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Dare Obasanjo on X: “If you’ve ever wondered why most business software sucks, it’s for the same reason as this cartoonā€¦”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/23

[Wayback/Archive] Dare ObasanjošŸ€ on X: “If you’ve ever wondered why most business software sucks, it’s for the same reason as this cartoon. The person responsible for buying the software isn’t using it in the way the end users are.”

Google Lens found back the original 2019 Russia comic via:

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Jason Levin on X: “Jira marketing team was like ā€œwhat infrastructure is as inefficient and frustrating as us?ā€ and then puts ads on the New York City subway”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/22

[Wayback/Archive] Jason Levin on X: “Jira marketing team was like ā€œwhat infrastructure is as inefficient and frustrating as us?ā€ and then puts ads on the New York City subway”

Picture via [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON:

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Decodering van code uiterste verkoopdatum op groenten en fruit (via Joost Schellevis Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/22

[Wayback/Archive] Joost Schellevis on Twitter: “het blijkt geen algemeen gangbare kennis dat dit de uiterste verkoopdatum is. in dit geval: c = woensdag, 31 = week 31. (a = maandag, g = zondag. dus e40: de vrijdag van week 40). staat op veel voorverpakt fruit en groente. weet je dat ook weer.”.

Oh ja:

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AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/17

LLM are just statistic text generators which depend on the texts they have been trained which and alleviating this usually makes things worse: [Wayback/Archive] AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature

Related:

Of course these issues are not limited to natural language LLM: artificial computer language LLM are also full of training issues that are likely very hard to resolve. What if covert organisations succeed poisoning LLM platforms with malicious code?

Via

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, LLM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Five Geek Social Fallacies ā€“ Plausibly Deniable

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16

So relatable: [Wayback/Archive] Five Geek Social Fallacies ā€“ Plausibly Deniable

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ian Coldwater šŸ“¦šŸ’„ on X: “It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who havenā€™t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies. It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, youā€™ll see them everywhere.”

--jeroen

Posted in Awareness, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Geeky, Inclusion / inclusive society | Leave a Comment »

Need to check out the Windows AutoLogonSID registry value and other autologon security features in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16

On my list of things to look at via [Wayback/Archive] “AutoLogonSID” – Google Search:

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Documentation should be easily searchable (No documentation | CommitStrip)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10

Nowadays software development documentation is usually sparse and distributed, which means it should be well searchable.

[Wayback/Archive] No documentation | CommitStrip

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By Jack Rhysider: if you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging.šŸ§µšŸ‘‡

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04

I quote the last tweets in the series starting withĀ [Wayback/Archive] Jack Rhysider on Twitter: “If you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging. šŸ§µšŸ‘‡”

1…17.

So to recap. By blogging you will become a better writer and communicator, learn the concepts better, open new opportunities, have a fantastic notebook for self reference, maybe make money, become appreciated by more people, and show off your IT skills.

So how do you get started? Try these: WordPress, Jekyll, Ghost, Hugo, Medium, Wix, Squarespace. I really don’t care what you use. Just jump in and start blogging. You can always move everything to a different place later. Good luck and I hope to see some new bloggers from this.

and a few ones that came up in the responses:

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Do Not Stare:Ā protip: when referring to your favourite programming languageā€™s features

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/26

Cool idea: [Wayback/Archive] Do Not Stare: protip: when referring to your favourite programming languageā€™s features

protip: when referring to your favourite programming languageā€™s features, call them spells instead to sound more mysterious and cool.
šŸ‘Ž ā€œmemory safety featureā€
šŸ‘ ā€œmemory safety spellā€

--jeroen

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When you broke code, finding back where it got broken is easier if you have small change increment (i.e. bisection and binary tree search)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/26

A while ago [Wayback/Archive] b0rk (Julia Evans [Wayback/Archive) wrote an interesting Tweet on finding back where you broke code of which the OCR text reads like this:

strategy: change working code into broken code

If I have a working version of the program, I like to:

  1. go back to the working code
  2. slowly start changing it to be more like my broken code
  3. test if it’s still working after every single tiny change
Ā·ā€ā€ā€ā€ā€ā€ā¬Šāø³ā¬ˆĖ™ā¬Šāø³ā¬ˆĖ™ā¬Šāø³Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  OH THAT’S WHAT BROKE IT!!!

I like this because it puts me back on solid ground: with every change make that DOESN’T cause the bug to come back, I know that wasn’t the problem.

by JULIA EVANSĀ @borkĀ wizardzines.com

This is similar (her arrows were of varying length) to using a binary search algorithm hunting for where the code was broken using bisection: repeatedly halving your search space to quickly zoom into the problem.

Another important aspect is that small commits while fiddling to solve an issue can help you determine what small commit was actually solving the issue.

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Posted in Algorithms, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, git, Mercurial/Hg, Ruby, Software Development, Source Code Management, Versioning | Leave a Comment »

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