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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

meredithw@wandering.shop ("MeredithW") wrote:

An MIT student asked AI to make her headshot more ‘professional.’ It gave her lighter skin and blue eyes.
“I was like, ‘Wow, does this thing think I should become white to become more professional?’” said Wang, who is Asian American.

@Wolven have you seen this?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/19/business/an-mit-student-asked-ai-make-her-headshot-more-professional-it-gave-her-lighter-skin-blue-eyes/

Attachments:

• Two pictures of MIT student Rona Wang. Original: Asian young woman with shoulder-length brown hair and dark brown eyes. AI "professional-looking" version: Same young woman but with white skin and blue eyes. (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

lapcatsoftware@appdot.net ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

The programmers who think that A.I. can replace programmers are in fact the programmers who should be replaced.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@pearlbear [waves hello]

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

profcarroll@federate.social ("David Carroll") wrote:

File under: all the stupid digital ads don’t even pay the bills, folks;
“ #Netflix its free plan with ads in US and UK after Canada ” https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/19/23800079/netflix-cheap-ad-free-basic-plan-removed-us-uk

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

I wrote a comic about pirates.

Attachments:

• 1 Pirate: Time to walk the plank. 2 Frog: sure, where's his leash haha 3 Pirate: lol good one you're first mate now (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

steve@fediscience.org ("Steve Easterbrook") wrote:

What we imagined climate change deniers would say when the climate catastrophes came, versus what they actually are saying...
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-what-we-imagined-climate-change-deniers-would-say.html

Attachments:

• Cartoon by Tom the Dancing Bug. Heading reads: What we imagined climate change deniers would say when the climate catastrophes came: Panel showing two men waist deep in flood waters, saying: "I was so wrong! And now everyone must pay for my greed and lies! May God have mercy on my soul". Next heading reads: "What they actually are saying:" Panel 1: three figures on a city street darkened by wildfire smoke, saying "They're just using these disasters as an excuse to control us! Like they did with Covid! and 9/11! And the fake moon landings!" Panel 2: a neighbour talking to a family who are packing up their car to flee from an approaching wildfire: "These fires aren't caused by climate change, you Libtard! They're started by Jewish lasers from space" Panel 3: Man on sun lounger eating hotdogs while watching a distant wildfire, saying "Of course the Earth's climate is changing! It's always changing! My galaxy brain sees the epochs". Panel 4: Man waste deep in flood water speaking on his cellphone "Screw you and your electric soy beans! I want my federal rescue money now!" (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

alwirtes@indieweb.social ("Al Wirtes") wrote:

@tchambers “It remains to be seen how the battle for users’ attention spans plays out, but marketers would be wise to start planning a strategy that could adapt to a decentralized internet.”

The reason the Internet exists is to be decentralized.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

OutOnTheMoors@beige.party ("CrazyMyra") wrote:

No one knows how to cook umber

Attachments:

• Two tubes of acrylic paint, one labelled "Raw umber" the other "burnt umber" (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

My team is hiring a solutions engineer who is familiar with Django.

You will be working on some exciting projects that I'm also part of.

The team is led by @cydharrell and you will work closely with me and with @castironflower.

The role is 1 day a week in downtown San Francisco, remote CA the rest of the time.

https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=3743990002200656

#FediHire #Jobs #SanFrancisco #CivicTech

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

rodet@mastodon.online ("Stephane") wrote:

This is pretty awesome to see this mature: "Coming soon: Carbon Web Components v2" https://medium.com/carbondesign/coming-soon-carbon-web-components-v2-7decc1749f5d
cc @slightlyoff

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Basically, what we’re saying to people today is:

You’re interested in tech and you want a nice home (or just any home) and stability? Go work at Google, Facebook, or some other surveillance capitalist.

What’s that? You want to work on free and open source? Sure, go work at IBM or Oracle… Oh… you don’t mean enterprise software? Tech to protect human rights/democracy? Not for profit hippie-dippie crap for the common good?

Oh, then suffer.

I mean, is it any surprise things are as they are?

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

the sheriff of giverny has been very dismissive of my MANY noise complaints about my neighbor (claude monet) because, and I quote, "that man draws a lot of water in this town"

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

does anybody here actively listen to a Python-related podcast that they recommend

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

blaise@hachyderm.io ("Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3") wrote:

@bcantrill from @oxidecomputer says a lot of interesting things
https://youtu.be/W8qiDhlFVCE
some of them are about computers, but the best are about #storytelling as a social medium and the role of #podcasts , #radio , #audio in expanding community

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ugh

Problem 3: explicit return not required

this is such A Very Bad Idea. just as an explicit guard should be checked at either the beginning or the end of every iteration control structure, so an explicit return should be required for any function which returns anything.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

- there are two safe types of iteration: leading test and trailing test.

— leading test iteration (may happen 0 times):

while (condition) {
do something;
}

— trailing test iteration (always happens at least once):

repeat {
do something;
} until (condition);

or

do {
something;
} while (condition);

3/5

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I think the #Rust programming language is a huge leap forward… one of my failures at RIT was in trying to get the language into the curriculum. and, like anything else, it has some less-than-optimal stuff going on. luckily, it looks to me that, by sticking to well structured approaches to design and coding, I can notice and avoid most of the pitfalls and produce clean, readable, maintainable, and bullet-proof code.

5/5

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Problem 1: trailing test iteration not directly supported

yes, I can fake it using “break”… but to paraphrase another: “use of break considered harmful”. long and harsh lessons have taught me that there should always be just one way in and one way out of any chunk of programming. in addition, harsh lessons have taught me that all iterators should require a guard condition at the beginning or the end.

Problem 2: infinite loop directly supported

think about it… no guard condition required.

4/5

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yard work done, first walk done, laundry folded, leftovers consumed… time for another day’s session of #LearningRust.

first, some notes on #Rust weirdnesses and goodnesses. I’ve been hacking away at code for a half century now, and some things in the language go against basic programming principles or “rules of thumb” which I have learned, usually “the hard way”, make a lot of sense when writing code.

1/5

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Naked spider embryos!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/19/progress-in-embryo-analysis/

Attachments:

• Dechorionated spider embryo (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ⛅️ Partly cloudy, +70°F, 71%, ↓2mph, 1019hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 11:56:52-0400 | Dawn: 05:13:34 | Sunrise: 05:48:05
Zenith: 13:16:44 | Sunset: 20:44:58 | Dusk: 21:19:21
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Masafumi NAKANE max@FreeBSD.org born in Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, 1972

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

fuzztech@infosec.exchange ("Nick Selby 🇩🇪 :donor:") wrote:

As a detective who has investigated heaps of CSAM cases, I am comfortable stating that this bill is total bullshit; a civil rights grab of the worst and most fascistic kind, cravenly disguised as “for the children”. Please, if you are American, contact your representatives and tell them you’re against this. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

darrenmorin@mstdn.ca ("TrueFluke") wrote:

" #Deaf people always want to communicate, and the live chat feature would be something that would be perfect for us."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/deaf-atlantic-canada-nl-bell-aliant-1.6909936

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

nzakas@fosstodon.org ("Nicholas C. Zakas") wrote:

In case you missed it, I posted the first of a three-part series about managing your interrupt rate as a tech lead:

https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2023/07/managing-interrupt-rate-tech-lead-reward-interruptions/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

addyosmani@indieweb.social ("Addy Osmani") wrote:

✍️ Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible: https://addyosmani.com/blog/boring-architecture/

Before adopting a new architecture or tech stack, ask yourself: Does it solve a specific problem for users, the business or developers? Is it worth the learning curve and potential instability? Is this going to help us further down the line?

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

aliettedb@wandering.shop ("Aliette de Bodard") wrote:

ERRATUM: if you preordered the Kindle edition of A FIRE BORN OF EXILE yesterday, you might have preordered the wrong book due to amazon shenanigans.

Could you check your preorder?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBSPT4SG

(really sorry about that! Amazon wasn't very helpful on this).

Attachments:

• Cover of a FIRE BORN OF EXILE by Aliette de Bodard. Two women of Vietnamese descent stand back to back below an image of a spaceship. One of them is holding the hilt of a sword. The other, half turned away from the viewer, is wearing a purple ao dai. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

Imagine being told to push babies and small children back into the river and DOING IT. 🤬