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• Post #4317271

  "we can't put that horse back in the barn" what are you talking about. horses aren't invincible.

• Post #3824692

  a nice unexpected benefit of godbolt.org is that it's making me aware of more system languages. today, i learned about the C3 language via the godbolt language pull-down menu. for prototyping purposes (not for production, which requires memory safety), C3 seemed to check a lot of boxes. but then i got to the part where it milkshake-ducks itself: https://c3-lang.org/faq/rejected-ideas/#unicode-identifiers they might as well have asked, "why would anyone think in their native language...

• Post #3764848

  oh hey, it's time for this meme again:

• Post #2751856

  so i guess everyone is going to have to figure out a retaliation strategy for "intelligent glasses". like, what's the proportionate response to a persistent, passive privacy violation?

• Post #2062544

  saw a post asking about the first 28 seconds of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRC4l4adlp0 ...basically asking, "How did they do that? Did they digitally remove Jim Henson from that shot?" And the first reply post basically started, "given that it was filmed in 1978, it's *unlikely* [emphasis mine] that they did that digitally", and... i'm getting the impression that modern public school history departments aren't doing their jo...

• Post #2062543

  periodic reminder that creationists don't know what darwinian evolution is. if given a pop quiz on the basic concepts, they would not be able to earn a passing grade.

• Post #2062541

  time is an illusion. st_mtime, doubly so.

• Post #1712495

  the most important thing to remember about political violence is that it is completely unacceptable unless you commit it by giving an order to the united states military.

• Post #1400796

  https://bsky.app/profile/accentedcinema.bsky.social/post/3mjpol5uafk2o

• Post #1400795

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116427051578430755 just realized another reason why this kind of slopgen hurts: it arrives at the end of a decade-ish period when we saw dramatic advances in (non-LLM) tech that legitimately enabled us to build a _correct_ understanding of code so much faster than before: godbolt.org; LSP mouse-hover & navigation; tree-sitter... we have an embarrassment of riches that coders in the 1980's would have killed for. and now people want to just.....

• Post #859629

  we have defer at home: #define GLUE_(a, b) a##b #define GLUE(a, b) GLUE_(a, b) template<typename Closure> struct DeferStruct { Closure c; DeferStruct(Closure &&c) : c(std::move(c)) {} ~DeferStruct() { c(); } }; #define defer [[gnu::nodebug]] DeferStruct GLUE(_defer_stmt_, __COUNTER__)= [&]

• Post #859628

  getting the sense that, if andy weir had been a fiftysomething in 1942, he would have criticized _casablanca_ for being "political", or "preachy", or "hitting you over the head with ~~the message~~"

• Post #357456

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116103965958818024 ...now reported by nyt: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/americas/cuba-oil-blockade-trump.html (readable from outside the paywall with the "reader" feature; tested in firefox & safari)

• Post #146068

  ICE just announced the phone number for their tip line: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcv2aef2oo2q As someone in the replies said: > Do not call them with fake tips. That would be very naughty indeed and only waste their valuable time. That's right. And definitely don't call from a line other than your personal phone. They may want to follow up! Definitely make sure that all of your complaints are 100% legit and make the *best* and *shortest* and **most efficient** po...