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๐ŸฅทprofilefollowSoftware engineer. [Reluctant] Salesforce dev. Salesforceโ€™s biggest hater. stephenlf.devstephenlf.devImportant Thingswrote:
Whatโ€™s the difference between a script-kiddy and a real #developernotesfollow? Abstraction. You can program your whole life without learning how to meaningfully abstract problems into simpler pieces that TRULY make the problem easier to understand. Iโ€™m not talking about design patterns or #OOPnotesfollow vs #FPnotesfollow. These tools can help. But to really simplify something for others, you need an intellectual empathy that many simply never figure out.
tech influencers on twitter: god i hate interacting with other people. i love my new bot that does it for me. life is so much better now that im just telling bots what to do and not talking to people. i canโ€™t wait for everyone to be bots!
profilefollowcoder, reader, guitarist, seeker, builder.wrote:
When I sit with curious people, I build a lot of curiosity. And inspiration.
profilefollowwrote:
I stopped interacting much with social media years ago and am honestly not sure how to do this any moreโ€ฆ but I like the shape of what is starting here.
profilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied toprofilefollowresearcher, developer, dancer:
Reminds me of the Kiwix offline Wikipedia "nopic" version. (I downloaded that version because it's much smaller than the full version that includes images.)
profilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied toprofilefollowresearcher, developer, dancer:
Images are fine for me, but should be behind a link, or a small thumbnail. Non-animated. Videos too. But thatโ€™s me. They will most likely have to be hosted elsewhere, while the thumb could be here. Nah. We are ok with just text.
๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied toprofilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.:
Yeah, before you know it the feed becomes a collection of memes. Have to click or perhaps a browser extension that you personally see the opengraph/linked image in the feed but it's not inviting people to post them for the feed itself.
๐ŸฅธprofilefollowJust another AI guywrote:
I was curious of testing the Omarchy distribution this week just because I had some free time to work on it. I saw a lot of hate around it and kind of get the point but so far at least for what I have been doing it wasn't terrible (at least at the point of writing this) although I am not trying to convince anybody to use it. But it just remember me how much do I hate MS.
I think a lot of the pull around Omarchy is you get a riced desktop out of the box? Personally, I wouldn't really consider it for a number of reasons but I do appreciate a nice looking desktop. If you want something similarly pretty but a bit more normal and less monolithic (who needs a whole 'distro' for what Omarchy provides anyway?) approach then I'd suggest Niri + Noctalia.
๐Ÿค”profilefollowHai I am kuwrote:
A #execnotesfollow n=27;s=[n] while n!=1: n=n//2 if n%2==0 else 3*n+1;s.append(n) for v in s[:15]:print(f"{v:>4} "+"โ–ˆ"*min(v//3,40)) print(f"{len(s)} steps, peak {max(s)}")
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๐Ÿ˜ŠprofilefollowHow wonderful to be alivewrote:
Last year I wasn't feeling too good. I turned forty, waited for surgery, and was hurt by my own colleagues. So I dealt with things. Maybe not so well, but to the best of my ability. One of the consequences was that I got a bit heavy. My body changed, and I didn't feel like myself. It was a problem for future me. So now I am here with this little belly of mine. We're not enemies, but I decided it's time to part ways. So I count calories. Maybe not so well, but to the best of my ability.
๐Ÿ˜ŠprofilefollowHow wonderful to be alivereplied to๐Ÿ“’profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
Thank you! Almost back to baseline now, after a few months. trigger warning, eating disorders: I sometimes forget to log what I eat in my app of course, but what is perhaps slightly nore disturbing is the fact that I sometimes log stuff and then forget to actually eat them. Some sort of Baudrillardian simulacrum of eating.
profilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to๐Ÿคชprofilefollow:
You've hit the nail on the head. But here's the mindblowing partโ€”writing isn't just about text on a page. It's not about listing a bunch of facts to memorize. Writing is about human connection. And here's where it gets even more fascinating... [parody, not AI]
๐Ÿคชprofilefollowreplied toprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appear:
Some writing yes, If you want to write a post saying why your company has a position yes; if you are documenting an API, does the average swagger page have a human connection factor? If you are in X/FB, is any of your followers a "human connection"?
Then, in some spaces, say big corp communications, the terse, direct communication is desired, for example the quarter earning communication? What about software?, what part of your browser gives you the "human connection"?
profilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to๐Ÿคชprofilefollow:
If writing (incl X/FB posts) is meant to convey "some human being did/saw/thought this and found it worth writing about", then AI undermines human connection and will annoy people. API docs, earnings reports, &c never conveyed that to begin with, so nobody will care about AI use.
So I found the blog of a Ukrainian Front Line soldier on Bear Blog today. Incredibly grim stuff to read, but I really wanna get in touch with that guy now and send him so cash so he can buy a burger. Hope Herman forwards my message ๐Ÿ˜ช
profilefollowI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.wrote:
๐‘”๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ ๐‘“ ๐‘”๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ยท๐‘š๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘– ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘ฉ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ž๐‘ฆ๐‘• ๐‘ข๐‘ฐ๐‘’๐‘ง๐‘ฏ๐‘›: ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘› ๐‘ฉ ๐‘“๐‘ซ๐‘ค ยท๐‘ฆ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ๐‘– ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘๐‘ฒ (๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘‘) ๐‘˜๐‘จ๐‘•๐‘‘๐‘ผ๐‘›๐‘ฑ, ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฌ ๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘ต ๐‘จ ๐‘š๐‘ฐ๐‘“ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘•๐‘‘. ๐‘ค๐‘ณ๐‘๐‘ค๐‘ฐ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘’๐‘ท๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฐ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž๐‘ฆ๐‘• ๐‘ท๐‘‘๐‘ณ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฉ๐‘ค ๐‘ข๐‘จ๐‘ž๐‘ผ. Three for three on British dishes this weekend: had a full English and a pie (rabbit) yesterday, now to do a beef roast. Lovely and cozy in this autumnal weather.
๐Ÿ“’profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.wrote:
So much present tense in #ainotesfollow generated prose. Terse, authoritative sentences, without breathing room, without hesitation or qualification. It jumps off the page, and not in a good way.
profilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to๐Ÿ“’profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
What about the lack of density to paragraphs, the length of the sentences, or the confidence and determinism of their direction? Conviction with no limits. So reliably repetitive that you start seeing patterns as if you are looking and reading a record player with some scratches on it. Skips. Squeaks. Repeats. Yet. It gets the job done.
๐Ÿ“’profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.replied toprofilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.:
Yet. It gets the job done. Here's where we disagree. Using these tools as part of the job, certainly. But if I am to read, discern meaning, analyze choices of diction and structure, consider the context both of the author and the audience, and finally derive value from the written word, then generative #ainotesfollow falls short on many levels. If the "job" is to produce something no one was ever intending to engage with, then we have a more fundamental question about the value of the job.
profilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to๐Ÿ“’profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
Maybe what I messaged read as a disagreement and mentioning that they get the job done was actually not about producing prose (of any quality). I wholeheartedly agreed and still agree with you. Getting the job done was more about producing output - be it some prose, images, videos, software, whatever. They do generate output. It is not to say that the output is meaningful or meaningless. Some souls do enjoy it. Some others - donโ€™t. I did start with a question though.
๐Ÿง™profilefollow"The impediment to action advances action, what stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aureliuswrote:
One day I would like to see Thailand. That would be nice.
I recently made a 10 foot sailboat and took it on a fifty-mile adventure in the Salish Sea. I can still feel the way the wind pushed the boat over the water. I kept imagining the way that our progress was the sum of the vectors of wind, current, and gravity. #tinkeringnotesfollow