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mhoye

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Ludonarrative dissident, liminal space mercenary, lapsed pragmatist.

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Microsoft paid money for this. A lot of money. And they gave it to us for free.

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Kid had her first taste of dodgeball today.

I honestly didn't know that this was a real thing. Figured it was one of those made-up-for-cartoons American School Things.

I am doing a big FFS atm

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@KCDOZ @ifixcoinops do not do American football and do not let your kids do American football

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A slide from a presentation I just finished.

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"Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine."

I got to see the early demos of this and it is jaws-on-the-floor bonkers wizard magic. Entirely local - and good - translation with no cloud service and like 6MB of storage per language.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/

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One thing that constantly surprises me is how many people believe that maximizing shareholder value is some sort of legal or moral obligation, not an ideological convenience made up out of whole cloth by an economist in the 70s. What's elided in this article is that Jack Welch called it “the dumbest idea in the world.”

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/04/25/how-shareholders-jumped-to-first-in-line-for-profits-rerun/

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That is just not true. See:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/13-354.html

"While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so."

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Write a long reply to a long, involved post.

Pull down the screen a bit so you can re-read the post you’re replying to.

Pull down a hair too far. Trigger a reload.

Lose the reply I wrote.

I want to keep using Mastodon in a browser but this is killing me. Ok, off to file a bug.

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@SpaceLifeForm mobile, iOS

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@SpaceLifeForm yeah, it sort of looks like this:

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@SpaceLifeForm the whole pull-down-to-refresh thing is great everywhere except when I’m replying to a post, and then it is doom.

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@Gargron @SpaceLifeForm

I’m 100% ready to believe you, if you say this is a unsolvable Apple/WebKit problem.

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Most CS degrees have students do a "traffic light" exercise at some point: build an model of an intersection, run the stoplights.

Those lessons sometimes ask questions like "Are there pedestrians in your model? Maybe bikes? How about buses? Exactly who lives in the neighbourhood, do they relies on public transit? Et cetera.

A question I like to ask students, that always gets a lot of uncomfortable silence is: at what point do these decisions stop being software, and start being public policy?

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@meejah The best thing I've seen in that vein are lights that turn red when they detect cars going over the limit. Really puts the pressure on traffic to stay nice and chilly, not get excitable, everyone just keep it together and it's going to work for everyone..

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Re-upping this again: I wish more lefties could internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're being hypocrites. That you are bound, by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some fundamental moral consistency, anything at all, and they are not? That is their conception of what power is, and why they seek it. So they can exercise power, without constraint, and you cannot.

That's the whole point.

Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.

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I felt this in my teeth.

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This is a great writeup of a DB corruption bug and its detection and resolution. Much respect to Claire, these "things that should always happen in the right order have happened in the wrong order because of some particular set of extreme conditions, with surprise downstream consequences" bugs are absolutely the worst. "Let's reason backwards from effects to causes, with the caveat that causality maybe sometimes doesn't exist" is so hard.

https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-vivaldi-social/

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