i’m looking forward to the cuba-style internet café culture where there’s a new hard drive of stuff every week

this is about the eu

the main probrem isn’t really what data is used for verification, but what data is made unavailable without it. if some conservative asshole decides that resources on sexual health (or alternate sexualities) are pornographic, then that information is effectively gone for everyone under 18 or without an account.

fluency. languages are hard to learn but when you know them you communicate better. same as touch-typing, or mobas.

i thought his name was jance dance vance

most things. swimming, jogging, balance, juggling, knitting, whittling, lathing, bathing, dogs, pogs, poker, snooker, cooking, docking, greeting, seating, studying, cuddling, fishing, threshing…

don’t know if porn depicting an adult pretending to be a minor actually qualifies, but that feels like an extremely thorny topic.

yeah, those were apparently only popular in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s. so you could be everything from 28 to 70.

well, a blimp is basically an inside-out submarine.

yeah “fluid” is a broader term than how most people use it.

hydrofoiling catamarans, but yes

sounds like you should transition to being an architect

i will never understand that attitude. four hours of exploration, learning and puzzle-solving sounds like the best part of the job. an isolated, well-specified problem that can be completed in a day is like the most fun you can have programming. why swap that for an hour of code review?

cool, i learned something!

the fuck is a “menu”

*harrumphs in sh*

…reverted?

is germany increasing or decreasing the amount of coal it burns every year?

right now, they’re ramping up massively.

they have a blog post on this

that’s nice, if a bit loose. i hope it’s a working solution.

you are out of the game too long, they switched to google a while ago

that link is broken for me, but from their privacy policy it seems they use both. not that google is any better, unfortunately.

For the first time in its 16-year history, Ecosia users in France will now receive a proportion of their search results directly from EUSP’s independent European index.

that’s very good to hear. hopefully it rolls out to more than just france.

Try to stay positive eh ;)

thanks for the reminder. genuinely.

think of it like this. you build small tools for internal use, so code quality, maintainability and documentation are not your highest priorities, right? most important is to ship the features needed by your colleagues right now. i’ve been in that same boat, building internal testing tools for a big multinational.

say your tool contains shortcuts for interacting with some internal database. you don’t need auth because it’s all on the internal net, so it’s just a collection of shortcuts. you don’t really care about maintainability, because it’s all just temporary, so you throw every new request together in the fastest way you can, probably trying out new techniques to keep yourself entertained. you don’t really care about testability, because you’re the only one testing so you can check that everything works before doing a release and if something slips through one of your colleagues will walk down the hall and tell you.

now imagine it gets enough attention that your boss says “we want our customers to use this”. suddenly your priorities are upended: you absolutely need auth, you definitely need testability and you absolutely definitely need the tool to not mess things up. best possible world, you can reimplement the tool in a more manageable way, making sure every interface is consistent, documentation is up to snuff for users, and error handling is centralised.

the claude cli leak is the opposite of that. it’s the worst code quality i’ve ever seen. it’s full of errors, repeated code, and overzealous exception handling. it is absolutely unmaintainable. the functionality for figuring out what type a file is and reading it into a proper object is 38 000 lines of typescript, excluding the class definitions. the entire thing is half a million lines. the code for uploading a pdf calls the code to upload jpegs, because if a file isn’t identified it’s automatically a jpeg. and jpegs can go through the same compression routine up to 22 times before it tries to upload them because the handler just calls itself repeatedly.

and this is the code they thought was robust enough to withstand the internet. imagine what their internal tooling looks like.

ew :(

so fun fact, i live within walking distance of that dc project (close enough that i was invited to attend a presentation by edc on what it would do to the immediate area) and i’ve done the math on the grid load. the hydro plants in the city currently meets about 40% of its needs. edc wants 750MW of reserve power generation (that’s diesel) installed on the site. if we assume that’s double their average usage, they will still more than double the energy needs of the city. and that’s in the middle of an infrastructure crisis that means we’re stuck buying german coal.

ecosia has always felt kinda skeevy to me, because tree planting isn’t actually carbon positive. it becomes positive after 40 or so years, granted that the trees are not cut down. which is usually what happens. also, just like ddg, ecosia is dependent on bing, the search provider with the worst carbon footprint, to function.

and i probably don’t need to tell you what cobalt mining does to the environment or the people who handle it.

so it does help to look deeper at the things in your daily life :)