Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

Do you post to a non-fediverse social network in addition to posting to the fediverse? Please boost for reach (or not, I can't tell you what to do)

everybody wants to be good at programming but nobody wants to suck at programming for 5 years so they can be good at programming

As it’s that time of year:

"How does AI impact my job as a programmer?": https://chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/how-does-ai-impact-my-job-as-a-programmer/

This is a brilliant piece told from the perspective of a Computer Science teacher.

It really hits in all the right places and mirrors a lot of my issues.

I appreciate the pragmatic approach of not fighting but letting folks see how it fails on interesting problems.

The article does not hesitant to point the finger back at the programming culture itself.

infohazard heuristic: if it gets over 20 reblargs and updoots it's a psyop

If AI was really as good at satisfying literary whims as some claim, I would even now be holding in my hands a copy of Shakespeare's _þe Lamentable Tragedie of Saruman þe White_.

Q: Where can I find old API documentation on your website?
A: Those APIs are obsolete and should no longer be used. Use the latest documentation only.
Q: How can I migrate my code to the new APIs when I can't check the old documentation?
A: ...

The reason why catgirls dislike Java, is because they have vertical pupils, and thus need to rotate their head 90 degrees to take in the long class names.

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"The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them"

Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, I have brain cancer.

I built a working, scalable, proof of concept library of shared alt text with fuzzy matching.

I'd like to connect with the #accessibility dev community. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

Wondering why I urgently need to retire my MIPS-based Debian box, it turns out to be the fault of Rust... and LLVM, and Debian. Sort of, anyway: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/08/msg00201.html

I understand the local decisions of each project. But the emergent outcome is nuts: that whole classes of hardware are deemed obsolete (in some specific way) just because optimising compilers -- you know, the things that are supposed to help make software faster/smaller -- have themselves got too huge.

https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

Guard your tongue against evil and depraved speech.

👆

Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, @brewsterkahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/internet-archive-stands-firm-on-library-digital-rights-in-final-brief-of-hachette-v-internet-archive-lawsuit/

there needs to be someone out there who is a leftist who gets genuinely offended when you dead name Facebook and Twitter