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Catoblepas

@ Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone

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2w ago

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS
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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago
though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.
I suppose using ~~hat on top of a hat technology~~ “agentic” “AI” in the first place is technically a human error.

2w ago

The country built on slavery

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Quick! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Beans are definitely legumes, though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume

2w ago

come on, give the bros some credit

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Very light bleeding that sometimes just leaves spots of blood rather than an actual flow, if that makes sense.

2w ago

come on, give the bros some credit

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

It depends on the person, for me I think it stopped immediately? I might have had one light period or spotting after that, but it stopped pretty quick.

2w ago

Would you leave this?

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Totally situation dependent. For someone slightly over the line in a parking lot, uncalled for. For someone blocking my driveway or in a hypothetical parking spot I pay money for, finding a free condom and not a tow notice is pretty polite.

2w ago

Costs of Big Batteries Are Tumbling and Can Boost Clean Power

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Batteries have been the one technology in my experience where ‘5-10 years out’ predictions by scientists have actually consistently come to pass. The batteries I grew up with were shockingly trash, taking half the day to charge if they recharged at all. In hindsight, the amount of batteries we just casually threw away because they were intentionally disposable is incomprehensible.

2w ago

‘Playing Checkers’: Trump’s Bid to Revive Coal Is Nonsensical | The president last week ordered the Department of Defense to purchase coal energy. Experts say it's a lost cause

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

I honestly assumed a ton of ‘waste’ mercury just got dumped into the ocean before we knew that was bad. Which I guess is sort of what happened, it just went through the atmosphere first.

2w ago

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Gonna be a fuckin’ explosion if it doesn’t happen soon.

2w ago

Gov. Newsom expanded free preschool. Now private daycares say they can’t afford to stay open

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Free education and care for all children

… is not happening right now in California. Kids under 4 aren’t eligible, and are also more expensive to find daycare options for. That’s not going to get fixed by driving a bunch of daycares out of business.

The solution is obviously more state run care for younger children, but that’s not what exists right now. So it’s going to be a problem if a solution isn’t passed before these daycares start closing down.

2w ago

Double standards

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

I award you a birder point for saying Canada goose instead of Canadian goose ⭐️

2w ago

Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

People who want to access that community should leave lemmy.world, since it doesn’t seem like the admins want to unblock it. There are other lemmy instances, along with Piefed and mbin too.

2w ago

it's so blatant once you notice it

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

but I remembering hearing somewhere that pre-recorded messages on trains/subways/in stations tend to use feminine voices for information, and masculine voices for instructions.

Dunno if this is still the case, but this was definitely true of the subway system in NYC when I lived there.

Female voice: the next stop is [x] street

Male voice: stand clear of the closing doors!

2w ago

DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

when I just point out this deeply funny statistic

Clinton being unable to gain more than a 1% lead on Obama despite having an entire extra state to count votes from is indeed deeply funny, but not for the reason you think it is.

If you can’t make your point without trotting out a line aggrieved Clinton stans have been carrying around nearly 20 years, maybe you should stop doing that. Especially since it undermines the point you’re trying to make: the DNC choosing anyone other than Obama would have been an actual example of them putting their fingers on the scale.

Or you could just stew about how good you are at communicating and how bad everyone else is at understanding, seems to be working well so far.

2w ago

Guess which flag is currently in use

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Purple on black, friend of Jack.

(Jack is a trans man. Nonbinary people are his friends in times of peace and war)

2w ago

DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

In the history of DNC, there was only one time when delegates didn’t chose the same candidate as the people, and that was when Obama lost the popular vote to Clinton by almost 1%.

lol, why is it almost always aggrieved Clinton stans?

Incidentally, the Clinton bit is such a stretch it’s fair to call it a lie.

https://www.factcheck.org/2008/06/clinton-and-the-popular-vote/

Q: Did Clinton win the popular vote?

A: Obama won more votes unless you count Michigan, where he wasn’t on the ballot.

The fact there was a mere 1% difference in the votes she received despite her getting an entire extra state compared to him shows how wildly popular he was. Ignoring that would have been choosing a different candidate than the people were choosing; they didn’t make some incredible decision that paid off because they know better than their voters, they just knew what would have happened if both their names had been on that ballot and knew which way the wind was blowing.

2w ago

Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

But the idea that the Democratic governor of California isn’t liberal enough is just laughable.

Tell me you don’t understand California politics without telling me you don’t understand California politics.

2w ago

Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Anyone that would say that to a student who turned up to learn has no business teaching. You don’t take funding problems out on students. It’s not the teacher’s obligation to self fund their classroom, but many do it because often nobody else is. Reading someone talk about that and the message you decide is important to share with them is ‘lol you’re paying your employer’ is weirdo behavior.

2w ago

Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

They’re pretty obviously supplying it for their students, not their employer. Weird as hell to rub someone’s nose in the fact their students are trapped in a school system that doesn’t even supply teachers with proper access to printed materials. Even Reddit used to run a donor program to help teachers out with the costs.

2w ago

Bad kitty!

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Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

When we got our current kitten, we faced the TP roll backwards, since this wasn’t our first cat rodeo. He ‘solved’ the situation by biting the roll and tearing it off the holder to shred.