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heiglandreas

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Father. Husband. PHP-Nerd. Draughtsman. Soil-Scientist. Brewer. Rescue-Diver. OSS-Maintainer. Challenge-Accepter.

Homebase roughly 50N 8E

@ teamup.com, ingewikkeld.net & stella-maris.solutions

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cstross , to random
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Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.

(Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.)
https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206

heiglandreas ,
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@Npars01 @cstross what makes up a "male" or "female" voice?

heiglandreas ,
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@Npars01 Thanks. A lot to read through!

what I noticed on a quick glance though were a lot of "in general", "usually" and "often". Which makes me wonder whether a lot of the difference we are used to regarding voice and gender is based on culture, upbringing and learning rather than actual differences in the "instrument".

Like we can hear that a Guitar is played by a Gary Moore or a Mark Knopfler.

/cc @cstross

futurebird , to random
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I was reading about carbon dating and tree rings and got interested in "Miyake Events" These are based on compelling evidence from tree rings and ice cores. I may post more about them later, but is was a pleasant surprise to find out Dr. Fusa Miyake is a woman. I can't recall many mysterious, cool "events" or "effects" ... "syndromes" ... named after women. I did kinda just assume Miyake was some Japanese dude. WRONG. She is in fact some Japanese lady.

It made me smile so I thought I'd share.

heiglandreas ,
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@futurebird Dendrochronology is amazing!

Crell , to random
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This video is about , but it's comments about error handling are valid for anyone in any language. PHP friends especially, this is the kind of stuff I've been ranting about for a while now. :-)

https://youtu.be/sbVxq7nNtgo

heiglandreas ,
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@Crell Yeeeeaaaah..... No. 😁

I have my issues with tze GOTO example and while, yes: Errors aren't Exceptions, returning Results is for the calling code the same as checking for null (or false or whatever nifty progammers decided to use when something goes south) in the return value of a function.

But perhaps that's a tad more than fits in a toot 🙈

heiglandreas ,
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@Crell Don't get me wrong! I'm not saying that Results are the same as null! But they require the same handling as null - with the added benefit that I get a detailed information WHAT went wrong.

But I delegate Problem Handling now to my main happy path code.

It's 2 different ways to handle circumstances where something went south.

One delegates that to the calling code and the other one delegates that to dedicated problem handling code

tzimmer_history , to random
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The biggest challenge in 2024 is to get enough people to actually listen to what Trump and those around him are openly, consistently, and explicitly promising to do once they get back to power.

It is utterly deranged, and discounting it as just rhetoric would be a disaster.

heiglandreas ,
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@tzimmer_history The troubling thing is that far too many people are actually listening to what Trump and those around him - and a lot of others in other countries - are openly, consistently and explicitly are promising.

And they can't wait for it!

ramsey , to random
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I keep getting job rejections due to “lack of experience,” and if that isn’t the most disheartening thing to hear after having worked in an industry for over 25 years, I don’t know what is.

heiglandreas ,
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@michelle @itsjoshbruce @ramsey @Crell The trouble being that the community 8s rather fragmented. There*s WordPress, Laravel, Symfony, Typo3, Drupal, Magento, Shopware(to name a few) that to the outside appear to be separate from PHP.

So while people might not be looking for PHP people they in fact are when they look for Laravel or Symfony or... people.

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