I’m pretty sure the DJs in my area record a bunch of inserts and bits ahead of time, those get edited and sliced up, and then put into the playlist at the correct positions. So I don’t think they’re sitting in the booth listening to the music live, and then talking in between, like they used to anymore. So that’s probably how they don’t get bored, they didn’t even hear the music last Friday when they laid down the week’s schedule.
Wait, you guys get relief? All I get is guilt that it wasn’t done within a reasonable timeframe or amount of effort in the first place…
They start learning to be a terror so soon… 🥲
I don’t think they were commenting on the lack of vehicle, I think it was more about the wheelchair in the sand and the surf. I’d assume it’s not exactly an ideal environment for a quick escape, but hey, I could be wrong, I’ve never tried it!
Possibly even as far as feedback, but yeah not really recursion.
Y’all are killing it! Good work.
Similar to others here, but slightly different: start with what you’re most excited about. There’ll be some shitty parts where you’re confused and frustrated, and if you feel like you’re just doing something you’re “supposed to do”, it can feel like a job for no pay. Pick something you have an inner thrill for, and maybe that fire can carry you through the dark.
I hope I’m not missing a joke, but if you’re curious in my accent (Ontario, Canada) it would basically always be “bi-sickle” and “moter-saikle”
Thank God I never got around to learning the International Phonetic Alphabet, or that might have been too easy and more useful!
Up to no good???
In related news Israel is causing some mischief in the West Bank, and the Germans were real troublemakers in the early 40s. Some reports go so far as to call them scoundrels!
We, as a species, have basically failed to build a single one quantum computer that does anything. So… that’s why they’re not everything yet. It’s because there are currently approximately zero.
And the few there kind of are are massive and requires liquid helium to cool them to ungodly cold temperatures. And even then they don’t do much, besides allow researchers to test stuff.
A protocol is a shared set of expectations that allow two or more things to communicate. It says “I will announce myself in this way” and “these are the responses you should expect to this request” and “here’s the list of all the things I know how to do”, and if we both follow the protocol, then we both understand what’s going to happen when we communicate.
Yeah, like other people covered, it’s unfortunate but also very important. It’s easy to tie “visible wifi networks” to “surprisingly precise location on globe” in many places, so the permission is named for the worst case scenario. Yes, the app might just be looking for a wifi, but it also could use that same information to locate you, so it’s the location permission. Sensible.
If they wanted to support just this one feature without requiring a location permission, they could maybe have an API that is “are you currently connected to this opaque token” API where the app can ask “am I connected” and is just told “yes” or “no”. That’s probably safe enough. And then I could register the app with my wifi without the app even knowing what my Wifi is, it just gets a unique but random string.
The same is true of bluetooth. If I can list nearby bluetooth, I can see that speaker and this TV and guess location. But there could be an API that hides that, there just isn’t currently
Huh, that’s some fun psychology. Donations make me feel guilty and uncomfortable 😛
Good to know someone enjoys them!
To devil’s advocate in a different direction, most projects aren’t setup to actually do anything with donations. They could be, like if they had a stable income source they could hire people full time as a job rather then relying on volunteer time. And some of the larger projects are already at that point, and so maybe having more money would allow them to expand the team further. And some projects have a particular goal they’re trying to fund, like an external security audit, or some kind of certification process.
But for most projects, sporadic donations are like “hey cool, I guess. I’ll go out to dinner tonight” gifts of appreciation, because up until they become a solid full time wage, they’re not a solid full time wage. And once they are a solid full time wage, any further donations are like “hey cool, I’ll go out to dinner tonight” until they’re big enough to be a second wage 😛
I’m not saying we shouldn’t donate stuff, gifts of appreciation are still appreciated, I’m sure. But they don’t produce output.
Hmm. I’ve been in math, computer science, and computer programming for 20 years in English (Canada) and I’ve never heard “denary”. It’s cute, but never once heard anyone say it. So they’re not interchangeable to me 😛
For an honest answer, from an Open Source perspective, it’s mostly auth, profiles, and discoverability.
Presuming I have a GitHub account, when I encounter a library or tool or something that’s hosted on GitHub that means I can fork it, make issues, comment on issues, make pull requests from my fork to upstream tied to issues, and generally have seamless interaction with any and all software on GitHub.
Or, if I have my account added to a project, then I can also merge PRs and push to master and be a maintainer of that software without any friction.
When I see that software is hosted on KDE’s thing it’s like “Ugh”. I have to login to that, and create a profile for that, and then figure out how tickets work there, and how do I contribute to that. It’s enough to just not, most of the time. And maybe I do that for kdenlive. Then I have a bug for Gimp. Okay, what the heck do they use? Is that another login? How do I contribute over there? Is registration even open? Okay guix, oh boy a mailing list. Do I want to subscribe to a dev mailing list just to submit a 2 line patch? I think I’ll just not… I’m sure someone else will fix it eventually…
So besides all that, some people like their GitHub profile, and like that people can see all the things they’ve contributed to from one spot. That’s why it’s often linked on resumes, but beyond that there’s also a kind of cultural cachet to having a diverse and positive profile, should someone look. If someone is a maintainer of a repo with a lot of stars, that might tell you they’re “important” even if you don’t know why. Because maybe you’re a JS programmer, but this person seems to be big in the Java community, because they seem to maintain a few high profile java libraries.
And then lastly, it’s sometimes useful as a shortcut in searching. “Source code” is kind of a useless term for searching, so if I search “ruby Ledger file library” I’m more likely to get some docs or a rubygems page, but if I search “ruby Ledger file GitHub” I’m probably going to get what I actually want, which is a readme and a git uri I can clone and play around with. Or a web view of the source I can search through to debug something without cloning. At least assuming that is what I want, it depends on what my goals are, but it’s useful often enough that I do it sometimes as a way of jumping to the source part.
I’m typically anti-centralization, and anti-microsoft, and if we all move away from GitHub I’m sure I’ll live, but this is why I like it despite its problems. And sometimes I want a webview of file contents, with search, without cloning, so sue me 😛
I don’t know the original author’s opinions on AI, but I think it’s still fair to say that it was clearly Copilot’s goal to steal all the code and be good, and they had all the code, and so ethics aside one would expect them to have succeeded with flying colour at whatever their goals were, even if those were bad goals.
But they failed instead, which is impressive.
You could check out “FAR: Lone Sails”. It’s a pretty chill game where you have a machine that you’re sailing/driving through platforming actions to the right. It has cinematic feel and a kind of environmental plot, but I don’t think there’s any way to lose or anything…
And if you like it, there’s a sequel “FAR: Changing Tides” that is very similar, but longer and with a more complicated machine to manage.
I could see people being bored with it, there are “puzzles” but they’re super light, but maintaining the machine scratches something within me.
You know what’s the worst? I read this headline and thought “oh yeah, I forgot they did that…”
What a fucked up timeline.