Notices by josef (jk@mastodon.social), page 19

the fucked up thing about programming is that nobody ever says "it's cool the way you use a for loop there! i like the way you named those variables, those are good names" the only say "why did you do it like that, thats the way a baby would program. youre a baby. and not even one of the babies who can program"

only just realized that it's called Q*Bert because hes hoppin around on those cubes. cubert

if i see a blog i enjoy, can i send them blogpats

extremely me, every day:

hey i have a lot of stuff to do today.

*doesnt do it*

good night! see u tomorrow hehe

cant believe my VPS host would force-reboot my system just because of some so-called "industry-wide critical CPU security flaw". who knows if apache will come back up

@blackle a TED talk, about Herbie Hancock, where every couple of minutes it cuts to Herbie Hancock in the audience looking puzzled & amused

ah yes the internationally-recognized 5 levels of academic qualification

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sigh
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@djsundog shes the only person ive actually seen playing a fairlight series III

tired: ACK
wired: THANK

65-bit memory addressing - the MSB is the Thanks Bit, which the CPU uses to say "thank you!" to the RAM after each successful read

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@djsundog @twitter its fucked up they just called it the 'tube' as it was an alternative mode of transport to a bus

for about a year ive been thinkin about this: i wanna take the concept of the most simplistic but actually USEFUL computer (e.g. a early-1980s micro) and build upon it, instead of going in the same directions that ended up happening in the late 80s-90s, just keep adding & improving stuff until it's useful to ME, completely ignoring what other people and The Market decided was valuable. it'll have huge holes in its feature-set... but the things it does do? it'll do them in a really lovely way!!!!

@ctrlaltdog i think the self-selected demographic of 'linux fans' or long-time hobby users that, for better or worse, represents it, have the issue of being people who, whilst they DO use linux to get stuff done, their primary reason for using linux is... so they can use linux. What feels to me like an arbitrary slog through endless obscure problem solving probably feels to them like the joy of mastering a difficult musical instrument or a complex board game. as such they're resistant to change!

gonna install a script which, whenever i type "i will do <thing>" or even "i promise to do <thing>" it appends the string ", but i can't make any promises!"

everyone mocked me when i posted this a year ago but now ur all seeing my infosec genius huh

me: okay uhhh, 'pattern'

ebay: *100,000 Camouflage War Army Pattern clothing items*

me: uhh ummm... uhh... well. okay how about 'leaves'

ebay: *100,000 marijuana leaf pattern clothing items*

me: for fuck's sake!! i can't--- oh wait i'm searching in the category "MEN'S clothing"

whny didn't they call that bug uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh "cache bandicoot"

we shoulda been using lisp machines this whole time