I’ll admit, I was skeptical of Tears of the Kingdom being too Minecraft-y when I saw the first trailer, but the building and physics engine somehow work within the context of the game somehow?!
Oh, heck yes, car safety ratings should definitely take into account people who aren’t in the vehicle: https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2023/05/26/32-congressmembers-including-rep-jayapal-urge-adding-walking-and-biking-safety-to-vehicle-safety-ratings/
Blog post I don't have the energy to write: production engineering has to be forestry management, not wildfire response. Many organizations fail to understand this, and as a result don't understand why staffing more firefighters doesn't seem to help.
Reminiscent of the Law of Concur, where the system benefits a group of users that aren’t the ones actually using the product.
RE: https://universeodon.com/users/siderea/statuses/110459723091822954
It’s always so fascinating to me to see natural experiment cohorts formed from unrelated causes.
Someone was posting fascist nonsense in work Slack, so I had to fix it:
I'm tired of waiting for industry organizations to respond to AI issues. Working draft of my own is here: http://neil-clarke.com/ai-statement/
Rust: The wrong people are resigning
https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/42da9378768aebef662dd26dddf04849
What rang in my mind is: "a system is what a system does"
-- https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/
I wish every fucking tech worker would internalise this already.
Systems. Do. Not. Care.
I used to work at a camera store some 20+ years ago, back when film processing was still a thing. If I'd delivered prints this poorly exposed I would have been banned from running the printer (if not fired for incompetence)
A solar powered, e-ink bus stop sign with real-time bus times. This is a very good combination of neat technologies.
Got a Bluesky invite to try it out. Surprised at how much it really is a Twitter clone. Somewhat disappointed that there’s no innovation at all other than the underlying technological architecture.
oblique strategies for programmers:
hardcode everything
do repeat yourself
you probably don’t need that
optimise early, it’s fun
try a new language feature
maybe you can do this entirely with tags and filters
try turning your program inside out
restate the problem
the naïve algorithm is probably fast enough
it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission
it is easier to correct a wrong program than to write a correct program
create a new programming language for this
That is one of the wildest stories I've read recently about programming languages.
A C lexer in 200b is something that didn't even cross my mind.
English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').
TIL that there’s a neovim plugin for VS Code! https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim
Might be worth looking into again…
Everyone: the racist, sexist, violent system has failed us
Tech bros: idk, it works on my machine
Can we revel for just a moment in the beauty of this exchange?
SHAPIRO (host): OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
DAVID SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that? (😂 😂 😂 --tempest)
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.