lorddimwit

lorddimwit, 1 day ago to random

Back from the arcade.

Me: I’m gonna go change into sweatpants.

12yo: You and your dang sweatpants.

Me: I did not work this long and this hard to wear street pants in my own damn house, son.

lorddimwit, 2 days ago to 13thFloor

9yo: Dad, when you cut off a hydra’s head and two more grow back, is it two more consciousnesses or just one new one or is there just one for the whole thing?

Me: I…am not prepared for this question.

#mythology

lorddimwit, 2 days ago to programming

Who called it linear typing and not “once in a lifetime”

Who called it const and not “same as it ever was”

Who called it a stack trace and not “well, how did I get here?”

#programming #music #TalkingHeads

lorddimwit, 2 days ago to random

12yo wanted to make his own dinner.

Toasted some bread in a pan, then fried a sunny-side up egg. Put the egg on top of the toast, topped it with some deli roast beef.

Honestly I shoulda just let him make my dinner too.

siracusa, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

b0rk, 7 days ago to random

I think a lot about how

1. a lot of command line UIs are kind of bad
2. building better UIs is great
3. but taking the time to get comfortable with a bad UI has often really paid off for me
4. I'll often keep using an older tool with a worse UI because it's more stable, or more actively maintained, or has more features, or has more examples available, or my friends use it
5. it's still important to acknowledge that the UI is in fact bad even if I'm pretty comfortable with it now

lorddimwit, 12 days ago to random

I’m using my pocket supercomputer to post information to a globe-spanning computer network while flying on a plane, bouncing signals off an artificial satellite.

14 year old me would be downright giddy.

mcc, 14 days ago to random

I was in a terrible mood, so I got churros, and now I'm in a terrible mood but I have churros, which is a strict improvement

ZachWeinersmith, 20 days ago to comics

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/oh-yes
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #love

lorddimwit, 20 days ago to random

My friend got a new puppy. Its fluffy fur is as white as driven snow.

Me: Oh my god that is the cutest puppy.

My wife: All its poop is going to show on that fur. It’s going to have a big stain around its butt.

😐

bagder, 24 days ago to random

When in my car, I found myself in my car.

sj, 25 days ago to random

Hot take: Europe is not a continent and I'm sick of pretending that it is. It's just west Asia. A little mountain range and cultural differences don't make a new continent. #SorryNotSorry

lorddimwit, 25 days ago to science

9yo (coming home from school): Dad, did you know there’s something called “strange matter”? It’s in the core of neutron stars!

#science

lorddimwit, 26 days ago to Travel

My wife is personally offended that EWR is Newark, specifically that there is no “N” in the code.

She also disapproves of IAD and ORD.

#travel

JulianOliver, 28 days ago to random

Look I do think it's worth mentioning that the Moon is drifting away from the Earth 3.8cm each year and that this just so happens to be around about the amount our fingernails grow in the same period.

lorddimwit, 1 month ago to random

We’ve got darkness yesterday, heavy storms and possible tornadoes today, super locust outbreak things coming up. I’m assuming the river will be as blood sometime this summer and someone let me know if they see a bunch of frogs.

ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to comics

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/why-6
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #language

lorddimwit, 1 month ago to random

STOP PUTTING MENUS ON APPS

MENUS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE ON YOUR PHONE

Years of QR codes at tables but no real world use found.

Wanted to know what was available at a restaurant to order? We had a word for that: Menus

“Yes please, let me not order if cell service is bad. Let me not order if my phone battery is dead.” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

lorddimwit, 1 month ago to random

Me and 9yo jumping on the trampoline in the back yard.

9yo: So in my video game the teams are all different countries but one is the UN. Is that the United Kingdom?

Me: No, the United Nations.

9yo: So is that every country?

fifteen minutes later, still jumping, out of breath

Me: So in 1971, the ROC had been replaced in the UN by the People’s Republic of China, and in 1991 the USSR had ceased to exist, and its Security Council seat went to Russia.

9yo: So anyway in my game…

#parenthood

lorddimwit, 1 month ago to Cat

He’s the best at hiding.

#cat

lorddimwit, 1 month ago to PostgreSQL

I couldn’t remember a piece of #PostgreSQL array syntax so I searched Google.

The first result is some AI spam page. The result provided on it is incorrect; it’s the MySQL answer, though also not quite correct.

The Internet is going to be killed and it will be AI spam that kills it.

#AI #LLMs #spam

hazelweakly, 1 month ago to random

Core competencies are something I think about a lot. I love to dig into what makes companies or ecosystems or social groups tick. Especially when that core competency enables what they do:

McDonald's, for example, is a real estate company that happens to make burgers.

Walmart is a shipping logistics company that also sells things.

What other examples can you think of where the core competency of the company is such that the "thing" a company does falls out naturally as a consequence?

lorddimwit, 1 month ago to programming

Hot take: like “vt100”, “xterm-256color” means nothing in $TERM anymore. Windows Terminal uses it. macOS Terminal uses it. A bunch of others use it.

Do they support the xterm copy region control sequences? What about the xterm read rect or event region stuff?

Of course not. They support a small subset of xterm’s features, but call themselves xterm. It’s basically impossible to determine if you’re on a real xterm and reliably use its advanced features because of their lies.

#programming