🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

@izaya i see... well, good luck with that 👉

@izaya oh yeah, how is that novel going? haven't checked back in a while

@lj qoto has groups and I guess it has circles as well, but I don't really use those features

@Pat I was confused by Biden saying the United States has signed on to the "One China policy". apparently China, Taiwan, and the US use a similar term here to mean pretty drastically different things ... in terms of who's in power

Asia -Pacific geopolitics I'm general is loopy af

I recall sometime back seeing a conversation about NASA and climate science where one person was arguing that #NASA shouldn't be doing weather and #climate research but should focus on #space travel. I knew were wrong, for a number of reasons, but I didn't know many details about how agencies work together. This podcast has some details.
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NASACast Audio: Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 84, NASA’s Role in Weather Research

Episode webpage: http://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/small-steps-giant-leaps-episode-84-nasa-s-role-in-weather-research

Media file: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/audio/episode-84-nasas-role-in-weather-research.mp3

Neat benchmark for vision and language models called VALSE:

summary video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=humlomyUB_Q

paper: https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.567/
#ai #machinelearning

@tsturm yeah...I guess we're talking about different things? if I'm looking at something funky and say so, it's the opening to a conversation on whether we can develop something better. no decrees. sometimes the result is we stay with what we've got, but with a better understanding of why we've got it. sometimes we make plans to reorganize so we can do things we couldn't before (or stop doing things we don't like).
For instance, on a project I was working on, we kept re-implementing this logic to pass events and data up and down UI component hierarchies, creating a lot of boilerplate in the process. There was a "right way" to do that within the framework we had, but what we really would have benefited from was two-way data binding a la React or Vue. The "smell" in this case was the hinky boilerplate code.

@trinsec ah. forgot that aspect. haven't used fb in ... years now🤷‍♂️

@IzzyOnDroid@mastodon.technology
are you sure about that smiley? it's most often associated with trolling in my experience, so maybe not consistent with the message...
@EU_Commission

I hadn't thought about it, but I'm really glad mastodon didn't opt for labeling "follows" as "friends". it's really mainly a Facebook thing, but even on Facebook, I think the label has too much baggage. so many "Facebook friends" I have that I probably couldn't pick out of a lineup these days

@tsturm that's a hot take😄
use of the term "code smell" can be opinionated, but it's not necessarily illegitimate. there are definitely things you see in code that aren't necessarily wrong in local context, but typically indicate patterns that are less efficient than if you refactor this or that. if you're experienced you get an intuition for those things before you can exactly name what's wrong, which is what I call a "smell"