22 December 2024

21 links · Sunday

Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects

Have you watched The IT Crowd? It’s a hilarious British television sitcom from around 2006 that cast a bunch of IT geniuses at the Reynholm Industries tech support department in London. One of the signature laughs is that every time the phone rang, Roy would p…

Propositional Logic

Propositional logic is the study of the inferential relationships among sentences. It focuses on the role of propositional connectives.

Feeling seen - Byte Tank

Celebration of external validation, and possible countermeasures

BSA’s new member model creates embarrassing membership loss

Scouting America (nee Boy Scouts of America) will likely have a large 2024 youth-membership loss. It's likely due to its new rolling-membership scheme. By December 31, 2024, BSA SA will likely have a 2.4% member loss. If nothing changes, it will reach 14% by A…

Carpalx - keyboard layout optimizer

Three fully optimized layouts are presented here. Each provides an optimial typing experience with a slightly different letter mask. Use of the pinky is reduced and hand alternation is increased over popular alternatives like Colemak.

Building Custom RSS Feeds for LWN.net

If you’ve spent a bit of time in the Linux community, especially anything kernel-related, you may be familiar with Linux Weekly News. It’s an invaluable resource for kernel development news, security updates, and general open source coverage. While they offer …

Lonely Weekends

A personal account of experiencing weekend loneliness during PhD studies, exploring how friend dynamics change with relationships, and discovering that committed relationships with family and partners are crucial for overcoming isolation and achieving success.

The Cherry Pick Ratio

Generative AI's 'Cherry Pick Ratio' measures how many outputs a user must generate to find a useful result, impacting user tolerance and adoption.