Nevkontakte
@me@m.nevkontakte.com
Lawful neutral. Definitely not a cat in a hat. Opinions are of Cthulhu. what/why.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
Why are so many C developers self-taught? Because C doesn’t have classes!
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
“AI” enthusiast: i have made a chatbot that answers your questions
Software developers: you fucked up a perfectly good search engine is what you did. look at it. it's got hallucinations
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
🌹i just got the best pop up I've ever received on a website, on @stefan 's website
Icon For Hire is kind of like Falling in Reverse, but with good vibes. Both are good music though.
How come every time I come across a cool metal band, it's swedish?
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 8 months ago
Я случайно потратил всю ночь на то чтобы написать узкоспециализированный пост с аудиторией где-то в сто человек, и теперь все мои соцсети узнают об этом: https://medium.com/@kojoru/how-to-set-up-merge-queues-in-github-actions-59381e5f435a
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 8 months ago
It occurred to me today that the social value of the open-source work I do in my free time has probably been an order of magnitude more useful to the world than everything I've ever done as a paid employee. Needing to seek a wage almost certainly makes me a less productive member of society than I would otherwise be.
A delusion data-driven companies seem to develop is that any complex product can be represented with a single, easy to interpret SLO.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 8 months ago
In Soviet RPG NPCs romance you.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 8 months ago
This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
We are the GPT. Lower your shields and surrender your datacenters. We will add your chat messages to our training dataset. Your culture will adapt to engage with us.
AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Codium, etc.) are great. They help us spend less time writing boilerplate code, which has always been annoying.
What worries me though is that they will make us more accepting of the boilerplate code, despite not helping with reading it. And personally, I read code a lot more than I write it, so the equation would be rather unfavorable to me.
Designing efficient, concise, expressive APIs is a lot of effort, and AI assistants nullify the short-term payoff of doing so (i.e. you won't have to write verbose code). And humans notoriously undervalue long-term payoffs.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 8 months ago
Hey lovely Mastodon folk. I've just released an HP-35, HP-45, HP-80 simulator called HP-1973 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HP-45 calculator. (Free) standalone versions for Mac and WIndows (no need for any Python installation or knowledge) & Python source for Linux. It's been a coding marathon, so it'd mean a lot to me if you could boost this post, so it gets in front of the right people. Download here: https://sarahkmarr.com/retrohp1973.html Enjoy. #retrocomputing #calculators #python #coding #rpn
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 8 months ago
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 9 months ago
Screw "this meeting could have been an email".
What about "this YouTube video could have been a blog post"?
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 9 months ago
Do I know anyone who has changed their name by deed poll in the UK while having only a BRP/ILR (not citizenship) and a foreign passport where name cannot be changed?
Please RT for reach!
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 9 months ago
How do you spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest...
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 9 months ago
i support the lgtm community and approve their changes
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