Lee Ann @jamoche@wonkodon.com
Mac dev from back when you had to do it on Lisas. vmxpat, OSP burnout club. Scale miniature furniture. Cats. she/her
Joined Nov 2022
Lee Ann
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I’m worried about the military escalation between the US military and the fundamentalist Gulf petrostate with the terrible human rights record regarding women, gays, and foreigners.
But enough about Texas.
Lee Ann
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#TheOnion absolutely knocking their coverage of #IsraelPalestineconflict out of the park, as usual, and skewering the broadsheets in the process: https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-stands-with-israel-because-it-seems-like-yo-1850922505
A satirical comedy site provides better balance than most newspapers. That's the universe we're in. We'll be wearing our shoes on our heads before long.
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Earlier this year, I was shown an AI-written blog post about "How To Make A 32 Bit Wine Bottle." About 80% of Google search results are now AI-written blog posts, but this one's notable, because it's a great illustration of a failure mode unique to LLMs.
The chatbot that wrote this repeatedly gets confused between "wine" (the drink) and "WINE" (the Linux thing.) It attempts to mash these topics together and does so with grammatically plausible sentences that are, however, complete nonsense.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230103091313/https://www.slowine.com/how-to-make-a-32-bit-wine-bottle/
@grynspan I remember those. I had this one at Apple back when I was a Javasoft employee - it was my property but someone slapped an asset tag on it anyway. Rules were laxer back then :)
@carstengp I was at ParcPlace, we used it for tracking down Smalltalk garbage collection and other memory bugs.
Remember the Jasik Debugger? If you had the kinds of bugs it was good at debugging, it was the only choice available. But the interface...
Met him once, asked about that, he basically said it worked the way he thought and seemed a bit surprised that there was even a question.
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Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"
Devs:
@MateodelSol Real life Leverage scenes. I'm all for it.
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@ceejbot objective c: you still miss Smalltalk
@drahardja Also I left out that the code does weird things which you suppose the author had a reason for, but are actually why it's failing. Like safety glass, looks strong, hit it the wrong way and boom.
@drahardja It's always been code I inherited...
Is there a name for the design antipattern where the code works for 99% of the cases, but that last 1% is critical, and you can't fix it without a total rewrite?🔥
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Sad and lovely.
CW: dog death
Source: https://secondlina.tumblr.com/post/727175492054188032/hiveworks-comics
Accidentally expanding your NSView size by 1000x is an amazingly good way of stress testing your app.
@kayleesdevlog
Well I used to stan for catturd
Made the saps pay for blue checks
Sucked up to the worst of Twitter
And I changed the name to a capital X
@kayleesdevlog Now I'm looking at Nine Inch Nail's "Capital G" to see how well it could be filked to "Capital X"
Mac dev from back when you had to do it on Lisas. vmxpat, OSP burnout club. Scale miniature furniture. Cats. she/her
Joined Nov 2022
