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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (festive)") wrote:

Have you heard this 1941 synth rendition of Parade of the Wooden Soldier?

https://archive.org/details/78_parade-of-the-wooden-soldiers_leon-jessel-collins-h.-driggs_gbia0001186a

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Writing unit tests to capture the undocumented behavior of the parser when it's "working" to hopefully ensure I only fix the bug and not otherwise change the behavior.

(Ideally I would change the parsing behavior since it's kind of weird, but it's safer to preserve existing behavior while eliminating bugs.)

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):

boxy@wetdry.world wrote:

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• wayward vagabond from homestuck: we should improve technology somewhat. well dweller: xkcd 927 "standards" (remote)

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hamatti@mastodon.world ("Juhis") wrote:

A company lays off thousands of people, nobody bats an eye.

A company fires one CEO and everyone loses their mind.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

I wonder if they have already, but the JS ecosystem is so focused on performance that they're pulling that under the rug for now.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

I wonder how far away JS engines like V8 are from reaching diminishing returns in performance optimization.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Having a nice cup of tea out of this totally ordinary mug ☺️ See you this Friday!

#Merchtodon

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• A mug filled with tea on a coaster next to a book. Behind it, a Pentax 6x7 camera. The mug features an elephant shaped snowman wearing a Santa hat being built by little colorful elephants on a snowy landscape. The sky is blurple and decorated with fairy lights.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

dmoren@zeppelin.flights ("Dan Moren") wrote:

“You there, boy, who’s the CEO of OpenAI?”

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• Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge leaning out a window. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

lorddimwit wrote:

Berkeley Softworks GEOS for the #Commodore64 (and other 8-bits) had a WYSIWYG word processor called geoWrite that could have images (from geoPaint) pasted in.

The official assembler took geoWrite files as input. You wrote assembly in geoWrite, and could bold and italicize stuff.

But when the assembler encountered a pasted-in picture, it automatically turned it into data pseudo instructions and set some assembler vars for the height/width.

You can’t tell me that isn’t rad.

#retrocomputing

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Then again, that means there's hope for change. We just need to throw some monkey wrenches into the machine minds.

(Also, to be clear, there's nothing wrong with small groups of enthusiasts and nerds. They have needs too. 🤓)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Even if you don't directly work for the VCs, Microsoft, Google (i.e. the web), etc., we're all working with the rules they've established. If it can't be deployed their way, it probably won't be.

At least in the large. In the small (like here), I see all kinds of amazing ideas. But for the time being, the biggest impact of these ideas seems to be among small groups of enthusiasts and nerds.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I was reading this post agaiin:

https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

Pointing out how Microsoft has thoroughly captured modern software development, and then I'm thinking how pretty much all software these days is delivered via the web or mobile platform.

It definitely feels like our collective mindsets and imaginations have been captured, declawed, defanged, and stunted by the interests of the machine minds of corporate entities.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Especially when the parsing code is parsing unsanitized inputs.

(In this case, the somebody mentioned above wasn't me, but obviously it could be, so I'm not trying to beat up on anybody.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I hate when I glance at somebody's (convoluted) string parsing code and immediately spot a buffer overrun. *sigh* 😩

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):

0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:

This is what happens when one project takes over all discussion of an open standard and becomes synonymous with it. If you have a problem with #mastodon, apparently you’re only alternative is #bluesky. There are so many #fediverse projects that most people don’t know about that provide a much better experience. Stop using fediverse as a synonym for mastodon.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@Binks/111450750138151848

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Despite an inability to grow a beard (of any color), I was honored to be asked by Ray Lucchesi and Jason Collier to talk about @oxidecomputer on their "Grey Beards on Storage" podcast

https://greybeardsonstorage.com/2023/11/21/157-greybeards-talk-commercial-cloud-computer-with-bryan-cantrill-cto-oxide-computer/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

renzelen@mastodon.sdf.org ("Ren Zelen") wrote:

2023 ocean photographer of the year – in pictures
The winners and finalists of this year’s contest celebrate the blue planet but they also draw attention to the many challenges to marine life and ecosystems https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2023/nov/21/2023-ocean-photographer-of-the-year-in-pictures

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

How do you know it's a bad rainbow?

Because it broke out of prism.

And was just a light sentence... should have used the time to ... reflect.

#jokeCrime #momJokes #punishment

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Made this just for fun.

Honest LinkedIn notifications: https://codepen.io/collinsworth/pen/eYxMQbj

Mastodon wrote:

Strangers offering unsolicited advice or derailing conversations should be familiar to all who use social media. In our new #Mastodon for Android update, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb these behaviours:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Oh. So the AI cultists are having a schism over doctrine? Makes sense, as much as any religion can make sense.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/22/what-is-going-on-with-openai/

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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.

And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).

The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the 2 women on the old board were replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Sexy spider fights? I may have to set up pay-per-view.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/22/i-want-to-see-the-mighty-sex-battles/

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

As demonstrated by Cyndi Lauper, the verb “bop” unusually conjugates the same in all persons and numbers. In this essay, I will prove that “bop” is a modal verb,

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

brettcannon@fosstodon.org ("Brett Cannon") wrote:

Are you one of those people who think we should have a single packaging tool that the community rallies behind? Then take the Python developers survey and help drive the change you want! No one is going to rally around anything unless people see actual movement towards a single tool (or you might find out that your fav tool is not the one "winning" the race 😬).

https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7554174/python-developers-survey-2023

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Well, `Any` is the enemy
So gimme, gimme revolution!

#Scala #GreenDay

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Is this dozens of layers of potato, but mostly cream and butter? Like a potato croissant?

Oh yes.

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The best turkey is Thomas Keller's recipe for "pavè potatoes" from "Ad Hoc at Home".

I will be taking no questions.

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• The reason this looks like beige cream is that it's 1/5th mm layers of potatoes in cream, salt, pepper, and rosemary (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

Garrison@queer.party ("John Garrison") wrote:

how many zombies would rob zombie rob if rob zombie could rob zombies

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

april@macaw.social ("April King") wrote:

other engineers today: writing code, closing tickets, etc.

me today: adding…

alias vasili="ping -c 1"

…to her .zshrc.