Notices by Dave Rupert (davatron5000@mastodon.social), page 2

After many walks and many chores I am at Podcast: Zero *and* Audiobook: Zero. If you read or listened to a good book recently I’d love to know, but in the meantime I’ll bask in this unfamiliar feeling.

Khan Academy made a ChatGPT bot to teach kids math and it uh... it can't do math and just makes shit up. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-tutoring-students-but-still-struggles-with-basic-math-694e76d3?st=606ux1exuaxyk3j

Watched a Vision Pro review that said “You gotta cut Apple some slack…” and… what? Cut a four thousand dollar device by a three trillion dollar company some slack!?

@developit I want dumb tvs again.

Happy MLK! I rewatched King in the Wilderness last night. I recommend it if you haven't seen it. It's the story of Dr. King's final years, post-Civil Rights Act. Gives you a sense of the work left unfinished.

Lots of contemporaries of Dr. King are featured in the doc; some aren't with us anymore and most won't be around much longer. That makes me glad this was captured when it was because those who non-violently fought for civil rights are a precious resource.

https://letterboxd.com/film/king-in-the-wilderness/

A full-throated rebuttal against Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs). I always thought they should be a part of the broader green power strategy, but now not so sure.

/via @eric's wonderful [SC 2.4.4] newsletter

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/11/30/what-drives-this-madness-on-small-modular-nuclear-reactors/

Algorithm, staaaahp

Son: “I solved the wet bathroom floor problem”
Me: How?
Son: “I got all the bath mats in the house and I covered the entire floor.”

Verily, verily, I say unto thee; Your engineering department is like a child trying to clean up a wet mess, rather than just stand in the shower and drip dry for a second to prevent the mess in the first place, they solve the problem but create a new problem in the form of laundry. But it’s rationalized as okay because “we’re still doing laundry anyways”.

Is stuffing a soup? A lasagna? Or a pudding?

Is the phrase "Best Practice" a bit tired? Will King offers a few more specific options.

- Community pattern
- Readability pattern
- Performance pattern
- Guardrail pattern

It will take awhile to break the habit of saying "Best Practice" but I like minor word changes that add a *why* to the *what*.

https://www.wking.dev/library/stop-saying-best-practice

@beep [End of Q4]: “Talk to this AI to see if you still have your job.”

@beep “We're not not gonna replace you.”

Still mad. https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit

96.3% of the top 1,000,000 homepages have accessibility errors we can detect with automation. 96% of those errors fall into 6 easy-to-detect and easy-to-fix categories.

> Addressing just these few types of issues would significantly improve accessibility across the web

https://webaim.org/projects/million/

Had a good time at the Gowalla SXSW party last night. Lots of wonderful familiar faces. It made me realize how un-fun social media apps have become and how Gowalla 2.0 can really bring back those good old days of discovering your home town.