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  • @gargron@mastodon.social that actually makes a lot of sense. I don't want to subscribe to the idea that you're on your way to the third E (😝)... that you're simply trying to stay in your lane is the simplest most logical explanation.

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  • @hiker @Mastodon @fediversereport Probably the body best suited to publish something like a fediverse share tool is the @swf. Regardless, I think we're well within our rights to publish a tool our users asked for, catered to our own platform. Not everything has to be for everyone. PeerTube has a PeerTube app and Sepia Search, nobody is upset (nor should they be) that those don't work with Mastodon.

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  • @cwebber Not only do I hear stuff like this from regular brogrammers, I've even heard it from people I've traditionally admired a great deal for being (to date) serious developers and stewards of platforms & APIs.

    I. Don't. Get. It. At. All.

    Please make it make sense!! (I know, it doesn't… 😭)

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  • @tassoman non c'era modo di spegnerlo senza poter vedere lo schermo, e lo schermo era morto

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  • @cwebber LLM-boosting colleagues keep making this assertion and then retracting it after they see my facial expression

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  • @hiker @Mastodon @fediversereport My impression is that a lot of people would be upset with us if we published something claiming to be a "fediverse" tool, as if we own the fediverse. Of course, there's also not nearly the same amount of brand recognition for the fediverse as a concept. There are at least 3 unofficial symbol proposals and most people outside the fediverse aren't familiar with any of them.

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  • @cwebber in the context of rewriting code, though, I think they should be treated like a "translation" tool (like compilers and linkers) and should not be able to change the copyright of the original (other than adding more ambiguity, I suppose).

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  • @cwebber exactly this. on the flip side, their seemed to be a vast desire among management types and maybe hobbyists for some super easy super high level language. but idk if it's even worth going there. avoiding the details only works until it doesn't

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 18Are you comfortable making a reader uncomfortable? How far will you go?See "Equoid" (a novella about unicorns which, I am told, ruined "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" *forever*).I don't write cozies: I'm pretty sure anyone picking up a Charlie Stross story knows this by now.
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    Postscript wrt. #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 13:My current WIP contains some obscure words. Per scrivener, some dictionary words used once (in 116,000) include:efficaciousblithechandlerphenethylaminedisparagementmultimodalferrulepalatinateablutionspostillionflatulenthalitosisinstarichneumonobnubliatedattestationsheterocyclicgumptionburgravestylops(etc.)I like to exercise my readers!
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 16, How much work goes into naming your characters?I'm generally shit at naming characters, although they can serve as useful world-building reference points.Current WIP is set in a crapsack Ruritanian space empire. The noble houses are all named after various species of parasite. (My MCs family is named for the Hippo arse leech, Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi, which drinks blood from the soft lining of the hippo's rectum and can only mate and spawn there.)
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    @SteveClough @cstross I write nothing more creative than documentation for the software I produce, but people misunderstand that, too.The experience of people misunderstanding my docs, or simply failing to read them, was one of the things that turned me away from evangelicalism. (I bet you didn't see that coming.) I wasn't using parables to hint at ineffable spiritual truths in the face of religious persecution: I was just explaining how software worked, how to see its current state, and how to configure and maintain systems. People who were paid to read and understand this material would not or could not do so: their repeated questions made it obvious. Within a very few years, instead of reading TFM, people developed folk stories of commands they could type that usually did something that could be mistaken for success. They veered constantly off-course, and I kept having to drag them back. They consulted each other, rather than the docs, and developed their own mythology about how the software worked. They intuitively felt they knew the software better than I did, because my approach to problem-solving was careful and methodical but they knew a golden shortcut.If concrete, human-level explanations, written out literally, landed so badly, there's no chance that people will have remembered the figurative and unfathomable teachings of Jesus seventy years after his death, written them down accurately and fully, and built from them a useful picture of worlds seen and unseen and the will of God. I'm sorry; it just doesn't ring true.