⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Early cassette-based ROMs never took off because of speed issues, and a lack of very tiny pencils.

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

— anonymous

#programmers

A moment of silence, please. My beautiful 1541-ii stopped reading disks last night, completely without warning. We’re still in shock.

Thankfully, her twin has sprung into action. But we’re still in mourning.

RIP (for now)

If I need to knock out a little boilerplate in a language I don't understand? Sure, I will happily use a bullshit generator for a chickenshit job.

But if I need to build anything that lasts, then I'm going to have to do the work myself, because the major part of the work is in *understanding* the situation (the users, their needs, the team, the history, the code), and carefully improving it, not in just typing shit out.

Is it possible that tools can accelerate this? Sure. I've been using an IDE as brain augmentation for 20+ years. I think it would be amazing if I could automate myself out of a job. But at best here I think we'll see some improved autocomplete, and at worst I think we'll see, as we have before, people generating absolute reams of garbage code that other people then have to maintain and clean up.

13/

The Expanse ended 2 years ago today on Prime.

The Series Finale of The Expanse won a Hugo Award, against Andor, For All Mankind and Stranger Things.

We're still waiting to hear about the adaptation of the last third of the books (the Laconia arc), and we won't lose hope. ✊

Took the kids to Melbourne Museum today to see 'Relics', a temporary exhibition depicting a post-apocalyptic world where LEGO minifigs have risen from the debris to craft new civilisations in discarded human artefacts.

I have to say that this repurposed old Space Invaders cab certainly caught my eye.

#lego #retrogaming #videogames #arcadegames #museum #melbourne

When you are in need of a box for a wedding gift, but you have non:
Use the bricks you already have at home ;)
#lego# afob #afol #wedding #gift

⭐ The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit https://aftermath.site/the-internet-is-full-of-ai-dogshit

"The once ubiquitous phrase “let me Google that for you” is now meaningless. You are as likely to return incorrect information as you are complete fabrications, and the people who put this content on the Internet do not care"

Yep. Google is basically useless at this point for anything beyond specific programming problems. I really need to look at other search engines.

📌 https://rknight.me/links/the-internet-is-full-of-ai-dogshit/

Remember, Old World religions are all lies.

We all know that thanks to Friend Computer, when we die we will be born again in a new body, given the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of our past selves.

We are all destined to reincarnate until either we run out of clone back-ups or improve ourselves in the eye of Friend Computer to merit being issued new ones.

All hail The Computer.

#Paranoia #RPG #TTRPG #games #game #religion #belief #clones #amen

Rest in peace Terry Bisson (who wrote the short story this short film is based on, among other things):

https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg

The short story: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

#scifi #TerryBisson #TheyreMadeOutOfMeat

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/

An other banger from @pluralistic

The early days of #Linux https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/

Welcome to all new Gladiators!

And here are your new champions.

she'll get in and mess with your partitions, it is... FDISK!
you'll do his bidding, it is... SUDO!
you'll never escape, it is... VIM!
wherever you are, they'll find you, it is... GREP!
the two twins who'll manipulate your strings, it is... AWK and SED!

And here's your host, HYPERVISOR!

This is how headlines about abortion care being determined by judges should be written. "The Supreme Court Will Decide if States Can Force Hospitals to Let Women Die". Thank you Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-states-emergency-abortion-1234945425/

@acontios When I was at (large British ISP) one of the techs looked down the transatlantic STM-1 "to see what would happen". Half an hour later he started to get some vision back in that eye.