Notices by Mark Gardner (mjgardner@social.sdf.org)

@tyil @atomicpoet I have bad news: it’s a self-contradiction to create an open system with the principle of keeping certain elements out.

Don’t bitch about stuff getting through your imaginary wall.

@atomicpoet IMHO that’s orthogonal to the issues #SCOTUS is deliberating over the #TikTok ban law. But it’s hard to separate that from the way some people are acting like the town council in ‘Footloose.’

@jwz I'm sorry. I understand now that your original question was rhetorical.

@jwz I was trying to give the obvious answer that I know you know already, because I've seen you tilt against other shoddy insular software projects the same way

@jwz The API docs are crap and the only source of truth is the source code?

*Very* damning indictment of #GitHubCopilot as a professional-grade #programming tool from a former core #FreeBSD team member and current #LLVM and #IoT developer.

https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/113690087142854474

My favorite bit:

> “It’s great for boilerplate!” No. APIs that require every user to write the same code *are broken*. Fix them, don’t fill the world with more code using them that will need fixing when the APIs change.

#AI #LLM #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #coding #debugging

From 1962–1976, #AynRand published a series of periodicals containing dozens and dozens of nonfiction articles by herself and others. Many were later anthologized, but many more were only available in bound collections from the Ayn Rand Institute.

But now you can get discounted paperback editions from Amazon! https://amazon.com/dp/B0DPJCLFGN?binding=paperback

Here’s an excerpt from the very first article, appropriately titled “Choose Your Issues.” https://NewIdeal.AynRand.org/an-excerpt-from-choose-your-issues-from-ayn-rands-bound-periodicals-now-in-paperback/

#philosophy #politics #Objectivism

The best aspect of #Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized…

The Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only “commercial greed” could afford to give us.

One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle.

—#AynRand, December 1976

#MerryChristmas #GoodWillTowardMen #capitalism

@Radical_EgoCom I'm muting this thread now as I mutter something about an argument with someone who buys electronic ink by the barrel.

@Radical_EgoCom Yeah, she did. Why would she be against social welfare? https://courses.AynRand.org/lexicon/welfare-state/

(I'm getting tired of doing your research for you.)

@Radical_EgoCom Thank you for watching the video. That's an interesting interpretation.

@Radical_EgoCom “The person who made the video"?

It's a one-minute clip of Ayn Rand *herself* answering the question. "What do you reply when someone says to you, 'You hate the poor and disadvantaged, don't you?'"

It's a primary source. Why settle for my interpretation?

@Radical_EgoCom @mcjevans Why should I do that? It sounds like a waste of my time.

If you're interested, you'll watch it. If you think it's a waste of *your* time, then we can draw our own conclusions about your actual interest.

@Radical_EgoCom @mcjevans I’m sorry about your projections of things that aren’t true. https://youtu.be/cTgYWcViJk0

@mcjevans #AynRand’s essay titled “What Is #Capitalism?” (1965) beautifully explains the connection. You can read it for free here: https://ari.AynRand.org/issues/government-and-business/capitalism/pov-what-is-capitalism/

If you prefer listening, that page also links to audio and video presentations of the version she edited down as a lecture.

You can also find it in print in the 1966/67 anthology “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.”

Let me know what you discover!

#Objectivism #philosophy

@jwz Godwin in one

@BeAware OK zoomer 🙄

@BeAware (laughs in quinquagenarian)

@BeAware it you

@dan_the_architect @lisamelton The Venn diagram of “#Fediverse is not #Mastodon” and “it’s actually #GNU / #Linux” people is a single circle