Leo

The purpose of a system is to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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[Leo @leoknid]

The movie Office Space (1999) portrays an idyllic time of developer productivity and meaningful work before the advent of Agile

[Leo @leoknid]

@defnotbeka I’m kind of surprised because successful zipper merges seem the norm in my experience here (SF area). Problems mostly arise in situations *unlike* the one pictured, such as a backed up freeway exit where the left lane doesn’t end

[Leo @leoknid]

@maxdaniellawton Sometimes I see low-quality printing in the corporate bookstore, sometimes beside seemingly identical (and identically priced) copies of the same book. Are these POD or a separate quality issue?

[Leo @leoknid]

@NotThatJesus Nonsensical video. The example is someone paying $50M for a $80M deduction? The appraisal relies on bids at an auction that didn’t close? They store it at a freeport but that’s irrelevant to the museum donation thing? Not to mention it’s AI generated

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

The academic freakout about professors being punished for turning in papers with LLM-hallucinated references and other errors is a good example of how LLMs are already lowering our standards for everything. We just expect less and less, and get it...

[Leo @leoknid]

@eaglebuildz @dreamsofcode_io Code doesn’t need to be readable anymore! Not now that we have the natural language processor that’s paid by the word

[Leo @leoknid]

@GlucoXeAlan Typically publishers such as Springer and IEEE allow posting to arXiv with some kind of copyright notice, maybe with a delay. It can’t be the exact same PDF but can be the same text. E.g. https://t.co/oytacL1ESp

[Leo @leoknid]

@mesniu @hausofdecline @SO3_Clausewitz It’s way better. The last panel made me laugh out loud. The passé Duck Amuck pencil gag works only as a setup

[Leo @leoknid]

@uhshanti @DKThomp The article even beats Derek to the “identifying tradeoffs” talking point

[Leo @leoknid]

@no_earthquake Back in my day we only sat glassy eyed for thirty seconds in a loop when driving in Crosscountry Canada

[Leo @leoknid]

@AliceFromQueens Can someone explain the internal logic here? If anything the headline is casting aspersions on other immigrant food workers, no?

[Leo @leoknid]

@axiochrono @LinkofSunshine The server is almost certainly doing more, as are the other staff who get tipped out.

The other part is the ancient moral principle that it’s ok to charge the rich more. Ordering the $1000 bottle of wine or whatever gives a sort of moral responsibility for more of the day’s tips

[Leo @leoknid]

@ASPertierra No, of course connotations vary, but you could say “intent” or “primary objective”. Maybe the sticking point is that systems themselves have an intent, separate from any intentions of designer/owner/etc. That’s pretty much the difference between mechanistic and systems thinking

[Leo @leoknid]

@ASPertierra @Tcho76521726 Hm? It’s not a rhetorical move nor a mistake. That we can examine systems and that systems have purposes are core ideas in systems thinking and systems theory. It seems like you’re reacting to glimpses of these phrases in political tweets, instead of the actual ideas

[Leo @leoknid]

@ASPertierra @Tcho76521726 Some systems theorists do distinguish “function” and “purpose”: see Ackoff and Gharajedaghi, “On the mismatch between systems and their models”. This doesn’t contradict the point that purpose is a property of a system and not some kind of preconceived intent

[Leo @leoknid]

@LVpolitic @McNamaraDynasty Why do you think they didn’t ask for it? Student loan servicers have been caught and fined for creating this exact situation by structuring loans as multiple separate loans, then misapplying payments. Seems like that happened here

[Leo @leoknid]

@surlygopher @ideologicalized The justices haven’t cared about intent for a while. It’s more about “original meaning”. See “new originalism”

[Leo @leoknid]

Just one simple question, pal. What *should* the Corleone family have done in response to the brutal attack?

[Leo @leoknid]

@brothersforver1 @Jabberwocky415 @bryanbrinkman Yes. The original was a beautiful flawed experiment. What they were trying to do (writing for the binge-release medium of Netflix) wasn’t the problem. I liked it better on rewatch. Agree the chronological version is so much worse

[Leo @leoknid]

@kitten_beloved Hmm. This rings true as managerial reasoning behind RTO and I agree in-person can be much higher bandwidth. On the other hand, why is it so load-bearing to extract info from colleagues who are mysteriously reluctant to give it? Maybe that system of work is destroying productivity

[Leo @leoknid]

@dhi_holo It’s less secure because the salt isn’t globally unique and is predictable even without database access. (The attacker can prepare a rainbow table for username admin or id 0001 in advance.) https://t.co/eKpnPgIKBK