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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detomemes@lemmy.world•NASA internship
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    11 days ago

    Thank you for those links. I hadn’t heard of this before and it was a hell of a ride.

    For everyone else, the TL;DL of the podcast (which you should listen to!) is that Naomi is good now, she works in the aerospace industry (“commercial jet engine stuff”), and she still cusses a fuckton. She did not get back her NASA internship after that incident. I don’t think she mentioned in the interview exactly how she got back in the industry, all she said is: “I took such a roundabout way to get back into it”, and then the conversation was sidetracked by BOEING KILLED A GUY!

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Programmers are no longer needed!
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    13 days ago

    Now, hold on a minute. I get what you’re doing and I like it, but I don’t think those first 2 examples work.

    Visual programming is programming. Were they really ever touted as not requiring programmers? I would think it’s just marketed as more intuitive and easier to use for certain applications, but users are still referred to as programmers. Let me know if I’m wrong. Side note: my first programming language was LabVIEW, a visual programming language, which I used in high school to program our robot for FRC. It is, for all intents and purposes, a fully-fledged programming language and requires a programmer to create code for it.

    MDA, honestly I don’t know much about it, but from the description in the image it sounds like it still requires someone to “write a universal model”… did they try to claim that that someone would not be a programmer?

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•How to centre a div
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    19 days ago

    Infrastructure is all about unbelievable feats of engineering that are taken for granted. Sewage systems, running water, electricity, roads, public transport, cars, physical mail, and grocery stores/supermarkets are all unbelievable achievements that we all take for granted to varying degrees, and that’s just off the top of my head. IP networking is just more of that. Absolutely crazy, and by design we don’t think about it.

    But AI (also depicted in this gif) is not in the same category IMO, for a lot of reasons.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detomemes@lemmy.world•Internet Infrastructure These Days
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    27 days ago

    I know a thing or two on how it actually works and I found the post funny. I know it doesn’t make sense but it’s still funny.

    Edit: to clarify (because it seems like you missed this point?), it’s about the recent downtime of AWS and of Cloudflare a few days later, each of which caused a huge portion of the internet to be inaccessible. The AWS downtime was caused by a DNS error (as ever), and I’m not sure about Cloudflare but it might be as well.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Haha, arch bad
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    28 days ago

    No.

    A joke like this is funny once. The screenshot in the OP can be reshared endlessly (whether it’s real or not), and anyone trying to make another iteration of this joke is just spamming the project with useless noise. It makes work for maintainers.

    Fortunately it seems like this hasn’t been a problem in this particular repository, unlike the Linux repository which received endless spam before GH gave them the tools to block it. But if this becomes a trend, Arch might need to deal with dozens of joke issues per week, and there’s just nothing funny about that.

    Edit: just confirmed that the OP screenshot is fake, which is good. (Issue #4269 doesn’t exist yet and the number itself is two memes.)