Notices by John Wilson (crazybutable@mastodon.social)

So wtf am I supposed to use on Windows? Edge, the friendly AI browser? Chrome? The ad surveillance OG? Or Firefox, run by a company desperately diving head first into more ad surveillance?
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113246768350299784

Cash for clunkers was the first supply shock that ratcheted up the price of used cars. So many cheap cars taken off the roads

Then Covid hit and auto manufacturers killed their own supply chain by cancelling microchip orders, so they had to decide: where do we allocate the chips? The highest margin cars, of course!

There were years of supply chain disruption, leading to car companies getting addicted to high margins

Now the consumers are fucked on the low and high ends
https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/113222450975041152

@inthehands @Catfish_Man a post about blank space. Could be discussing a Swift song, could be talking about Swift handling white space in Unicode strings

@Catfish_Man wait, Taylor Swift or the programming language?

Also as much as I have been in denial about it all day, the smell is getting worse, and I think something has crawled into my garage and died

If I am lucky it’s in the rafters because I store nothing up there. Can’t check until later because the ladder is in the house. But if it’s there, it should be easy to check and dispose of.

Or maybe I’m unlucky….

I think I identified what part of garage the smell is coming from though, so I have that going for me at least.

I woke up at 8:00 am and started cleaning out the car and it’s 8:49 pm and I’m still cleaning out the car.

I got so much stuff done today avoiding the car. Did a lot of bicycle maintenance. But also the car was a lot of work, call it 4 solid hours. All six traction sandbags started leaking at the same time so after I took those out, I wound up filling my (smallish) shop vac, twice

Anyway, please clap.

@inthehands @mathaetaes @homelessjun @MisuseCase @mekkaokereke hey, remember all the random gunshots in Minneapolis for about 6-9 months after the George Floyd riots?

I remember seeing multiple videos on Twitter of big SUVs with blacked out plates, rolling up in a neighborhood. Big jacked white dude wearing a mask gets out, fires a weapon a few times, and drives off.

So weird!

@inthehands @lenny_wonders

The earliest verb form of humbled in the sense of “I have been struck down by an external force” is Shakespeare, 1591

But! The verb form of humbled in the sense of “I am bringing myself low” is actually from 1380! It’s the earliest sense of the word!

🤯

This is fascinating because inventing the dynamic sense of an external event forcing humility upon a person, is very Shakespeare.

@inthehands @sysadmin1138 or sports venues putting clauses in saying they can use any captured footage of you to train their AIs (you already generally agree to a waiver to appear in ads)

@inthehands @sysadmin1138 not only privately held data that already exists

Just like you get access to certain services in exchange for you watching ads, in the future companies may compel you to produce new data for the continued use of services

Who wants to be the first company offering free or reduced price phone service in exchange for them recording your calls for AI training purposes?

@inthehands yeah we had chive cakes and one of the other ones you recommended (cha korieng?)

Number 17. It was delicious

@inthehands we went to Cheng Heng over lunch

The chive cakes are delicious, thanks

@inthehands 🤔 that’s a 7 minute drive from the new office

Got any menu recommendations?

@inthehands eh the summers are going to be miserable might as well enjoy what you can when you can

I miss cross country skiing

@inthehands the os optimizes background tasks to run on performance cores, and in many cases, will prevent those low level tasks from running on a performance core.

If you have a threaded web browser and you are switching back and forth between that and your IDE, and the OS kicks off a check for updates, then spotlight indexing in the background, and who knows what else, the OS tasks will not be preempting your work

I only notice slowdowns when I run out of ram. Not the case on Intel.

@inthehands damn, I’m jealous. Wish I had time to dig into swift UI and Metal.

I have some image processing algorithms I’m dreaming up but I feel like I have to learn metal to make progress with them. Last time I had working code was on a iPhone 3GS and it would take several seconds to process a 50x50 px sample. (Then I started the new job and set this aside, then whoops a decade passed)

@inthehands @cocoaphony When I’m done coding something, it goes to the design department to get approval, then the QA department, then it’s done.

Since the design department is the most familiar with the requirements (goals and constraints) they can let us know if we got it right.

(If the design department gives us something impossible or dumb to do, we try to step in and let them know early in the process, but they want to build something usable and so do we, so we mostly work together)

@inthehands heh. We are so much more flexible in our use of the word that it’s hard for me to see it in that sense.

But in the past we did contract software development and when the “requirements” become contractual requirements, and then something breaks down its *KNIVES OUT*

(I’m kind of getting off topic though)

@inthehands I guess my org uses “requirements” in a couple of different senses. The general case is “gathering requirements” and that’s what you are calling goals and constraints.

And the second sense is very narrow and tactical: we break each feature up into user stories and we say the story isn’t done unless the requirements are done. But there’s a big gap between the two, for the design department to turn requirements (hopes and goals and constraints) into concrete features

@mekkaokereke uh, Minneapolis is pretty bad in the cruelty department. We even had a court case on the legality of destroying homeless folks belongings when the city has no shelter beds available. When it became clear the city was going to lose that case, they went through and did a huge sweep of all of the encampments just before the judge ruled against them.

(And a few months later, resumed the sweeps in defiance of the judge’s order)