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I love RSS, folks. RSS feeds still surface some of the best things I read.

Today, it’s this: https://jenniferplusplus.com/what-is-a-token/

Out of this, I learned the term “Anchoring” to describe an effect I observe in myself when using an LLM while working on a problem, and that I find problematic. I hope to use the fact that I now have language for it to help me break out of that loop.
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This here; when the tools are fit for purpose and make engineers’ jobs easier, you have to pry them from our fingers. All you have to do is look at the dedication to vim/emacs adaptations you’ll see in older coders to see the lengths to which we go to use the tools we feel work best.

It is a massive quality red flag if you have to force your staff to use a tool.

Ben Ramsey @Ben Ramsey · 31w
Quote du jour: “‘Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,’ one employee told Wired. ‘If the tool were good, we’d all just use it.’” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-block-falling-apart-ai #AI
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The #HugoAwards nominations opened today. For the third year in a row, I'm proud to be responsible for making the software that you'll use to nominate and vote, which is open source and free software.

It is built on #Python and #Django. I don't take donations for my work, but the foundations behind those libraries (and the others that NomNom depends on) certainly do!

Consider a donation to Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/) or the PSF (https://www.python.org/psf/donations/) to support my work!
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Memo to nearly every single fucking website: I don’t want you to log me out “due to inactivity”

Don’t be clingy; I use my computer for lots of other sites. I’ll come back to yours, I promise. Let me take my damn time, though!
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Okay, I want to know if there is any way to geo-block access to this Mastodon instance?

Also, I want to know if there's a bat-signal hashtag that reaches Mastodon instance admins (so I can follow it AND use it)

Boost please?