Notices by Jamey Sharp (jamey@toot.cat), page 5

you see the angry peasants all around me, screaming at me and telling me to shut up about graph theory? well, this is what's called a "hub and spoke" pattern,

Hubris? I'm much too smart for that.

Why are 2D graphics so much harder than 3D?
https://blog.mecheye.net/2019/05/why-is-2d-graphics-is-harder-than-3d-graphics/

@nex3 pride month started with a riot, so it was both pride and wrath. If we continue to double them up we can start inventing *new* sins in like 2-3 months

read (present tense) and read (past tense) is similar to function overloading in C++

in this essay i will discuss the similarities between the history of C++ and English

as a note, the ISS is not covered by $5 flat-rate shipping

pls vote in my very important poll! am kitn researcher :blobcat3c:

So we started shipping WebRender in Firefox a few weeks ago. Completely new rendering engine written in rust, big departure from how we approached rendering before. We are gradually enabling it for different hardware/OS configurations and a couple of million users have it now.

What's kind of blowing my mind, having worked on 3 large-ish rewrites, is that since WebRender shipped, telemetry has reported less crashes per user with WebRender than without.

This is *not* how big rewrites usually go.

being a paleolithic archeologist who's interested in the new york city area must suck. people would get the totally wrong idea when you'd tell them you're into Queens of the Stone Age

me with my computer: ah, the boot process is stalling before login but after POST and general init. it could be the hard drive failing, likely the motor. just to be sure, I should check system unit status in an emergency shell, as well as SMART.
me with my car: buhhh lights go blinky and I don't like it

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

#society #productivity #value #worthlessness #tinysnekcomics

steppy

why the fuck is CBP still around Borders went under in 2011

i've spent my entire life practicing sleeping every night, and i still suck at it