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danhon, 13 hours ago to random

"I'm sorry, as a former Open AI employee I cannot help you with your request to disparage Open AI."

thezenlady, 1 day ago to random

Saw this elsewhere and it made me laugh!

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, 1 day ago to random

p4p Offline First Social Media Protocols gathering.

This Friday in Berlin developers from Cabal, Cable, Earthstar, p2panda, Secure Scuttlebutt, and PPPPP will be gathering to talk local first protocols and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the creation of Secure Scuttlebutt.

Nostr users might remember that Nostr was inspired by Secure Scuttlebutt and a bunch of these other protocols have interesting ideas we could adopt.

If you’re in Berlin, go hangout with them…. they’re all doing cool work.

https://offline.place/events/2024/05/24/p4p-unconference/

syphist, 1 day ago to random

The future is now...

The SpongeBob clip showing everything in the future being chrome with a bunch of web browser, CEF, and electron apps being shown.

tastapod, 1 day ago to random

Does the new #iTerm2 update know something that we don't?

It is now starting to encode secret messages in its Settings!

muskanity, 2 days ago to random

She was in the right place at the right time 😯☄️

video/mp4

rain, 2 days ago to random

Got unreasonably excited about this new, incredibly straightforward count-distinct algorithm. The CVM algorithm is a direct replacement for HyperLogLog, it nerd-sniped Donald Knuth for weeks, and it can easily be taught in an entry-level CS course.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

jk, 1 day ago to random

what's the most powerful RISC-V computer you can buy in mid-2024

yvonnezlam, 2 days ago to random

Greetings new followers! I believe many of you got here because @kevlin (thank you!) mentioned a tweet of mine in a talk. My stance on many of the questions/discussions taking place in my mentions might be addressed by the original thread, so here it is:

Or even "we don't have guests, and the guest room bathroom is mysteriously out of toilet paper. Can whoever is using that bathroom please make sure it's restocked?" The thing with tech debt is that in order to have a useful discussion, you need to be able to talk about
@yvonnezlam - As anyone who has ever argued about housework knows, housework arguments are disturbingly specific. It's always "Who minds the most?" and "l don't use that," and "Who's going to do the work?" and (rarely) "Who's going to manage getting this done?" @yvonnezlam - Bringing some of that uncomfortable specificity to discussions of tech debt could be really useful. We need to be able to talk about who minds and why and where the work should live. @yvonnezlam - We also need to talk about how what we do affects other teams/people. Team A can decide not to worry about concurrency right now, but they might be sticking Team B with that work down the road. @yvonnezlam - Right now, with the financialization metaphor, no one cares, because we know "down the road" might never happen. But: that means we don't think "Hm. We're not going to develop in-house expertise on concurrency in a hurry. Maybe we should hire/send people to training/support ... @yvonnezlam - ... people who are interested in this kind of thing doing some study?" or any number of other things to spread the load when the time comes. We don't think about what work Team B might need to put down in order to pick up the problem that everyone knows has been brewing forever.
@yvonnezlam - We don't think "Team A took on this debt because they didn't know how to do the right thing and they had to do something. Not their fault, but...that wasn't good." @yvonnezlam - Whereas if we thought of it as more like housework, we could think "ok, the kids made this mess, now someone has to clean it up, can we get some of the kids involved since they have context for what they did, and it'd help everyone to get context for what to do next time?" @yvonnezlam -The debt conversation assumes a kind of statelessness, because that is the magic of financialization and financial metaphors. Anyone who has ever dealt with tech debt in an org knows that it's not stateless. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 Housework is stateful. You don't get a clean slate. You often end up moving stuff from Place A to Place B so that you can clean and tidy Place A properly. And people have state (feelings) about it. O boy do they have feelings about it. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 We picked a metaphor for "tech work that is about cleaning up old stuff instead of making new stuff" that sounds like something that would make sense to The Business, but (a) it's not clear it does, and (b) it confuses us thereby falsely constraining our options. /fin

oneunderscore__, 2 days ago to random

https://www.theonion.com/iranian-president-stoned-to-death-with-mountain-1851488487

mia, 3 days ago to random

With the introduction of Dolby Surround 7.1 in 2010, Sony were eager to put out a full home theater system. One of their early models, the HT-A7.100, included a revolutionary evolution to the standard stereo jack: the 7.1 surround jack, allowing all 8 channels to be sent over one cable.

kerfuffle, 2 days ago to Java

Sometimes, when I talk to frontend developers about how #HTMX requires you to have more presentation awareness in the projection side of your server application as you generate content in HTML, which in the #Java world is pretty much what we did with #JSP, Freemarker and Thymeleaf, I'm met with amazement.

No dis, but be aware: There's a generation of capable professional frontend developers who don't know backend servers can serve HTML just fine, and not just Json over HTTP.

qlp, 3 days ago to python

This joke has probably been made a bunch of times, but...

Python 3.14, not to be confused with PyPI.

#Python

cafou, 2 days ago to random French

brianbilston, 2 days ago to random

As if it wasn’t enough for it to be Monday morning, some students are also facing their GSCE English paper today and the terror of the ‘unseen poem’.

Wishing them the very best of luck with it.

dpp, 2 days ago to random

The International Criminal Court prosecutor seeking arrest warrants for to Israeli officials. Very glad to see this!

https://wapo.st/3WJ4OxO

doc, 2 days ago to random

Cycling in Berlin, I am saddened sometimes when I cycle not on the bumpy, broken “bicycle paths”, but on the buttery smooth car road where I can get much higher speeds much more comfortably. All I need to do is risk my life. 😟

maketvee, 2 days ago to random German

Two mini projects I recently made, shown in their natural environment .

On the left:
8x8 matrix of WS2816 LEDs on a 12.2x12.2mm PCB. Package is 1313, gap between the LEDs is 0.2mm. Driven by a @wizard Pixelblaze.

On the right:
Hand-soldered LED strip with a density of 1000 LED/m using side emitting addressable LEDs with a thickness of 1mm.

Video of a lego figure hold a 8x8 mini led matrix and a hand soldered 25 LED strip

mangeurdenuage, 3 days ago to random

NanoRaptor, 4 days ago to random

The iMac cube was not a success.

VeroniqueB99, 4 days ago to random

portraits of the week

astrid, 5 days ago to random

tastapod, 4 days ago to random

I’m just saying.

Homer disappearing into a hedge

historyofpunkrock, 5 days ago to random

44 years ago today
In memory of Ian Curtis, who suffered from both epilepsy and depression, took his life on May 18, 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour, and just before the release of their second album

#postpunk #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis

jasoncoon, 7 days ago to random

Same, Benny, same. 🤩 😆
Get your own 1" (25.4mm) Fibonacci128 here: https://www.tindie.com/products/31672/

Video of two LEGO Minifigures (one white, one blue) holding a small disc with 128 colorful pulsing RGB LEDs. The blue minifigure has a joyful awe-struck expression on its face.