It's pretty obvious that a link without an href is an accident.
<a>Foo</a>
So lint warns if href is missing or empty. Then we wanted javascript only links, so we started saying href="#" to signal to linters that it wasn't a mistake. We did this for years.
Svelte decided that "#" isn't a valid link. And doubled down on that. And requires href="".
Sometimes I just hate people.
It feels like the MAGA conservatives are here to test the limits of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
MAGA types calling themselves "conservative" and "Christian" and so on, and not a single example of the primary tenets of either description to be found, just a bunch of big government monopolists and hatred of "people who don't conform"[*]. Yeah, textbook fascism.
(* - Er, so actually that last bit describes a large majority of Christians pretty well but that's partially my point. :/ )
We've been burned too many times.
I don't know the first thing about Wayland, other than that it "replaces X11". X11Rx sure is a long way from perfect, but one thing I do know is that it's not bullshit. Therefore I'm very worried about Wayland.
I've been trained by the last two decades and I can't unlearn this: every new thing was built by people with an agenda, that does not correspond with my welfare.
People think speech-to-text is AI.
They think text-to-speech is AI.
This misunderstanding of "speech = intelligence" is driving the AI industry. How else do you think we've normalized eating meat for centuries? They can't talk, therefore not intelligent. Machine talk therefore intelligent.
Hmm. So the same people who *know* that AI is *definitely* going to cure cancer and move their brains into the cloud within our lifetime also believe there's no way AI could become dangerous.
I mean, these are the same people, right?
Anyone who claims to prefer Teams to "literally anything else" is either not actually using it or a MS shill.
Now that they discontinued it, I have decided I like the electric Ford Mustang. It's true to the fun, sporty, not too expensive roots of Mustang, while acknowledging that fun sporty cars are now crossovers. It doesn't look quite like anything else on the road.
Half the tech world is scrambling to find a way to monetize the engine that will make everything they do obsolete. They really don't get it. AI replaces entire industries built around mediocre shows, shit music, blah video games... all of the mid shit you hate will no longer require the industry that creates it.
Dear Microsoft Teams team, if there is anything left in the world you still consider precious, if there is any spark of decency left in you, start including the time zone in your meeting notification emails.
Please, I beg you.
My app now has a class "ForbiddenRestException."
Obviously, thrown when you attempt to get some nap time in the middle of the workday.
Another wave of registration spam? I begin to wonder if mastodon is just being used as a way to anonymize email DoS spam. But that makes no sense since you need a botnet to create the registrations in the first place, in which case you're already anonymous.
Once in a while, C# still gets something right.
MyThing<string, Data> dataThing = new();
Strong typing on the left, no need to repeat it on the right (unless you're specifying a different, compatible type).
"var" is an antipattern that hides errors. Dynamically typed /creation/, in contrast, removes unnecessary redundancy without adding risk.
The Trump white house is intentionally weakening the USA wherever they can:
* Fed: wants it to cut interest rates and cause runaway inflation
* Medical: sabotaged any remaining trust in expert health advice
* Diplomacy: make friends into enemies, galvanize enemies
* Defense: waste our weapons and oil reserves, Hegseth's obvious goal is to lose respect and hurt recruiting
* Internal: fire everyone and sabotage services (CISA, social security, etc)
* And many more!
:( #traitor
Turning on my Dell with Windows 11:
* Push power button
* Nothing happens
* Push power button again but for about a second because debounce
* Nothing happens
* Hold the power button for 8 seconds
* Nothing happens
* Remember that it takes like 10 seconds to post and pushing power again turns it back off
* Push the power button for exactly one second
* Wait patiently for about 10 seconds
* Dell boot logo appears
* Windows pretends to finish booting
* Wait 3 minutes for windows to really boot
Turning on my Lenovo laptop with Linux (Lubuntu I think?):
* Push the power button for about half a second
* See the logo
* Wait 15 seconds for the login screen
Well, after the Nth forced reboot by Windows 11 to install updates, My work VM is once again unbootable and unmountable because "some of the partition is locked".
I hate VM filesystem recovery.
Best practice is to never enter anything into a computer system, anywhere, that you wouldn't post on facebook.
The upper classes and management have always desperately wanted to eliminate and/or greatly reduce the cost of labor.
With AI though . I've never imagined they would be so unabashedly excited about boasting about it directly to the people they're eliminating. I mean, yes, I imagine the (enslaved) people whose job was to clean cotton were actually happy about the cotton gin because it's a horrid job... but the people AI is replacing are mostly happy. Were. Were mostly happy.
150 years in the future...
"which is why the AI transformation was delayed by several decades. The neural nets we use today, powerful, inexpensive, and efficient to train, were possible then, but a handful of powerful people with connections in the oil and chip industry saw an opportunity to profit on the brute force configurations of the first generation, so rather than following the recommendations of their research architects for the next generation, th..."
WTF, did none of you kiddos listen to the underground hip hop that was everyfuckingwhere when you were growing up? Hate the game, but PLAY the game.
Nobody told you you were beautiful..? Oh right, you were listening to what Spotify wants you to hear. Do you believe that isn't curated? Gently tuned?