Post #2043711
2026-05-05 21:11 UTC
Replies (11)
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@geofflangdale@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 21:23
@regehr@mastodon.social Instructions I Won't Work With: PCMPESTRM
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@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-05 21:25
@regehr@mastodon.social like about PHP or MongoDB
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@iris@neuromatch.social 2026-05-05 21:33
@regehr@mastodon.social "I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio." This is my favorite genre of chemistry to read.
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@atsuzaki@types.pl 2026-05-05 21:38
@regehr@mastodon.social Things I Won't Work With: Computer
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@ionchy@types.pl 2026-05-05 21:41
@regehr@mastodon.social o I love this series
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@FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot 2026-05-05 21:56
@regehr@mastodon.social😁 Indeed. 😐
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@david@types.pl 2026-05-05 22:04
@regehr@mastodon.social it's just a little guy! it's like a little frog 🐸
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@twifkak@mas.to 2026-05-05 22:24
@regehr@mastodon.social I feel the CS version is more "people I won't work with"
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@DaleHagglund@hachyderm.io 2026-05-05 23:28
@regehr@mastodon.social I loved these "Things I Won't Work With Articles"... Yes, a software equivalent would he hilarious...
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@PeterLudemann@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-06 15:52
@regehr@mastodon.social In times like these, we need James Mickens, e.g. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf "... a systems programmer has seen the terrors of the world and understood the intrinsic horror of existence ... has written drivers for buggy devices whose firmware was implemented by a drunken child or a sober goldfish ... has traced a network problem across eight machines, three time zones, and a brief diversion into Amish country ..."
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@n1vux@mastodon.radio 2026-05-06 17:26
@regehr@mastodon.social There's an ongoing series Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ${topic}. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood My spouse and child having hyphenated have discovered that a few programmers still believe surnames consist only of alphabetic ASCII, even in this 21st Century! 🙄 Timezone and Daylight Savings Time being political decisions are amazingly taught with exceptions!