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

@heydon It absolutely *is* the case that path dependence and unpriced externalities have caused important sections of the economy to fundamentally destroy value relative to what they "create"!

Accounting tricks can make bad things look good for a long time. It's *entirely possible* that the net net of the last decade's over enthusiasm for JavaScript has been more costly than it has been valuable.

Which is to say, you do not have to accept that popularity == value.

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

Multiple times since @heydon's epic React video dropped, I've had conversations that have bottomed out at *"yeah, well, lots of people choose React, so it must be popular for a reason"*.

This is true! It can be popular for *many* reasons! Nothing about this acknowledgement requires stipulating that those reasons be *good* or based on complete information.

If Eugene Fama can acknowledge that Efficient Markets don't actually exist, so can you.

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

People have gotten so used to the existence of the Internet Archive’s web archive that they forget how revolutionary and subversive it is. The idea that that is somehow safe while the book lending was not is completely flawed. They were just up against a more powerful group.

#InternetArchive

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:

#FediBlock

louis@indieweb.social

for harassing anyone who describes Israel as the genocidal, apartheid, colonial entity that it is, and describing the type of election interference & harassment by AIPAC on Israel's behalf, mostly against Black congresspeople, as antisemitic, and targeting accounts that do so for mass reports, suspension and harassment.

See thread👇
https://dair-community.social/deck/@egg@kolektiva.social/113070659317824474

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I liked this leveled, informed explanation of the difficulties around gendered pronouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh22m1QG6i4

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

Stop defining "developer experience" as "the inner loop while I'm writing code after spending an hour installing node_modules".

Setup time is "developer experience".

Upgrade toil is "developer experience".

Memoise-everything-after-weeks-debugging-stray-rerender toil is "developer experience".

Belated, frantic code splitting side quests are "developer experience".

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

rek@merveilles.town ("R E K") wrote:

"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated. The importance and value of thinking about our work and why we do it is waved away as a distraction. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."

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)

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

Is the third week of the semester too early to burn out?

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scy@chaos.social wrote:

Interesting. According to Brent Spiner (the actor who plays the android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation)

1. 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

2. 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

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I mean, what else would a PORtable moNITOR be called?

via @qbi

Attachments:

• Display showing the brand name "PORNITOR".

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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:

cstanhope@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)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgb2z6UM9zs

jsonstein@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

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

seems reasonable

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/vance-advocates-posting-ten-commandments?r=4qey6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Firefox 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.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#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.

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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

fromjason ("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.

slightlyoff@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!

https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/

Reblogged 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

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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.

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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.

https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Saw this band live a couple of weeks back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PK7iiMYEwE

#NowPlaying #NP #Avkrvst #ProgTuesday

Reblogged 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.

https://govukvue.org

…There's no emoji for “flailing my arms with an exasperated, disbelieving look on my face”

cstanhope@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.)

https://unleashthearchers.bandcamp.com/album/phantoma

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I often ask myself, how is he a real cat.

#CatsOfMastodon

Attachments:

• A black cat with big green shiny eyes (Jiji) holding a hand of cards while on the lap of my wife.

Reblogged 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”

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veronica@xoxo.zone ("Veronica") wrote:

Here, I made you a Slack emoji for when you're talking about GenAI

Attachments:

• An emoji showing two thumbs up on one hand. (remote)

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

https://apple.news/ACqV0HZ-SQ6S6vQ-MklKoRg