@[email protected] @[email protected] omniscience vs. the right to data deletion could keep a lot of lawyers rich for a very long time
Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
Peace and joy to y'all. And merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate!
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@RolloTreadway @eleanorrees @afewbugs After I had to call out the fire service because, you know, my house was on fire, I got a customer satisfaction survey in the post a few days later.
But, yes, would definitely call again if house was on fire.
so, yesterday your local badidea had a "nervous system cut out for a moment there" incident and shattered her macbook pro.
I was horrified and furious with myself beyond belief, but the good news is that a helpful young man at The Phone Lab in Gelderlandplein, Amsterdam resurrected it with OEM parts in just under 24 hours. A little ship of theseus'd, but the motherboard survived. (He kindly transplanted my lid stickers for me, though now they're upside-down...)
I apparently dropped it so hard that it woke up thinking today was April Fool's Day in either 2021 or 2027.
@[email protected] Hope you're managing to recover - reality connection glitches are right up there on the not at all pleasant scale.
Michael Newton
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Coding is a lot more fun when you don't have to keep jumping around to check you've used exactly the right names for things. Which means we're constantly trying to up our game with the VisualInk editor to make the suggestions it gives as fast, context aware, and accurate as possible. Today we've rolled out intelligent suggestions for asset names and divert targets as you type!
Michael Newton
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Scovilles per large adult son
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Used Theremin
Like new. Never been touched
@[email protected] If you ask the wrong type of pedant, they'll tell you (for even more confusion) that it's only a whetstone if you use oil on it, otherwise it's a water stone. "don't oil up that water stone, and especially don't get the whetstone wet!"
@[email protected] of course, this is the same school of pedantry that will try and tell you that you're using the 'wrong' names for types of swords as if there's a central historical authority rather than each author going 'I'm gonna call these ones long because I feel like it'.
it's quite funny how "whetstone" comes from whet, to sharpen, but is also often wet, covered in water, too
whet your tools with a wet whetstone
@[email protected] If you ask the wrong type of pedant, they'll tell you (for even more confusion) that it's only a whetstone if you use oil on it, otherwise it's a water stone. "don't oil up that water stone, and especially don't get the whetstone wet!"
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Interested in quickly prototyping your #ink based #interactivefiction or #visualnovel? We're starting to look a pretty decent choice, with collaborative editing sessions and (if you're logged in) instant shareable "play" links.
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That feeling when you realise tab didn't complete the filename you thought and that you've just tried to open a 30gb file on a USB drive in vi over an ssh connection.
Michael Newton
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Animals with misleading names
There's this weird moment in refactoring code, when after hours/days of redesign, changes, and testing you bask in the glow of a job well done and all the improvements you've made... before running the code and seeing absolutely nothing different in how it functions from the outside because that's what refactoring means.
I suspect that people making physical components with care and precision that they know will never be seen, and will be noticed only in the absence of problems coming from them, most have a similar experience. You feel pride in the job well done, but it is also somewhat anti-climatic when you look at the finished product.
There's this weird moment in refactoring code, when after hours/days of redesign, changes, and testing you bask in the glow of a job well done and all the improvements you've made... before running the code and seeing absolutely nothing different in how it functions from the outside because that's what refactoring means.
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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
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The ADHD experience of setting an object on a surface and it clipping through the universe's bounding box and disappearing.
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Michael Newton
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One reassuring thing about debugging very large amounts of autogenerated code is that the fourteen thousand errors I'm seeing here are actually just one error.
Probably.
I think.
I hope.
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Three bugs appear.
“Ah, with my senior software developer senses I detect these are in fact not three separate bugs, but a single bug manifesting in different ways. A greener developer would have fallen into this trap and spent all day chasing shadows!”
*7 hours of struggling*
They are three separate bugs.
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Three bugs appear.
“Ah, with my senior software developer senses I detect these are in fact not three separate bugs, but a single bug manifesting in different ways. A greener developer would have fallen into this trap and spent all day chasing shadows!”
*7 hours of struggling*
They are three separate bugs.
@[email protected] @[email protected] see also: a greener developer would assume that this is obviously a bug in the compiler because the behaviour is so inexplicable, but my senior software developer humility teaches me it is surely my mistake
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