bsletten

bsletten, 1 day ago to random

We need more of this. Senior devs need to convey to junior devs that mistakes happen to everyone. My favorite interview question is “What’s the worst bug you’ve ever written?” But I seed it with the story of mine which is a doozy (it nuked an IBM RS/6000 workstation we didn’t have the installation media for so my boss had to drive it to the customer’s site 2 hrs away).

#career

From Eric Matthes’ excellent “Python Crash Course” 3rd Ed.

I’m reviewing for someone else but am gonna read now.

bsletten, 4 days ago to Humor

#foundontheinternet #humor

bsletten, 7 days ago to random

For those who celebrate, Happy Mother’s Day.
#mothersday

bsletten, 8 days ago to science

I’ve always said there’s Big Data… and then there’s Big Ass Data.

#science #technology
#data #bigdata

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/full-scan-of-1-cubic-millimeter-of-brain-tissue-took-14-petabytes-of-data-equivalent-to-14000-full-length-4k-movies

bsletten, 9 days ago to fediverse

I’m loving all of these #aurora photos. Our capacity to have shared experiences on the #fediverse cannot be overstated.

bsletten, 10 days ago to space

If things stop working for awhile in a bit, you’ll know why:

#space #technology

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/11330148/biggest-solar-storm-gps-power-grids-rare-warning/

bsletten, 10 days ago to ai

It appears quite obvious (eg Apple crush ad response, Stack Overflow post defacement/deleting) that people are feeling spicy and are ready to be ungovernable with respect to AI overlords.

This is gonna get weird.

#ai

bsletten, 12 days ago to random

I learned yesterday that Michael J. Fox filmed “Teen Wolf” and “Back to the Future” simultaneously, usually one in the morning and one at night. There was also a Family Ties special in there. On one day he filmed all three. 😮

bsletten, 15 days ago to Starwars

If you aren’t partied out from yesterday, let me be the first to wish you a happy #fifthofmay.

“He who goes forth with a fifth on the fourth, may not come forth on the fifth.”

— Folk wisdom conveyed by Mark Blair

#maythe4th #starwars #queen

bsletten, 16 days ago to music

For those who celebrate.

#mtv #music

bsletten, 16 days ago to animals

I hope one day to derive as much chill as my dog does sitting in the sun.

#spring #dogsofmastodon #NorwichTerriersOfMastodon

bsletten, 18 days ago to technology

I encourage my friends in #technology to watch “Mr. Bates vs The Post Office”. I’ve been horrified every time I ask software conference audiences if they had to take Computer Ethics classes at the results. We are not obliged to subjugate ourselves to technology. These are serious discussions about serious topics.

bsletten, 18 days ago to random

I don’t think Kristi Noem is going to outrun this story. I think it is going to dog her for years.

bsletten, 18 days ago to llm

Thank goodness for small favors. The U.S. military is halting exploration of generative AI because <checks notes> it sucks.

#genai #llm

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/01/pentagon-military-ai-trust-issues

bsletten, 19 days ago to random

The Rabbit R1 is just an Android app?!?

https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/

bsletten, 19 days ago to math

TIL about Belphegor’s Prime:

1000000000000066600000000000001

It is both a prime and a palindrome and is named after one of the Seven Princes of Hell (you can see why) who was tasked with helping people make ingenious discoveries and inventions.

#math #prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor%27s_prime

bsletten, 21 days ago to webassembly

GTK uses Vulkan by default on Wayland now. The migration from X to Wayland is super fascinating and intricate. I’ve been watching it unfold for years and have fought the urge to do deep dives. Future UI toolkits will continue to use multiple rendering engines and will facilitate compiling for desktop and/or browser which is going to reduce interest in JavaScript UI frameworks. There are frameworks that behave/look the same as desktop and Web applications.

#webassembly

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.15-Vulkan-Default

bsletten, 21 days ago to wow

As always, I’m being prepared for conversations I’m likely to have in a foreign language.

#wow #donut

bsletten, 22 days ago to webassembly

Excited to listen to the first episode of @tomayac ‘s new WebAssembly podcast where he interviews Alon Zakai about the history and pre-history of #webassembly:

https://wasmassembly.libsyn.com/

bsletten, 26 days ago to science

Young me fixated on space is super geeked by this:

#science #nasa #space
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/world/nasa-jupiter-io-lava-lake-mountain-scn/index.html

bsletten, 26 days ago to Funny

The medium is the message.

#funny #foundontheinternet

bsletten, 26 days ago to technology

Well, that escalated quickly (and totally predictably):

#technology #robots

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6HJbHEsq2H/?igsh=ZGV5djZvNjlkc3I4

bsletten, 27 days ago to Funny

Ok, I actually LOL’d.

#funny #foundontheinternet