Code generation tools fix the problem of software development being slow and expensive in much the same way that faster cars fix traffic congestion.
– Jason Gorman på Mastodon – Link
Højt og lavt
How unfillable is the hole in your soul that one could be the literal richest person in the world and then be upset that America has an agency that helps the poorest in the world?
– Dare Obasanjo på Mastodon – link
For nemt at være vanskelig
Cynicism is the cheap seats. It’s the fast food of intellectual positions. Anyone can point at something and say it’s broken, corrupt, or destined to fail. The real challenge? Building something better.
The cynic sees a proposal for change and immediately lists why it won’t work. They’re usually right about specific failure modes — systems are complex, and failure has many mothers. But being right about potential problems differs from being right about the whole.
– Joan Westenberg: We Don’t Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
Slider
Via Angus McLooping på Mastodon – link
Indgroet ubehag
People learn to use terrible UI all the time. It’s not good to dismiss complaints about UI, because that’s insular. And the insular quality isn’t very welcoming.
But email remains a dominant force in communication. If email were invented today everyone would have to use gmail or not be able to email someone not on the same service. A few crazy people would talk about “open email” and try to get people to try it.
– Mymepropagandist på Mastodon (link)
En rejse mod nat
[…] much like the Brexit vote in the UK, Trump’s election victory confirms that right-wing culture is the new mainstream. Even if he had lost, again much like we saw with Brexit, that this was happening at all was evidence that the mainstream had shifted.
– Baldur Bjarnason: The Counterculture Switch: creating in a hostile environment
En til en
Fairness is to reality as horses are to pickles.
Mary Frame: Netdelicious
Scam of the times
AI keeps promising phrenology machines.
– Amy Castor & David Gerard: Whoops! Microsoft leaves alleged AI gender detector running, years after saying they switched it off Pivot to AI, November 2024
Som tårer i regnen
Vast swaths of video games made for obsolete systems are unplayable memories.
-Adam Rogers: We’re about to enter the Digital Dark Ages (businessinsider.com)
Igen og til sidst
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
– James A. Michener: Chesapeake (1978)