Notices by JD Long ✅ (cmastication@mastodon.social)

gosh, I have to go to Minneapolis this month. I hope it's doing being burned down by the time I get there.

Also art…

Art.

JFC, not this shit again.

From: @arstechnica
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113001822455882505

Son of a…

Google: unsafe at any speed

@joranelias they’ve lost their fucking marbles.

This is the way.

Stay away from my emotional support CNC machine.

From: @emilygorcenski
https://indieweb.social/@emilygorcenski/112497343947183317

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@inthehands well shit, I’m not the only person to figure this out 🤣

@inthehands I do “indignation driven development” by producing shitty prototypes that make good devs indignant. Game recognizes game ;)

🔥 AI igniting the fire of indignation in a learner. Solid pedagogy. 🔥

From: @inthehands
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/109491316523726437

I’m sure I’ve read before that “floating point math is not associative” and my eyes glazed over. And I know that floating point math IS deterministic… i.e. same numbers in = same result every time.

I spent a week understanding why a Spark job was not deterministic. The crux is that in Spark, values are spread across workers in a non deterministic way. So then the order of numbers fed into math operations varies from one run to next. Which makes output non-deterministic.

Everyone: I’d like a dishwasher that washes well, is durable, and is trivial to use by everyone in the house

Manufactures: Why won’t users install our dishwasher smart phone app?

The fetishization of apps for things that don’t need apps reminds me of the pictures I’ve seen of advertising in the 50s where everything was “atomic!” I don’t want an atomic dishwasher app. I just want clean glasses.