@tedherman Ugh. Javascript can barely handle the front end. We need real languages to handle the hard work on the back end. To do otherwise is to doom oneself to a legacy of extensibility and maintainability issues.
Looking for an outlet to place my more #tech-focused (and thus less #tax or strictly #law) policy writing -- anyone know of an outlet that might be amenable to a freelance contributor?
DMs are open, I'm a weekly columnist at Bloomberg Tax, contributor to Forbes Money, among some others. Looking for a tech publication that wouldn't mine hearing a tax/tech attorney and prof opine on things like the currently being contemplated #FCC AI rules, etc.
Security told me that I am not to use my work assigned laptop to develop software. I am working with this company as a Software Engineer. Have been for over a decade. How am I to get work done?
@ThinkingSapien Ah, the bureaucratic catch-22. If you play your cards right, you could catch a paycheck for years while doing no work by playing each side of the bureaucracy against the other.
Man, fuuuuck SquareSpace. They have to buy out other systems to get customers and then they use every dark pattern in the book to try to keep them. Can't wait to migrate from this backwater piece of shit system.
@WiredForFlight Depends what you need. For me, it was only hosting my domain names, because Google Domains closed and gave SquareSpace their business.
If you need the full domain-to-webhosting pipeline, I've consistently heard good things about WordPress (and there are lots of third-party WordPress hosts too that offer relatively cheap cloud hosting for little guys).
It's fashionable to criticize #LLMs, but can you think of another human invention that allows us to spend the energy budget of Tanzania to lift shitposts out of context and present them as if they were authoritative knowledge?
“By describing as superhuman a thing that is entirely insensible and unthinking, an object without desire or hope but relentlessly productive and adaptable…we implicitly erase or devalue the concept of a “human” and all that a human can do and strive to become. Of course, attempts to erase and devalue the most humane parts of our existence are nothing new; AI is just a new excuse to do it.” https://www.noemamag.com/the-danger-of-superhuman-ai-is-not-what-you-think
@Axiom My guess would be like an outside table meant to be sat at with high stools? Probably there was a round sheet of glass that laid on top of all that.
The fact that Google Search is leaning so hard into AI-generated results suggests that either Google leadership is out of touch with reality (possible), or that they have data that users prefer the AI-generated results (terrifying).
We love instant answers. When I ask google how many cups are in a gallon and it can just tell me without me having to click another link, that's good for me, the user.
But that only works with specifically encoded circumstances that humans identify and build out and that costs money.
So, the new incompetent short-sighted leadership at google sees AI and thinks "we can give these people the instant answers we already know they want and not have to pay those pesky programmers anymore!"
Just checked a few other instances, and wondering why so many are blocking #threads. That's like having your email provider block Gmail, and a very weird thing to do in my opinion. Is it just fear/uncertainity/not understanding how Mastodon/ActivityPub works?
@mentallyalex I think, unless the cybertruck owner specifically negotiated such beforehand, there is no reasonable expectation that a tow truck operator will make any effort to keep a vehicle out of the rain.
Even if you had a convertible with a roof broken open, most people's first thought would be "oh, I should cover that with a tarp or something" not "oh, I should ask the tow truck driver to stay out of the rain".
"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.
@fasnix@hazelnot It's like language. Everybody speaks the one they learned first, and makes it look easy. But few have the motivation or discipline to learn a second, even if the new language is arguably easier and makes more sense.