wil bierbaum
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putting the ‘grin’ in ‘chagrin’
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NEPŘÁTELSKÉ EMOCE 🇺🇦🇨🇿hot take: announcing use of coding agents in commit messages is unpaid and unfair advertising until we also do:
Assisted-by: a computer, editor, grep, sed, awk, manuals, gcc, black sabbath, pizza, some bongs, cat, coffee and a bit of thinking
Fabian Giesen@regehr circular "I can't believe it's not a butthole" design aside, I liked the original SGI logo.
The logo they had before that with the gradients and the 3D-rendered Necker Cube was Very 90s (attached)
but the original one... I think that holds up. They should've gone back to that, maybe tweaked the font a little if they wanted to signal "this is the 2000s edition", but this was good!
Microfractal 🫖
Existential ComicsThe modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.
Jan SchaumannAh, now we're getting to the *real* problem! And you're not crazy! All text on the internet is indeed converging on the same AI generated format:
✅ a confirming but reassuring statement
⭐️a few bullet points
🧠 a pithy "explanation" / guess
You see, even the content _not_ written by AI — like this post — now is 🌟 edited 🌟 by AI. But this is not all!
People are consuming this format and subconsciously begin to emulate it. 😴
Would you like me to give you more specific examples?
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺They always say computers are so good with numbers, but you can’t even store 2000 numbers in a single file!!
Try it out for yourself:
seq 1 2000 | tr '\n' ' '
cat > /tmp/wat.txt
<copy&paste the 2000 numbers from above, press enter, then ctrl+d to end input>
cat /tmp/wat.txt
wc /tmp/wat.txt
Or see my screencast here: https://asciinema.org/a/fLhMt640MqFWGuug
On a Mac, I can save even fewer numbers! But at least I get feedback that the line is full. How many numbers can your computer save?
Niki TonskyIf you throw an exception from the same place in your program multiple times, JVM will stop giving you stacktraces ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58696093/when-does-jvm-start-to-omit-stack-traces
Bob NystromLittle known fact, but when John Chowning first discovered/invented FM synthesis, it stood for "fuckin' mental synthesis". Yamaha made him come up with some mathematical "frequency modulation" nonsense instead in order to sell DX7s in regions with profanity laws.
Tom Lyon ✅Before transistors, relays were widely used in telephony switches. They were much slower, but much more reliable than vacuum tubes.
This 1951 booklet, "NO. 5 CROSSBAR" from Bell Labs describes the bad-ass mainframe of relays. Lots of photos and diagrams.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UBnLJIzYjpGu1401I6F3lDa9fWiXSBu5?usp=sharing
