado con lo que realmente eres tú.»_
Why #privacy, exhibit no. 41,077:
> _“Popular global brands — including BMW, Ford, Toyota, Tesla, Kia, and Subaru — can collect deeply personal data such as **sexual activity, immigration status, race, facial expressions, weight, health and genetic information**. […] Data is being gathered by **sensors, microphones, cameras, and the phones and devices drivers connect to their cars, as well as by car apps, company websites, dealerships, and vehicle telematics**. Brands can then share or sell this data to third parties. #Car brands can also take much of this data and use it to develop inferences about a driver’s intelligence, abilities, characteristics, preferences, and more.”_
TIL that the five tenets of #taekwondo include these two: “self-control”, and “indomitable spirit”.
> in·dom·i·ta·ble (ĭn-dŏm′ĭ-tə-bəl) adj. Incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable. Incapable of being subdued : UNCONQUERABLE.
How do you control something like that?
Conclusion: taekwondo is impossible.
Note to self about #online #diagrams and #charts: excalidraw.com for sleek hand-drawn diagrams (just a few shapes, but great UI) app.diagrams...
**Pets are wrong.**
I don't mean that pets hold wrong #opinions, of course: I mean that the idea of keeping small animals around for fun is a mistake.
Let me refine that: keeping #pets _in urban environments_ is _almost always_ wrong.
* It's a misallocation of resources (invest that same money and attention on a fellow human being; or improving the welfare of farmed animals, which have it much, much worse than your chihuahua).
* Many pets are probably miserable (caged rodents, reptilians and birds; cats and dogs living in apartments; any animal lacking space, exercise, challenges, prey, mates, etc).
* For cities, some pets may be healthy (eg, cats killing mice), but many others facilitate disease, stain the streets with their droppings, are dangerous to people, or are noisy.
* Pets waste much-needed empathy and send the wrong signal: there are so many pressing issues, and so many millions of people (and billions of farmed animals) in need of help, and so many causes lacking funds and visibility, that choosing to buy a pet and spend money on it seems a weird whim.
Exceptions I understand: guide dogs and the like; pets for lonely people who really can't find friends or caregivers; purely rural environments.
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"It is not sustainable to have a society in which the most damaging accusations include accusations that are not easily disprovable. Accusations which can ruin a person’s career and then simply be said to be “in the eye of the beholder”. No. We have a legal system in this country for a reason. One based not just on the rule of law but also on the belief in – and pursuit of – truth."
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@tripu I don't like his proposals either. I think he has none except monarchy. There was a very interesting YouTube channel that explained his ideas without the verbosity. It's gone now, but I could found this video reposted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90TbkFxePw0
I think Moldbug's criticism of democracy is misplaced and it actually applies to large countries/bureaucracies, whether they're a democracy or a monarchy. Small monarchies can work fine, but so do small democracies. Diseconomies of scale.
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
