Leonard Austin Braithwaite (1923 - 2012)
In 1943 he graduated from Harbord Collegiate, enlisted in the RCAF, and served as the Safety Equipment Officer with the 424 Squadron of No. 6 Bomber Command in Yorkshire, England.
In his own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nYY3GFyDZI
RE: https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e/117446233244745253
This is so true -- compilers are political.
For a while I've seen this as a litmus test of how people think about technology. The young and green might not have thought about things this way. The older and/or wiser either know it, or choose not to.
(I'd expand this from compilers to any infrastructure, tool or technology, that has a "downstream" i.e. whose users/subjects are not the same people as its designers/investors. But compilers are a very good example....)
“My authoritarian spy machine named after an evil crystal ball used by literature’s most famous villain is very progressive actually”
12h agoImprovements in #OpenCascade 8.1 fillet handling shown in #freecad built from the source. A fillet can consume whole faces now.
To compile FreeCAD with OCCT 8.1 that PR is needed https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/33062
Thanks for FreeCAD Discord for sharing the info.
OCC 8.1.0.dev1-53706f78a8
Also I have the first of what I'm calling “practice notes” coming together, about how to read when everyone says reading is over. I’m grateful to the readers already supporting me; it’s immensely helpful to have people in the ring with me, so to speak.
Software is so used to customer lock-in and monopolies that I suspect that if the industry as a whole were made to sit through an introductory microeconomics course everybody would come out of it at the end with angina, hypertension, and the kind of heart murmur that makes a cardiologist frown with worry.
12h agoPouet is having its own little eternal september and it's… special.
If you want a long essay about how reading is not fucking ending any time soon, do point your email address here: https://aworkinglibrary.com/subscribe (It is *almost* done and I’m biased but I think it’s pretty good!)
13h agoMatteo Vaccari claims that with agentic engineering we need to re-orient our testing strategy with broader-scope tests represented as data rather than code.
Devs who think cheap code generation is going to benefit our profession are about to experience what happens when zero marginal cost meets infinite supply
(The price you can demand for anything that can be generated trends to zero is what happens. Dev pay and employment won't fair well)
And I think something similar is happening to young people around the literal language of sex and body parts. We know for sure that having a clear, descriptive language for sex is crucial for establishing consent, and even for developing a sexual imagination not clouded by self-loathing or fantasies of oblivion. Growing up with algorithms that shame people for saying things clearly, without euphemism or coyness, disciplines young people by getting them to internalize adults' violent imagination.
A while back, I remember reading that in Australia there was this crisis of young women getting plastic surgery to alter their genital shape, and young people kept saying it was because of "porn." But of course the stuff they were looking at was softcore nude photos of women with genitals Photoshopped out of the image so that they wouldn't be labeled as porn, which made young people think that genitals are deformed if they are visible.
Surface-level censorship like this feels superficial if you are a worldly grown-up whose mind fills in the blanks. But if you are not a worldly grown-up, the blanks become these really gaping and potentially quite evil mysteries. We have decades of evidence that censorship like this leads to really bad outcomes for young people who encounter censored media and then come to feel like (especially but not exclusively) sex is unspeakably nasty or indescribable. They have no language for it.
Doesn't it seem actually very bad that the corporate-algo internet has decided it's OK to censor all content for "language"? I know we have been here for a while now, but I just can't believe that an entire generation has grown up knowing if you use the word "sex" your video/post won't be seen by anyone. Or even if you're watching uncensored content, no "sensitive" words can appear in the closed captions, so they don't even make sense. Isn't that obviously discrimination?
13h ago(giving me strong 90s triphop vibes)
13h ago"Some sloppy thoughts about AI" (Headline is a pun)
https://write.halfbyte.org/some-sloppy-thoughts-about-ai
> If this means that, in the long run, there is no longer a place for me here where I am right now, working as a freelancer on web applications (for the most part), then so be it.
Boy howdy, do I relate to this feeling. There's a decent chance that next year might become the first year since I finished university where I'm not doing paid web dev or software dev work. It's been increasingly slim pickings this year.
Each thread returning to its main loop infinitely often (in practice it needs to have a reasonable latency bound, e.g. infinitely often with exponential recurrence time is totally unacceptable in practice) is a reasonable restriction on a full-system emulator and other software systems where all threads operate in a top-level event-driven style (e.g. don't block within a thread stack waiting on an IO event that might never happen, stuff like that has to be handled via the top-level event loops).
restaurant cat loves attention. she goes around greeting everyone and getting pets from also everyone. one of the nicest cats around
Every day the whistle blows; we go over the top and perish. Every day, the same day, though days pass. The paradox of ghostdom: relive, yet live on.
One day phantoms appeared, time travellers come to remember and witness.
They saw, were horrified, and stopped coming.
Tomorrow, we'll do it again.