sunbeam60 @ sunbeam60 @lemmy.one

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If you go through my comment history you’ll find me saying, multiple times, that Mozilla has worked itself into this problem, by adding far more people than they need. The browser would be healthier, I suspect, if there was a 50-strong, open-collective backed, dev team working on just the browser. At the minute the org is enormous and they now need to find a way to pay for that enormous org.

Well, different floats for different boats I suppose.

I do think Zig is better for this kind of thing.

    
const ret = try do_thing();

if( ret ) | result | {
   do_something_with_result(result);
}

  

The try keyword returns any error up; the if-unwrap works with what came out of a successful call. Normally you wouldn’t have both, of course.

do_thing would be defined as a union of an error (a distinct kind of type, so it can be reasoned about with try, catch and unwrapping) and the wrapped return value.

For the love of Darwin, really?

Any product manager needs data about how a product is used to make the product better. Of course they need to test if moving a button to a different place leads to an easier to understand setting screen; or if moving extensions into a separate menu means fewer people find the malicious extension and turn it off.

I’ll be the first person to say that Mozilla is bigger than it needs to be and their org size isn’t justified by their results. But to think collecting data automatically makes them suspect seems to me lazy. It’s what they do with the data that counts.

Yeah, I get the same impression from my brother; he’s active on the science side of the field (recently published in Nature Communications about AI and peptides) and his pet hate is Kurzweil and their ilk.

I tried to get into it, but there really was quite a lot of preamble.

By a country mile the “best” book I’ve read. I think the film does an admirable job of staying within and delivering the message of the book without being “not suitable for release without cuts” in some territories. I mean the baby spit roast isn’t really something one can put to film and expect to get license to release everywhere around the world.

But funnily enough the book actually aims for, and IMHO hits, a completely different message than that of dread; for me, it makes me wholeheartedly appreciate the world, nature, and the good deeds we do for each other. It is also, and I’m aware I’m breaking no ground here, a treatise on love, fatherhood and courage. It makes me appreciate that, despite everything, we are still incredible blessed to live in today’s world.

It is quite simply sensational.

By the way, while very different in tone, Station Eleven really hit the same note for me; appreciate what you’ve got, it might just disappear.

My brother works in molecular biology; he tells me the field’s understanding of peptides have only just begun and it’s only through machine learning that they are now starting to make progress. 99% seem to be post-translational garbage, the other 1% is likely to be the basis of a revolution of treatment options.

That’s actually the simplest and clearest description of the P/NP problem I’ve ever read.

Discord is honestly the most awful way to create a helpful community.

It’s a great way to give the 20 most active members of the community someplace to trample on top of newbies trying to get questions answered.

I’ve already paid for a lifetime license of Plex. Is it worth considering a switch?

Your own feelings matter too.

Yes, let’s make that thing that WORKS in every other country illegal. British laws for British people!!

After 20+ in software, my loyalty towards my current employer is as strong and unyielding as theirs is to me: Not at all.

AN order I said.

And that’s how Microsoft moved into irrelevance under Ballmer until Satya Nadella started focussing on innovation again. When sales lead technology businesses they always decline.

Everyone believes what they look at every day “looks right”. It’s just habit.

Lol. Yes. Don’t drink and Lemmy.

And irrational imaginary numbers. I mean the numbers make sense, but it’s not like we can intuitively understand sqrt(-1).

The real truth of it is: Through persistent action and discipline, you can dramatically increase the probability that you can be what you want to be.

I always use the lottery analogy with my kids: “How many lottery tickets did you get today?”.

The second part of the truth is: Some people come with a lot more lottery tickets that you, through genetics, income background, family support and, yes, luck. Don’t let that stop you; most don’t and you don’t need to be first to win this race.