Obligatory "Happy Friday the 13th" message from me and all the Jasons
jasonkarns
@davetron5000 gotcha. i didn't think it was gone, but there was some kerfuffle a while back around the developer or licensing or something. happy to hear it's still functioning.
@9to5Mac why don’t they just put tvOS in a home pod? Single unit
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I'm trying to audit a website but all I can do is stare at fucking loading spinner because there's something wrong with the JavaScript.
Using client-site rendering for a regular non-application like website is a sign of incompetence because you don't know what's best for your users.
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"Ruby’s commitment to whimsy feels almost revolutionary, punk, even"
Source: https://stevengharms.com/posts/2025-06-07-the-delightful-art-of-rubys-impenetrable-naming
@timcappalli it’s not. That car’s from 2009 still trying to get home
@davetron5000 can i ask what you were last using for docs while on macOS? i've never recovered from Dash going away and haven't found a replacement. (this right here is me looking "hard" :| )
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today in input validation errors: cannot submit a form with my address because my zip code “must contain five digits”. My zip code starts with 0.
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"it's hard to get good estimates."
"Yes, and rightfully so! You have a very chaotic way of working with many delays, waits, and unpredictable 'bounces' between departments. Let's change the system to make better estimates possible."
"No. We want you to guess better."
@elight gotta have something for the cpu to do as everything is moving to the gpu
TIL github stopped rendering markdown in Issue titles 😡
So now strikethroughs are no longer a thing, which has added _ALL KINDS_ of confusion.
fucking github
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“It is very very disturbing that your response is always to lie.” https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
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StackOverflow is doing their annual survey. Now is your chance to vote for Ruby and hopefully improving Ruby's ranking; and counteracting the "rUbY iS dYiNg" nonsense.
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Hierarchy of Needs
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It’s 2025 and I can’t sign up for a T-Mobile free trial because their form doesn’t think that a two character last name is a valid name. 🙄
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We urgently need a strong Global #PlasticsTreaty that drastically cuts plastic production and holds polluters to account.
Add your name: https://act.gp/3H6Ga4q
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"Even though Google is fundamentally a spyware advertising company (some 80% of its revenue is advertising; the proportion was even higher back then), we Engineers were kept carefully away from that reality, as much as meat eaters are kept away from videos of the meat industry: don't think about it, just enjoy your steak."
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Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."
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