Steve Saxon

Just another software engineer living the dream in Southern California, with my wife and two lazy Lhasa Apso puppers.

2024-10-13

@olafurw I used to work in a related team. It’s loading over a 100MBs of data related to all of your channels so it knows the latest status. They used to make 100s of distinct web service calls, which was even slower. I wouldn’t have done it this way, but it was before my time.

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Dare Obasanjocarnage4life@mas.to
2023-05-29

They should put this on Twitter’s gravestone in the social media cemetery

2023-05-28

@carnage4life this is how you “phone it in” in a post-phone society

2023-05-22

@walruslifestyle I think we’re saying we are accepting that 8 billion people will die, but at least a handful of folks will get to go glamping on Mars 🎉

2023-04-03

This post makes Tim Sweeney seem like a total rube. What kind of company sells goods and gives them to elites for free? Luxury goods companies. You think influencers pay for that stuff?

Influencers get their followers interested in buying those goods, which drives people to the stores. Is the bird site so different? What were the formerly verified folks if not influencers that drove people to the site to read their updates.

Tweet from Tim Sweeney of Epic Games saying Twitter’s old verification system was just wrong
2023-02-06

@evacide 6 months in jail for destroying evidence, versus multiple life sentences. Hard to fault the logic 😔

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Jay Rosenjayrosen_nyu
2023-02-02

Recall it? An investigative reporter in Vegas, Jeff German, was stabbed. A bureaucrat was charged with his murder. German was working on a story about the bureaucrat. Thing is, was working on other stories too.

To continue German’s work, and as an act of solidarity, "The Washington Post teamed up with his newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, to complete one of the stories he’d planned to pursue."

He had heard about a Ponzi scheme. Now it's published.

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

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Boom Haackalacka 💥haacked@hachyderm.io
2023-01-30

Nobody would ever confuse me for a handyman but I installed a light switch today and feel like Bob fucking Villa!

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2023-01-30

A linguistics professor was lecturing on the role of the double negative, noting that in some languages like Russian a double negative remains negative, while in other languages like French a double negative becomes positive. However, the professor observed, in no language in the world does a double positive become negative. From the back of the classroom a student replied, "Yeah. Right."

2023-01-27

@thegibson this actually me go see if dagnab.it is taken. It is. Dagnabit!

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EricaJoy :verifinking:ericajoy@mastodon.cloud
2023-01-25

massive layoffs just after forcing everyone to move back to where their assigned office is located is…a choice. telling people they are fired by email is…a choice. telling people they are fired via email while they’re in a whole other state for a client meeting is…a choice.

2023-01-23

@haacked hopefully you posted this from your own personal Greek island

2023-01-23

I actually really liked the premise of The Key Factor, combining Space Invaders with aspects of Missile Command, and helping you learn the keyboard (which was new to a lot of folks in 1985!)

2023-01-23

I thought I'd share a couple of my early #retrogaming contributions from 1985 or so. I worked on both of these after high school, when I was renting a room in my friend Paul's house. Paul did most of the coding while I did the graphics.

I'm particularly happy with the sprite drop effect in The Key Factor which I lovingly borrowed from an Atari game called DropZone 😇

The Key Factor: youtu.be/7MYakBhdcJY

Fruit Machine: youtu.be/BYQJ179ljgQ

#amsoft #amstradcpc464 #amstradcpc #amstrad

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Laura Manach :bongoCat:cmconseils
2023-01-21

I made a graph of all my past relationships.

It has an ex axis and a why axis.

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2023-01-14

Here's an excerpt of the screenplay for my upcoming procedural drama about computer programmers working on an enterprise product team entitled "Formatting Frenzy". (Written by #ChatGPT of course.)

Scene:
The team is sitting in the conference room, Alex is standing at the head of the table with a serious look on his face.

Alex: "I've made a decision. We're going to standardize on one indentation style for the codebase."

David: "No, this is a mistake! Tabs are the only way to go, everyone knows that!"

Rachel: "Are you kidding me? Spaces are the only way to ensure consistency and readability in the code!"

Alex: "I understand your concerns, but we need to move forward. We can't let this debate hold up the project any longer."

Linda: "This is ridiculous! We're losing valuable time over something so minor!"

Jake: "I don't know what to do, I just want to fix the bug and move on."

David: "You can't do this, Alex! You're going to ruin everything!"

Rachel: "David, you're not the only one with a say in this! You can't just dictate to the rest of us!"

Alex: "ENOUGH! We're using spaces for indentation, and that's final! If you can't handle that, then maybe you're in the wrong line of work!"

David: "I can't believe this, I quit!"

Rachel: "David, wait!"

David storms out of the conference room, leaving the rest of the team staring in shock.

Alex: "Alright, let's roll out the fix and get this product out on time. And let's hope David doesn't do anything drastic."

The team gets back to work, but the tension in the room is palpable, and the future of the project is uncertain.
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2023-01-14

@kevlin

Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber) described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures in an instant with unflagging confidence in its own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or even awareness of the level of expertise of its audience.

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Dave LeedaveleeFT
2023-01-14

Musk has lost his effort to relocate a trial from SF to Texas over claims of a "tainted" jury pool. Judge sided with prosecution, who said: "What they refer to as 'biased' coverage is, in fact, factual reporting about his management of Twitter, Inc., and has no bearing on the jury's ability to render a fair verdict. If 'negative' attention was all that was required to disqualify a jury pool, Musk would effectively be untriable before a jury given his knack for attracting 'negative' coverage."

2023-01-11

@StevenBeschloss I think the problem is that it isn’t clear who should enforce section 3. Some say it’s Congress. But section 3 of the 14th also says “..., or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State”, which would seem to block Doug Mastrano and countless others for running in their State elections. But I don’t recall anyone blocking them.

Until someone enforces section 3, any debate seems meaningless.

2023-01-09

@TrisResists @WalterShaub who is responsible for enforcing the 14th?

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