I hear you, and that’s great if it’s something the applicant wants to share. But none of the development work they’ve done at previous companies is work that they’ll be able to share. We take their word on that work. Not taking their word in the same way on other projects seems like a bit of a double standard to me.
Let's say you are applying for an engineering position and you want to mention that you contribute to an open source project. Mention the software stack used, maybe the number of downloads, and your focus on the project. Explain it in general terms. If it gets asked about in the interview, just answer questions without providing the name of the project.
You are describing Real Time with Bill Maher. People continue to watch his show. At least, I think you are, because I'm not sure what a "questionable guest" even is.
My (red) state is one of those that changed the law to make it illegal for pornographic websites to be seen by children. To view them, you'd have to have some kind of central ID to prove that you are over 18. This is absolutely a precursor to having to have an ID to use the internet at all. Every bad thing that has ever happened on the internet will be used to convince legislators to enact a law like this. It's only a matter of time.
I like the choice of SIlverstone for the case. I got one of those for my proxmox server. It was compact, but not so compact that I left a lot of skin and blood behind after mounting components. I will say that other manufacturers (like Fractal Design just seem to understand how to design an interior a lot better, though.
I have never been so glad that I talked myself out of buying the new iPhone this year! Siri is the primary input method I use for my iPhone. I would say I make around 20-30 vocal requests a day. It will be so nice to be able to do things like create a meeting on a calendar with a conversation instead of having to frame the request in a single sentence! I hope they do this rollout well.
In 2005 or so, I got a tip about an application called LaunchBar, which would later be copied by Apple to replace the Sherlock search tool, and later by Microsoft in its PowerToys suite. The machine learning LaunchBar used to tailor its responses based on my previous behavior was life-changing. Instead of configuring an application, I just had to use it to change how it behaved.
This is how language models and AI are going to improve your products. Subtly. Behind the scenes. Slightly improving a thousand different use cases, only a fraction of which your regular usage patterns are going to intersect with.
I thought it was just me! I woke up one day to find that I was logged out, and I couldn’t log in via my apps or even via the Lemmy UI. I thought I had been banned!
Full results from the study, presented at the American Heart Association annual scientific meeting in Philadelphia and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest the drug has other beneficial effects beyond the known health benefits from losing weight.
The heart risk difference between patients who received Wegovy, known chemically as semaglutide, and those on placebo began to appear almost immediately after starting treatment, researchers said.
So it’s not just from losing weight!
The associated risk factors include inflammation, blood pressure and blood sugar control, all of which can impact heart health.
Patients on Wegovy experienced decreases in C-reactive proteins, an indication of inflammation, similar to those reported with cholesterol lowering statins, which are known to significantly lower heart risks, researchers reported.
That is really promising!
Yep. That's what I get for having a ton of tabs open!
Welp, it's the trash can for this device, then. I was such a sucker. I paid the $100 extra for their silly hub to have Homekit integration, doing things the way they wanted. Then they turned that off, so I switched to Home Assistant to preserve my investment. Now it only works with their garbage phone app.
If I wanted something I had to open a separate app just to use, I would use the damn garage door opener I already have.
Biden can be an instant king-maker. All he has to do is hold a press conference where he endorses another Democratic candidate, along with an announcement that he is bowing out of the race to protect the country from Donald Trump. It would be the most potent endorsement ever made.
What they’re doing is publicly signaling that they’re going to spend a lot of money in those districts if these reps vote for Jim Jordan. They’re already swing districts, so anyone who wants to keep his seat is going to have to raise and spend even more money. The Dems are betting that the pressure of having to fundraise and fight a contested election is more of a problem than just making up an excuse to not vote for Jordan.
For me it was playing Life is Strange for the first time. I bought it because it had been listed on Steam as “Overwhelmingly Positive” for ages, and at the time I was really enjoying the story-based games that companies like Telltale were producing. So, knowing nothing about the game, I picked it up and started playing it.
The first act was slow. What I didn’t realize at the time was that the writers were establishing Arcadia Bay, a city in the Pacific Northwest, as a character. All the people in it needed to be recognizable, so it took time for them to teach the player about who they were, what mattered to them, how they fit in to the city, and what their flaws were. I actually stopped playing for a while after the first act. But, luckily, I picked it back up over the holiday season.
I still remember playing it in my living room. I was so thoroughly absorbed into the story that when something tense happened in the second act and I couldn’t stop it the way I normally could, I was literally crushing the controller as if I could make things work by pulling the triggers harder.
I am decidedly not the demographic that Life is Strange was written to appeal to, but they did such a good job writing a compelling story that it didn’t matter. I got sucked in, the characters became important to me, and I could not. put. it. down. I played straight through a night until I finished it.
(If you’ve played it and you’re wondering, I chose the town the first time I played it.)
I’ll never forget that game. I’ll also never forget the communities that spawned around it. I read the accounts of people who had just played it for the first time for about a year because it helped me relive the experience I had when I played it. It was incredible.
Star Trek celebrates the diversity of humanity. The extremes of genetic engineering and (on the other side of the spectrum, perhaps) the Borg are symbolic of the corruption of that diversity.
For an in-universe explanation, I suppose you could just look at the degree to which cybernetics are tolerated. Rutherford-level cybernetics? No problem! Borg Queen-level cybernetics? Helm, warp nine, full reverse!
This is Wyoming we're talking about. Wyoming is where Matthew Shepherd was brutally tortured and murdered. I wouldn't stop, either.
Not beta, gamma, and delta?
It took me a lot longer than I'd like to admit for me to figure out that this was a reference to SNW, and not someone trying to push a far-right conspiracy theory. I think I need to take a break from the internet for a while.
Maybe it's time for a DS9 rewatch....
I am so torn on this. On the one hand, this is sorely needed. Not everyone in an organization is aware that information they feed to an LLM is often fed back into the LLM to train it, or that the LLM reflects bias in its training material, or even that an LLM might return false information. A strong policy is important to help communicate these things.
On the other hand, LLMs have had the biggest impact on my productivity, well, ever. The speed with which I can write complex documents, write code, or help someone else solve a problem has been increased by an order of magnitude. My organization recently enacted something similar to this executive order, prohibiting the use of LLMs. Now I can't get those advantages at work anymore. I'm afraid a heavy-handed policy would effectively strip government workers of the same capabilities.
How opinions on "culture war" issues have changed since 1990
Opinion on sex, drugs, and abortion have all moved left over time.
Ignore the article's over-sensational headline. This is actually a great look at how and why opinions on sensitive cultural issues have changed over time.
The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT and RX 6950 XT are high-performance 4K gaming graphics cards that compete against the likes of the RTX 3080 and the 3090.
The Elder Scrolls Morrowind engine is the basis for a new FPS in the style of Deus Ex, System Shock, and a kind of retro Starfield, and it's playable now.
User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer
I’ve come across other articles from EFF that describe how to take advantages of the DMCA safe harbor provision. This is the first article I’ve seen that directly addresses the Fediverse. If you have a Mastodon, Lemmy, or other Fediverse server, this will probably be of interest to you.
The red team has brought its X3D CPU technology to the gaming laptop and honestly it slaps.
A modder recently published instructions for coaxing AMD APUs that cost around $100 into running AI tasks usually associated with far more expensive graphics cards. If it...
Reddit user chain-77 discovered that a $95 Ryzen 5 4600G APU can do respectable AI work by telling Linux to see it as a 16GB GPU. Although the processor doesn't compare to dedicated cards in traditional graphics rendering, AI relies heavily on memory, where an APU's ability to allocate shared memory freely becomes an advantage.
The reported high-end Navi 4C GPU has leaked now it's been canned and, boy, was it WAY more complex than the Navi 31 chip in the RX 7900 XTX.
This sounds like bad news, but is it actually?
>Interpretation one says that high-end GPUs are irrelevant to 99 percent of gamers and that AMD focussing on affordable graphics cards is actually a good thing. Give us 75 percent of the performance of a high-end Nvidia GPU for half the money, AMD, and everything looks pretty sweet. >
With some work currently pending to be pulled into Mesa, the open source AMD RADV driver could be about to get much faster with Ray Tracing which is exciting to see.
In Season 2 of 'Foundation' the Apple TV+ sci-fi epic is addressing the biggest challenge of the Isaac Asimov books. Here's how the new characters in the show make the books even better.
The title comes from the article, but I agree with some of these changes. It's making for an engaging show that also feels modern.
“Fred lived in a time when music flowed from the Caribou Ranch, Miner Tom was digging for gold, and a stray cat was voted mayor by the townsfolk.”
This is the state where cannabis is legal and shrooms are decriminalized. NOW it makes more sense!
Turbo Overkill: Doom Eternal meets Cyberpunk in gorgeous new boomer shooter going wild on Steam
Doom Eternal’s rapid-pace, weapon-juggling gunplay meets the neon-soaked visuals of Cyberpunk 2077, with a dash of Quake, in a new FPS going wild on Steam.
AMD and Bethesda are teaming up to give away just 500 limited-edition Starfield-themed Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs. They're gorgeous!
Lemmy.ninja improvements
Greetings, programs -- er, ninjas:
Server Upgrades
We've been hard at work analyzing our analytics and tuning the site. If you've been watching our user growth, you would have noticed a dramatic increase in users last month corresponding to the Reddit exodus. Well, we certainly noticed. We started watching the server very closely and tuning it to give you the best experience. I won't go into too much boring detail, but I will say that the server has substantially more resources. We hope this will help speed up your Lemmy-browsing experience.
Software Updates
We continue to keep Lemmy as up-to-date as possible. We're now on Lemmy 0.18.4, which is the latest stable release. We work hard to upgrade to the newest versions as quickly as we can. If the inconceivable happens and we miss a major release, you can help by letting us know about it in this community.
Admin Actions
We've also been hard at work monitoring our connection to the rest of the Fediverse. Our philosophy continues to be to maintain connections to as many instances as we possibly can. This means that we focus our administrative actions on users rather than communities or instances. We've banned spam bots and bad actors from other sites. If you see someone breaking the rules here or elsewhere, please report them so that we can investigate and, if necessary, take action. We like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt as much as we can, and we strive for a permissive application of the rules. On the same token, however, we don't want to let a real problem fester and create serious issues for other administrators. So please help us keep the instance a friendly place by using that report button. It just brings the issue to our attention. No corrective action is taken automatically when you use it. And of course, thank you to everyone who has already helped us identify problems.
One of our tasks right now is to open more channels of communication between ourselves and the admins of other instances. This will help us better understand threats as they arise, and to deal with them before they impact your experience here.
Rules Updates
Speaking of rules, we have again removed some rules we felt were duplicative. Re-evaluating the rules and pruning excessive restrictions is an activity we revisit frequently. We want to make the rules easy to understand and remember. That usually means shortening them and keeping them simple, so don't be surprised if we shorten that sidebar even more in the future. We haven't added any new rules. If we do, you'll hear about it here.
Moderators Needed!
We don't have that many communities here at lemmy.ninja. But if you are subscribed to one and you don't mind acting as a moderator, we could really use your help! Reach out to me or to @[email protected] to let us know you're interested and we'll see about adding you to the team.
Our Roadmap
We plan to continue to improve Lemmy.ninja iteratively. Some things we have been considering are:
- A mobile interface for the site
- Alternative front-ends for you to use
- Live site analytics
- Collaborations with other instances
A lot of these things depend on how the site evolves and where we need to put our efforts. Nevertheless, these are some of the things that you might be seeing in the months ahead!
Wrapping Up
That's all for now, ninjas! If you have ideas for the site, feel free to comment below. Questions, too!
Community Spotlight: Stable Diffusion Art
Share art created with Stable Diffusion Also see: * [email protected] [/c/[email protected]]
You'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the profusion of AI-generated images on the internet. Some are beautiful, some are unsettling, but most of the ones people take the time to post are interesting. If you like the occasional artistic image to flow across your timeline, Stable Diffusion Art will make a great subscription for you.
Now, this is not to be confused with Stable Diffusion, also at dbzer0.com. Stable Diffusion Art is the showcase community, whereas Stable Diffusion is a discussion community about the generative program.
What I like the best about Stable Diffusion Art is that it has themed contests. Someone will post a theme (such as "zombie apocalypse"), and everyone is free to submit comments with the art they generated along that theme.
Go give it a look. We can all use a bit more art in our lives!
Discover Communities By Chance: Lemmy-Discover
Searching through communities can be a daunting task. At latest count, there are over 15,000 communities to choose from. In addition, it’s common to pick communities that you are already interested in. This forms a bit of a bubble, where the content you are exposed to is the content you already agree with and like. So how do you push those boundaries and find new and diverse communities?
One way is to visit a random community. Lemmy-Discover makes this easy by giving you an interface that will show you exactly one community. You’ll see its statistics as well as a few posts and their associated comments. If the community isn’t for you, you can press the big red skip button and see another random community.
(Those of us who are of a certain age will recognize this immediately — it’s just flipping through the channels on the TV to see what’s on. How many great shows did you discover this way?)
It looks like Lemmy-Discover is designed to be an alternative front-end for Lemmy communities. It provides a “Follow” button that, if you create an account, is like subscribing to a community. But for our purposes, it makes a great Community discovery tool.
[FULL FIGHT] Men's Pillow Fight Championship: Leandro Apollo vs. Parker Appel | ESPN8: The Ocho
Because … why not? It’s the OCHO!
[FULL FIGHT] Women's Pillow Fight Championship: Julia Dorny vs. Kendahl Voelker | ESPN 8: The Ocho
Because … why not? It’s the OCHO!
Community Spotlight: Data Hoarder
What do you get when you mix corporate abuses of data, a shift from ownership to renting of software, and dozens of high-profile security breaches? You get a healthy distrust of putting your data on someone else’s computer (also known as “the cloud”). You also get Data Hoarder, a community dedicated to the practice of storing your data on machines that you control. Free from monthly subscriptions and free from prying eyes.
Even if you aren’t a self-hoster, there are a lot of things you can learn from this community. Do you own a PC? Saving money on new storage is a constant topic of discussion. For example, did you know that you can often find great deals on 3.5” hard drives by buying external enclosures with the drive already included? Manufacturers will often put very high quality drives in these enclosures because that’s the model they have the most unsold units of. When you buy the external enclosure, it can cost much less than buying the drive you find inside on its own. Buying the enclosure to take the drive out is called “shucking,” and it can save you a lot of money. (But watch out. It’s a lottery — you might get a different model of drive than you expect.)
If some of these topics sound interesting to you, give Data Hoarder a subscribe and hang out for a while.
Until next time!
Update on the Kbin.social robot uprising
Update to our earlier announcement of kbin.social being temporarily blocked:
Unfortunately, the porn posts have continued to appear in our new feed for over 12 hours now. It's clear that we can't user-ban our way out of this.
Blocking kbin.social was a temporary measure that allowed us to stop the flow of spam posts, wait a while to see if kbin.social had gotten the problem under control, and then re-open the gates to check to see if more bots were posting links. Every time we checked, they were. However, they were studiously keeping to the [email protected] community, never once posting in any other community.
For now we have decided to remove the community and leave access to the rest of kbin.social open. This is a little risky, but leaves us connected to the rest of Kbin.social's content. If you were a subscriber to that community, you won't see any past or future posts in it. Nobody will be able to search for that community from lemmy.ninja, either.
We'll keep an eye on the "New" feed and take action if the bots migrate to another community on kbin.social. For now, however, consider them in chains!