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I'm wrong on the internet, mostly about wrestling with computers in general but especially about programming.
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My name is Benny, for we are lesions.
| Pronoun | Donkey |
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The Public Domain ReviewBernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland, originally published in 1917, is a stunning six-foot-long map that depicts the worlds of various myths, fairytales, and folklore on one single landscape: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland/
GlyphIt FEELS like it works because that's the target of its optimization function. The term "bullshit generator" is both colloquially and precisely true. It's a big expensive gradient-descent optimizer and *the metric it is optimizing* is PLAUSIBILITY. It is fooling you because it is DESIGNED to fool you, and that is the one thing it's good at. It's an infohazard. Thinking that your critical thinking skills are so good that you are too smart to be tricked *is a risk factor for letting it trick you*.
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Reg Braithwaite 🍓@jasongorman Myth:
"Old programmers are afraid of change."
Empirical Fact:
"Old programmers have experienced more changes than you've had hot breakfasts, and anyone who couldn't handle change has washed out long before their 50s.
"Survival biases towards embracing change, not avoiding it."
Computer Factslisp you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. they’ll kill you
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AstraKernel 💫Someone has created a webpage to show how long since somebody released a Minecraft server written in Rust😄
dayssincelastrustmcserver.com
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Andy AlderwickTIL why (in British English) we don't use a dot after the “St” short form of “Street”.
The “t” in “St” is *not* the second letter of “Street”, but the sixth. So it's not an abbreviation (like “Prof.” for “Professor”, “etc.” in “et cetera”, etc.), it's a contraction (like “Dr” in “Doctor”, “Mr” in “Mister”, “St” in “Saint” and so on) and contractions don't have a dot.
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I assumed it was just a weird English thing, but turns out I found the only language feature that's entirely consistent 