bitwize

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by bitwize 7mo ago
People literally specifying software into existence in 2026 gives this quote a vibe of "aerodynamically speaking, bumblebees cannot fly".
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Bahahahahahaha. You sweet summer child. The things I've seen at certain worksites...
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by bitwize 7mo ago
So how well would a candidate do if they looked at that and thought "whoa, is Tcl really tail recursive?!"
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Some things I noticed: • When writing for myself, I tend to open a buffer and just ramble. I write like I speak, which is how someone I know irl clocked my Hackernews account. • My wife appreciates the writing I produce this way. Sometimes
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by bitwize 7mo ago
"If I sprain my ankle While I'm robbing your place; If I hurt my knuckles When I punch you in the face... I'm gonna sue! Sue! Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do! Sue! Sue! I might even sue you!" —Weird Al Yankovic,
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Should have followed the example of Super Mario Galaxy 2, and provided two buttons labelled "Yeah" and "Sure".
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Of course she's from Oregon. This is close to the most Oregon activity imaginable.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
"Emacsen" I can understand by analogy with plural forms like "oxen". "Lispen" is new to me.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Nothing geopolitical about it in the sense I intended, except as a reference to the Vietnam-era catchphrase. It's simply a case of "putting spyware on everybody's corporate PC for security is like fucking for virginity".
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Yes, exactly. In the realpolitik of organizational IT security, there's less of an emphasis on making systems more resilient to attack, much more of an emphasis on having an audit trail, so that in case the company is sued over a data
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by bitwize 7mo ago
A used ThinkPad with way more than 8 GiB of RAM can cost way less than $600. I picked two up for $300 each. You're not gonna run frontier open-source models on it but it's a very nice dumb machine for basic tasks, or even the arch
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I've found that many repair shops acknowledge the existence of two smartphone brands: Apple and Samsung. Bring anything else in and the most you get is a puzzled look. Apple has the distinction of the iPhone being what everybody thinks
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by bitwize 7mo ago
The "Fucking for Virginity" approach to infosec strikes again!
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by bitwize 7mo ago
This. No hire if, when asked an open-ended question, the candidate does not namedrop unprompted the components of the company's actual production tech stack. Clearly they're not knowledgeable about the engineering aspects of the j
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I remember ThePrimeagen tackling this topic a year ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLx2q-UnH6M
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Emacs isn't popular. It might've been in the 90s, but its star has faded now. It has niche appeal at best. Virtually everyone I interact with professionally views it as a dim memory best left in the past, or as something just insc
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by bitwize 8mo ago
In New Orleans, protesters against outsiders acquiring and developing real estate hold up signs that read "Say Tchoupitoulas" (/ˌtʃɑp ə ˈtuː ləs/). I give my wife lots of hassle about the pronunciations of Louisiana plac
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Actual multithreading, and a UI that was state-of-the-art sometime later than 1978, might be a good beginning.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Thought that was going to be a reference to AM, the malevolent AI from "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream".
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Mark: So how do I get started in Common Lisp? Nolan: That's the neat thing—you don't. One of the interesting and, depending on your perspective, perhaps unfortunate side effects of LLM-assisted development becoming the standard is
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by bitwize 8mo ago
You have to sign the FSF's CLA (and clear your contributions with your employer) to contribute to Emacs itself. To ship a separate package to ELPA you need not do this.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Kids will find a way to sneak around their parents every time, esp. if their friends (or a groomer) introduce them to something "cool". Active parental monitoring alone isn't really a solution.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Turns out there are a number of profoundly negative social consequences to giving everyone a general purpose computing device with always-on internet connectivity. Malware, piracy, CSAM, revenge porn, people goaded into self-destruction by
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Time for a black band.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Fitting as Apple have been a complete bell end lately.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
I started going to tech meetups in the nearest large city. The tech scene is utter crap there compared to SF or Boston but I get to interact with a few smart, like-minded people almost each week. My wife says it's been good for me. Mar
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Na na na na, na na na na na na... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y0BerpDmVSE (sorry, that effect gives me 90s flashbacks)
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Word is a WYSIWYG document editor with built-in version control and annotations. In order to match that feature set with something like Markdown, you'd basically have to reinvent Word in all ways but for file format. And if you expect
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Pandoc could convert between .doc/.docx and .md, but having that in LibreOffice would still be a welcome and obvious convenience.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
At least with personal computers and your own programming skills, you could live off-grid and hack, and be kinda cottagecore, like Paul Lutus or those 100rabbits people. But if you depend on plugging yourself into the sloppotron to do any

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