@joshbressers Today my company #wontfix-ed a bug report for a proprietary library similar to the hypothetical in your OSS podcast 456 "What if XZ happened..." In our case, AWS Aurora (proprietary postgres wrapper) skips rows containing valid double precision float (IEEE 754) that it thinks are too small (subnormal) or improperly serialized (trailing zeros in scientific notation), despite #postgres handling these quirky values just fine. Imagine skipped rows in an RBAC table... @kurtseifried
@SpaceLifeForm Fortunately not. It spits out the row numbers and field name for the IEEE 754 values that are incompatible with its Fractional data type (it's equivalent of a double). @joshbressers@kurtseifried
@vkblackwood Definitely, every day, many times a day. It makes me more observant of human interactions and coincidence knowing they might become part of a story. It makes me a better listener. Life and humans just seem more meaningful. And it makes me a better story-teller and teacher in everyday conversations, even on Mastodon ;) And it helps me write better software, better variable names and more explainable patterns. @Nichelle
@darnell I hope you're right. That would be one brave judge if Merchan was willing to jail a presidential candidate. He'd likely get quickly sanctioned and even emergency-injuncted (is that a thing?) by the SCrOTUS if he did. End of his career as a judge, but maybe the start of Merchan's career as a politician.
@hpr @kevie 's review of the #rPi 5 was extremely thorough. They even ran Tuxcarts and #LibreOffice on it. And i like the comparison to comparable "competitors" (n100).
@pluralistic Loving your latest book _The Internet Con_! But I can't find the TikTok logo in the **quadrants of evil** chart (upper right corner), p.36, or "off the charts" on the inside back cover. Am I missing something?
Background: The text mentions that TikTok is "off the charts" on the inside back cover. The inside back cover is a blank page.
@Brendanjones That interview with CEO is sales not analysis. No reason to believe any claims. Obstacles that remain before making it economically, environmentally *and* mechanically sustainable? Material properties? How do properties change with wear, weather, and stress? Has it been vibe/earthquake/life tested? How much more expensive will the first batch be? What is its price/strength/life right now, out of the lab? Why isn't it selling itself?
@DarkoV@apps I wish there was another level of soft-mute like the "#mute for 7 days" option, that would randomly allow a bit of "other" #perspective to penetrate my #bubble. A recommendation #algorithm, I know. But one that I have control over.
@jxself@evan I think you had it right the first time. OP's just happy to see that others feel they share some responsibility for affecting the climate with their personal actions
@rickrau@mdyshel yall need to switch your servers. #mastodon.social has to shut down his server (family illness) and it doesn't seem like he has the time+energy to hand off the domain name or server
FOSS fanatic. #emigratingASAP #USDiasporaNeed to find some place where my living and tech expenses don't support #enshittification. Trying to build teachable, private, virtual assistants that actually assist.Aspire to practical #utilitarianism.I'm doing a good job avoiding the make-money / do-good tradeoff by not making any money ;) #AmWriting NLP in Action (tech #nonfiction) and Artificial Agenda (#SpecFic #SciFi)