What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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Yahoo headline: If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program

Fact check: False

NASA and its predecessors during the early space program blew up far more rockets than SpaceX has.

NASA and its predecessors have killed far more humans in rocket failures and related activity than SpaceX has.

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의사들이 공식적으로 성분명 처방을 반대하는 부분에는...
1. 생물학적 동등성 실험의 애매함
2. 같은 성분이라도 제약회사의 제품마다 효과가 미묘하게 다름
을 주장하고 있던데 장기적으로는 표준화될 부분이지 이 문제로 리베이트 문제를 덮기는 어렵다고 봐요.
다만... 대규모 (의원급) 파업이 예상됩니다.

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X had its second outage in just over a week today. @SarahpSarah Perez 💙 reports for @Techcrunch that the outage took place just after the platform rolled out its new DM feature. "It’s not clear if any of these changes impacted X’s stability, and the company no longer responds to press inquiries since Musk took ownership," she writes.

flip.it/G1cQmd

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I think there is a lot that we can learn from genAI but it seems like we are determined to learn the opposite lesson. I think that anywhere you find an LLM being a legitimately great tool, you've probably found a flawed system that is measuring the wrong thing or that is systematically being entrained incorrectly. Like, note-taking. LLMs are great at "summarizing" by finding "important highlights" and this definitely tells us something but it's not something about LLMs

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> Louis Anslow is the author of Pessimists Archive, a project to jog our collective memories about the hysteria, technophobia, and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas, and trends.

Pessimists Archive - Freethink

freethink.com/collections/pessimists-archive

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So Autechre released a new set of clothes merch, possibly for their new tour? but you can buy it on their website, and I'm excite because they went out of their way to include girl-cut options

autechre.warp.net/merchandise?

I have information to suggest they did this specifically because they saw ppl complaining on the Internet about "unisex" meaning "boy" and tried to correct

They have a girl cut T shirt, and one of their hoodie options is kinda a crop top hoodie which looks potentially super cute

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Today, we received fake issues created by an AI. These had a really disruptive effect. While it can sound ridiculous, I think it is important to share it with you.

Initially, I (tom79 - the dev involved in issues) didn't notice they were from different accounts (around 8 issues posted during three hours). The automatic profile picture generated, used the same colours and I didn't pay attention to the username. I thought, someone was upset about the app and there is nothing wrong about that.

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I might be opening a can of worms here, but....

I have no PC. I use my work laptop for pretty much everything, but it's probably about time I finally get something of my own.

I have zero technical knowledge, and zero experience of anything that isn't Windows.

Question: is it possible to buy a ready-to-go Linux PC that doesn't need me to do fiddly stuff? (I define fiddly stuff as "most of what everyone toots about on Mastodon dot com".).

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