Numeronyms are fun, but they have one major problem: namespace collision.
What is a11y? Is it accessibility? Associatively? Axiomatically? Autobiography?
This is obviously a problem that needs solving.
My solution? SHAsum hashing. We can avoid the ambiguity of "a11y" with this unique, cryptographically sound alternative:
Accessibility? a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y
Axiomatically? a20c4bcee8f977a3f5a3b6b499d52d7dd32584771y
SImple, easy to visually distinguish, everyone wins.
Re: recent boost
They say even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but I think it's the wrong frame to look at it.
Can a stopped clock tell you the time? Can you know when a stopped clock is right, without the use of another clock? Can it give you information about the current time?
LLMs are the same way, they are also right sometimes. Can you tell when? Without consulting another more reliable source of information?
@thomasfuchs That "I always check" has the same energy as "It's open source so I can audit the code"
hey if you missed it yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynp9B6pHeyQ
watch the shoujo Super "Sonic Saves The World" World speedrun
it's 1 trans woman playing a really cool kaizo mario hack while 3 other trans woman (including the creator of the romhack, Maddy, who you might know from fucking Celeste) heckle her and make the stupidest jokes imaginable
it's absolute perfection
him being too old to do the job doesn't really matter to me as much as the fact that he's been doing the job badly the entire time he's had it. he didn't stop building the border wall, he funded it more. he's escalated the trade war with china. he's allowed the cdc to become all but a nyt-run homeopathy advert vis-a-vis covid policy rollbacks. 25+ million people were kicked off medicaid under his watch. the white house expressed concern about gender affirming surgery for minors *last week*
on the one hand i think biden's age is clearly showing and that's not a trivial thing when it comes to running the most trigger-happy nation on earth. on the other hand i think it's fucked up that *this* is what disqualifies him from the office of the president in the commentariat's eyes, and not the fact that his administration has largely been trump 2 (sometimes worse) with like three exceptions. sorry lads but a good nlrb, ftc, & climate legislation isn't a free pass for genocide
I have been sending out this resource all year, but I'll send it out again. From the US Department of Energy:
Creating a Cool Room for Extreme Heat Events
"Given the reality of global climate change and the increasing likelihood of extreme heat events, designing and retrofitting homes for resistance to extreme heat and power outages should be considered in all climates. Extending the "hours of safety" that a home can provide when air-conditioning is not available can be life-saving...."
https://basc.pnnl.gov/resource-guides/creating-cool-room-extreme-heat-events#edit-group-description
@yonabee 20 years ago Sony produced CDs with music and owned the rights, marked them as copyrighted and do-not-copy, produced CD copying software that ignored those bits, produced CD writers and CD recordables that would perfectly handle copying those CDs.
Large enough companies do not know what they are doing.
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"no politics zone"
generally speaking,
winds up meaning "no politics the dominant group dislikes zone"
and in some cases,
the dominant group in question considers whole-assed identities to be "politics" for whatever bullshit reason.
it's fine to have places to decompress from the onslaught of dire headlines. just be sure that's what you're doing, and not that other thing I just described.
@mattly the other half of "supply chain attack" is just as wrong: vulnerabilies are not attacks, unless they were intentionally and maliciously introduced (see Jia Tan of xz infamy). they are just bugs that slipped through the quality control of whoever evaluated and used that software.
When I was growing up, I was promised, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that if I followed the rules that the authorities told me to follow, the system would grant me a comfortable life.
What I discovered was that the rules are arbitrary and variable and impossible to follow perfectly, the authorities are arbitrary and variable and impossible to understand perfectly, and the promises were lies they told to prompt my compliance with the system.
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancΓ©e, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess