I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.

to quote an old tweet of mine:

Put the date in your paper. Put the date in your pastebin. Put the date in your blogpost. Please, the date, put it.

Beware the ides of march.

i want something like the death note except if i write someone's name in it then the internet goes down for them

I'm non-binary which means I have to compile my gender from source

Pov: you're watching me steal the Shogun's cat

To have a viral post on Mastodon is to be confronted with a long series of people asking the exact same question or providing the same “well actually” response, for days, because of the limits of federation. They simply can’t see those other replies. Sometimes they see *no* ofher replies, if they’re on a tiny server.

The experience isn’t great! As with customer service, it can be hard to remember that this isn’t actually the same person over and over again.

Client side validation isn’t. Please stop.

Yes, this. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell

The best #GameDev advice I've read in a long, long time.

I'm going to get "A game succeeds when it fulfills its promises." tattooed on the inside of my eyelids.

Article by @farawaythyer https://farawaytimes.blogspot.com/2023/02/how-to-make-good-small-games.html

Cricket wants enchiladas. #CatsOfMastodon #cats #cat #BlackCat #Caturday #FeedCricket

So. I once gave a talk about what software engineers can learn from air crash investigation (online/pre-recorded). This talk is close to my heart and I'd really like to do it again, in front of a live audience this time. Does anyone have venue suggestions? I need a minimum 35 minute time slot, so my beloved code4lib is not an option. (I worked very hard to get it down to 30, and only managed 32:30. I could easily go longer.) It's programming-language-agnostic. Ideas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0P3AUznSPU

Adulthood is realizing that if anyone's going to build a better world, it's people like yourself, trying hard.

The FTC has started a new Office of Technology! Now they're hiring technologists to power their investigations: https://ftc.gov/technologists

* Remote work possible.
* Pay is amazing by non-tech-sector standards (up to $176K).
* Blessedly simple application process.

Get in there!

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accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie