Reddit emailed me to let me know that they made some small updates their our Privacy Policy to make it clearer and more specific. Good to know it's just something minor and not something about the use of my data for totally new purposes that I might want to know about.
Do you think you could live with yourself if you were the developer who hard-coded the "Today only! 24-hour Flash Sale!" header message directly into Udemy's immutable static HTML?
Can anyone recommend a good, accessible (to students) reading on tech hype cycles? Not, ideally, a specific case, but a more general treatment of the phenomenon
@inquiline@sts this is a great talk on hype cycles that gives a great metaphor of pioneers, settlers, and town planners that has really helped me think about tech adoption: https://youtu.be/9zc4DSTRGeM
@adamchainz I've been joking for years that I don't want to learn reflog, but this post title sounds just approachable enough that I will give it a try!
If you have a (computer) mouse with more than 3 buttons (left, right, middle), what actions/shortcuts do you have assigned to the 4th, 5th, 6th etc.? Looking for inspiration.
(I'm pretty sure Java experienced this, too, in the early '00s.)
It's like we, as programmers, are incapable of learning from our own field. Haven't seen a problem before? Brand new problem! Despite it being present for literally the history of the field.
@vga256 i love the early hacks to pass FCC EMR/interference requirements. i think i heard that for the Apple II they had some company build some component to connect it to a screen, so that that company (and not Apple) would not be liable for not complying
@JonBaker once a boss sent me a Google spreadsheet and said "let's do your annual review, use whatever format you want." So I made pixel art of Link from Zelda 1
Ever since the LLM boom started, I've been saying that AI code generation's biggest impact will be to increase the burden on highly-skilled programmers to wade through the mountains of code created by less-skilled programmers.
The fact that I had to struggle mightily to write code when I was less skilled is how I gained the skill I have. Feels like AI code generation is stunting the development of the next generation of programmers. https://justin.searls.co/shots/2023-10-17-08h04m28s/
The article was published September 29, 2023 (9 days ago).
The guide provides every option available, too. Starting with using their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), to using a Virtual Machine, and even on "Bare Metal" alongside Windows.
That's right, Microsoft now tells you how to dual-boot Linux. 🤯