Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

— E. W. Dijkstra

#computer science

That's maybe the worst thing about AI generators: In a way the whole system is set up to gaslight you into believing that you wanted what it created (because otherwise the magic goes poof).

"The Copilot Delusion" by Jj https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

"You’re not working with a copilot. You’re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph."

Infinitely quotable. I wish I could write like this.

The next big idea will be a site where you can find valuable, non-AI links sorted by category.

We could call it "Yippee!" or something like that.😌

It's concerning to me that this """ethical dilemma""" comes up so frequently regarding self-driving cars. Does self-driving mean *never slows or stops*? Are self-driving cars all designed after the bus in Speed?

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#Zend #PHP

"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.

Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.

That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.

@djumaka Looks like WordPress CS have a phpcs sniff for that. https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards

Dmitry Stogov is leaving @zend in two weeks and is looking for other opportunities. He's the driving force behind the JIT implementation in PHP (both the original one in 8.0 and the new one in 8.4), among many other features, bug fixes, and security patches too numerous to mention.

If PHP (and especially JIT for PHP) are important to your business, you should reach out and talk with him.

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/126804

#PHP

This blog post touches my reality in ways I can relate to. "The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective"

People often ask me what I do all days working full-time on a product that to them seemingly does the same thing now it did already ten years ago (at least). Maintenance is the gift that never stops giving.

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/reality-long-term-software-1892

Very proud of my teammate Guido Faecke for writing this detailed post on PHP logging best practices.
https://www.zend.com/blog/error-logging-in-php

#php #zend

Forget pomodoro technique. You ever set your timer to amount of songs/albums you’re allowed to listen to before stopping? Measure time with albums?

“Brush your teeth to The Cardigans’ Carnival. Minimum one full play.”

“Okay, you got one full listen to Lil Kim’s Not Tonight EP to get in and out the shower. No instrumentals.”

“If you play Brainiac, NIN, Dismemberment Plan and Coheed’s first 2 with no skips, you can drive from here to Oakland with no problem.”

….yeah. You should give it a try.

Stole this from lemmy, but I like the idea original link: https://lemm.ee/post/55667473

I have been playing around with running PHP through WASM, mostly to see how we can enable more extensions for the one that runs in the PHP documentation.

Following up from our latest @thephpf developers meeting, where we discussed improving the @php website, I made a little prototype of a PHP version of the Go tour (https://go.dev/tour/welcome/1) — unlike Go's, this one runs the code in the browser!

I am hoping to turn this into a comprehensive introduction into PHP.

#php #documentation #wasm

So many of you need to learn that "person complaining about something" is not the same as "person asking for advice".

It's baffling how foreign that concept is to many people, especially on here.

Do something good today and set up a monthly tree subscription for my charity Protect Earth. We’ve got 8,000 trees planted last month in the Lake District which need sponsorship, and loads more coming when we’ve cleared those.

Yes, sponsoring one tree a month does really help us keep doing what we do. Doing five is even better if you can swing it but I love you either way.

https://shop.protect.earth/

Gulp, just $917 to go

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

@karen
Will any type of donation be matched or just those from the Sustainer option?

oh my gosh, last day for the @conservancy fundraiser, and we still have $23,213 to raise! Every penny makes a difference. Help us spread the word! I'm going to be here all day, answering questions and trying to fundraise "NPR" style! Let's talk software freedom, SFC, @outreachy, copyleft and anything else you want to ask!

And here's that link:
https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Help!! I think we can do it!