Meme of Captain Jack Sparrow from "Pirates of the Caribbean" saying "But! … it is a research practice!"

… my brain, reading this "in a voice" like that 🙃

Why not just use the OS-provided RNG system? Unless you really need random data en masse (re: "Not the best performance"?), that would sound like the best option to me?

I guess it's there for "plausible" deniability of the platform, i.e. fingerpointing in case of leakage: "We don't have any security issues! If the key got leaked, it must have been because of someone else, as we only show the key once – so the culprit must be the one having created the key, not us!"

I actually created a web-based system for my company to let employees easily create such backgrounds (automatically populated by the company's internal employee directory after SSO, manually adjustable) about 7 years ago :)

… was mich daran erinnert, dass ich noch Pizzateig für nachher ansetzen muss! Danke! :)

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Politicians… Reminds me of people trying to talk them out of mathematics :) www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

(I just want to point out that it's not always possible to generalize and simplify, but that there are situations where details/circumstances can make a huge difference)

What if, for example, the management now "encourages" you to use AI, but you have already experienced the misery it'd bring to your job, just fixing its errors? How do you handle unethical or even unlawful requests? The dilemma might make "it's impossible!" look like a thing to try/less frightening.

Maybe we should start over from an even earlier savegame? 300.000 BC maybe?

I think it's more important to have a diverse team, because then it doesn't matter whether the words are "it's impossible" or "I don't know": chances are someone from the team will know better and propose a solution (or throw in new thoughts and ideas for a completely different approach).

The more I think about it: isn't that the point of having senior engineers? So that you can trust their judgement/knowledge/experience when they tell you "it's impossible" and don't have to break it down but can start working out a feasible solution to implement instead, with suggestions from them?

But that was after we had been working together for years; in the beginning, he asked "why", and then I explained the reasons. The more he got to know me, he learned that I usually had sound reasons for just saying "it's impossible", and now we skip the "why" and go straight towards possibilities.

I disagree :) It just says "that specific thing you want is impossible", but you can still discuss what would be possible instead. From my personal experience, that's actually what happens when I tell my manager "we can't do that": he asks back "well, what can we do then?" And we work out something.

I'm trying to say: while technically correct that "it's impossible" is just "I don't know how", sometimes it's just a shortcut when it's already clear that "getting to know how" (or the effort for making it happen) will clearly exceed available resources – the result would be: "not gonna happen"

Yes, but if the engineer already knows that _in the end_ it will be impossible _for practical reasons_ (e.g. the answer to that follow-up question would be "we need to build a multi-billion € device and employ 100s of scientists"), then "it's impossible" is equivalent to "I don't know"

The difference is whether it's actually "nobody knows how to build that". Sometimes, "it's not possible" really is meant to say that.

Ich will einfach nicht jetzt ein allgemeines Wort blocken, um dann in der Zukunft deswegen was zu verpassen, nur weil ich in der Vergangenheit mal zum Selbstschutz vor Spam dazu gezwungen wurde.

Zwei Aspekte: 1) die Häufigkeit dieser Wiederholungen und die sich daraus ergebende Notwendigkeit, 2) ein Hashtag zu blocken. Ohne 1 kein 2,aber wenn 2,dann muss das Tag eindeutig sein, kein Wort aus dem allgemeinen deuschen Sprachgebrauch, das _jederzeit_ anderswo (sinnvoll) verwendet werden könnte

Ich stelle auch gerade fest, dass diese Wiederholung bekannter News (man hat den heise-Account ja abonniert) in meiner Timeline stört; kann man das nicht in einen extra Account auslagern? Hijacking von hashtags aus dem allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch: uncool.

I had been waning to try out that kind of painting for quite some time, but am afraid of the "upfront cost" (buying all the colors, canvas, brushes etc.) in light of the chances that I won't find it as gratifying as to keep that hobby, leaving me with more useless items shelved somewhere…

Wär's nicht sinnvoller, eine "Unter dem Radar"-Übersicht zu machen, statt das, was sich sowieso von selbst verbreitet, noch mehr zu pushen? #SurvivorshipBias

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In Deutschland herrscht seit Tagen dicke Luft In der aktuellen Kältephase laufen viele Heizungen auf Hochtouren - darunter auch Holz- und Kohleöfen. Das macht sich bemerkbar: Das Umweltbundesamt stuft die Luftqualität in Deutschland teilweise als...

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dürfte schwierig werden (bsky.app/profile/core..., bsky.app/profile/jame...) – bei der (im Vergleich zu den Eigendaten deutlich überwiegenden) Menge an "Zusatzdaten", die man bräuchte, um mit eigenen LLMs mal eben "Neues" erzeugen zu lassen, käme man mit der Rechteklärung doch gar nicht hinterher?

Maybe "retreat & regroup" (bsky.app/profile/fuch...) or "power workout" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrt...)? :)

Achievement unlocked: einen Film auf allen Medien, die mir bisher im Leben zur Verfügung standen, ansehen. TV, VHS, DVD, BluRay - und neu hinzugekommen: Kino. www.cinecitta.de/de/40-Jahre-...

Meme of Star Trek Enterprise's (TOS) Chief Engineer, Montgomery Scott, stating "How many times do I have to tell ya? Use the right tool for the right job!"

That's where ChatGPT shines – transforming simple statements into puffy language, consuming the recipient's resources until they cede to resist :) Remember to always use the right tool for the right job!

It has been tested in battle, for sure – and lost. 😆

At least "No ~~animals~~ blockchains were harmed®"! 😮‍💨

- B E D - G O E S - U P - YouTube video by Dankmus

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