When you train on billions of lines of code, many by people just learning or just playing with things (or just being grad students and pushing out code before your paper topic gets sniped), ‘software engineering principles’ just ain’t there

I was confused and initially thought it said M4… still really awesome

Not a resin printing thing but I did love how the tuning of belts for PRUSA filament printers has you pluck them and analyze the tone.

Seems like a good time to tag @thewaroncars.bsky.social

I recommend the ‘Learn Java the Hard Way’ book learnjavathehardway.org by Graham Mitchell

Chat, j’ai pété. ‘Cat, I farted’

Are you saying that the AI training sets might be biased and creating biased models? What a shocking revelation! (Sarcasm, obviously)

interesting that the new york times is a trusted verifier but npr is not.

Now I want a giant Pluto

For all of us nerds who grew up with David MacAulay’s illustrations…

Boba is starch in milk with sugar in flavor. Not only is it a morning drink, it’s cereal!

The rabbit hole this led me down of Reddit now tells me that microwaving green potatoes can reduce the solanine so they’re not as poisonous. I am still using a paring knife on them, though.

I wonder how potatoes grow in south facing high rise vertical gardens… and how automated those might be. Still more expensive than growing in the vast wastelands of Idaho and Maine I’m sure.

I need to get back to that game…

A true job creator!

It worked for Cuomo until it didn’t