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Darren

dplattsf@sfba.social

<p>genetical engineer / CS geek</p>

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    wait time at #kaiser #sanfrancisco french campus for #covid and #flu #vaccination is less than 5 mins. Way faster than catching the disease itself.

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    Olympic grade sleeping here #caturday

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    @Taweret@timeloop.cafe you have to ask yourself obvious question. Are you a large language model ?

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    @Paulatics@mstdn.ca well spoken.

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    tail to tail traffic here in the clowder. #caturday. #catsofmastodon

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    The #nytcooking team really struck this time. &amp;quot;One pot pasta&amp;quot; that called for a whole bottle of white wine. This review summarizes the outcome nicely &amp;quot;The wine never really had a chance to evaporate&amp;quot; .. also &amp;quot;A complete waste of a bottle of sauvignon blanc!&amp;quot; https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/770670402-one-pot-white-wine-pasta enjoy!

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    web systems always fail in passive voice

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    Have been trying out an #oura4 ring and was alarmed when it told me my #cardiovascularheath looked like someone 9 years older than I am. Was sobering. I reflected on life today, forced the dogs to take an extra long walk with me and was planning to fit in a bike ride up one the larger hills in #SanFrancisco tomorrow, and then I thought hang on... checked the app settings and it had picked up a completely random birth date - probably the product of a lifetime of lying to anyone who tries to c...

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    this is car wreck material - #trumpvoters with regret and yet even in their most frustrated moments they’d never vote for a democrat because their core hatred towards people not like them outweigh even self interest. free link for #nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/28/opinion/focus-group-trump-voters-disappointed.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eVA.w9Fx.QNEsgUaZbyQO&amp;amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share

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    #linux admin got so much easier with #LLM tech.. all those obscure commands and errors you would paste endlessly into search engines trying to decipher the disease that had suddenly afflicted your operating system is fixable now in a heartbeat. I know lots of folks aren&amp;#39;t happy about #AI for all sorts of reasons, and LLMs aren&amp;#39;t even real-AI but they are incredibly effective at distilling huge bodies of technical documentation and sorting through them. Also the reason they are...