Mastodawn

Of course programming is art, ask any programmer the range of emotions they felt looking at someone else’s code that one time.

David Majda May 1

Kvůli novému blogu Anna Štádlerové jsem před pár dny málem zapomněl na oběd:

https://poznprekl.cz/

Zejména první post je moc hezká sonda do překladatelovy duše, zajímavá i pro někoho, kdo problematiku překládání běžně neřeší.

Takže #ff pro @anna a díky @zoul za upozornění.

*Poznámka překladatelky

Poznámka překladatelky — glosy o literárním provozu v České republice.

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David Majda Apr 7

In fact, if you squint a little, you can think of most spaceflight as just a complicated sequence of orbital transfers.

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David Majda Apr 7

Watching the video, it’s funny to realize that to fly to the Moon, you actually put the spacecraft on a highly eccentric Earth orbit.

David Majda Apr 7

Curious what the Artemis II trajectory to the Moon looks like — and why? Here’s a nice video about it (also includes Apollo 8 and Artemis I):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQ7MoL7erI

Lunar Orbits Compared

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David Majda Apr 7

Johannes Ernst Apr 3

Wow. I don't think the US tech industry has quite grasped how big this is.

https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/

Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds

EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

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David Majda Apr 1

With more and more security vulnerabilities discovered using AI, I think it’s time to update Linus’s law:

“Given enough tokens, all security bugs are shallow.”

David Majda Mar 30

I feel like I’m currently oscillating between stages 2 and 4.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/the-five-stages-of-losing-our-craft

The five stages of losing our craft | Debugging Leadership

Last Tuesday I was on a coaching call with an engineering manager. Let's call her Sarah (because that's her name). She was describing a situation I've now heard about forty times in the last twelve months. Her most senior developer, a guy with twelve years of experience and very strong opinions about YAML indentation (2 spaces, obviously, he's not a monster), had just refused to use Cursor. Not "tried it and didn't like it." Refused. On principle.

Debugging Leadership

David Majda Mar 15