Greg Spradlin @spradlig@social.cleverlibre.org

@DemocracySpot @georgetakei

The horror.

@lritter @swetland @mcc @neauoire

I wouldn’t:

“any projects (and developers) are not willing to or interested in listening to folks who have contributions to make besides writing code.

That last 10% of polish that makes so much difference tends to be a *lot* of work and not a lot of fun and it's often hard to find folks willing to commit to that work for a hobby or spare-time project.”

If the last 10% of polish is much work, and not fun, then is the problem the unwillingness of devs to listen to non-coders, or is it the amount of extra, not-fun coding that needs to be done? Or both?

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This reminds me, in one of his #YouTube videos for #SuperCollider (an open-source electronic music program with a very good UI) Eli FieldStein says there are ways people can contribute to the project besides coding.

@mcc @neauoire @lritter

I have similar feelings about #GeoGebra. It does amazing things, but I find the UI for coding glitchy and hard to use. GeoGebra is in its 6th or so iteration ,so I assume the problem is lack of personpower.

Unlike GIMP/PS, there’s no replacement, even a paid one, that does all the amazing things GeoGebra does. I admire the people who developed it (AFAIK, it was invented by just one person as a master’s degree project!)

@swetland @lritter @mcc @neauoire

I’m curious: how can anyone help with that last 10% without writing code?

@mcc @neauoire @lritter I l

I use GIMP all the time for basic stuff, and I’m not a computerish person. I don’t find it easy, but if I get stuck, Google always directs me to a good solution.

Are you working in single window mode? Making that change rendered GIMP much easier for me. Perhaps it’s the default now 🤷‍♂️

@charlie_savage
Paywalled 😟
I’m curious if the Times has run a story on this.

@DemocracySpot @georgetakei

I’m surprised Rasmussen is considered legitimate, given their wildly pro-GOP, pro-Trump polls.

When I used the birdsite, I often read about FiveThirtyEight’s right-leaning bias, which apparently includes an overly favorable opinion about Rasmussen.

@mastodonmigration @georgetakei

According to the replies here, he still posts on Xitter. Like too many well-meaning folk, he’s supporting M**k’s project.

@ProfKinyon Seriously, this sounds like an interesting paper. I plan to look it up and try to read it.

I co-wrote a math paper (real analysis) with a one-sentence abstract. I don’t know how unusual that is.

@haligonia I hope you also stopped Xitting.

[sorry]

@josephramoney@mastodon.online @jeffjarvis @JamesGleick

Is it journalists calling the shots, or the journalists’ bosses?

@KevinFlynn @jeffjarvis

Even if you pay for a subscription, the articles are full of both-sides garbage. The reporters strive to be, not unbiased, but “balanced”. Reality is rarely balanced.

@qkslvrwolf @jeffjarvis

NYT constantly reports on how the public doesn’t know about the Biden administration’s impressive record of successes.

NYT does little reporting about the Biden administration’s impressive record of successes.