Excited about the program for #OW2con - lots about funding open source software sustainably. Tickets are free, so if you're near Paris June 10-11, stop by! I'm speaking about anti-plagiarism polices
When students ran their code through ChatGPT and asked it to identify areas of high coupling, "One student’s ChatGPT answers confidently cited high coupling between a variable and that variable’s setter, and recommended decoupling those two pieces of code at once." -@HeyChelseaTroy
Woooooo my badass friend @HeyChelseaTroy is teaching a 2 day workshop on technical debt at #DDDEU in Amsterdam starting tomorrow (Monday May 28). She's one of the best teachers I know. I think there might still be tickets available:
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?
It's less that I want to be a writer and more that I get excited about writing specific things and then I write them. I am curious how many other writers have a similar mindset
@bert_hubert I have not, thank you! I liked: "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist or understand."
"What OpenAI have presented with GPT-4o is a fresh paint job on a car with a dangerously corroded chassis. A false confidence machine." - @fasterandworse
I'm going to Paris in a couple of weeks for #OW2con and trying to get excited about stuff to do in Paris but failing. Any suggestions on how to get hyped about this trip?
Challenges include: being gluten free, not being able stand or walk at museum speed for very long, needing to avoid COVID, not liking superciliousness or disdain, thinking most France-adjacent movies are sexist garbage, and being far too large to buy most French clothes :)
@vaurora there’s my favorite bookshop : Shakespeare & Co. ; a graveyard of famous peoples ;) ; square of Paris Comune & lots of graffiti art ; cute metro gates ; maybe a boat tour - seeing city from water is different! & apparently the cycling is much safer now than 15 years ago when I was visiting Paris last…
@vaurora even for areligious people I would recommend 20m of basking in the Sainte-Chapelle stained glass light.
A stone throw away from Notre-Dame de Paris, less conspicuous in the court of the Justice Palace, it could be less popular than other touristic places in the city. (But then again, since Notre-Dame is closed, it might be the only thing to see on Île de la Cité, therefore swarmed)
Remember that blog post "I got robbed of my first kernel contribution" where a maintainer slightly rewrote a patch and took credit for it? Well, I decided to do something about it.
I co-authored a guide with Maria Matějka and some other folks on documenting how your project gives credit and otherwise handles contributions. If your project's policy is to lightly rewrite contributions and take credit for them, say so! Subscriber link (free) to the LWN article:
Another surprise approach to contributing to open source projects was finding projects with a policy of not accepting outside contributions or always rewriting them for security or correctness reasons. It's hard to insert a subtle backdoor like the xz one if a trusted person reimplements it. (Of course in this case the ethical thing to do is list the original author as primary or co-author.)
Then there is the true grey area: one person worries a first draft, another person edits, rewrites, refactors, implements from scratch... at some point, they have done more work than the original author. When is that?
Our recommendation is to bias your credit policy in favor of rewarding the behavior you want to incentivize. Need more reviews? Maybe consider giving all reviewers co-author credit. Whatever you want people to do more of, make your contributions and credit policy reward that.
@vaurora Wow, the 1 second one is.. unusable. I had to scroll down to see the whole image (I'm on a laptop with landscape rather than portrait screen orientation, unlike a phone), and it disappears before I actually see the whole image.
@vaurora 23 out of 25. I'm very surprised (I thought I'd score much much lower), but there was an amount of luck to it (I don't trust myself with the 1s exposure options).
I love having friends visit, in part because they remind me of how lovely Amsterdam is. This week: I can take a walk along the edge of the water at sunset and all I hear is birds chirping and an occasional gentle murmur as we pass people sitting on benches also watching the sunset. Cities aren't loud, cars are loud.
A friend recommended a newsletter for executives in tech and today's issue had a link to a blog post advising tech leaders on how to get better at asking questions. It had this... illustration...
I am confident the author had no idea how much this graphic torpedoed my trust in them. I am realizing that often people who use AI art don't understand how art works
@vaurora No matter whether I know the author or what my experience based expectations were - whenever I see this kind of generated “art” accompanying an article… I can’t help myself but deduct credibility points from what I read. Happens automatically. It’s as if they were speaking to me while wearing their underpants as a hat.
Ha, exactly the problem with the AI art in the above post:
“The human in the loop isn’t just being asked to spot mistakes — they’re being actively deceived. The AI isn’t merely wrong, it’s constructing a subtle ‘what’s wrong with this picture’-style puzzle.”
The neighborhood WhatsApp is full of people counting down to when our new Albert Heijn opens at 11am today. Before that we had to bicycle SEVEN MINUTES to get groceries to put in our tiny fridges. There are plans to buy wijn and have a borrel. I'm mad because I have a doctor appointment at 11 and will miss the exact moment it opens
Wow, the Netherlands really goes from "slight alleviation in the darkness for a few hours a day" to "so much light it's difficult to get 8 hours of sleep" in like one month flat