Jahana

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:55 UTC

It is not that anyone here would be interested at all, he lied, but the #CocteauTwins have just hours ago revamped and updated their YouTube page to finally include all their official videos over the years, in hi-def at that. So. You know. Not that anyone here would be interested as I said.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

At least this project will come with a hard stop date.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

I've really been enjoying his stuff lately. One of my favorite new authors of the last decade.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

Who has a better chance? Make your case FOR them, rather than assuming Biden is a failure.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:21 UTC

Funny, I'd say exactly that about your framing.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:24 UTC

And as far as being an ineffective candidate, why must we ignore all the events he has done, the gaggles, and the meetings we have watched him take with foreign leaders to solely focus on a single evening?

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

He has a stutter. He's *never* been an effective communicator? So? He has been an effective PRESIDENT with that stricture in place, so why are you acting like this makes him unfit for the rigors of the job?

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:11 UTC

Given his performance over the last 3.5 years? Yes, he is absolutely up to the rigors of the job. What the fuck is wrong with you? Why is one evening the sole timeline we are allowed to judge his fitness on?

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

Less "only" and more "every". There have been multiple AI case hallucinations in court filings.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

Uh, you're the one hypothesizing about how Labour did poorly because they didn't meet pre-election polling levels while having a historic election. You can't have it both ways.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

You cannot make that math work. If Reform wasn't there, Tories gain 1.5 million votes to bring them to 8.3 million. Labour gains 700K, bringing them to 10.4 million. Which MPs were close enough that Reform splitting this way would flip the seat?

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 12:21 UTC

And Reform + Tory was down 7.6%, losing 3 million votes from 2019. Almost like comparing a historic Brexit election to one that had overall turnout down almost 8% is going to see a lot of absolute numbers decrease even while overall share increases.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

Ineffectual is the closest he will ever come to having an effect.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

You mean they gauged their chances and determined that avoiding losing to Biden was more important than a longshot chance at beating an incumbent? Shocking! The 2020 GOP field was similarly missing anyone of substance, because the incumbent has such a dominant advantage.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:40 UTC

They meant nothing? They determined who got the delegates! And Biden trounced "nothing", and all other options, in every state. So why is your feeling that he shouldn't be the nominee more relevant that the actual votes that say he is?

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:29 UTC

Win-win!

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:57 UTC

It is, but mail is so passe' now. Postal franking is where its at, and that sounds like banking is just a short hop away.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:45 UTC

The only way I see it working is if USPS buys a banking chain and rebrands it, but keeps the institutional knowledge of that industry intact. I do see that as a serious possibility, though.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

When I could replace you with any of a dozen dudes mansplaining to a woman *in her field of expertise* that I have seen this morning already without changing the tone of this thread one iota, "being male at people" fits you to a T. Deal with it.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:49 UTC

Nice! Wordle 1,112 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

Aaaand ... I'm blocked. Thanks muchly. I am seriously trying to get informed about this here.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

I've asked this to multiple people and nobody has managed to answer it: Where? Where did Gaiman say this? I'm dying for a link to a statement from him, directly, but everything I've seen is either the podcast or another outlet rehashing the podcast. Can you link me to Neil's denial?

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:09 UTC

Sorry, it's even worse. They say that they "... understand that Gaiman believes ...". How? Who did they talk to? This is journalistic malpractice, at BEST. Note: I'm not disbelieving the allegations, but I want some actual information, and I'm stymied by the slipshod reporting here.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

So I have seen the original podcast source say that Gaiman believes these to be due to false memories, but I haven't seen anything from, y'know, him. Got a link? Everything I try to research here goes back to a single source that seems unreliable. I'd like to hear from better sources.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:50 UTC

Blocking is for everyone, but a bespoke "fuck off" adds that extra something just for you.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 19:44 UTC

Twitter would like a word with you...

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:20 UTC

Congrats and commiserations, in that order. Sent help.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

Yes, but I'm not paid enough to deal with Oracle licensing, let alone hazard pay for dealing with their SQL spec interpretation.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 22:47 UTC

SQL searches are case-insensitive, so no, it won't miss them. And yes, I could LTRIM(RTRIM()) the data, but like I said, that's data, not code.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

Quelle surprise. Jay did not like to be pushed back against.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:15 UTC

That has been my goto reaction for ChatGPT output for over a year now.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:13 UTC

Look, all those spare CPU cycles need to be put to use to improve efficiency.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

Jay is a little sensitive.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

Experience like "Give me a list of states starting and ending with the same letter" returning facially bad results? That kind of experience?

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

Column A list of states, column B is =IF(LEFT(A1,1)=RIGHT(A1,1),A1,"") with the row number matching the row it is in. Any text in column B is a state starting and ending with same letter.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

It's so far off it is sliding into "not even wrong" territory. It is deciding to go from Chicago to NYC by way of Seattle. No professional developer would approach the problem like this!

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

@wqsaves.bsky.social code of "states.Where(x => x.First() == x.Last()) is even shorter and handles it in code - and is ALSO semantically equivalent to "show me all the states that start and end with the same letter". No frills. No tortured grammar. Just a correct result.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

You think you can speak for software developers' thinking, but cannot parse "I'd reject the pr"? Tell me you are not a software developer without saying you're not a software developer.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

The code I posted is the semantic equivalent of "Show me all the states that start and end with the same letter", which is demonstrably wrong in Gemini. Having to massage your prompt into multiple subclauses in English to force a correct result is a *problem*.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

You made a claim about how I would *approach* the problem. And no, I am not going to case the data, I am simply going to use some very short code that checks the first and last letters of a string and returns those that match. So your claim is simply wrong.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

Or next week. Saw someone point out that Roberts didn't say tomorrow would be the final day, which means it will not be.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:32 UTC

Exactly. Lambdas are almost ubiquitous in 2024. I would be shocked to see anyone from a generation after mine NOT knowing about them, and I'm fucking old.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 12:26 UTC

The hell I would. It's a list of states. 50 data elements. I'm going to winnow it on the data pull: SELECT * FROM states WHERE SUBSTRING(state_name,1,1) = SUBSTRING(state_name,len(state_name),1) AND state_name IS NOT NULL. Any errors I get are going to be in the data, and I'll fix those there.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 11:49 UTC

In 2024? I'd say yes.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 19:30 UTC

No, you don't. You just have to know that some words are more likely to follow a particular word than others. That's it. That is *precisely* how autocomplete works, and autocomplete has no understanding of language nor intelligence. It just plays the odds.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

They didn't say "better", just "different"

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 21:16 UTC

Which is an achievement, given that scurvy *does* poll better.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

No, it really isn't, and your intent to obfuscate the line is noted.

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Jahana @jahana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 11:12 UTC

🧷

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