GenX, autistic, agender transfem dyke. Goth and aspiring musician/artist. At least as feline as the profile pic implies.
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Last Notes npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S As you mentioned, "there are certainly languages that have provided some mechanisms for dealing with boilerplate". Where the languages don't provide them, workarounds have been available, from the snippets you mentioned in Textmate, to increasingly sophisticated code-generation features in IDEs. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S This is where I get stuck, through this line of reasoning: why is boilerplate not widely regarded as a symptom of bad language design? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Excellent bit of advice, that. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Same: a preface/foreword would enable you to call out the racism and factual errors in the original work. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S He was using ChatGPT as a storage environment for entire finished articles? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Maybe it likes you, and it's checking in on you. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I love the way the multimeter's just sitting there with capacitor innards all over the side of its casing, like it's about to let out a resigned sigh, then wander outside for a cigarette. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Gentle reminder: the abyss is for staring into, while the void is for screaming. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Never mind moral compass; at this point, it's just self-interest. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S With what criteria, or to what purpose? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S John Carpenter. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S That's gorgeous! npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Isn't that a water tower? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S The same is true for political power. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S It's a law of nature, as far as I can tell. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Because they really, *really* want that training material for facial recognition and image-generation systems. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S OK, I'm never going to remember the name for these, but those carvings over doorways in the British Isles, of women doubling over and holding their vulva open? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Yup. In the early '80s we had BBC micros in my intermediate school, and we were taught Logo on Apple ][e machines in high school. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Yay! Can't wait to see the whole thing. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Not even vaguely. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S The dot-com bubble was a gold-rush, driven by the greed of founders and investors. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Common Lisp. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S CL's pretty stable. Somewhat retro, too. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Alternative question: what is the *actual* intended purpose for all this computing power? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S For the record, I'm in the other camp. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Technically, tho... npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Ah yes, the world of visual and tactile art has always been a bastion of political neutrality, reserving its focus strictly for the aesthetic. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Having lived in both Amsterdam and London: yes, that would also hurt pretty badly. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S If I thought I could cope with the cold, I'd seriously consider it. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S That it was. Sorry about derailing it. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S True, I guess. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Sysadmin! Of course I look for the failure modes. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Or they'll always be bad, but almost certainly one or the other. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S That was excellent, too. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Predator 2, in the yautja ship at the end. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S This does not sound good. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Thankyou! npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I can't tell whether this photo belongs in a textbook, or a fine-art auction catalogue. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I believe not. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S It's when she laid out the twin effects of glacier-melt that the lightbulb went on for me. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S That makes an unpleasant kind of sense. Damn. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I loved dancing zombies in the Thriller video clip, so why not? :) npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Nah, one to block. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S "I think it's just another kind of rain, one with a lot of fine hailstones." npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Sorry I don't live up to your exalted standards. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I think some fear is justified, in the face of a ruler and administration prone to lashing out at anybody standing up to them. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I think AI's main value is in being a holy grail: we'll never actually attain the goal itself, but it's led us to some interesting things along the way. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S TCP over MIDI CC npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S The founder is also aggressively transphobic, FYI. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S True. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S This is exactly my take: an awful lot of fascism boils down to taking things away from other people. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S An older (pakeha) relative in Rotorua just emailed me photos, calling it "a marvellous thing." npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Funny. That doesn't look like indifference to me; that looks like systematically ensuring there aren't any new Palestinians. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Are there many in your circles who aren't white cisgender men? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Adventures with Google's creepiness on Android continue: I found an entire new section of settings, where I have to tell it not to "learn from this app" - individually, per app. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Demonstrating that there's plenty of magic in science. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Is he not already pretty much out of the picture? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Often. I feel like I've scrambled my way to a good place in life, only to look around and discover there's an entire network of people setting fire to the future. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I've heard rumours that it's called emacs :) npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S And that's why I make a point of referring to myself as an immigrant, in that context. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I like it. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I love the way you've used it here. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S What recorder? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S The part about German being the other language. I was informed in very clear terms that it was a blend of Latin and Frisian. TBF, Frisian is pretty English-like, and there's been a lot of exchange between (normal) Dutch and English. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Say that around a Frisian, and you'll be corrected sharply about the "German" part. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S The dagger-footed angrysaurus does not want to be your friend. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I'm one of the people who talk smack about them. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I'm hearing a rhyme with "I'm too intelligent to be racist/sexist/*ist" here. npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S Weren't they more of a Boomer thing? npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S "Guess I'm gonna have to buy the White Album again..." npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S :Alan Rickman voice: *Miners*, not minors! npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I'm guessing he'd just look at you for a moment, then ask "*that* is what you have questions about?!" npub1fm6ky5dz8aalklk2g7y2yh4g79usv78ka9exql48hga07nxknssq9wp5es Kat S I'm just going to start blocking people who say "bullying (people I don't like) is good."
