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mhoye, 10 hours ago to random

We've all seen the IBM presentation saying, a computer can never be held accountable therefore...

but if you rotate and adjust the gamma settings on the best versions of that image on the internet you can see further text through the page.

https://cohost.org/a-hungry-mouth/post/4039145-chosting-my-reply-be

The header is called THE COMPUTER MANDATE and it is incredible reading.

CSLee, 22 hours ago to random

THE CODE REVIEW ANXIETY WORKBOOK IS OUT

https://developer-success-lab.gitbook.io/code-review-anxiety-workbook-1

This workbook takes the code review anxiety intervention that we designed and tested in our empirical research (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4) & distills it into a self-paced workbook for you. It's designed for you to read & work through as many times as you wish and provides you with the tools you need to mitigate & manage your anxiety about giving or receiving code reviews.

@seresearchers #SoftwareEngineeering #developers #code

1/3

SJohnRoss, 11 hours ago to random

Aw, man. Dabney Coleman passed. 😥

Sandra and I were just talking about him a week or so ago (mostly in relation to my youthful crush on Geena Davis, which led us to Tootsie and, more importantly, to Buffalo Bill, where she and Coleman shared a lot of screen time)

But of course: Wargames and 9 to 5 and so much more. One of those fixtures of young GenX viewing.

92 is a good long run, but still. Hat off in respect.

#DabneyColeman #RIP

misty, 12 hours ago to random

Tips to live by, courtesy The Manhole (1988)

evacide, 1 day ago to random

When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

GIFS_of_Puppets, 22 hours ago to random

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

GIF of three Muppet birds hopping and dancing on telephone wires from The Muppet Show by adam807

joethephish, 22 hours ago to random

Here's how the music affects the shape of the landscape in A Highland Song..

(based on a 2 year old thread from Twitter, but thought it was worth sharing here!)

video/mp4

taatm, 1 day ago to random

“We value your privacy” is such a smart phrase because it’s
a) entirely true
b) implies they will protect it
c) doesn’t mention they will sell it

BetaNYC, 1 day ago to random

ICYMI — our Lab Team debuted FloodGen, a flood advocacy tool designed to raise awareness, support community preparedness, and support local government’s resilience strategies. 👀

Check out FloodGen at: floodgen.beta.nyc 🌊

Catch the full recap at: bit.ly/betanyc-floodgen

Interested in partnering with us? Complete this form at: bit.ly/floodgen-partner

A short film showing how to use the map layers on FloodGen.

jasonpettus, 1 day ago to random

To be clear, I hate that Google has decided to start baking AI into their main search engine, which I think is fated to result in disaster; but I do admire that they're introducing a new "Web" tab to their main menu this week, which is another way of saying, "Hide all the AI nonsense and your attempts to pull out the information I'm looking for from web pages before I visit, and just give me a set of links to my query." Here, what the AI and Web versions looked like on a search today.

Two views today of a Google search on "cyclic breathing" I did while fact-checking a book I'm editing this week -- first the results with "full AI" in place, then the results in the "Web" tab, which is another way of saying, "Hide all the AI nonsense, as well as your attempts to guess in advance what information on a web page I'm looking for, and just show me the links to websites relevant to my search."

judell, 1 day ago to random

"orcas have been observed developing “cultural ‘fads,’” including carrying dead fish on their heads, and the incidents with the boats may be nothing more than a “fashion trend.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/14/orcas-yacht-ambush-gibraltar/

ovid, 1 day ago to random

#Copilot just wrote the following #Perl code for me, complete with the comment, which is correct.

my $UNINIT = bless => {}, 'Uninitialized::Vars::Variable';
sub uninit () { $UNINIT }
sub is_uninit ($var) { $var == $UNINIT } # XXX: This is wrong

akshatrathi, 2 days ago to random

2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.

2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.

Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30

mhoye, 2 days ago to random

Look, just free up half an hour for this. I promise it will be worth it.

https://youtu.be/2RIEPKEhE2s

mhoye, 2 days ago to random

Once again: these machines aren’t hallucinating and your using 'Hallucinate' is a tell, that you don't understand how the machine works. Generating statistically plausible text is what these tools do. That's all that's ever happening. Theres no connection to truth or veracity in this mechanism beyond quantities of aggregated text in a dataset reconnected in ways that that, statistically, might be. If you see meaning in the output it is you, the uncritical audience, who is hallucinating.

jwz, 2 days ago to random

Great moments in bar frugality.

I was re-watching Black Sails and noticed a very subtle recurring gag that I had missed the first time around. When Eleanor, the inexplicably clean fence and barkeep, is doing her morning walk-and-talk around the bar,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykQY

GrantMeStrength, 2 days ago to random

Happy “Kill the Bit” day to those who celebrate! Back in 1975 this was one of the first “type ins” for home computers, specifically the Altair 8800. Toggle in the code and you can play a little reaction timer game on the LEDs.

Altair 8800 computer

kottke, 2 days ago to random

Love this phrase: decanting groceries. “Do you really want to spend your one wild and precious life putting marshmallows in jars?” https://www.eater.com/24105047/you-dont-need-to-decant-your-groceries-kitchen-storage

numberless, 2 days ago to random

My MobyGames profile only shows 2 credits for my 16 years in the industry. It’s the result of working mostly on free-to-play live service games with no formal crediting. Some missing game design credits:

🥚 Scramble (Facebook)
🚸 Pathwords (Facebook)
🌪️ Word Twist (Facebook)
📱 Scramble Live (iOS)
♠️ Zynga Poker (Facebook/MySpace)
🧑‍🍳 Café World (Facebook)
🏛️ City of Wonder (Facebook)
🕰️ Gardens of Time (Facebook)
🧠 Plants vs Zombies Adventures (Facebook)
🐐 Boulder Goat (iOS)
💎 Bejeweled Stars (mobile)

ranjit, 3 days ago to random

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Raven tapping at your chamber door
All your life
You were only mourning for the soul of lost Lenore

stevelieber, 3 days ago to random

My colleague Paul Tobin just posted a great essay about Rose O'Neill- cartoonist, fine artist, suffragette, and monsterfucker. https://www.paultobin.net/blog-2-1/rose-oneill

aarbrk, 3 days ago to Fonts Spanish

For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap #fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?

#typography #font #letters #lettering #history #histodons

Image credit: https://myfontlib.com/font/gorgeous-pixel-font

℘

beep, 4 days ago to random

you first, asshole