Reflecting on all the times in my career as a software engineer I have been told that, yes, things were a bit unfair to me as a woman, but that I was being a trailblazer, I was the one discovering and establishing the path that would enable others to follow.
But you go back to the 70s and you see the same number of women programmers, being fed that exact same line
And in the 80s
and the 90s
and so on to today. The "trailblazer" narrative is a lie told by managers to make themselves feel better
Git won't track empty directories (because at heart it only tracks files). Common advice is to add a '.gitkeep' file so the directory isn't empty and git will make the directory.
EVEN BETTER ADVICE: put a README in the directory explaining what the empty directory is for and what will eventually be there.
@mjdxp @0xabad1dea SEO garbage is a real problem, but I don't think something that is capable of making up plausible sounding text, that is disconnected from reality, is the best solution.
I'd much prefer something that only ever surfaced text that has a known, live source I can check, both to be sure it is actually there, and to check the surrounding context.
Feels like LLMs are crowding out better solutions to some problems.
Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".
I shall demonstrate!
(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)
"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.
You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]
In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."
Every now and then I make the mistake of of posting something on Mastodon that really should have gone on the blog first. This is one of those, from last week. It did some numbers. Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine". I shall demonstrate! (Not linking to OP, because it's trash.) "Let's pretend you're the only person at your ...
Hey All, I made a header only C++ library where it's 1 line of code to init, then you can start writing to pixels on the screen.
I call it thirteen.h, as it is inspired by the simplicity of the 13h days.
Examples include a mandelbrot viewer and a playable mine sweeper game.
MIT licensed.
Human and sex trafficking are real problems but the US response has largely been to protect men like Epstein or Robert Kraft while prosecuting and making life more dangerous for sex workers.
It's also used to drum up support for racist closed borders and anti-immigration policies even though it's migrants, not US citizens, who are the most frequent victims and blocking asylum seekers puts them at heightened risk.
Manuela Malasaña
Jason Lefkowitz
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demofox
Nowhere Girl