rlamacraft @rlamacraft@social.cleverlibre.org

Why does there even need to be separate music awards for different genders? I get there’s a biological difference in most sports, but music? Seems needlessly divisive. The Nobel prizes aren’t gendered, why is music?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/12/sam-smith-gender-2021-brit-awards

NFTs are nothing short of completely and utterly crazy. Ignoring the suckers who spending their money in such a way (who am I to tell them what to do with their money), NFTs are antithetical to the philosophical founding of the Web; that data and information should be free and open to the world. NFTs sure seem like an attempt for the elites of the world to claw back some control over what are otherwise identical bits on disk…

@freemo @Electronics no, it’s the oscilloscopes and multimeters and other bits to actually be able to debug when stuff inevitably doesn’t work that’s begins to add up — breadboards, logic chips, and a few wires aren’t much but trying to figure out why something isn’t working with LEDs alone is very frustrating!

@freemo @Electronics I’ve been watching his stuff for years; just absolutely fascinating. Just gives you so much appreciation for the wonder that is CPUs, networks and error correction, I/O, etc. Tried building some stuff myself but got to the point where I’d have to put down some serious cash to keep going

For anyone in the U.K. who isn’t aware, Clear The Lobby is a great weekly newsletter about whatever’s currently being debated in Westminster https://clearthelobby.co.uk/

Offering 1% pay rise to health staff in a global pandemic is disgusting behaviour. It infuriates me when people say we don’t have enough money. No; we simply don’t have the right priorities.

Having spent so much time in JavaScript land lately, playing with some C is honestly such a comfort. Error messages! At compile time‽ What is this magic??

@yisraeldov @elbeejay Yeah, I think it would do wonders from collective action, upholding ethical values, to making hiring easier. It could also act as a platform for coordinating open source development, and ultimately make software a more rigorously practiced engineering discipline.

I think we would just have to look past the people complaining about being gatekeepers. Practically every other professional field has something (lawyers, doctors, architects, and all sorts of engineering fields), so it’s not unusual. If anything, not having such a system is unusual.

@yisraeldov @elbeejay It depends where in the world you are. In the US and Canada “engineer” is a protected term that cannot be freely used, whilst in countries like France there are no such rules. In the U.K. we have the term “Chartered Engineer” because “engineer” has been eroded to the point of being meaningless as every technician and handyman styles themselves as such (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer#UK). It’s really not a big deal in Europe like it is in North America.

Personally, I would like to see (developers|programmers|software engineers) have a formal accreditation process to distinguish those in the profession but alas, currently we do not

Ok, I’m convinced; decimalised currency is a stupid idea https://youtu.be/R2paSGQRwvo

@ldvd Nope, you definitely don’t! :P

Why are people using Facebook to access government, health, and other information‽ A web company messing up should not be an issue national governments have to be concerned about… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/18/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban

I really feel like there’s a divide in the software developer industry between those that value reliability, accessibility, and stability and those that prefer novelty, and aesthetics. Here’s a quick way to find who you are: simply open this link and note whether your gut reaction is negative or positive, respectively. https://ray.so/

If I am offered the jab this year I will refuse it on the grounds that there are billions of people that need it before I do. Vaccinating our young and healthy whilst the rest of the world struggles to vaccinate their front line workers and those most at risk is both counter productive, because mutations will continue to crop up, and devoid of any morality

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/deliberately-playing-copyrighted-music-to-avoid-being-live-streamed.html Deliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed: “Clever, really, and an illustration of the problem with context-free copyright enforcement.” I disagree. The problem is not with copyright enforcement, after all a company has a right to take down anything it wants for almost any reason. The problem is that YouTube has a near monopoly of online video. Why are a handful of social media companies the gatekeepers to fair and equal justice under the law?

50 years ago today Britain decimalised its currency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day

@thenewoil You have got to be kidding me… just, why??

@codesections A bipartite graph? Guess it’s just not *that* common, and is easy to implement using existing graph data structures