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mcc wrote:

There's some C code in the wikipedia page for "Hilbert Curve" and I would like to propose this code be removed from the "Hilbert Curve" page and moved to the "How Not to Comment Source Code" page

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• lots of code with very little comments

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

billjings@mastodon.online ("Bill Phillips") wrote:

Boy, this talk from @bcantrill is terrific:

https://youtu.be/bQfJi7rjuEk?si=sOg2PqVeJFgwKnk-

Conveys some foundational liberal arts criticisms of the current AI mania through hard engineering problems.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Sometimes I think about how much better the dev world would be if WordPress had just picked Vue—already fully open-source, community-backed just like WP, and not owned by a corporation—instead of going out of its way to pick Facebook, and locking ~half the web into the slow, dated Frameworkstein that is React. And it makes me sad.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Impressive. AI-generated Mark Zuckerberg looks less fake than real Mark Zuckerberg.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#caturday portrait

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• Black cat resting on its rainbow toy

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

When you hear some folks say "React is anti-web", I interpret this to mean that React is a fork of the web, both in syntax and in practice. The fork grows as progress continues on the mainline web. React's assumptions and ecosystem continue to preclude default access to those advances.

In practice, this means that starting from the React baseline means many months of large-team effort to tune legacy assumptions out of systems and replace them with modern alternatives.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Nobody, and i mean nobody, needs to start a new project in the '20s using React. It's legacy tech, built for IE 6/7/8, and its entire ecosystem starts from the premise that we must (in theory) remain compatible with those browsers -- largely though slow and expensive transpilers.

You know who doesn't target *any* version of IE in new projects in 2023? MICROSOFT. Unsupported, full stop.

Starting from those legacy assumptions is like designing computers with only newtonian physics.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

My kids never had covid symptoms, but they did test positive for a few days. I'm mostly recovered, but still testing positive (very faint line). My partner has no symptoms anymore, but is still testing bright-red-line positive, been testing positive for 9 days now.

No wonder covid is spreading so well, the vast majority of people here aren't testing at all (despite free tests!) and wouldn't ever notice when they are positive. "It's just a cold." 😬

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'd be cool if OpenAI tried being actually open, instead of chasing a Microsoft acquisition.

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

When setting up a thing to make tshirts on your behalf, one can never be quite sure how they'll turn out.

...

Got one for myself, and it looks good! Phew

https://infrequently.org/stickers for more.

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• Lettering on a t-shirt of anti JavaScript JavaScript club (remote)

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

i got a (very simple) flexbox thing working on my ~first attempt and the resulting hubris allowed me to continue tweaking and now i've spend almost two hours trying to get it back to where it was

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parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

#tech #ai #health #healthcare

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• UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here are a few better shots #Sungazer

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• Musicians on stage.
• Musicians on stage.
• Musicians on stage.

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Excellent: @bcantrill is eloquent on the subject of a corrupt and stupid sports mogul: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2023/11/18/is-it-worse-for-john-fisher/

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Just finished Resident Evil 4 and that was the single most intense video game experience I've ever had in my entire life

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

As an Oakland A's fan, this has been a pretty awful week. But is it, in fact, worse for John Fisher? https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2023/11/18/is-it-worse-for-john-fisher/

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cyberchris@discuss.systems ("Chris") wrote:

@bcantrill

I really liked those examples of concrete, gnarly engineering challenges. Definitely puts things into perspective on what might an AI *actually* need to solve.

Your point regarding the "humanity" that AI lacks, is loosely referred to as "agency" in the AGI space. And yes, most of the popular AI tools (e.g. the usual LLMs like ChatGPT) have *zero* agency!

I don't know if the doomer twitter folks mention this distinction, but yeah, so far I haven't seen much convincing evidence of an agentic AI having anywhere near the ability needed to solve those engineering challenges autonomously.

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mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill is so much fun to watch. His talks are always interesting, and he usually incorporates an intense cardio workout into the presentation because he gets so wrapped up in the topic. "Intelligence Is Not Enough" is funny and hopeful.

https://redmonk.com/videos/intelligence-is-not-enough-bryan-cantrill-monktoberfest-2023/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Sungazer in Berlin

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• Musicians on stage

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bburbank@idlethumbs.social ("ben burbank") wrote:

well we updated half life 1!

I got to do a bunch of work specifically for fans of the game like me.

I’ll talk more about it later!!

https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife25

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

cms@social.lol wrote:

Hey everyone! See that thing happening with Chrome, where Google seems to be using their de-facto dominance over the mainstream browser environment to try and outlaw user-agent content filtering, AKA ad-blockers?

May I suggest you take a long, hard look at VSCode and GitHub and have a little wonder about those and where they might be heading a few years hence?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

About to see #Sungazer

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• Adam Neely setting up a mic on stage

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A.k.a., "The Google Trajectory Speedrun":

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028

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ceejbot@toot.cat ("C J Silverio") wrote:

guide to choosing a programming language, variation on a meme

javascript: you just want to get shit done in a browser

php: you just want to get shit done on a web server

python: you don't care how long it takes to run

c: you care how long it takes to run but refuse to learn how C++ exceptions work

java: my condolences but at least you're getting paid

bash: you just want to get shit done

perl: you last wanted to get shit done in 2002

rust: you are very tired of C++ exploding in your face

c++: you spent ten years learning how exceptions work and are not giving up now just because it explodes in your face

pascal: you are enjoying your classic Mac hobby

excel: the entire company gets shit done with this one spreadsheet

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

If you're looking for a chaser to the OpenAI boardroom drama, the video for my #monktoberfest 2023 talk "Intelligence is not Enough" is now up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A skateboard of beer with @bibabobubi…

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• A literal skateboard with holes for beer glasses drilled into it, filled with 4 different kinds of beer.

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

@AltlandaJuristo
mi helpas

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• Unu el tiuj taskoj por du homoj en Duolingo. ni kune devis atingi 1500 poentojn. mi atingis 310 kaj altlandajuristo atingis 1190 (remote)

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

dankon al @AltlandaJuristo por ĉiam sendi al mi multege da tiuj aferoj kiuj duobligas la poentojn kiam ni kunhavas taskon ĉe Duolingo

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

interesting juxtaposition: piece on Biden’s economic perception woes linked to TikTok mis- & dis-information next to piece on Republican attacks on TikTok

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• 23af01bd8ce7c616.jpeg (remote)

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

I think my first-year undergrads could handle this discussion, no problem.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/18/everyone-is-talking-about-homo-naledi-now/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7gdU7QM8Mc