rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

"LLMs are helpful with boring, repetitive work"

I can't help wondering if, in the long run, the better strategy is to address the repetition?

"kids these days don't know how to fix anything"

Kids these days have never in their lives encountered anything that was meant to be fixed rather than thrown away.

Cars are responsible for thousands of deaths each year, thousands more serious, sometimes life-changing injuries, all whilst polluting our air with asthma-causing and carcinogenic particles - if any other consumer item caused this much damage, it would be banned.

Misread "composable" as "compostable" in a programming context, and now I want to throw all my functions in a pile and turn them over with a pitchfork once in a while.

Pebble alphabet by Belgian typographer and designer Clotilde Olyff

#alphabet #typeface #typography #ClotildeOlyff #design #pebbles #stones

But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

Every single IT platform / service / software package is objectively worse now. Nothing has been improved in the past 10 years.

We need a world symposium on pockets. It will establish standards for the correct size and capacity of pockets, share manufacturing techniques to ensure they don't turn inside out when you're pulling something out, introduce treaties to make fake pockets illegal, and so forth.

It may be triangling outside, but I just finished my first willow basket of the winter!

Looking forward to making lots of these this winter - I love love love that I can make something useful with stuff that grows prolifically in the woods on my farm and one single tool (clippers).

Of course, I can't possibly sell them for a price that makes it worth my time, so I'll just be giving lots away as presents and storing everything in my house I possibly can in baskets...

Buses should be free to use, or at least unreasonably cheap, and be paid for by people who insist on driving cars.

3/6

#3011 - Europa Clipper

There has never been a war on motorists. But we need one now. With no quarter. Planet ruining, noisy, mass murdering petrol head scum have had it coming for years.

The rising popularity of "brioche bread" for everything from burgers to hot dogs to toasties just shows how much we are addicted to sugar and processed food. Bring back proper bread that doesn't taste like cake.

If you get angry at how much train drivers earn, rather than getting angry at how little you earn, you're part of the problem.

(I have to say that, if you listen to the popular 'Rest is Politics' podcast, you cannot help noticing that its presenters, while by no means billionaires, are consuming air travel at an absolutely astounding and grossly irresponsible rate.

We REALLY need to adopt the Swedish practice of #Flygskam into anglophone culture!)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190718-flygskam