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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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Yesterday’s annular eclipse as viewed from a city park on the outskirts of Hondo, #Texas. There was a broad layer of high clouds when we arrived but luckily they broke up & blew away just in time for the main event. Had to get up in the wee hours and drive 225 miles (362 km) west to get right in the center of the path but it was well worth it.
#Eclipse #Eclipse2023 #EclipseSolar #Sun #Moon #photography #astrophotography
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More from the Plague Ships series.
Cruise liners sat just off the south Devon coast for 18 months during Covid. At first they were a magnificent sight but, after weeks and then months passed, their presence became more and more malevolent.
#photography #MastoArt
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"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." - Byrne Hobart
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Godlessness (Linux users) is at an all-time high. We need to address the capability gap in our hearts.
@RyeNCode @SwiftOnSecurity used to be ln -f defaulted now it's just ln -s for the majority of users.
logical thinking, eh?
@SwiftOnSecurity within Linux God exists, but possibly only as a file-descriptor.
@eclectech snoozy elephant
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Day 15 of #photOctober2023 and the themes are breakfast and mountain. I'm ignoring breakfast (other than eating it as I looked through my photos) because I have an absolute favourite mountain photo & I don't really know why I bothered looking through any others.
This is the largest mountain in the UK, Ben Nevis, looking like an elephant.
I mean. Really. 🐘
@jerry good luck, it'll be fine. maybe after a few reboots and some dns propagation, but it'll be fine :)
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I *really* dislike the use of "hallucination" as a way to describe the behavior of LLMs. Not because it anthropomorphizes them, but because hallucinations are disorders of sensory perception. They don't make you spew out plausibly-sounding bullshit.
If you need a familiar term, "confabulation" is probably a better pick.
@lcamtuf "salesmanship" is closer for me: overhears/half-reads something and makes up utter bollocks about it, but it reads well and is plausible enough to be believed
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Day 14 of #photOctober2023 and the themes are blurred and street sign.
I took this as I walked up a hill on the narrow road on the St Abbs Nature Reserve. As I slowly approached the sign, and paused to take in the view and a deep breath, I thought to myself "rude!"
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@jonty Pretty Large Online Platform was right there...
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
