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User interface menu control options. #ui #ux

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Also constantly annoyed by analysis that assumes the tech works as promised or will work as promised. The fact that it is unreliable and nondeterministic needs to be factored into any analysis you do. But people don’t do that because the resulting conclusion is GRIM as hell

LLMs add volatility and unpredictability to every system they touch, which makes those systems impossible to manage. An economy with pervasive LLM automation is an economy in constant chaos

Keep hearing reports of guys trusting ChatGPT’s output over experts or even actual documentation. Honestly feels like the AI Bubble’s hold over society has strengthened considerably over the past three months

This also highlights my annoyance with everybody who’s claiming that this tech will be great if every uses it responsibly. Nobody’s using it responsibly. Even the people who think they are already trust the tech much more than it warrants

are YOU a good enough artist to attempt to draw a square

#DrawASquareChallenge2025

Han anklagas för att vara ett säkerhetshot. Men trots att arbetsgivarens polisanmälan inte ledde någonstans har Erik Helgeson nu fått sparken från sin arbetsplats sedan 20 år tillbaka.

https://www.etc.se/inrikes/allvarliga-anklagelser-men-det-finns-ingen-grund?utm_source=mastodon

https://computerfairi.es/media/AC5CTjBSbbPL6UhM7e4

The Labour Party being Tory-like was inevitable when Corbyn was forced out. Never forget that the establishment did EVERYTHING they could to smear someone who had most energised left wing politics in years and bent over backwards to people like Farage.

Hey any other #intersex or #trans people take birth control pills while of estrogen based #hrt? What was it like? Were there bad side effects? Im thinking it might help with my bad #period symptoms. I dont think my doc would go for it but maybe if i have some other peoples experiences to back me up.

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This was done a few weeks back, but didn't have chance to post due to VF and other factors

"haha, I'll just write a quick thread extension to show what I want to do!"

(* 48 hours later *)

"pthreads is a joke and the vendors both should not and can not be trusted with public API surfaces."

It only gets worse, too. There's not just 1 way to spell "set name of thread" in pthreads.

There's fucking five.

• pthread_setname_np(pthread_t thrd, const char* name);
• pthread_set_name_np(pthread_t thrd, const char* format, const char* name); // ??? HUH
• pthread_set_name_np(pthread_t thrd, const char* name);
• pthread_setname_np(const char* name); // Apple doesn't let you pick the thread, because Of Course They Don't
• pthread_attr_setname_np(pthread_attr_t* attrs, const char* name); // This is the correct way, but only available on specific IBM platforms

I also haven't included ANY of the return values (because for some of them, it's different for some fucking reason).

These people couldn't design a good API if it spit on their face.

Writing a paper about my adventures with pthreads is gonna be great.

Surprisingly, it's not the Windows thread API that's awful, it's just pthreads.

pthreads is garbage.

Everyone has so, SO many pthread_foo_np -- where the np at the end stands for "nonportable" -- things to do bogstandard basic shit that it's infuriating, and even if you're working with "just" pthreads, in practice it's actually more fucked than just working with the win32 thread API or TlsAlloc.

POSIX just keeps churning out bad API after bad API.