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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
the really really big crosswords: i gotta say I mostly don't get it. not to sound too snooty but what I like about crosswords is the cohesive "piece," not just the feeling of working out clues indefinitely
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
@slightlyoff Hired a design firm to build a marketing site (static pages, no interactivity). Asked for a WordPress site so the content could be edited by non-techies. What they delivered instead was a React app badly shoehorned into WP. Most of the content was not editable. Navigation menus only worked with a mouse, no landmark elements, buttons instead of links, explicitly-numbered tabindex attributes, etc.😞
It cemented my reluctant perception that React devs don't know how the browser works.
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ryantownsend@webperf.social ("Ryan Townsend") wrote:
@slightlyoff with average tenure (at least in the UK) of developers being barely over a year, many simply don’t stick around to see their poor decisions play out, and those replacing them get to blame their predecessors – and even then, too often the determination is ‘this is a poor implementation of React’ rather than ‘React should never have been decided upon’.
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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@ryantownsend @slightlyoff part of it for sure.
The other part is I think senior management and exec level aren't actually aware that technical choices are killing them. After all who would they ask to evaluate why a project is failing to deliver on expectations? The team that built it? Hah.
Orgs rarely have enough technical knowledge at the higher levels of management and rarely have teams of experts who could weigh in independently.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Uh-oh, this video is far too relevant to me, almost like they have been reading my mind.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/24/should-i-take-attendance-in-my-classes/
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
What is a good, technical podcast/talk/interview on the HW/SW interface in ML/DL?
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delta@mk.absturztau.be ("delta :akko_bean: :verified_gay:") wrote:
2 bit - sniff
4 bit - nibble
8 bit - byte
16 bit - munch
32 bit - gobble
64 bit - chomp
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
psykose@donotsta.re ("alice") wrote:
lexer: 20ms
parser: 40ms
sema: 100ms
opt: 400ms
codegen: 200ms
checking if int64_t is 8 bytes in the buildsystem: 40ssomeone please help me, my builds are dying
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Happy seasonal greetings!
And here's my Christmas story "Overtime" from Tor.com, published in 2009 (it made the Hugo shortlist the following year):
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dworkin@mstdn.social ("Scott Dworkin") wrote:
It's nice having President Biden in the White House instead of an unhinged wannabe dictator like Trump. Merry Christmas Eve and happy holidays no matter what you celebrate!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
antlerboy ("Benjamin P. Taylor") wrote:
Miskatonian https://miskatonian.com/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
2023: Geostationary Microwave Amateur Payload Proposal. Frank Zeppenfeldt PD0AP, ESA
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
ironicmoka@livellosegreto.it wrote:
Comunque è impressionante mettere una accanto all’altra la gestione privacy di Threads, Bluesky e Mastodon
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
harris@social.coop ("Harris Lapiroff 🔥") wrote:
Up until this week @paulbiggar was on the board at a fairly substantial tech company that he co-founded. If you work in tech, you’ve probably heard of it; if you don’t, you probably haven’t. But then he wrote a blog post.
He’s no longer a director of that company. The CEO, Jim Rose, has clarified that Paul does not speak for them and that CircleCI “is committed to our customers in Israel and around the world.”
Read my blog post about it:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:
Rick Wilson Confirmed Trump Is Livid About #TrumpSmells, So LP Ripped Out This Doozy https://politizoom.com/rick-wilson-confirmed-trump-is-livid-about-trumpsmells-so-lp-ripped-out-this-doozy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:
24 December 1905 | A Dutch Jew, Henri Emile Mossel, was born in Amsterdam.
A clarinetist and saxophonist, the leader of the AVRO dance orchestra, music store owner.At Auschwitz from 25 March 1944
No. 175312
He perished at Auschwitz III-Monowitz on 4 August 1944.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:
Check it out! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 now has its own web page:
https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/
New episodes to come in 2024 :)
w/ @alex ; production by Christie Taylor
If you enjoy #MAIHT3k and want to support the pod, rate & review on Spotify or Apple or make a donation to DAIR:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bluebeetle@trekkies.social ("Blue Beetle :Delta:") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
w000t! Finally got 100000 items in a scene without any performance loss 💪
It's just simple boxes now but I wanted grass over a map of 2000x2000 meters :flan_laugh:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
if you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
#Development #Goodies
‘snow-fall’ web component · A web component to add snow to your web site https://ilo.im/15xfix_____
#WebDesign #WebDev #WebComponent #Frontend #HTML #JavaScript
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How to deal with homelessness: barricades and police tape. Make the homeless be homeless somewhere else.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/24/merry-xmas-to-you-if-you-own-a-house/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Happy Birthday! such a nice organization, such *Christian* values…
“Dec 24, 1865: Confederate Veterans Establish the Ku Klux Klan”
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Quite the damning piece on Tesla and its recklessly (probably criminally) irresponsible application of the "move fast and break things" ethos.
tl;dr: the company has known for ages that its cars have the kind of chronic defects that would get a company like Chevy or Toyota sued into oblivion (way more than just autopilot stuff; basic mechanical stuff). And it's often gotten away with blaming its users for those issues.
https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a very interesting article on the way “culture wars” bleed over into other things, like how to think about dealing with dogs
Mastodon Feed"Julius Caesar" was the original long-term nuclear waste warning message.
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
A year ago, I ran my first ever 5k at the (laughable) pace of 7:53/km. It was super hard!
I now run 5ks at 5:13/km. This week, a year later, I ran my first ever half-marathon (21.1k!) at 6:25km. I then finished the week by running a whole 50k!
Running has changed my life!
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Watching #Hogfather ahead of time because I realized #Monsterdon would be at 3am for us and we'll probably sleep through it ❄️ Happy Hogswatch!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@slightlyoff @adamhill 100% this. We've sadly got some new React sites and I can't understand where the performance penalty and complexity cost comes from. Even after seeing the poor perf, bug count skyrocket and velocity tank the teams are still doubling down on it. I don't get what they are getting out of it. I think they literally have never been shown another way, and nobody wants to take a risk on something they don't understand even if what they do know isn't succeeding for anyone.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Sometimes I feel like the main lesson of React and Tailwind is that people don't even care what the system is, whether it's good, or whether it's even a fit for their purposes, as long as they're sharing it with enough other people.
