"How come Americans write the month first?"
"That's how you say it, month first"
"What's the date today?"
"It's the fourth of July"
Experience
Wow, I am completely unaware of the passage of time at the moment. Yesterday I gad a meeting cancelled for today with some US folks because today is a public holiday in the US. In my head was 'huh, I wonder what that is. I should look it up at some point'. And I just worked it out. I think it's still late June in my head.
Why do people keep putting PDF viewers in web apps that are less functional than the one built into my browser?
Meta is reportedly looking to rent out its unused LLM infrastructure.
So, there is...
1. limited demand for LLM services at the cost it takes to provide them
2. already more infrastructure available to meet this demand
This throws a massive cloud over the business case for every GPU-based Data Centre currently being constructed every where in the world.
Good kitten news: one of the kittens next door has learned to come into our garden and demand attention. It is so cute when it purrs! But the got distracted chasing crickets for a while the second time.
Bad kitten news: the same kitten has learned to get onto our balcony and in through the bedroom door if we leave it open. A hyperactive kitten jumping on the bed is not ideal, especially when my partner is allergic to cats.
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/116845968748975537
This whole thread is worth reading but this is a really key point:
Most modern software is written with ‘capture users in our ecosystem’ and a key (implicit, if not explicitly stated) goal. If you copy proprietary software and don’t have that as a goal, or (I would hope) have it as an explicit non-goal, then you have started by picking an architecture that doesn’t reflect your goals.
With the world heating up, why are more SUVs being sold?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c778ekg64mjo
From the organisation that gave us "Top Gear", and has spent the last 20 years platforming climate change deniers in the name of "balance"... 😱
Does anyone know of a document management system (handles all of the ISO9001 requirements for tracking, sign off, and so on) and that integrates with git as the source of truth (can associate git revisions tied in the document history, easy to push generated PDFs from CI pipelines)?
I wrote this post over a year ago, but it probably needs repeating periodically. From my perspective, CHERI isn't really about security, it's about making it possible to solve a bunch of interesting language-interoperability and end-user-programming problems that happen to need a bunch of security fixed as building blocks. And so we get a load of security stuff for free. But that's not why I worked on it.
Reminder: the sudden nostalgia for VB (and Flash) is not because VB was good, it’s because VB was:
We don’t need resurrected VB or Flash, we need something that takes advantage of the power of modern computers to deliver something that has the same ease of use of these tools.
If you have never seen "The Prisoner," I can't recommend it highly enough.
1) It's massively fun, tight and twisty, and plays with plot and character in ways that feel shockingly contemporary.
2) It was shot on 35mm film, so it looks fantastic, with fine detail and bold colors that translate flawlessly to modern high-res screens.
3) After you watch it, you will become the annoying person in your friend group who is constantly asking everyone else if they have seen "The Prisoner"
Mastodon has automatic age verification built in, no scanning your face
✅ if you join here you're old
✅ you've seen too much shit
✅ you're tired of said shit
Smalltalk-80, HyperCard, and Visual Basic 6 were far more compelling "future of programming" attempts than anything available today
Those who do a tax return and are having or had to change to paid software to do their tax return may wish to sign this petition...
@godotengine LOUDER !
AI contributions have the added pain of being demoralizing. Reviewing PRs is already tedious work, but it is rewarding because reviewers generally feel that their efforts are contributing to educating a new contributor (who may become a future maintainer/reviewer). If your feedback on PRs is just being absorbed by a machine and not going towards mentoring a potential future maintainer, it becomes much harder to justify spending your free time on PR review.
LLVM Foundation is seeking new board members, applications are open through July 15th: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-foundation-seeking-new-board-members-apply-by-july-15/91074