We literally do not have the time to keep it simple.

@Kierkegaanks

credit:

https://mastodon.xyz/@johl/112059833912513751

@johl

@juliaferraioli WHAT.

portraits of the week

@bynkii @grimalkina @MartinVeart I look at this from a core team at a company where our decisions cause consequences to the devs, this is so true. It's easy to say "make the change and they will deal with it" but if all the core teams decided to do that on top of the stuff the business side can push them into it's a recipe for disaster. Sports teams take psychological tests but outside a direct manager I don't think any company I've worked for has ever genuinely asked the devs how they feel.

@yvonnezlam Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote (@kevlin) … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.

Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

{
  "user_id": "282657081457115136",
  "predicted_gender": "male",
  "probability": 0.8413839340209961,
  "prob_male": 0.8413839340209961,
  "prob_female": 0.11650349199771881,
  "prob_non_binary_gender_expansive": 0.04211260750889778,
  "model_version": "2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z",
  "day_pt": "2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC"
}

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint _over time_! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

This week's discursive thread about magic, AI, and the tricks that language plays on us has been worked into a new piece over at The Interconnected. I suspect it won't be the last…

https://theinterconnected.net/eaton/incantation/

Apple’s attention to detail is INSANE. You can’t watch this and not smile.

@robdaemon If you’re in Python, that’s what TYPE_CHECKING is for.

@simrob But I always forget and have to look it up every time I want to type it out.

@simrob Wayback Machine says it’s been TypeScript as far back as 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20121002110941/https://www.typescriptlang.org/

They should rename Chief Technology Officer to Chief Migration Officer.

Similarly, I wonder if having aphantasia makes memory tricks work less well for me.

Dune is a spice opera

This explanation on Dorsey and Bluesky makes a lot of sense: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bluesky-is-building-the-decentralized-social-media-jack-dorsey-wants-even-if-he-doesnt-realize-it/

@zenspider I guess?