Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de), page 9

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@unixsmurf My job is easier than yours, for sure. 😊

Kernel driver development will see less benefit from assisted code writing than py+js CRUD app glue.

@log I have read and heard accounts by women on fedi, on blogs, on podcasts, who pretty much said they ended up in Open Source instead of Free Software because Free Software just had this glaring spot of misogyny at the center. The Free Software movement as a whole would benefit from the FSF cleaning up its act.

As for the FSF, the FSF would be able to collaborate with OSI, FSFE, SFC etc as peers instead of being isolated.

@report_press

@hypolite That's fair, and I agree.

I try to enjoy this technical feat in isolation. All credit goes to the engineers and other staff involved, who are making net positive contributions to humanity in spite of their founder and any misconduct by the company.

*takes berries out of the fridge*

- Are these bad? No, they're still good actually, I should eat them today.

*places box on kitchen workbench*

*afternoon, evening, night and morning pass, berries out of the fridge and on the workbench*

- Ok, now they're bad.

@sun If someone prefers and has capacity for righteous anger rather than ice cream, I respect that and just hope they'll respect my capacity for engagement and what indulgence I need to keep it sustainable. If their anger fuels the founding of an ice cream van that is more just and that I can enjoy with slightly better conscience, even better. 😊

I don't have the energy or executive function to even do my laundry as often as I would like to, much less keep track of all the injustices I'm contributing to as part of my everyday consumption of goods and services.

I do pick a couple of things to promote or boycott, and a couple of causes to donate to, in the hopes that I'm ever so slightly pushing the needle in the right direction. I can't fault someone for picking other things or more things, if I generally agree on their point of view. One of my life goals is to be a grumpy old man, as long as it's not full time.

Sounds watchworthy! It got 5 series too, so must have been pretty popular.

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@adamhsparks @skinnylatte

Ok, that #SpaceX #starship booster landing on the launchpad tower chopsticks was ridiculously impressive, what the heck.

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You remember these glasses from your last trip to #France, I guess. Here’s the interesting story: Duralex, the manufacturer, was heading for liquidation. Investors that wanted to buy it existed, but they wanted to fire a lot of employees. So the court agreed to a different solution: create a cooperative, make Duralex workers owned. Now give them a hand and buy their glasses instead of the typical IKEA stuff, ok? :) https://eu.duralex.com/en-eu/collections/all-our-products

#Duralex #cooperative #WorkersUnited

HK Canto loanwords from English: "friend", "order", "lunch" ... the only one that is simply a different pure-Chinese register is "fei" for ticket, which I can't figure out how it would be a loanword.

AmeriCantonese91: "Hong Kong Cantonese versus Guangzhou Cantonese"

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#hongkong #guangzhou #cantonese

@sun If the thing helps you, it helps you. Whether it reasons is not important for the applied use. "Stochastic parrot" is commentary on the reasoning aspect.

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
-- Edsger Dijkstra

@mdhughes Yeah we've removed the idea of macros because upskilling developers increases developer cost.

@sun

It's a collective action problem, where we should upskill everyone, spend more effort on our reusable code etc, but it's cheaper for each actor in the system to push the cost down the value chain and the one at the end of the chain pushes it into the electrical budget.

@sun

@sun I saw a GitHub person demo CoPilot at an internal event my employer held, and I admit that it could cut down on a lot of typing, but I can't help thinking that:

1. It's mostly boilerplate, and all this boilerplate indicates that the languages we use and the libraries we write in them just aren't expressive enough.
2. The typing is usually not what holds us back. Maybe in greenfield experimentation.

I'm already seeing IntelliSense and stuff like that help people reduce how much attention they're paying to the code, and it's allowing e.g. spelling mistakes propagate through the codebase unnoticed. I expect further assisted code writing will only make this worse.

I know it’s not simple to follow the money, but figuring out where it actually comes to rest may prove…illuminating.