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A coworker of mine years ago once said of James Earl Jones’s voice, “When he says ‘This…is CNN,’ you think to yourself, ‘Oh my GOD, it is, why did I never think about that??!?”
There’s something I want you to about James Earl Jones: he was a person who stuttered.
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This is James Earl frigging Jones. •The• voice. Stuttered. His whole life. Poetry and acting helped him speak.
We judge people impulsively and •incredibly• harshly by how they speak: a stutter, an accent, a dialect, how they make a certain sound, how they sound.
In honor of James Earl Jones, let’s all just try to find that judgement within ourselves, grab it with both hands, and yank it out. I know I’ll try.
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P.S. Some quick advice if you’re talking to a person who stutters:
Relax. Be patient. Don’t rush them. Don’t be anxious for them. Don’t “help” them by completing their word for them. (It’s NOT helpful!) If a stutter starts, let them find their own way through it. Chill. You’re good. It’s all good. Show them you’re listening and attentive, and you don’t mind them taking the time they need. Give them your patience, your attention, and your acceptance.
this is one of the reasons I started asking "when someone new joins the team how many weeks does it typically take them to get up to speed with it?", rather than "how many LoC?"
even when the answers are inaccurate, they are illuminating.
I said it before and I'll say it again:
"AI model learns, therefore it is intelligent" is like saying "computer programs run, therefore they have legs."
Metaphors like "program runs" or "model learns" are useful, but are just that: metaphors.
Drawing conclusions on their basis is folly.
Keep that in mind next time AI-hypers try to draw equivalences between a child going to a museum and then making their own art, and a LLM gobbling up terabytes of text and then generating word salad.
Dodocumentation
/dŏ-dŏ-k″yə-mĕn-tā′shən/
Noun
A piece of documentation or writing that when you write it, you are certain nobody will ever read.
See also: extinct, #documentation, #software development, #confluence
The final straw was in whatever stupid mode it got itself into, we could not even FORCE the boiler to make hot water, by pushing what is meant to be a manual override button. And my wife wanted to go for a shower.
So, that's the end of that shitty chapter. I'm glad that at least it wasn't a long chapter.
Disrecommend Hive.
If you move into a new house, don't try and fucking take over an old system. Rip it out.
Remember when programmer timers... didn't require and app, which required an email address, mobile number, etc etc etc? Remember those days?
This ordeal started with "hmm I really should figure out the hot water scheduling, as, frankly, it hasn't been reliable and we've been using boost a lot".
And ended with, "this is unusable trash".
Genuinely may temporarily put this in its place :
I bought an even simpler one, works brilliantly even with no internet.
I had a similar experience with a hive. Plus i didn't trust upnp to something I have zero control over.
Found a channel full of vintage computing furries, invite someone I know there that works at the local particle accelerator because he has access to some cool, old tech. Fairly niche. A discussion starts in the channel only for another furry who works at a particle accelerator across the country to begin sharing their work, too.
The fandom is amazing.
Hey remember what I was saying about how Cohost was going to announce they were closing and only THEN start work on export tools for people's posts, which I guarantee they will not do because as of today they're already no longer paying themselves, and there's no way they're going to work on the site that hard when they find other jobs?
Yeah, this is just the start of the ride. Keep watching what happens from here.
🪐 We've been on Mastodon for many years, but I'm gonna go ahead and post this old Xenia drawing anyways, in case any of our followers from Cohost are checking these tags
#hicohost #artistsoncohost #cohost #heycohost
I'm going for a walk; would you like to come along with me?
🧵 Fursuit made by @lupesuits
#furry #furries #furryfandom #fursona #fursuit #fursuits #fursuiting #fursuiter #LupeSuits
"There's virtually nothing that the average person can do (to protect their privacy)."
Chris Gilliard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7_TKN0kfw
In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, online privacy is on everyone's minds. But according to privacy experts, the entire way we think about and under...YouTube
Have you *any fucking idea* how *utterly impossible* it is for me as a 60+ year/old to follow your *fuckingly stupid animated gif crap documentation video* which wizzes by at an speed impossible to follow for anybody over the age of 8?
Why can't you bloodywell give us a chance and *write a few fucking sentences*?!?!!
Actually, what I wanted to say was "no, thanks, I won't use your project. Have a lovely day."
WM Motor filed for bankruptcy in October 2023, and Singulato and Aiways have left the market, too. An estimated 160,000 Chinese car owners are left in the lurch.Munira Mutaher (Rest of World)
Some of this stuff is a risk for all cars as we head towards an ever more computerized future. Not only that, but imagine millions of vehicles with outdated firmware, collecting data on us for years and becoming more and more vulnerable to hacking as they age.
The future is a Black Mirror episode, and it sucks.
As much as I like that computers have gotten a lot more accessible to people, I still wish that people on the whole had gotten more computer literate and tech savvy instead of computing becoming what it is now. Computers making things easier for users often comes with vendor lock-in and things "that just work" all only just working because they're from the same manufacturer.
Also people seem pretty incapable of learning new tech and different workflows now which is... frustrating. We used to use raw HTML on our MySpace pages. 
THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT:
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from Nat Bullard and data from Ember.
Oh wow, LinkedIn is the worst... They have suspended my account, due to "suspicious activity" (aka me getting annoyed with all the notifications and therefore not using it for several weeks). To recover the account, they want me to submit a photo of my ID, and I am obviously not doing that. So, the next step is account deletion: The only documented process is through the account settings, but I am not able to access these, since I am prohibited from logging in. But not all hope is lost: Thanks to the power of the GDPR, we can submit a data deletion request. Unfortunately, submitting the form fails with an error, and I get redirected to a help article that describes how I can send them a picture of my ID. What a weird coincidence...
He said: “I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.“ “It wasn’t that I stopped talking, it’s that I resolved that talking was too difficult.”
So what cured him? Wrong question: “I’m still a stutterer. But we all find a way to mask it.”
Interview video here: https://achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/#interview
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James Earl Jones | Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement