WTF is going on at Microsoft?
Their 365 Word Online fucks up a Word document beyond recognition while LibreOffice displays it just fine 😅

@0xabad1dea *14* in-person interviews for an individual contributor? 🤯

I initially started applying for that same role and I'm so glad I noped out at the silly school questions¹.
What a huge waste of time and resources!

¹ first of all, Germany doesn't have these silly competitions implanted in its school system, and second as an ADD kid, I was a low effort B+ student across the board in high school and college So why even bother jumping through these hoops when I already know their measurements are heavily biased towards neurotypical biographies 🤷‍♂️

@LillyHerself I bet there's still enough C-Suite out there that have a KPI like: lines of code per engineer per time unit.

And yeah, AI can probably be used to optimize for that kind of metric

@LillyHerself it's like...I know how I want to implement a feature within the technical constraints and subject matter context I'm working in.

Why would I sit down and try to explain in natural language my intentions and the surrounding constraints to a machine that has no concept of semantic knowledge?
Any response might be an ~alright first draft, but then I'd have to go in and converse my way to the solution I want, and in the end I'll have to manually edit stuff anyway.
THAT seems horribly inefficient.

If you wanna talk about reducing the time spent writing boilerplate code, look at languages like elixir with the phoenix framework.
You can generate boilerplate without stochastic wordpickers!

Very good points, a reply to a CEO who wondered why his engineers were resistant to using LLMs for coding:

I don't want to "talk" to my browser. I don't want my browser to "summarize" things. I don't want my browser to "help" me with things. I don't want my browser to do anything except show me web pages and shut the fuck up and get out of the way.

@pjakobs @Fischblog nur auf der Nordhalbkugel!
Nutze diesen Effekt noch besser mit meinem patentierten Quanten-Chiralitäts-Verstärker, den du dir zu Haus ins Nudelsieb klemmen kannst!
Nur 899€ – hält ein Leben lang

Hier etwas aus der Bibliothekswelt. Ein einer meiner Mitarbeiter leitete mir freundlicherweise diese Meldung weiter: https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/politik/wissenschaft-unter-trump-kennedy-will-publikationen-in-angesehenen-medizinjournalen-untersagen/ar-AA1FIPcm
Trumps Regierung geht gegen div. Journale vor.

Die Frage ist, ob in der Cyber Security auch Verlage/Journale/Tagungen von IEEE, ACM etc. betroffen sein werden. Was passiert mit den Tagungen?

#openaccess #cybersecurity #infosec #publizieren #journals #censorship

@cdpxe generell erscheint es mir unverantwortlich große wissenschaftliche Tagungen momentan noch in den USA durchzuführen...

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

I select all images with traffic lights, therefore I am

@inthehands Ah, yes, the classic:

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones

(Edit to make it clear this is not original to me; I first saw it on Twitter in 2018 posted by @ndrew_lawrence)

So if you want to argue that we need poltiical diversity on campus, that we need to allow “conservative” views, please be clear. Be specific.

By “conservative,” do you mean we need to make sure there’s room for people to argue for market economics? Or low tax rates? Yes, we need room for that. I will fight to make room for that that debate even if I disagree.

Or by “conservative,” do you mean we need to accept white supremacists? Or that it should be OK to tell people they’re going to hell for being queer or whatever? No. Piss off into the sun.

Tell me which one you mean.

/end

And this is where the discussion gets hard.

There are some mission-based things that are not up for negotiation. Our mission is to create an environment where students can learn. We create a bubble of personal safety within which students can become intellectually uncomfortable. That latter •requires• the former. That is our job.

If one student makes another unsafe — not intellectually challenged, but in actual danger — that is not OK. It does not magically become OK because we deem the threatener’s threats “political.”

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But there’s a wrinkle here, one that’s crucial to unwrinkle: the word “conservative” has long had a double meaning.

Many of our political terms do. In the US, for example, “liberal” means “left” unless you’re a leftist in which case it means “laissez-fair” or “neoliberal” or something incoherent but Definitely Bad. (I refuse to even use the word “socialism” anymore without specific clarification about its meaning in a given conversation.)

It’s the double meaning of “conservative” in particular that muddies this discussion about views on campus.

3/

In •public discussion• about conservatives supposedly being oppressed on campus, people act like that means free markets, minimal government, centering religion, etc.

But the •actual experience• the loudest complainers are talking about is very often (not always, but •very• often) that they were ostracized for being transphoic, queerphobic, racist, and/or religiously bigoted.

“Conservative views” gets to mean something polite and acceptable in op-eds, but then gets to mean outright fascism on the ground.

4/

@strandbeutel das ist so eine Sauerei!
Ich bin an der Stelle jahrelang täglich morgens vorbeigekommen und es ist _immer_ eine Angststelle wenn man bei grüner Ampel ankommt.
Wie oft ich da schon Situation selber erlebt oder beobachtet habe wo mir hinterher die Haare zu berge standen...

Es ist eine 90° Kurve für die Autofahrenden, die teils trotzdem mit viiiel zu hoher Geschwindigkeit genommen wird, weil sie kurz vorher erst von der Autobahn über die Elbbrücken gekommen sind und der 3-spurige Heidenkampsweg zu Tempo >50km/h einlädt.

10m mitgeschleift...das kann eigentlich nicht passieren wenn hier mit der gebotenen Vorsicht abgebogen wird.

Diese Scheiß Kreuzung ist nur sicher wenn man dort zusammen mit den Kfz bei rot steht und gemeinsam anfährt, weil man dann im Zweifelsfall schneller weg ist als die Blechkisten

"We should close the fish market it's too industrial"

This mentality in NYC drives me nuts. Markets are the whole purpose of even having a city. When you decide the *markets* are too industrial for the city you have totally forgotten what the point of the city even is. It's bad enough that most of the small manufacturing is gone. Everything can't be fancy shops, luxury condos and corporate headquarters.

Someone needs to make sandwiches for you or something. Come on.

Wenn man möglichst bremsen will, dass sich Leute gesellschaftlich engagieren, muss man sich nur das deutsche Vereinsrecht anschauen. Vereinseintragung, Notarkosten bei jeder Änderung, Gemeinnützigkeit, Finanzamt, rechtliches …

Da muss man schon echt sehr auf Bürokratie und Formulare stehen, um sich das anzutun. (Bin neu in einem Vorstand in einem sehr jungen Verein. Hätte ich das vorher gewusst, was das für ein Heckmeck ist – ich hätte es wohl nicht gemacht.)