Notices by Leftover woman (rosactrl@social.vivaldi.net)

@mcc I do use Nix and I would suggest rejecting it unless the author is willing to maintain it

«If you are writing a book today, you want to keep in mind that you are primarily writing it for AIs. They are the ones who are going to read it the most carefully. They are going to read every page word by word, and all the footnotes, and all the endnotes, and the bibliography, and the afterward. They will also read all your books and listen to all your podcasts. You are unlikely to have any human reader read it as thoroughly as the AIs will. After absorbing it, the AIs will do that magical thing of incorporating your text into all the other text they have read, of situating it, of placing it among all the other knowledge of the world – in a way no human reader can do». What a fucking nightmare
https://types.pl/@agentultra/115363169990111142

@aral you did all of it today⁉️

Randomly picking a verified by @aral post every month, to make a donation
https://mastodon.social/@ahmedosama/115214075663553050

@aral same underneath, but classes don’t behave exactly the same as just switching the prototype. I don’t remember exactly now what finally annoyed me, but I encountered some behaviour that was unexpected in a code base with classes, so I flipped the table

Has anyone ever write something on how programming languages shape, or should shape the way you think about programming? I would call it the philosophy behind a language design.

I’ve never designed a language myself, but I (used to) get joy from playing with different languages because of the above

Take classic JavaScript for example, the discovery that I could pass functions as values not only changed the way I thought and wrote programs, but also the kind of things I value when choosing a programming language. It’s not just a feature, but a tool of thought.

Same with prototypes. After doing a bunch of PHP thinking in terms of prototypes instead of classes felt simpler, easier to hold in my head. So imagine my disappointment when “classes” where added to JavaScript, I ran away from the language. There wasn’t a philosophy anymore, but a pile of features

Is plant based protein powder particularly disgusting?

I just arrived from the gym! I should be looking forward to this ⬆️ I’m not 🤢

Ewww that was difficult

And I have to do this every morning? 🤢

I suspect now they gave us vegetable protein for breakfast at school instead of milk because I’m having terrible flashbacks

Actually, is here something like this in any European city? I’m willing to fly!

Is there a place in Oslo where I can go dancing the hits of the late 90s and early 2000s? 😅 Yeah like and early-millennials nostalgia club. And that hopefully the party is done before 22:00? 😂

Maybe this should be my business as free the LLMs kick me out of the jobs. If there’s something that early millennials share is the nostalgia

“Coder” always reminded me of the term “CAD monkey” which is widespread in disciplines like Architecture. In school we were told we should aim to become an Architect, not a CAD monkey. The architect was the author, the folk with ideas, the monkey received the ideas and modelled them in AutoCAD.

Now here is the catch: in my (short) experience, you only realise issues with the design when the monkey starts to work. Turns out this and that structural elements don’t align, turns out that space is smaller than what it should be, specially if you want it to look like on the sketch. You could think about that process in terms of “waterfall”, which programmers know to be faulty because design and implementation are not a linear process, they are related in a feedback loop, and that loop gets shorter if the architect becomes part CAD monkey and vise versa. You want a short loop because you want to keep the creative flow going. You design something, you try to implement it, you realise it won’t work, you go back and improve the design or throw it away. All this happens in a very messy and lousy defined way, because, well, brains are fascinating

Something that I like about the down of LLMs is that I’m seeing more discussions about what programming is. Previously it was mostly about code, to the point that “coding” and “coder” are widely used, and that made me nauseous

On the racism behind choosing Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project, and how 6 generations later, people keeps dying of cancer. As if I needed more reasons to be heartbroken. The audio is in Spanish, but the transcript is in English, so come on, join me in my despair https://radioambulante.org/en/translation/state-secret-translation

«It showed that, when there is non-promotable work to be done, women volunteer to do it 48% more often than men.

But they also found that men volunteered less because if they waited, they knew that a woman would volunteer. In all male groups, they had no trouble getting volunteers. If there were no women there, men volunteered just fine.

The even more interesting part was that, when managers were asked to choose someone to do thankless work, they asked women 44% more than they asked men.»

Now I’m pissed https://www.noidea.dog/glue