dcoderlt

dcoderlt, 10 months ago to twitter

actually, #Twitter was the scientist, Elon is the name of the monster

dcoderlt, 10 months ago to ai

boy, do I have news for you about the English language

This whole #AI thing is a perfect illustration of what Worse Than Failure means in practice.

dcoderlt, 10 months ago to random

EU software developers after reading the Cyber Resilience Act

exchgr, 11 months ago to random

who called it object oriented programming and not class struggle

dcoderlt, 11 months ago to random

In 1968/69, two Conferences on the nascent topic of Software Engineering were held in Western Europe, organized by the NATO Science Committee.

These conferences produced, among other things, my favourite longform shitpost of the 20th century. You might also know it as Tom Simpson’s “Masterpiece Engineering”.

As I continued walking round the garden, now looking a little closer at the ground, I came across the bones of a group, still in session, attempting to write down the criteria for the design of the "Mona Lisa". The sight reminded me strangely of our group working on the criteria for the design of an operating system. Apparently the Conference decided that it should establish an Institute to work in more detail on production problems in the masterpiece field. So they went out into the streets of Rome and solicited a few chariot drivers, gladiators and others and put them through a five week (half-day) masterpiece creation course; then they were all put into a large room and asked to begin creating.
They soon realized that they weren't getting much efficiency out of the Institute, so they set about equipping the masterpiece workers with some more efficient tools to help them create masterpieces. They invented power-driven chisels, automatic paint tube squeezers and so on but all this merely produced a loud outcry from the educators: "All these techniques will give the painters sloppy characteristics", they said. Production was still not reaching satisfactory levels so they extended the range of masterpiece support techniques with some further steps. One idea was to take a single canvas and pass it rapidly from painter to painter. While one was applying the brush the others had time to think.
The next natural step to take was, of course, to double the number of painters but before taking it they adopted a most interesting device. They decided to carry out some proper measurement of productivity. Two weeks at the Institute were spent in counting the number of brush strokes per day produced by one group of painters, and this criterion was then promptly applied in assessing the value to the enterprise of the rest. If a painter failed to turn in his twenty brush strokes per day he was clearly under-productive. Regrettably none of these advances in knowledge seemed to have any real impact on masterpiece production and so, at length, the group decided that the basic difficulty was clearly a management problem.

dcoderlt, 11 months ago to random

Mars still operates in moscow, and the ruski government is very grateful. How grateful?

> Russian authorities today announced that Mars is under investigation for "funding the Ukrainian army".

#BoycottRussia

mcc, 11 months ago to random

Started reading a tutorial for Kotlin MutableSharedFlows and the English was full of really glaring grammatical errors, just really blatant that whoever wrote this did not have English as their first language, and I was like… oh, thank goodness. A human wrote this. I can trust it

dcoderlt, 11 months ago to random

lmfao

campuscodi, 11 months ago to random

RIP TweetDeck

:birdsite:

molly0xfff, 11 months ago to twitter

twitter's self-ddos is worse with tweetdeck 💀

#twitter #twitterdown

video/mp4

dcoderlt, 11 months ago to random

“The simple solution would be NATO membership for both [Ukraine] and [Russia]”

what the fuck did I just read and why is my brain bleeding

Holten, 11 months ago to random

The Security Service of Ukraine has detained the suspected Russian GRU agent who called the missile strike onto the Kramatorsk restaurant and shopping area, killing and wounding many civilians and children.

We should never do business with those who do business with Russia.

#RussiaIsATerroristState

https://ssu.gov.ua/novyny/sbu-zatrymala-koryhuvalnyka-rosiiskoho-raketnoho-udaru-po-kramatorsku

nf3xn, 11 months ago to random

So I don't really have a phone. Weird huh?

I have strategically placed phones: so I annoy my driver to use his or there is one in the office or the car.

I have an office drawer full of payg phones for services I never want to hear from.

Anyway non-peer pressure (teh childrens) has bullied yes made me get a new iphone.

OMFG SO HEAVY - A BRICK. The older ones were small - are iphone users getting stronger?

People how on earth do you carry this 24/7???

futurebird, 11 months ago to random

For someone who likes sci-fi I don't spend enough time thinking about long distance space travel.

I admire the stories that avoid "warp drives" or "worm holes" -- though such a thing isn't a dealbreaker. I just think it's admirable to deal with the upsetting immensity of space on its own terms.

But if you want to avoid hand-waving you need to really think about how people deal with time, delayed communication, etc.

What is your favorite way that a sci-fi story did "long distance" ?

Erik, 11 months ago to random

BREAKING: World mourns as diplomat Henry Kissinger, 100, is found alive and well this morning.

dcoderlt, 1 year ago to random

babe, wake up, #Lithuania did something shitty again

we’re really saying “trust the police” when a whistleblower just implicated that same law enforcement in political shenanigans to help elect the current president, that’s bold

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/06/eu-member-states-still-cannot-agree-about-end-end-encryption

A screenshot from the linked article: Lithuania begs to differ when it comes to respecting people’s privacy. They complain that European data protection regulators are too absolutist about people’s privacy rights and don’t strike the right balance between privacy and law enforcement. Mistrust in law enforcement is unwarranted, they say, because its activities “are subject to strict requirements.” Ask those spied-upon Catalan politicians (and the many other European politicians who’ve been subjected to spyware) how well they think guardrails on surveillance are working out.

dcoderlt, 1 year ago to random

#StandWithUkraine

A Photoshopped image from The Simpsons. Milhouse (his face still covered by the UN logo) is defending himself to Bart: “I saw the whole thing. First it started falling down, and then it fell down.”

fasterthanlime, 1 year ago to random

Dear lord, the dev experience for next.js apps is atrocious, I get why frontend folks have anger issues now

dcoderlt, 1 year ago to random

It’s a beautiful Friday morning, but my entire day is booked for “learning my employer’s incoming ISO policies”. Bleh.