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🎏 Writes code to help other folk learn to write code

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💅🏻 Still petty after cancer

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anthrocypher, to random
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Not only can a beginner developer, who is also a beginner user of your dev product, become a senior developer and an expert user of your product

but you can play a role in helping them get there.

YOU CAN BE THE REASON SOMEONE SUCCEEDS

It’s nearly impossible to get most orgs to understand this, much less strategize for it.

sue,
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@anthrocypher At this point I'm basically resigned to repeating this message to employers until I retire 🤣😭

sue, to random
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Going to try and channel this David Lynch energy in the Mastodon replies from now on

sue, to random
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Voting rights following criminal conviction or imprisonment around the world

https://www.penalreform.org/resource/right-prisoners-vote-global-overview/

sue, to random
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I had on the telly news last night and they were discussing whether the conviction will affect Trump positively or negatively in the election, and some pundit said Trump's Christian base would need to consider whether they could support someone who associated with a sex worker

That's their takeaway from this story.......

💩💩💩

sue, to random
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Typically annoying headline but this is amazing stuff

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/31/what-are-cancer-vaccines-and-have-scientists-finally-found-a-cure

sue,
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More on the trial here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl77qvd2krgo

sue, to random
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lol this

https://x.com/earthtokb/status/1796292624720040040?t=Vub6phTFUkiWXwwVBLZyrw&s=19

sue, to random
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I'd like back all the hours I've spent over the years trying figure out the correct incantations of quotation marks and escape characters to get computers to do what I want with some text.

sue,
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I love how we now have AI generating code, but tedious, annoying tasks like this remain impervious to automation. Give the machines the fun part while we do the donkey work.

sue,
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Actually I wonder if this is an example of something that would be hard to automate because it typically happens when you're passing information between systems.. I feel like the interdependent nature of modern software creates complexity that humans are currently still required to navigate, because you need to be able to parse context

sue,
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@kellogh it's not syntax errors I'm talking about, it's something needing formatted a certain way to be sent from one place and processed in another

sue,
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@kellogh yeah that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about figuring out what the example would be in the first place, not entering it accurately

sue, to random
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This from @anildash, we should never dismiss harms caused by any system as anomalies or unintended consequences

"We can be more effective when we fall in love with judging systems and institutions by the actual, real-world lived results and impacts that they have, especially the impact they have on the most vulnerable."

https://www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

grimalkina, to random
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This kind of thing has been around the block for a bit -- the reality in my opinion is that "programming ability" is simply not something we've defined and possibly not a single thing. The many decades of interest in predicting programming ability have sometimes succeeded at pushing against our stereotypes that it is math associated (as this work), but "math ability" is ALSO a fraught measure. It's important to bring a lot of context to the prediction of ability...

https://fosstodon.org/@yabellini/112470616882303876

sue,
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@grimalkina This is such an uncomfortable one for me because I feel like the default notion of getting folk opportunities like tech jobs without access to formal education involves aptitude testing, so it's seen as an equaliser, but even the word aptitude sets alarm bells ringing so loud.. What factors determine who develops the aptitude that turns out to be valued.. And is it another way of implying that some people deserve opportunity while others do not..

sue,
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@grimalkina ah of course, it's meritocracy thinking isn't it.. I have a hard time complaining about any path that sneaks some less privileged people into the room against such odds but we risk reinforcing some problematic underlying beliefs when we do it this way

sue, to random
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Folk using "algorithms" to refer to everything that's wrong with the web the way folk believed "miasma" caused the spread of disease pre sanitation

sue,
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Once again, every piece of software you use involves algorithms

What happened on social media platforms was the shift from a chronological feed of posts from people you follow, to an "algorithmic" feed selecting posts and displaying them in an order determined by the platform

The problem was not algorithms, but the use of algorithms you couldn't see or control

sue,
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I'm actually relieved to see the conversation about young folk being surprised to discover the "for you" tik tok feed wasn't doing what they expected, I thought we'd got to a point where people couldn't be arsed thinking about that 👍🏻

sue,
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And as pointed out in my last boost, we absolutely have algorithms determining what we see on mastodon, and as with any platform or web community, someone is deciding what those algorithms do, it isn't as "decentralised" as we might like to think

sue,
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If you're thinking oh yes but at least the decisions here are not made by some evil corporation driven by profit, but rather by other human beings in the web community.. Perhaps consider that there might be some privilege in this take and that it isn't necessarily creating an inclusive environment for everyone!

sue,
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Guess who makes decisions about the algorithms deployed by corporations, why it's also other human beings!

In fact mastodon has some pretty severe issues with racism and sexism among other things. By all accounts it's actually worse for these things than some of the corporate platforms.

I believe in the idea of community owned web spaces but they aren't just magically more empowering and inclusive by virtue of "federated" technologies, you need to actually work at that. 👍🏻

sue,
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I can see that in theory the technological differences between a platform like this and a corporate one could increase the possibility of accountability. But again, the response to folk saying they've experienced being further marginalised on here isn't encouraging.

Technology can't make a space safe and inclusive on its own, the problem isn't the algorithms!

sue,
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@grimalkina totally, a lot of folk who haven't been forced to consider their own privilege and potential to cause harm

sue,
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@grimalkina that feels like an essential piece!

sue,
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The race for worst possible take in the replies is hotting up, front runners so far include

  • Algorithms are in fact worse than miasma because they're real and all too evil

  • The folk who believed in miasma were right all along (because airborne disease is a thing that somehow means the folk who opposed the sanitation that ended cholera epidemics were right, actually)

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