-

@KimCrayton1 Sometimes, if you email the authors, they'll send you a free copy. I hope you get the info you need.

@ruthmalan Long days, short years.

Teamwork is so precious. Cherish it when you find it. We can only go far together. AND: I am SO tired of solo work. I don't like it anymore; I don't WANT it anymore; I am sick of hearing myself hustle to push independent projects; and I am done TRYING to work with people who don't prioritize collective effort over the apparent (false) convenience of going it alone, or who have it in their heads that I would prefer being in total control of a collaborative project. I am extremely ready to pour myself into a relatively flat creative team where everyone trusts everyone else's distinct perspectives and unique contributions and we are all devoted to something greater than each and any of us. And yet it seems like most of the world either wants someone else to make all of the decisions, or they are so fearful and resentful of authority and leadership and/or vulnerability in a close collaboration that they can't even participate in one. We live in a society defined by broken homes, sundered families, fractured political movements, forked blockchains, bands that splintered into solo projects, and social networks that split up into competing experimental alternatives, comprised of people who are too proud to apologize, too hurt to see someone else's point of view, too swept up in the fantasy of making it somewhere faster alone to accept that the human story is the story of the success of altruistic coordination and thriving by giving one's self to something bigger, TOGETHER. And yet I can feel it growing: the desire to run off and lick my wounds, to give up on trying to foster mutualistic positive-sum group action, to accept being misunderstood, to face the fact we live in an age of engineered schisms and sometimes it is better just to "scatter, adapt, and remember" than to try and stand as one. But then I would be just like everybody else who lets their hurt determine how much love and art they have to offer. I am over looking at my lonely shadow and opposed to letting anybody think that I ENJOY performing as some guru on a hill. Better to say nothing than to help the world feed this gross fixation on the charismatic public intellectual or guitar hero or other such lie about the sacred individual. Let me know when you are ready to explore the networked, porous, indeterminate, unfolding and emergent truth of what we are. Let me know when you are tired of attempting to control the irreducible uncertainty. Let me know when you are done escaping from the mess of life and eager to explore the mystery of our becoming. These are the only partners I can stomach anymore. (I know that this is paradoxical and that I will not really get a choice...)

@RickHunter7 Fritos chile limon are the best

@fwiles @driscollis A little tip that nobody asked for: Experiment with the amount of water. Add a bit more every time until you get to a point where the masa is at the edge of being too wet to handle. It's easier to make thinner tortillas, and they cook better.

@rmcomplexity @driscollis I rolled some out last weekend and it was fine, but a little thick.

Dear Advertisers, I know I was searching around for a tortilla press for a few days. But I've bought one now. I don't need several, you can stop showing me ads for all the ones I didn't buy now. KTHXBYE.

@ErikWhiting4 Were those the best meals you've ever cooked or what?

@fwiles @driscollis Sorry but you could've used any heavy pan. Old school Mexican ladies simply use their hands 😅

@driscollis I try NOT to acquire too many single gadgets honestly, I used to but just find I can do most things with simpler multi-use tools. But this is one where there really isn't any other good option

@Grady_Booch Honestly, the problem in Software is neither productivity nor quality. The approach is wrong. We keep trying to drive the socio-technological system by adding complexity and more layers instead of moving with the system. Even if P or Q increment, it won't make a difference.

@RickHunter7 And salsa

No one never in the history of the Universe: Me, on every fancy restaurant: Me: Do you have corn tortillas for my {insert whatever fancy dish}? Waiter: 🤨 Me: 😌 Waiter: 🤨 Me: 🙄 Waiter: 🤨 Me: 😐 Waiter: 🤨 Me: 😐 Waiter: 😐 Me: 😐

Hey folks! Together with Trond, we have a workshop that is focused on on open system thinking, how how it can be applied to set strategic goals and evolve the organisation structure. We are looking for conferences where we can run the workshop. Do you have any suggestions?

@TechnologyTulip With constant change. The world around us constantly changes, which should drive changes in Software. The issue is that releasing new features is always a higher priority than evolving the current systems by getting feedback from the socio-technological system.

@VicVijayakumar There was this Django app and a dev wanted to get some sample prod data so another dev suggested the data dump command in Django to pull data from prod and the push it to local db by changing the local config. Push cmd had a typo and pushed an empty file to prod.

okay people are having trouble believing things like this actually happen so here’s the dumbest way I know of a database getting deleted- a team used to git checkout their releases manually. the release engineers would run `make deploy` which grabbed the environment variables to write them to the .env.local file, clear the app cache, and reload the web server. this fateful day the engineer checked out the code, then typed `make`, and hit return. the makefile was configured with a default target of `all` which ran if you didn’t specify a target. `all` did all the usual things, and then, because this command was only ever supposed to run on dev machines, also helpfully ran `test`. `test` truncated the “local” database using the config present in the .env.local files, then ran the test suite. all tests passed 🙃 thankfully this happened on staging and they fixed it before someone inevitably ran it on prod.

@JonG0uld @DjangoCareers Can't DM you 'cuz I'm not verified but I raise my hand for dev although depends on how much time is expected.

We are going to be starting a new project in January and looking for volunteers to help. @DjangoCareers needs to come to life in 2024 - built with #Django of course, beyond that we will need the following profiles. Designer Developer PM **This will be unpaid work**

@jessitron I agree. Is walking the walk for understanding?

"Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting." Foucault

@techgirl1908 @fturriaf Marketing. We didn't see this with Blockchain because it's a different platform. This time is a tool you integrate within your current process, so adoption is easier These tools still don't solve any of the problems we have, and it's too costly, imho.

@fturriaf not quite. we saw VC hype but not massive practitioner adoption. this doesn't feel like that to me

I cant adequately describe the feeling in SF these days. I've been here 3x in the last few months and everyone is laser focused on AI. The billboards, the airport signs - all ads for some sort of AI solution. I've seen fads in this industry. This doesn't feel like one.

And if you think this only happens in Silicon Valley, think about the last time you asked for a little bit more time to refactor something that didn't feel right and was met with a "but is working already, and we need to move this to the right."

@RickHunter7 I can't grow that magnificent beard 😔

What's stopping you from coding like this?

I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF. When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening. 1/16

@TechnologyTulip Are you talking about actual people or LLMs? /s

@simonw @f_j_j_ It's the same with old school code. You can "teach" a computer to loop through an array of "stuff" by writing a for loop, but it will fail when you give it a non-array value. Is a for loop "gullible" because it thought the world was nothing but arrays?

@simonw @f_j_j_ This is my point. What kind of summary do you want? Does the page have any events? The implementation of an LLM cannot discern those details. Only the human using it could know what's essential from the ask.

The key thing to understand about LLM security is that they are incredibly gullible, and we don't know how to fix that Prompt injection and jailbreaking both stem from this same fundamental characteristic