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 modern programming is like, "if you're using bongo.rs to parse http headers, you will need to also install bepis to get buffered read support. but please note that bepis switched to using sasquatch for parallel tokenization as of version 0.0.67, so you will need the bongo-sasquatch extension crate as well." old-time programming is like, "i made a typo in this function in 1993. theo de raadt got so angry he punched a wall when he saw it. for ABI compatibility reasons, we shan't fix the typo." Them: So you're the soothsayer, you can tell us what is to come Me: Ha ha no common misconception; I'm the oofsayer, I can only commiserate in your misfortunes Them: So we wasted all this time searching for you Me: Oof
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@krisajenkins hi! love the videos; have you thought about talking with Dr. Hipp of sqlite fame? Between sqlite, their own vcs fossil, and their testing practices in TCL, (and business model for public domain code?) I think you’d find topics to expand on. @marinintim Ooh, that's an interesting thought. Yes, I'll add him to my list of people to get in touch with. Thanks! 👍 This Recall thing is a prime example of how bad we are at understanding when something is a systemic problem. It doesn't matter if *you* disable it. It doesn't matter if *you* install Linux. It doesn't matter if *you* set your computer on fire and move to a Luddite commune. If you have *ever* sent sensitive data, no matter how securely, to another person who now has this shit enabled, and they find your data and look at it, your data is compromised, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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 @confluency moving to Linux helps. Of course more SSNs will be leaked with all other identifying metrics attached to it to make it easy for people to be hit with ID theft.  @confluency This is why we must curate our friends wisely and refuse to talk about anything sensitive or personal with people who still use Windows and refuse to listen @confluency A regulated financial organisation I once knew had a stringent rule that widows users COULD NOT connect to the production system (Sun), because they were already so insecure. I and one other consultant on my team could, because we had SPARC laptops.  @SmudgeTheInsultCat pssst Ancient Greek sculptures were predominantly Bronze, the stone ones are Roman copies. ;) show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. show me your tables, and I’m still going to be mystified, like who is this guy and why is he showing me his tables I think about this tweet so much when I see stories like this about climate change
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  @repeattofade I think about one (that I didn't archive or save) about how we won't believe it could affect us until we see it in portrait mode on our couch or something like that  @repeattofade I don't know where I heard this, but I'll keep repeating it: "Either we manage climate change, or climate change manages us."
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  @s0 already using this on my 256 GB bootstick :nkouwu: (no I don't have a problem, I promise) I've really enjoyed taking the time to realllllyyy scratch itches and niches that I've been annoyed by for two decades. Things like, "I wish I could make a usable web-based tool for my programming language without badly implementing half of a usable text editor... again" https://typesafety.net/rob/blog/endless-sketchzone (All things considered I'd prefer my job search to have panned out by now... 🙃 but even so... 🤷) @simrob that’s rad! btw here’s a sort of sketchzone (love the term) I made a while back https://slate-explorer.glitch.me/ and a post about it https://jaked.org/blog/2021-02-26-Slate-Explorer Announcing the public launch of of Open Torment, a FOSS alternative to The Torment Nexus. For more than a year, policy makers have been worried about the consequences of AI getting too powerful. But it’s time to start worrying about the consequences of AI staying as dumb it currently is. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link):
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 @Julia I don't know if the AI investment bubble *will* burst soon, but I 100% believe it should. It is a powerful technology when applied to the right problems in the right ways, but imo those make up a vanishing fraction of the ways it's being used today. (Side note: I've been ruling out so many job postings for use cases I don't trust are good applications of AI, y'all. So many things I know how to do but think shouldn't be done in the first place. It's painful.) @Julia Those of you in the anti-AI league are on the losing side. Painters wept inconsolably for the loss of romanticism when photography was discovered, etc. etc. etc. (give thousands of examples here). And the funny thing is: eventually everything will fall into place. AI is here to stay. It is wonderful. You have to adapt or get screwed.  @Julia Well said. One thing AI may be useful for is finding out which memos and documents we don’t actually need, because AI can both write and read them. If we learn to stop wasting time on those, the effort will not have been wasted. me: “I wish people would stop calling individual blog posts ‘a blog.’”
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@andybaio Dutch people started calling messages ‘apps’ (because of WhatsApp), so everything goes I guess  @andybaio I am seeing no discussion about the use of "blog" as a verb so I assume that's okay. 🤓 *leaves to go do some blogging* Thanks everyone! We closed the loop! Most websites are now publishing algorithmic generated content in order to please ranking algorithms from search engines in order to display generated ads that will be clicked by crawling bots and automatically generated social profiles. No humans needed any more! Which means that you can now close your laptop, watch a sunset and talk to real humans near you. Enjoy your life far from your screen.
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 @ploum it's getting that way... According to one study some 50% of Internet traffic is bot activity. #deadinternet here we come! https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/dead-internet-web-bots-humans-b2530324.html @ploum which supports my theory that the corporation is the dominant organism on this planet. In a city called The Dalles, in Oregon, USA, local people were worried that Google’s water use was soaring. As is so often the case, the city officials, who had given Google hundreds of millions in tax breaks, had no intention of letting anyone know how much water Google was using. It was up to a local paper, The Oregonian, to try and find out. They were forced to bring a case to court. City officials were ordered by Google to claim that Google’s use of scarce public water was a “trade secret”.
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 @gerrymcgovern @mhoye Wondering if I could get away with that at a job. Just do something totally unexpected and with zero regard for anyone around me and if anyone starts to ask questions, just tell them that no one had been told previously because it was my trade secret.  @gerrymcgovern The fuck? I thought like 80% of the reason they built in an old aluminum plant was because it came with two turbines at The Dalles Dam next door and direct access to Columbia River water so they wouldn't have to use city water... Also there's a Dallas, Oregon and the Marion County road department thinks it's funny to post The Dalles signs pointing in the opposite direction of Dallas signs, even though there's no reason to post The Dalles anywhere in the county...
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 @designthinkingcomic I spent a few hours at the woodshop in my local makers space yesterday. I am still very tired and sore today.  @designthinkingcomic There was a "Behind the Ball" segment in one episode of Extreme Dodgeball featuring a pro athlete talking about the time between their former sport and their new one, and how they'd tried gardening. They said something to the effect of "There's just something about getting down in the dirt and working directly with Mother Nature... that I really didn't care for." @designthinkingcomic And then you also get covered in poison ivy and in the end the rabbits eat your garden. "The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means." Ursula K. Le Guin   I would like to apologise to all Danes for spilling the beans on this but Jeans are referred to as "cowboybukser" (cowboy pants) in Danish By extension, all denim clothes are cowboy-whatever in Danish As a result of this, my partner's washing machine has a setting that's only labelled "Cowboy"
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 @anarchiv - Note to self: Look into importing a washing machine from Denmark, so I'm prepared next time I need to buy one. frequency can be used to measure things that really feel like they should use different units. "how often should my OS check the state of the keyboard" "middle C" this is technically a coherent answer
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 @lily "The note C5 is 40 octaves below light green" 12
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@saddestrobots I mean this is literally what happened to the 'Referer' header in HTTP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
tl;dr, it should be spelled 'Referrer', but since it got baked into the spec back in the 90's we still have to use the misspelled version.
@saddestrobots /me * laughs in #bash whilst workibg on @OS1337 *