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Great moments in software engineering
Newfoundland, ca. 1000 CE: A bug in the Google Maps route-planning algorithm at high latitudes causes Leif Eriksson and his crew to miss Greenland entirely. They instead become the first Europeans to reach North America. They name the place "Vimland" in honor of a text editor sacred to Odin. Emacs-using natives soon attack the Vikings on several Usenet groups.
The “why don’t we use AI to…” pitches are beginning to come in hot & heavy.
ebooks are garbage. how do you spill coffee on the page. what about paper cuts. how can you develop a bond of trust with the book if theres no injury at stake
wink posted Mar 31, 2023
One thing I've not yet fully grasped is how propagation of emojis works, I mean as someone not using Mastodon it's clear that it probably wouldn't ever, or is at least not fully implemented. But still, seems to be an oddity.
Back when Raquel Vélez was my boss at npm, inc., she had a name for when somebody would give you an ill-defined task and then would get upset when you didn't do it "right."
She called it "Bring me a rock." When I asked her what that meant, she would say "Bring me a rock... no, not that one." It was a pretty clear example.
She recognized quickly that I hate, with all of me, "Bring me a rock." It's the least good game.
Anyway, was thinking about that tonight.
Everybody should use that.
bsdcan mask policy
The final mask policy is posted on https://www.bsdcan.org/2023/ .
This policy will keep folks as safe as possible, including many (but not all) folks with more risk than average. It won't make everyone perfectly safe, of course, so if you have small kids or are immunocompromised or anything like that, you should watch the live stream and hang out in the IRC.
But BSDCan is about community, and a community protects its weakest members. I'm proud we were able to firmly defend our peeps.
Thank you, @lorenzofb, for the touching, sweet tribute to @aloria https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/22/kelly-aloria-lum-passes-away-at-41-obituary/
Everyone should read David Notkin's remembrance of Nico Habermann from time to time. Students come first.
Convincing a Google exec to buy all these generative AI's
So that the entire project can be quietly killed after ~ 3 years
Along with every other thing that Google has ever touched