"the relative ease—not to mention the lack of tangible cost—of software updates has created a cultural laziness within the software engineering community. Moreover, because more and more of the hardware that we create is monitored and controlled by software, that cultural laziness is now creeping into hardware engineering—like building airliners."
Hearing-impaired eletrical engineering researcher Jess Boland discovered that weren't enough technical terms in British Sign Language to cover the mathematics she uses in her work, so she's been creating new ones as well as promoting the ones BSL already had. Katie Steckles interviews her for The Aperiodical.
(@aperiodical has a Mathstodon account but they're letting it go stale instead of promoting their new posts...)
About mmn-o recommending Pleroma instead, I believe that was prior to the recent attempts of restoring active development on GS, we are honestly working on it: https://go.diogo.site/gsoc2019
Naturally, if in the end one opts for Pleroma or for GS, that's a matter of preference and both will have their advantages and disadvantages.
This year I'm a mentor on GS's SoC with @dansup and @MMN-o. High requirements were set and I'm demanding a lot from the applicants on their proposals. It will be hard work but I believe we will be successful :)
Today is the 50th anniversary of RFC-1, which in a sense means that programmers have now been chatting and arguing about the internet for 50 years. https://write.as/365-rfcs/50-years-of-rfcs
I'm upgrading my T430 to full 1080p, but accidentally ordered the converter board for a T430s. I was able to remove the S-model connector and jam a normal T430 connector into the input port, but have no idea if this will actually work yet.
@codesections Hi! I'm a #guix contributor and some of the cool things about it are the ability to have a central declarative configuration for your whole system, the fact that you can install incompatible software (for instance if they require a different version of some dependency), the per-user profiles (and more, but with no nice UI), the reproducibility and the temporary environment (à la pypi, but much better). Feel free to ask more about these 😁 @grainloom