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The Economic #Benefit of #Refactoring
https://martinfowler.com/articles/expl

#cornell

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to write much longer essays as punishment for their behavior. “Upon reviewing the disciplinary action we took toward the seven Chi Phi brothers who allegedly gang-raped a student […]

"‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange

‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science
Powered by sun and wind, the uncrewed vehicle will collect data to help Australian scientists better understand how oceans absorb emissions

Why is .config/ in git repositories not a thing? As an XDG_CONFIG equivalent to move .vscode, .zed, .forgejo away from the repository root, that would be pretty nice.
#git #forgejo #gitea

Donald Trump refused to rule out demolishing the Kennedy Center without the consent of Congress.
Amid the ongoing high-stakes legal battle over the institution’s name and proposed renovations, the president told Time:
“I’m not committing to anything.
We’re going to see how it plays out in court.”
He added: “But if I build it, and if I agree that for the rest of my life, I’m going to be putting up $100 million to have it open to people … then I think the Trump adminis…

Trump doesn’t rule out sending ICE to polling sites; US supreme court to review policy to detain immigrants challenging deportation – live
Justices will consider whether immigrants have a right to a hearing to determine if they should remain detained while challenging their possible deportation

There is no Cloud, just other people's AI training repository.

Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion

Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Model Repository Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. The move will put Nvidia in charge of a strategic asset in the race among open-source model developers to ...

RE: https://meow.social/@rive/117364748117275281
The man who first introduced me to the word "enargeia" is a rapist and I might have another era where I post radfem things everyone here already knows too much just to feel sane

That #restrooms

The Restroom Archive
The Restroom Archive is an ongoing repository of publicly accessible restrooms.

Al wat ouder (2024) maar fijn paper over AI & Software engineering/coding. Zowel voor "believers" als totale sceptici 🙂
"tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00764

tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE
Social media provide a steady diet of dire warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) will make software engineering (SE) irrelevant or obsolete. To the contrary, the engineering discipline of software is rich and robust; it encompasses the full scope of software design, development, deployment, and practical use; and it has regularly assimilated radical new offerings from AI. Current AI innovations such as machine learning, large language models (LLMs) and generative AI will offer new opportun…