If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.
Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.
Texas has purged about 500K eligible voters
Oklahoma has purged about 193K eligible voters
Nebraska potentially changing its Electoral count to winner take all so they all go Red
Georgia is requiring 5-6M votes be counted by hand
Red states have closed more than 100,000 polling locations in Black/Latino neighborhoods
This is how Republicans are working to steal the 2024 election https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-republicans-are-working-to-steal
The common use case of code smells assumes causality: Identify a smell, remove it, and by doing so improve the code. We empirically investigate their fitness to this use. We present a list of properties that code smells should have if they indeed cause lower quality. We evaluated the smells in 31,687 Java files from 677 GitHub repositories, all the repositories with 200+ commits in 2019. We measured the influence of smells on four metrics for quality, productivity, and bug detection efficiency. Out of 151 code smells computed by the CheckStyle smell detector, less than 20% were found to be potentially causal, and only a handful are rather robust. The strongest smells deal with simplicity, defensive programming, and abstraction. Files without the potentially causal smells are 50% more likely to be of high quality. Unfortunately, most smells are not removed, and developers tend to remove the easy ones and not the effective ones.
Coming from a fanfiction background, two things trouble me about the standard anti-AI copyright discourse.
1. Blurred rhetorical lines between copyright (a legal construct) and creators' moral rights to their works;
1a. in a way that implies creators have an infinite moral right to control derived works.
2. An implied belief that putting more law on it will always empower rather than endanger independent creators.
Ian Rose
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Dan Hon
jonny (good kind)
Anil Dash
Lotographia
anya
Greg Wilson
Betsy. (a muffin).