whyprogrammingstillsucks

Why Programming Still Sucks is the name of my book about … Well, yeah, about society indeed, and how it's all the fault of IT, with a cameo for the devil.

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@Dr_Singularity To be clear: healthy tribalism is when you are actually part of your tribe. What's called a “tribe” in contemporary culture is _not_ even close to what tribes during most of human (pre)history offered to our ancestors in terms of belonging and connection.

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@Dr_Singularity Quite the opposite. I think tribalism ought te be embraced and find healthier expressions. You can just as little “develop out of tribalism” as you can develop out of pooing (or eating).

Daniel Quinn's take on tribalism has never been overtaken.

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@Grady_Booch @kimmonismus Those who insist on the intelligence of existing “AI” demonstrate that their own “intelligence” is also entirely simulated. Their hallucinations emerge entirely from a heuristic symbol popularity path finder. They are sophisticated auto-complete in human form.

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@Grady_Booch @kimmonismus I will add to that that I think that this belief that the current form of “AI” can somehow learn to do complicated jobs in a truly intelligent manner signals a misunderstanding of intelligence that borders on mental illness.

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@samokhvalov @PostgresFM Thank you so much for the podcast you guys do! I'm a huge fan, since #PostgreSQL is one of the handful of projects that make the contemporary IT landscape somewhat less bleak.

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The new per-listener `allow_anonymous` support for #FlashMQ was my first major C++ contribution to the project, pair-programmed under the careful supervision of @cazemierw. (I do want to emphasize that Wiebe was the man with the plan. 😉)

#cpp #MQTT #opensource #agile

[FlashMQ @FlashMQOfficial]

Notable new features in this release are: support for per-listener override of `allow_anonymous`, and various new `$SYS` topics to allow administrators to identify performance problems stemming from overly broad topic subscription (by, for example, subscribing to `#`).

#MQTT

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@sama Tech bros. Fix tech bros. Put them to work putside. I have some rewilding work for them here so that they can undo some of the damage of all the natural resources you guys (mostly guys) waste on your persuit of ever more artifical stupidity.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

There is only one obvious winner of the last 100 hours, and it's business school professors who have been looking for a sexy anecdote to get students interested in the principle that corporate structure is really important

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@thogge A cult leader?

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@ianmiell Anybody care to tell what any of the non-Kubernetes logos are for? I could only identify the one with the project name in the logo.

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@d_feldman I finally made the long-anticipated switch from Todoist and Google Calander + e-mail + x to pen and paper. I don't think I'll ever look back to digital, except with pity.

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@garrytan Denial is a death sentence.

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@arabelladevine Maybe it's good to know that the other end of this equation is often rather awkward too.

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@yrashk @thinkx @postgrest_org #PostgREST is nice if you need a #REST API, but people often forget that #SQL is itself an API too. The reluctance to use it so often comes from a lack of understanding @ModernSQL. Problems dissolve when you enforce client-application-specific schemas.

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@yrashk @thinkx @postgrest_org Prior to https://t.co/sS9PkHDXUO, I've been involved in a complex #MSSQL ecosystem that used the DB as the primary integration point of various MSSQL-supporting applications – a mixed experience, due to a lack of discipline surrounding dependencies.

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@FrancescoCiull4 @Docker @PostgreSQL Using #PostgREST? @postgrest_org

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@Grady_Booch @Tesla Have you considered a Victron Energy setup instead?