Okay so let’s recap. Every company that’s doing AI stuff is haemorrhaging money. The stock market has been selling off AI stocks for a week because it’s getting increasingly jumpy about profitability. The CEO of Nvidia, the only company that seems to be making money from the AI bubble, has just admitted to cheating on his wife with someone who may or may not be a Chinese spy. And Anthropic are pressing ahead with a $1.5T IPO with an unconventional lockup that allows stakeholders to sell 10% on the first trading day, amongst speculation that they may not receive an investment-grade credit rating.

The next couple weeks are gonna be wild.

When you upgrade to ESLint 10.14, if you have an .eslintrc and .eslintignore files, you get an error message telling you that .eslintignore is not supported, and a URL to their migration guide.

When you go to the migration guide, it tells you that you can create an .eslintignore file, or add ignorePatterns to your .eslintrc.

I'm so tired of everything being internally-inconsistent slop.

Forget “The Nation’s Capital” and “The Bush Capital”, the new license plate epithet for the Australian Capital Territory should be “Canberra — The Titty City”

And yes, the text “the space between them” is blue in that screenshot because it is a link to the Wikipedia page entitled “Cleavage (breasts)”

A fun fact that I am now just learning is that Australia’s capital city may in fact be named after the Ngunnawal word for boobs or cleavage.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chipwits/117549756775936042

So I came across this literally a few days after finishing a training course based on SICP. If I get into the playtest I’m gonna end up writing a toy compiler in Lisp aren’t I

Everyone in my replies telling me it showed me the correct result for 8.1/3: yes well done, I’m so glad you’ve figured out what caused the bug, your badge for being a very special boy who is cleverer than the other people in the replies is in the mail. It’s still a shitty sloppy bug in a basic function of a headline feature of the OS that breaks something that used to work just fine.

And no, it wasn’t a split-second UI glitch, it stayed the way it appears in the screenshot until I exited, did the same thing when I tried it again, and only on the third try did it update properly.

The current attitude towards software maintainability across the industry right now seems to be "it doesn't matter, because AI agents will continue to be indefinitely available, affordable, and capable enough to get us out of whatever corners we back ourselves into" and like, I know the tech industry has a reputation for hubris but c'mon

Apparently now in Siri in macOS 27 (which has replaced Spotlight as the thing you get on ⌘Space), when you type a mathematical expression, you get an incorrect result in large text at the top, and then the correct result in smaller text underneath. Awesome.

To be absolutely clear I also have two other girlfriends who are not in tech that are also very cool and clever and I’m very proud of as well, but the stuff they do has less overlap with the stuff y’all talk about On Here

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117536942494881868

I have a girlfriend who does tech stuff and is very cool and clever, but maintains a much higher level of opsec than I do (which is a looooow bar tbf but still), and it is so hard not to brag about her at every possible opportunity

RE: https://social.joelle.us/@joelle/117527423586381628

For PyCon AU 2023, we paid a non-trivial amount extra (I can’t disclose how much) to have a ramp on our main stage, as compared to the standard setup that was steps only.

We didn’t have specific speakers that we knew about that absolutely needed that ramp, but it means that I can say with confidence that nobody looked at a stage with stairs and felt like they didn’t belong on that stage, and it also means that nobody had that particular barrier to access for lightning talks or other things where you might get on stage without having planned to in advance.

And I have no idea how many people that applies to, because stairs can be a challenge even for people with invisible disabilities that they haven’t disclosed to us as organisers and we obviously can’t ask.

Everything is a cost-benefit tradeoff, and there were other accessibility things we couldn’t afford, but it’s important to consider “sending a message about who belongs” among the benefits.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117501317286872418

This was how I learned that apparently finance people have been calling the big AI companies the “Magnificent Seven” like it’s a fucking Enid Blyton book or something

Also it’s just *so* Melbourne to have a day where there *is* no maximum temperature in any meaningful sense, because it just drops gradually for 36 hours straight and doesn’t even heat up during the daytime

Good news everyone in #Melbourne, this hot weather is nearly over and tonight we’re heading into… uhhhh are we up to fourth winter or fifth winter, I forget

Woolworths Online have "improved" the search function, by making it so that it automatically turns part of your search query into filters, and also making it so that the last few characters of your search query disappear for no apparent reason

so for example, if you type "gluten free frozen", you are taken to a search results page where the "Gluten Free" filter is applied and the search query is just "froz"

It would have to be something in the Journey Beyond fleet still I assume, because I don’t think anyone else is still using 60+ year old rollingstock except heritage operators?

I wonder what is the oldest rail vehicle in (non-heritage/tourist) revenue service in Australia?

I believe (but haven’t confirmed) that it used to be the “Cafe 828” car in the Overland consist (RBJ3, 69 years old as of a few years ago) but that has since been replaced with another cafe car called “Matilda Cafe” (which I believe is a different physical car and not just RBJ3 with a new name, but I don’t know it’s road number)

Anecdotally, I’ve noticed that most queer people in my own circles are not fond of AI, both within and outside tech, so that’s an interesting data point.

Non-binary respondents being more against than for genAI dev tools is an interesting data point, because there is no question that asks if respondents are a member of the LGBTQ+ community, so that is the best proxy we have for the community at large.