mlen

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[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that alphabetical lists are included. Maybe my brain has completely rotten, but keeping the data sorted is pretty neat for efficient processing

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure her surveys are immune to sampling bias and therefore perfectly represent the general population. /s

[–] mlen@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Is that a comedy account? The announcement surely reads as if it was…

To add an insult to the injury meta renames pride themed skins in chat https://labyrinth.zone/objects/e129982d-997e-489b-985a-3ef547b66bf3

[–] mlen@awful.systems 35 points 2 months ago

ublock is cheaper and actually works

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 11 months ago

That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too

[–] mlen@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.