@jkohlmann@mastodon.social2026-03-13 16:58:32
Why would a company pay you to come up with the same solutions generated by a chatbot?
The answer is, they don’t want to pay you! It’s that fucking simple!
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-03-11 15:42:04
from my link log —
U 237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW is a symbol for azimuth.
https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html
saved 2026-03-11 …
@puhuri@mastodon.social2026-03-11 17:15:20
Why has the world's first hydrogen double-decker fleet failed?
(Answer: battery EVs are much more economical, simpler, and do not rely on single complex refueling station.)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv6e5l588jo
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-05-09 14:07:12
One thing that really annoys me as a cyclist and as a walker is, when a cyclist approaches from behind and trys to pass..
Next to a street with traffic,
with wind,
with a voice volume that's more like a shy cat.
And THEN getting angry if I don't give the space to pass!
Guys, you - are - NOT - audible!! And I have really good hearing!!
Either
- shout as if it's about your life or
- buy a simple bell (magic!)
- live with the fact t…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-08 13:53:55
I’m not sure what sets us up to have better LMSes, but I don’t think institutions building them in-house is a viable answer.
One long-successful direction I like that has been gaining ground of late is course-specific web sites. I’m cheering the rise of static site generators, and hoping they continue to creep outside the confines of the techiest among us. A course site is not an LMS, but moving course •content• mostly out of the LMS simplifies the problem considerably!
/end
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-05-08 01:24:51
Ask why, and know the answers are unsatisfying and contingent. It made sense at the time. Because we didn't understand yet. Because changing it would certainly break something else and we didn't know what yet and didn't have time to understand it. Yet.
Computers can be understood. Everything that is going on can be peeked at, prodded at, taken apart to know what is going on. Inside every complex system are simpler parts. The complexity comes from the combination of them, not mystery.
I cannot emphasize that enough. Just because you don't know, or nobody you know knows why something is how it is does not mean it is unknowable.
@villavelius@mastodon.online2026-03-10 07:06:14
"What is a nanopublication really?" – by Rohitha Ravinder
https://medium.com/@rohitha0112/what-is-a-nanopublication-really-413cac6da0dd
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-03-28 16:03:27
No they want your DNA to track you.
Folks, have you seen GATTACA?
▶️ U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-bord…
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza2026-04-08 16:33:39
Working on an #opensource project can be strange sometimes.
Personally, the strangest is seen when people want something changed.
Some peeps simply ask. (Yes, do this one)
Some get extremely angry that it isn't already like they want and demand it be changed.
Some people try to pay for the change.
Some try to guilt you to make the change by saying other…
@david@boles.xyz2026-04-29 11:34:29
The States That Will Not Be Commanded
There is a class of human experience that answers to no direct order. You cannot tell yourself to fall asleep. The instruction arrives at a locked door. Sleep refuses the simple transaction of command and execution. Instead, it assembles itself once certain conditions are present, and those conditions include, strangely enough, the act of picturing yourself already inside the state you are trying to enter.
