The McDonalds self service terminal requires up to 30 button presses before you can pay. Burger King requires half of that. My main argument against speech controlled tech, is that physical buttons are faster. They fixed that. They made the buttons slower.
Peter Tomlinson
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The thing that annoys me the most about modern technology or hardware. Is all the slow interfaces. Touch buttons that takes forever to register. Or menus that takes for ever to load. Try and pause a YouTube short. It takes forever. Also. When will they introduce actual buttons back into cars? Or is it lost like the headphone jack? Any recomendations for appliances that doesn't feel like it has to install node before turning on? #enshittification #technology #kitchen #cars
I don't think AI will replace programmers. It's just another abstraction layer. Like C is to Assembly. However. This new abstraiction layer is hidden behind paid subscriptions. Becoming a self taught productive programmer might be even harder in the future. And I think it will become even worse when the industry becomes more dependent on/experienced with LLMs. On the other hand. The graphical industry has suffered paid subscriptions the last 10-15 years. And they still get juniors..? #software
Hank Green has the good store. A store for selling fair trade coffee and soaps and stuff with proceeds going to charity( I think). How about making the bad store? We sell weapons, host gambling sites and cash in on all things bad. Yet the proceeds still goes to charity. Like carbon tax on your nefarious purchases. #thegoodstore #hankgreen
People are talking about regulating prediction markets. Because a lot of the bets can be predicted with insider information. Isn't that up to the gambler to decide if they'd like to lose money that way? #predictionmarkets #polymarket #finance
Today I found out that #Jira doesn't seem to have a feature for searching up non-blocked tasks. What is it even good for if it can't easily tell me which tasks I can do!?
Extended search is a paid plugin if you have more than 10 users. Why sell drugs if you can sell basic features on enterprise software market places...
Nate GaylinnIt's also kinda funny how with Computer Science research, questions about the phenomenon under study just seamlessly blend into debugging.
What's going on? Is the thing I'm research doing something unexpected? Oh, maybe there's just something wrong with my code. Or... maybe both?
Using a debugger, it seems like requests might have issues with urlencoding tildes.
Does anyone have any tips for analyzing http traffic in Python? A GET call with requests results in a 403 by the server while httpx gets a 200. Postman also gets a 200. I'm suspecting there is something requests does wrong with proxy redirects (303). But without knowing each step it takes it's impossible for me to find out
I'm really enjoying teaching/onboarding a student/intern at work. Went through pyodbc. Which has the function connect(connstring, /, *, **kwargs). We spent a good half hour wondering why connect(connstring=mydsn) didn't work. Do you know what the "/" in the function parameters means? I didn't. #python #programming