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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

the AI bubble popping

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

ur face

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

actually, advice moment:: if you don't know you need a systems programming language for some reason, don't use one.

do you have any idea how many times i see a rust webapp and think "what the fuck?"

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

gosh golly gee willikers shucks

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

just realised that my favourite scheme dialect noone has heard of that i used as a kid now accepts LLM contributions. :/

WHY CAN'T I JUST HAVE NICE MEMORIES OF SOFTWARE I USED TO USE?

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

the poll

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

nope

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

yup

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

oh no

your thoughts

on the timeline

how did they get there

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katharinehayhoe.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Katharine Hayhoe") wrote:

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

now i'm not telling anybody they're wrong to think memory safety is important. not causing memory unsafety is certainly important and having tools help you with this is really quite a natural thing to want.

what i don't get is that this seems to be prioritised at the cost of everything else. and like if memory safety is all you care about use a garbage collected language.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
astra_vulpes@plush.city ("Astra") wrote:

Here's a rare, authentic photograph of Henry Hoover, 31st president of the United States of America.

The photograph was taken in his childhood home in Iowa, in 1887, when he was 10 years old.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
fredy@tacobelllabs.net ("the public universal fredy :tblverified:") wrote:

they did this to me

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

to give you some idea of what i mean, imagine that every time you write an unsafe block, you have to specify the category of unsafe behaviour you unlock. the default unsafe would be something like unsafe(memory).

holy shit wouldn't that be a more useful mechanism right there for anyone who gives a shit about correctness?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

memory safety holds no interest for me whatsoever, actually. that's entirely a property of the apis you wrap stuff in. all your language needs to do to support memory safety is have a powerful enough object model. the ownership model letting you do these things is interesting, the 'memory safety' is way underselling it.

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ge0rg@chaos.social ("Ge0rG") wrote:

From the "Pivot to woodworking" department

#InfoSec #ShitPost #DevOps #Logs #VennDiagram

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i just realised that i've just back to back done a toot slagging c off and a toot minimising "memory safety".

jesus, i'm not going to have to do nuance, am i? actual nuance, i mean, rather than marketing of some unpopular thing.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

"but zig isn't memory safe"

life isn't memory safe, brother/sister/otherkin.

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fedilucie@rivals.space ("lucie :neocat_floof:") wrote:

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

InfraGO? more like InfraSTOP amirite???

I am so sorry.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

trust me when i say you want to get out of the game before you make the interesting mistakes.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

incidentally, i did go off and learn how to write c correctly. i still make mistakes. generally fewer much more interesting mistakes

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

"learn to write c correctly" 🤝 "make no mistakes"

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

It's been TWO WHOLE days, and I STILL haven't got my #darktable update in the apt! I'd like to talk to your manager!!!11

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use.

🧵>>

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's a bit wild that in 2026 we still don't have a proper CUA terminal IDE on modern unix systems.

DOS in the 90s had editors like Borland's Turbo Pascal & Turbo C, ... proper TUIs, tab management, mouse support, context menus, online help, project management, integrated debugging, the lot.

Unix got... "just use vim, bro".

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i'm just going to stop following youtube channels if they talk about writing code with ai even once now.

clearly the authors are not as good as i had thought.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Canageek@wandering.shop wrote:

@cwebber There's also a group uploading old episodes with pop-up commentary and trivia! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUAM7Wuv-PNdfdD9JA5NgltLSsCsIessF

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

One CW in that they do have a stereotypical asian character they named "Phong" (after the specular shading approach) and another CW for, it's a 1990s show for kids that I am pretty sure did not age well, unless you love charming cringe (and I love charming cringe)

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

What the company that made the 1990s TV early CGI show Reboot is uploading remastered versions to YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inKdUICLmXY

Look, I won't claim Reboot is a *good* show, but it is a show that I watched every episode of as a child (and when I was a kid I had never seen anything like it)

But these days, if you want some CGI history and a LOT of misuses of computer science terms then absolutely watch Reboot