HalvarFlakeSo a few pieces of tech I would prefer to never work with again:
NodeJS, ElasticSearch, and Kibana.
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@matthew_d_green welp, at least we now have a functioning asset registry!
@antifuchs wishing all mechanics a swift "no nut November"
@sarahjamielewis hullo, I'm a sweng on Vancouver Island. Used to go to ORG meetings and never really dropped the "it would be nice if this wasn't owned by one person" mentality...
It is pretty strange that the underlying idea of the paperclip maximizer is applied to a hypothetical non-existing AI, instead of the existing global system that already maximizes for a similarly strange metric without accounting for externalities.
Jeroen Ruigrok van der WervenHappy I stopped buying books from Amazon years ago.
Order through your local bookstore, folks!
I've been asked about this a lot, so let me provide a quick FAQ.
Q: What's the nature of the issue?
A: Anyone who has bought my book from Amazon in the past few month hasn't bought a genuine copy, but a lower-quality counterfeit copy printed by various fraudulent sellers. https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1545477711321186305
François Chollet on Twitter
“For instance, if you go to the page of DLwP2 on Amazon, you see that it's being sold by a 3rd party seller named "Sacred Gamez". If you click "buy", you won't get the actual book from Manning. You get a low-quality counterfeit printed by the fraudulent seller (from the book PDF)”
@meena 💯
I still use the FreeBSD handbook and OpemBSD man pages even though I now work at a Linux shop.
`man x` just doesn't cut the mustard. Even worse is how often `apropos` fails to find anything helpful 😭
tanteReplace every article about Elon Musk with an article about someone fixing/maintaining important infrastructure. A person repairing buses. A person repairing and tweaking wheelchairs. A person tending to a community garden.
@loveisanalogue I think yes, but you have to look over a 3+ generations.
There are times when the standard of living, life expectancy, etc. declines, but history is long and we always seem to get better in the long run.