The technology thread

[Which Tyler]

Caecilius est in horto. Romanes eunt domus.

Sorry. I thought we'd all been educated...

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Sorry. I thought we'd all been educated...

Apparently that's how they used to bad mouth each other back in the 19th century.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Anecdotal I know but Musks "free speech absolutism" appears to be bullshit like a lot of what he said. He basically just wants the banned right wing hate mongers back on the platform. A lot of comedy stuff is getting banned from Twitter now, even stuff that isn't particularly political or making any social points.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Saw his latest poll was essentially "should I unban everyone that hasn't literally broken the law?" which he's now going to do

I'm sure that'll go well....

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee

Owners of some Mercedes electric cars in the US can soon pay a $1,200 annual fee to speed up faster.

www.bbc.co.uk

What a batshit idea. The worst bit is I think there are people out there who will pay for it. Cars should not go the same way as games with "DLC" behind a paywall after paying for the thing in full in the first place.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Why Donald Trump isn't returning to Twitter (for now)

How the former US president might lose money if he starts tweeting.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Encouraging self-harm to be criminalised in Online Safety Bill

An update to the Online Safety Bill was influenced by Molly Russell who ended her life in 2017.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ncurd]

Newsflash passing of one of your major distributors for your platform is a terrible idea.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Newsflash passing of one of your major distributors for your platform is a terrible idea.

I dislike apple's practices, I dislike Twitter, I dislike musk. I'll buy some popcorn.

 

[die_mole]

I just wanna be a professional hater and load up on inverse ETFs on everything Elon touches but no, BIG BROKERAGE says I have to look elsewhere.

 

[ncurd]

Twitter ends Covid misinformation policy under Musk

The Twitter website says it stopped enforcing its misleading information policy on 23 November.

www.bbc.co.uk

So we are definitely moviting from amusing twat destroying his 40 billion purchase from the inside to dangerous arsehole.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Elon Musk suspends Kanye West from Twitter for inciting violence

Elon Musk confirmed the rapper had violated Twitter's rules around inciting violence.

www.bbc.co.uk

Well it should be fun watching "free speech absolutist" Musk justify banning at the same time as bringing back a ton of accounts just as bad...

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Activision Blizzard: US seeks to block Microsoft's $69bn acquisition

Microsoft said it would fight to buy Activision Blizzard, the studio behind games such as Call of Duty.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Amiga500]

There is some philsophy talk recently about where the code itself is documentation the only thing you need to produce extensive documentation for is external interfaces and how they work. I see some merit in that I've extensively designed stuff as a starting point in the past and that's a great starting block but reality is that design has had to be modified a huge amount when reality hit it, in the embedded world sometimes chips don't work how you read them to and scope creep is always a thing. Getting access to code with documented external interfaces always helps way more than any design document.

Plus the cost of updating documentation is probably not a huge differential to the the onboarding process.

To paraphase David Fincher "Software isn't finished its abandoned"

Yeah - well - I'm trying to get our devs onto using Doxygen - and then generate the documentation right out of the code comments.

Which kinda forces the things you do want to be current and accurate:
(i) The interfaces (as you rightly say) for testing the module in question and for others designing around the module in question.
(ii) The commentary for any developer coming in years later to maintain it.

 

[ncurd]

Yeah - well - I'm trying to get our devs onto using Doxygen - and then generate the documentation right out of the code comments.

Which kinda forces the things you do want to be current and accurate:
(i) The interfaces (as you rightly say) for testing the module in question and for others designing around the module in question.
(ii) The commentary for any developer coming in years later to maintain it.

Yeah I've been there, developer buy in is always the hardest part. I think you can over doxygen something and it leads to crap documentation/comments with no useful dececenable information. People can ver very lazy of they are forced to do it.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Dave Chapelle brought Elon out on stage at his show last night and ended up getting booed by the majority of the 18k crowd, lol

Elon then went home and tweeted:


He needs to realise that the bots in his replies gassing him up aren't representative of the real world

 

[die_mole]

if a Dave Chappelle audience is too woke for you than idk if it's safe for you to go outside

 

[Which Tyler]

Dave Chapelle brought Elon out on stage at his show last night and ended up getting booed by the majority of the 18k crowd, lol

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy announced

US researchers have overcome a major barrier to achieving low-carbon nuclear fusion.

www.bbc.co.uk

Still, a long way to go.