@mntmn Just two seconds ago I ran reform-display-config on this machine so I can use the projectors at matrixconf in two days so... just let us know how that goes, ok?
@foone I would sometimes like to be able to turn on something like “student’s syntax highlighting” in a language I don’t know, that simply explains the operator or form I’m mousing over to me like it would to somebody who doesn’t know the basics yet.
Genuinely loving the idea that somewhere out there somebody is being radicalized, right this second, by the fact that their phone can't talk to their sneakers.
Watching myself talk is always agonizing, but Carol is such a great speaker and her team's research on code review anxiety and what you can do about it is so good.
Anxiety around code review is an absolutely pervasive part of the experience of being a developer on a team, for people of any degree of experience, and it doesn't need to be that way.
@aral One of the consistently good, consistently inspiring things about this field is how often a significant advance or insight, something solves a real problem, also turns out to be something that a competent undergrad could implement for an assignment.
Maybe industrialized computation is just a byproduct of ignorance.
I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/
@yhancik@darius The old thinking was that you should be rotating your gender every 90 days for security reasons but that’s proven to be an ineffective approach. Modern best practices are to use a unique and complex gender for every interaction, to avoid repetition and store them in a secure gender manager. This makes it easier to change genders when one relationship is compromised, and protects you against gender-stuffing attacks.