Links (2 December 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
- “Your AI code generators are your new net-negative developers”.
- “A Doc On How Amazon Workers Unionized Drew Critics’ Praise, But No Major Takers to Distribute”. We’re going to see a lot more like this if the US’s vestigal anti-trust efforts get abandoned.
- “‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril | Science | AAAS”. “ Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say”
- “Modern Work Fucking Sucks.”. “ And let’s not forget the meetings. Every modern tool seems designed to make meetings happen faster, more frequently, and with less purpose.” So much this.
- “Ode to free software · Anna e só”. “ If oppressive systems make use of technology to further our oppression, we must understand it and subvert it in the same or in greater measure.”
- “Freeze-but-fight · Anna e só”. “ What you do with that capacity and that knowledge can mean the difference between life and death. Use it to empower others.”
- “Strategy is Not War; It’s Gardening – Eleganthack”.
- “I wrote a course, but it’s so much more than that - Andy Bell”. Andy’s one of the absolute best in the field at this.
- “Trans athlete study concludes blanket bans in sports are a mistake”.
- “OpenAI sued by Canada’s biggest media outlets - The Verge”.
- “Gresham’s law of programming”.
- “Italian watchdog warns publisher GEDI against sharing data with OpenAI | Reuters”.
- “If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted”. “ The truth is that every single package that is part of a repo’s devDependencies is, or will be, fully owned by the consumer of the package. The only bulwark against uncomfortable surprises, then, is to consider NPM dependencies like a sort of high-interest debt collateralized by future engineering capacity.”
- “If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted”. “ Realists do not wallow in abstraction-induced hallucinations about user experiences; they measure them. Realism requires reckoning with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be, and in that way, it’s the opposite of frameworkism.”
- “If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted”. “ In short, nobody should start a new project in the 2020s based on React. Full stop.”