@matt The simplest way to express it would be that there's a lot of magic for the complex stuff, but far too little for the basics. I can set up a web server super easily with a few annotations, but if I want to check if two sets of some custom class Foobar are equal, I need to manually override equals() and check equality for every field. This specific point applies to multiple programming languages, but I find myself more frustrated in Java because of how many other things have magic solutions.
On an ecosystem note, many of the "magical" solutions that exist are confusing and poorly documented. Javadoc is either a terrible format for API docs, or people simply aren't using it correctly. There are a lot of handy APIs that give you zero indication of how to use them, and you have to hunt for documentation across the internet. I spent many hours this week trying to craft the exact right query that would take me to an example for an API that exists.
Someone took the take of "web designers should learn how to write html and css", which I very much agree with, into a "no, instead, designers should use AI to write their HTML and CSS for them" take and I just...
The point of learning how to actually build an interface in HTML and CSS is to better understand the medium for which you are designing. The AI tool (or any tool really, that outputs code) isn't going to do that for you, because they're too unreliable to do it well and correctly.
Ač jsem veskrze pragmatická, přece jen jsem několikrát v životě narazila na věci zvláštní... třeba dnes v noci.
Utočili na mě děsi, všemožné příšery, tlamy otevřené, oči vyvalené, co chvíli to vypadalo, že je po mě. Fakt jsem se bála. Musela jsem vstát, rozsvítit a zaměstnat se něčím jiným, abych se jich zbavila.
Takže vytyčuji téma: tajemno... Setkali jste se s něčím, co si nedokážete vysvětlit?
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OK that's a new one. A popover.
Not to login
Not to give you email address
Not for coupons
Just a fucking ad. Like there used to be popup windows for.
Today I implemented advanced style settings for #fluffychat with much more colors and the ability to blur the wallpaper. Also fixed a bug which made a wallpaper always look too downscaled
#RIPE89 was an absolute blast, we would like to thank @ripencc for organizing this amazing event. We met a lot of interesting people and had lovely chats. If you would like to watch @m4rc3l lightning talk about our RIPE Labs article series, here is the recording: ripe89.ripe.net/archives/video…
#DDIX #Dresden @melody @m4rc3l
Daily Archives – RIPE 89
A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.ripe89.ripe.net
Starlink offered to 99.5% of zone, but locals say Roam product was disabled.
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Videos from #MatrixConf, usable implementations of Matrix 2.0, a new Matrix Client called Tammy and lots of changes in Fractal! This and more happened this week in #Matrix!
Come check it out at matrix.org/blog/2024/11/01/thi… 🎉
This Week in Matrix 2024-11-01
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMTRNord (matrix.org)
💟 1 year ago today I joined TetraLogical, the best group of #accessibility practioners I could ever wish to work with.
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Can't focus into text fields, Android + external keyboard · Issue #31820 · facebook/react-native
In the first Expo example on https://reactnative.dev/docs/textinput - with an external physical keyboard on Android, we don't seem to be able to move the focus into/ between these input fields. It'...GitHub
"Who preserves what happens on the internet?" Listen as
@brewsterkahle talks with Mary Louise Kelly of All Things Considered about the cyberattacks against the Internet Archive.
Side-note: This is another reason I avoid UK-based audio-described content. No thanks pitch shift
Racism is systemic in Québec.
FYI It took the police 9 days to decide taking the time to boil water and throw it at a child is a crime...
AND NOW, she's out on bail. Must be nice to be white and pure laine, eh.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/wo… #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE
Biweekly is a terrible word.
-- Would you know if “biweekly” means twice a week or twice a month in this email?
Edit: Guys, the whole point is that it can mean both :P
You guys should follow French on this and do biweekly for twice a week and bimonthly for twice a month.
And every two weeks, for every two weeks.
(this is a joke)
The new version of Wagtail, v6.3, has been released.
How many release announcements kick off with a strong commitment to accessibility like this one?
"We're just a little obsessed with accessibility around here. Between our accessibility checker feature, the accessibility workshops we've hosted, the accessibility statistics we shout about, and the dedicated Accessibility page we have here on Wagtail.org, you may have noticed that. So, ..."
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Level up your image accessibility and dashboards with Wagtail 6.3 | Wagtail CMS
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Happy Friday! We celebrated by releasing Wagtail 6.3! ✨
This is our latest LTS release, so we packed a lot of great features into this one. Have a look. 👀
Level up your image accessibility and dashboards with Wagtail 6.3 | Wagtail CMS
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An AI-generated ad left thousands of Dubliners waiting for a Halloween parade that never came
Thousands of people took to the streets after being duped by an AI-generated ad for a parade. The My Spirit Halloween website advertised the fake event.Lawrence Bonk (Engadget)
Intel’s future laptops will have memory sticks again
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger now Lunar Lake’s integrated memory turned out to be a financial mistake, and Intel won’t do it again.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
Homebrew on this 2014 Mac Mini has 120 packages to upgrade. Since there is no official support for 12 anymore, this means that most things need to be built from source.
After 12 hours, around 30 packages have been upgraded, including Bash, GCC, LibreSSL, PHP, etc. This is what I call PureBrew.
In case this ever reaches whoever is building Mac binaries for Homebrew, I'd like to express my appreciation for all your work.
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If you have a student with dyslexia, one way to help them with the tests is to give them an audio version of the test.
It takes no more than 10 minutes to set up the audio aspect of the test.
You can just record yourself reading the questions and make sure they can listen to the audio during the exam.
Since our exams are open book and computer based, this is quite easy to accomplish.
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