tefformer main character. they/them is fine
tefit is kinda funny that a bunch of people are arguing for "i don't need to understand what my code does, or even try" and then getting mad when people laugh at them outright
"you can't just dismiss me out of hand, you haven't even tried to understand my point" alas we are now liberated from meaning
tef@misty@digipres.club years ago, decades even, i bumped into the "stuff white people like" post about how we love raising awareness and honestly i will never unsee it
there's this belief that with enough attention a problem gets solved, and that we as consumers set the narrative and the press reports on it
and well it's usually a cruel awakening when it's "wait why didn't they cover our protest" happens for the first time
i should stop before i turn into a chomsky parody
tef@misty@digipres.club aside, my "you are not immune to propaganda" moment, of many, was realising that in a "the purpose is what it does" way, the function of NASA was so that america could employ war criminals to build rockets to carry nuclear weapons, while putting a happy civilian smile on the end product
cf why the shuttle is like that, to steal satellites heh
the cognitive dissonance is akin to the NYT, which also hires war criminals, but to write propaganda, rather than engineering
tef@misty@digipres.club maybe i'm projecting from plucky britain over here but i see a lot of "america endures" type pieces heh
tef@misty@digipres.club years ago, decades even, i bumped into the "stuff white people like" post about how we love raising awareness and honestly i will never unsee it
there's this belief that with enough attention a problem gets solved, and that we as consumers set the narrative and the press reports on it
and well it's usually a cruel awakening when it's "wait why didn't they cover our protest" happens for the first time
i should stop before i turn into a chomsky parody
tef@misty@digipres.club feel good small business stories do reinforce the narrative that "all businesses are just mom and pop business at heart" sure
which isn't to say it's selected for its propaganda but it is to say it isn't rejected like stories of "another business goes under" for being too depressing
people like to quote the "if one guy says it's raining and one guy says it isn't, your job as a journo is to look out the window"
but do not add "so i don't have to look every time"
tef@misty@digipres.club maybe i'm projecting from plucky britain over here but i see a lot of "america endures" type pieces heh
tef@misty@digipres.club as bill hicks once put it "go back to bed america" heh
the news story isn't about the protests against the changes, or attempts to push back against the border, but that the american can-do attitude shines forth again, etc
tef@misty@digipres.club feel good small business stories do reinforce the narrative that "all businesses are just mom and pop business at heart" sure
which isn't to say it's selected for its propaganda but it is to say it isn't rejected like stories of "another business goes under" for being too depressing
people like to quote the "if one guy says it's raining and one guy says it isn't, your job as a journo is to look out the window"
but do not add "so i don't have to look every time"
tefthat said and done maybe CanCancel is the right one, as the client doesn't actually care what the thing is, and only really cares about "should i send a cancel if i give up" so maybe i'm overthinking it
tefpeople do love to over estimate the amount of mathematics in programming when a lot of it boils down to word play
tefthe larger issue is more accurately "this is a server side resource being held open for the client and it will expire if you do nothing, and also if you do not need it, it would be nice if you told the server if possible"
and although these properties usually happen to be true at same time, i'm also working out if "things that can only expire and not be cancelled" exists in a useful sense
tefthat said and done maybe CanCancel is the right one, as the client doesn't actually care what the thing is, and only really cares about "should i send a cancel if i give up" so maybe i'm overthinking it
teffwiw, i have some long running operation on a server, which can be cancelled by the client, and i'm looking for a good way to say "and make sure to cancel this if you give up"
rather than something that only implies "you can cancel this if you want", or worse "you should cancel this"
like CancelOnError rather than CanCancel or ShouldCancel
tefthe larger issue is more accurately "this is a server side resource being held open for the client and it will expire if you do nothing, and also if you do not need it, it would be nice if you told the server if possible"
and although these properties usually happen to be true at same time, i'm also working out if "things that can only expire and not be cancelled" exists in a useful sense
teffor some reason, managers like to think programming is the bit where i'm using a keyboard, rather the bit where i'm actually thinking about a problem
when i'm at a computer it usually means i'm debugging
teffwiw, i have some long running operation on a server, which can be cancelled by the client, and i'm looking for a good way to say "and make sure to cancel this if you give up"
rather than something that only implies "you can cancel this if you want", or worse "you should cancel this"
like CancelOnError rather than CanCancel or ShouldCancel
tefdoing some programming: walking around the block for 20-30 minutes as i try to think of the right word or name for a thing
teffor some reason, managers like to think programming is the bit where i'm using a keyboard, rather the bit where i'm actually thinking about a problem
when i'm at a computer it usually means i'm debugging