Zalack

@Zalack@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*A*S*H in space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think a medical-focused Trek show would have to take place during war time. Medical Ethics in general is ripe for the sort of show Trek lends itself to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is programming.dev federated with exploding heads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Formal licensing could be about things that are language agnostic like how to properly use tests to guard against regressions, how to handle error states safely.

  How do you design programs for critical systems that CANNOT fail, like pace makers. How do you guard against crashes? What sort of redundancy do you need in your software.

  How do you best design error messages to tell an operator how to fix the issue, especially in critical systems like a plane, and guard against them doing the wrong thing. I’m thinking of the DreamLiner incidents where the pilots’ natural inclination was try grab the yoke and pull up, but that caused the plane to stall. My understanding was that the error message that triggered during those crashes was also extremely opaque.

  When do you have an ethical responsibility not to ship code?

  None of that is impacted by what tech stack you are using.

  Lastly, under certain circumstances, Civil engineers can be held personally liable for negligence when their bridge fails and people die. If we are going to call ourselves “engineers”, we should bear the same responsibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is programming.dev federated with exploding heads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience has often been the opposite. Programmers will do a lot to avoid the ethical implications of their works being used maliciously and discussions of what responsibility we bear for how our world get used.

  It’s why I kind of wish that “engineer” was a regulated title in America like it is in other countries, and getting certified as a programming engineer required some amount of training in programming ethics and standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you know, you know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ll always DR DR

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Self driving cars could actually be kind of a good stepping stone to better public transit while making more efficient use of existing roadways. You hit a button to request a car, it drives you to wherever, you need to go, and then gets tasked to pick up the next person. Where you used to need 10 cars for 10 people, you now need one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedicated Lemmy Instance for movies and tv series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is !lostlemmings? a thing anywhere?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What more need be said about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Atlas Nodded

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What more need be said about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thatsthejoke.jpeg.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to have just one DB across all services⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In many cases it should be fine to point them all at the same server. You’ll just need to make sure there aren’t any collisions between schema/table names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good Old Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying there aren’t downsides, just that it isn’t a totally crazy strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good Old Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re being sarcastic but even small fees immediately weed out a ton of cruft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All 50 states with the same naming convention as West Virginia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Take me HOOOAAAAAAMMMMME

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaos in the aisles: has cinema etiquette reached an all-time low?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. This would dovetail well with a bunch of studies that have found verbal and physical abuse of retail workers at an all time high since the pandemic. Similar studies have found the same thing for road rage.

  There has always been some fraction of poorly behaved people, but that fraction seems to have become larger since the pandemic, whatever the actual mechanism that caused it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sneak Peek – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 10 – Finale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in the film industry and can say, with certainty, that TNG was not shot with the same consideration.

  Television back then knew it was being mastered for TV and the artists working on that had a good idea of what it meant they could get away with compared to something that would be screened in 35mm.

  Audiences have also gotten less forgiving of visual quality and less willing to suspend disbelief at the bar for quality has steadily risen. It means that shows are both working on higher definition target mediums and under more scrutiny than ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX's Private Control Of Satellite Internet Concerns Military Leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Part of me has to wonder what – if any – backchanneled agreements there are between Glynn Shotwell and the DoD for if/when Musk does something truly compromising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨waiting for rust-analyzer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Compiled Rust is fast.

  Compiling Rust is slow.

  Also my understanding is that RustAnalyzer has to compile all Rust macros so it can check them properly. That’s not something that a lot of static analysis tools do for things like C++ templates