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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
testobsessed@ruby.social ("Elisabeth Hendrickson") wrote:
It just occurred to me that the phases in waterfall software development could just as well have been named after the stages of grief:
1. denial (requirements and design)
2. anger (implementation)
3. bargaining (functional testing)
4. depression (alpha & beta testing) and
5. acceptance (release)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Is the third week of the semester too early to burn out?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):
Interesting. According to Brent Spiner (the actor who plays the android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation)
it was Patrick Stewart's UK pronunciation of his character's name (day-tah instead of the US's dah-tah) that made this pronunciation canon, and
the character of Data and the popularity of Star Trek has led to "day-tah" now being the common pronunciation in the US, too.
https://youtu.be/xeqTMTOxid8 (π min)
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #data #pronunciation #English #EnglishLanguage
Mastodon FeedI mean, what else would a PORtable moNITOR be called?
via @qbi
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:
“We created a self-opening fridge with an AI camera that tracks what you put in and take out.”
Please for the love of any and all deities I am PROSTRATE on the floor begging you for fair energy prices and accessible public transport I do not need a fridge incorrectly guessing what is in my 17 Tupperware containers and refusing to open because I haven’t paid my monthly £24.99 subscription of “Fridge Door Lock Plus” :neofox_melt_sob: :neofox_melt_sob: :neofox_melt_sob:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Starting my morning with a bit of silliness and a good beat. "The Time Machine (Dr. Evil Trance Mix)":
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and please tell me again how they are classified a 501c(3) tax exempt non-partisan organization??
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/christian-election-poll-workers
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seems reasonable
Mastodon FeedFirefox will reconsider supporting JPEG XL if they get a Rust implementation:
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
This is a very good news for web standards:
https://mastodon.social/@kornel/113078862354601952
and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.
The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.
Mastodon Feed#WebStandards need two independent implementations of every feature.
This proves that the spec is actually possible to implement, and makes it possible to verify that the implementations are interoperable.
It makes uses in the wild much less likely to depend on bugs in a particular implementation, which makes it possible to upgrade or replace implementations without creating painful bug-compatibility problems.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
A brand new 2.0 version of @PyDPainter has been released by @mriale 👍
PyDPainter is an authentic recreation of the classic Deluxe Paint ("DPaint") Amiga pixel editor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l385Z7_CRB0
Get it here:
https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter
#pixel #PixelArt #graphics #GameDev #RetroComputing #tool #editor #tips #FediTips #Commodore #Amiga #MSDOS #retro #VintageComputing
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Instagram: hey friend, we'll let your song keep playing while you scroll our feed.
TikTok: fuck whatever you were just doing. All your Spotify playlists are now deleted. The time? You want to know the time?! We just killed your family. Keep scrolling, pussy.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is (even more) aggro than I'd be about React (and, surprisingly, religion), but this line is the pure, uncut truth:
"React is useful for making complex interfaces like Facebook’s or for making otherwise simple interfaces, and their underlying codebases, complex like Facebook’s."
Christ on a cracker, @heydon; leave something for the rest of us!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:
Awesome new compilation of Central Asian disco from the 1980s!
https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/synthesizing-the-silk-roads-uzbek-disco-tajik-folktronica-uyghur-rock-tatar-jazz-from-1980s-soviet-central-asia #music
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("Boosty Collins") wrote:
You can play the CD on a variety of devices, as many times as you want, for free, forever.
The people who made the CD and player can't build a profile of what CDs you listen to.
CDs have full, lossless audio. They can perfectly represent any sound the human ear can perceive.
You don't lose access to your CDs if you stop paying a monthly subscription.
CDs are pretty dang great.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
ian@hachyderm.io ("Ian Coldwater 📦💥") wrote:
It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who haven’t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies.
It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, you’ll see them everywhere.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Saw this band live a couple of weeks back.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
spiralganglion ("Ivan Reese") wrote:
Here's the (excellent) official GOV.UK guidance on progressive enhancement — in short, try very hard to avoid using JS at all, and especially avoid large frameworks.
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement
And here, from the frontpage of HN, is an unofficial component library that emulates the GOV.UK "Design System”… in Vue.
…There's no emoji for “flailing my arms with an exasperated, disbelieving look on my face”
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's not really representative of most of their work, but I'm really diggin' this power ballad from Unleash the Archer's latest album. "Give it Up or Give it All":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of8SZkI728I
(My ears tell me the compression is a bit much on that youtube recording, but they don't have it up on bandcamp as a preview. So you get what you get, and you don't throw a fit.)
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I often ask myself, how is he a real cat.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matt Haughey 🫠") wrote:
“I love that for you!” is west coast for “well, bless your heart”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
veronica@xoxo.zone ("Veronica") wrote:
Here, I made you a Slack emoji for when you're talking about GenAI
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The group has devised a catalytic recycling process that breaks apart the chains of some of the more commonly used plastics — polyethylene and polypropylene — in such a way that the building blocks of those plastics can be used again...
The catalysts required for the reaction — sodium or tungsten — are readily available and inexpensive… early tests show the process is likely scalable at industrial levels. It uses no water and has fewer energy requirements than other recycling methods”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:
📼 What Is React.JS?
Finally, a new video on briefs.video.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
For some reason the #Leprous Melodies of Atonement LP is 45 RPM instead of 33 RPM, first time I've had to switch the band on the record player.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Null Island Iced Tea
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io ("Armin Ronacher") wrote:
Sometime to think about when voting this autumn.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jenbanim@mastodo.neoliber.al wrote:
This is neat
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this seems a good pattern
