rlamacraft @rlamacraft@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
rlamacraft
boosted
One criticism of a universal basic income is that it would make work optional from an economic perspective, but I don't hear as often *why* that's a bad thing. I think there's an implicit assumption that the economy needs people to work jobs that they would only do if they don't have an option to do otherwise. #ubi #economy #work
rlamacraft
boosted
I wish I could still enjoy video games. A few minutes in, I always remember how pointless it is, so I give up.
rlamacraft
boosted
rlamacraft
boosted
"But artists need to eat!"
What if we didn't need to figure out how to mold our passions around the wheel of capitalism just to meet our basic human needs
At best, copyright is a bad hack pasted onto a cruel system. Capitalim does not make copyright valid in philosophical terms.
How can someone be doing a masters degree in computer science at one of the world’s top institutions and not know what a checksum is‽
rlamacraft
boosted
Fun fact: if present-day US copyright law had been in force at the time that Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" was made, Lewis Carol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" would not have entered the public domain for another 17 years
The biggest problem with the open source world, and modern software in general https://xkcd.com/2347/
Automatic Semicolon Insertion. You couldn’t make a programming language worse than JavaScript if you tried. Like, what the actual fudge.
rlamacraft
boosted
Maybe restricting our main form of public discourse and communication to message size and complexity customized to the bandwidth constraints of a random iteration of electronic device, and leaving it that way for an entire generation, wasn't the best idea after all.
<*>; is it a shield, is a helmet? Useful in either case given all those blunt trauma options https://xkcd.com/2343/
Got to say, never have I felt more like a computer scientist than when I just put this chart together -- classic computer science right here!
rlamacraft
boosted
🇳🇱
If you dont vote third party this is pretty much what you sound like.
rlamacraft
boosted
Is it just me or does this come across as some weird reality TV dating show? https://www.nytimes.com/article/biden-vice-president-2020.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
rlamacraft
boosted
@nolan >Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!
>Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.
rlamacraft
boosted
"Why companies struggle with recalcitrant IT" https://www.economist.com/business/2020/07/18/why-companies-struggle-with-recalcitrant-it
"Airlines are […] now advised to turn the plane off and on again every 51 days, to stop its computers displaying false data in mid-flight."
Love our glorious computerized future
rlamacraft
boosted
KFC is working with a Russian 3D bioprinting firm to try to make lab-produced chicken nuggets - The Verge
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
