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QotD: May the Fourth Be With You
From Screenage Wasteland: May the 4th be with you, screenagers! It’s Star Wars Day, and while we do have a new list (or three) in the works for the franchise, they won’t be ready until The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters later this month. Instead, we thought we’d throw out a real softball of a question to get some discussion…
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Higher order thinking and AI
On “Make Me Smart” episode “It’s tough our there for new college grads“, Kimberly Adams interviewed NYT writer Noam Scheiber. He mentioned in the world with so much AI, there’s still going to be a need for people who can synthesize and make a decision and make an argument. That stopped me cold because it’s…
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The Internet runs on garbage code
Anthropic accidentally released their Claude source code. There are humans checking out this code and upset about how the terrible nature. I’m 27 years into working in IT. I’ve seen open source programming code and proprietary programming. Sometimes it’s thoughtful, well documented, and clear what’s intended. Most of the time, I’m amazing the junk actually…
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Too short; had to read too much
The incident management system has a nice feature where when changes happen on a ticket, it puts something in a notification pull down where I can easily go to see what’s new. My only problem is the listing basically says “Follow Update – CMP-INC1…” for everything. There’s no way to tell what it’s an update…
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Message in a bottle
Maggie Smith of The Slowdown podcast on the Make Me Smart podcast called writing like a message in bottle. It’s putting thoughts out into the world without really knowing who will read it. Without knowing who or how it will affect others. I’ve had this blog since 2000. That’s over a quarter century of messages. Thousands…
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“Citizen portal”
I have a Google saved search on certain work related keywords that populate RSS feeds I then read in Inoreader. One called “Student finance chief outlines Georgia Match, Promise Scholarship and HOPE administration” caught my eye because I work on some Georgia Match stuff. This article reads like a beat reporter attended the session and…
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Systems are the modern mammoth problem
This sat in my drafts for a couple years. ===== I had a flippant reply to this tweet. And then I spiraled thinking about it. By the end of ice ages, humanity hunted large mammals like mammoths to extinction. We also eliminated giant sloths, sabertooth tigers, among others. Hunting these creatures required cooperation, coordination, planning,…
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WP Advanced Custom Fields Extended plugin bug gives admin
Your friendly reminder to minimize the WordPress plugins you deploy to what you actually need. BleepingComputer has an article: A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrative permissions. ACF Extended, currently active on 100,000 websites, is a specialized plugin…