lorddimwit

lorddimwit, 6 months ago to random

This is the future we could have had. They took this from us.

lorddimwit, 4 months ago to random

Hello everyone!

I have a relative in somewhat desperate need of a new job.

They have decades of experience in customer education, employee training, corporate course design, that sort of thing; as well as HR management experience up to the director level.

They’re fine with in-office in the Houston, TX area or anywhere remote. Relocation isn’t an option unfortunately due to family obligations.

Things are getting pretty tight, so I’d really appreciate a boost. Thank you.

#GetFediHired #job

lorddimwit, 6 months ago to programming

Every time you write ‘0’ in the #C programming language, you’re writing an octal literal.

You’ve probably written more octal literals in C than literals in any other base.

Do what you will with this information.

#programming

lorddimwit, 24 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, 5 months ago to windows

I made this after a conversation with some friends.

#Windows #Retrocomputing #meme

lorddimwit, 6 months ago to commodore64

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

lorddimwit, 4 months ago to random

Program: I have this variable.

Compiler: I don't see this variable anywhere in your locals, what is this?

Program: It's upvalue.

Compiler: What's upvalue?

Program: Not much, what's upvalue with you?

Compiler: segmentation fault (core dumped)

#compilers

lorddimwit, 4 months ago to random

At the #library

Me: Okay. I’m going to go browse some books. You two stay here and read quietly.

9yo: What if we get abducted?

Me: Be annoying until they let you go.

Other library patron: snort

#parenthood

lorddimwit, 2 months ago to random

Look at this asshole.

#caturday

lorddimwit, 4 months ago to infosec

Roblox had some sort of glitch and logged my 12yo out. When he went to log in again it told him he was already logged in on another system. He freaked out and came running to me saying he’d been hacked.

I took the opportunity to reiterate online safety, password safety, etc. We enabled 2FA on his Roblox account, I explained why that’s better, etc.

But! The best part was the 21st century “my dad can beat up your dad,” when he said “Dad! You’re a hacker! Find them! Hack them back!”

#infosec

lorddimwit, 11 months ago to Lisp

Making a list of pros and cons in #Lisp is mostly just cons.

lorddimwit, 5 months ago to math

12yo: …but I’m your favorite child!

Me: I love you both infinitely.

12yo: Which of us is the infinity of the integers?

Me: I regret teaching you cardinality.

#math #NerdParenthood

lorddimwit, 6 months ago to dadjokes

9yo (watching a superhero cartoon): Dad, are invisibility suits real?

Me: I’ve never seen one.

12yo (from the other room): Boooooo!

#DadJokes

lorddimwit, 10 months ago to random

Some of you have never had to manually mknod a device file and…look, just appreciate how nice things are now, okay?

#unix

lorddimwit, 4 months ago to Godzilla

My nephew’s birthday cake. He loves #Godzilla like his uncle and cousins.

lorddimwit, 6 months ago to golang

My dear Fedi-Friends!

Do you write #Golang? Do you understand #NetworkingProtocols? When you buy a new TV is your first response to fire up #Wireshark ?

If so, DM me! We’re hiring for a research position, where you will get to do fun stuff like reverse engineer protocols, poke at strange devices, and in general do super fun awesome stuff!

It’s a 100% remote position in the USA.

Job link:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/runzero/jobs/5017514004

#GetFediHired

lorddimwit, 7 months ago to random

My sister-in-law’s void and I are bros.

#caturday

lorddimwit, 6 months ago to random

I consider myself relatively intelligent.

And then I talk to some people whom I lucky enough to know and holy shit I am a goddamn idiot and they are nice enough to deign to let me hang.

lorddimwit, 7 months ago to random

Seriously though this is rad. 8yo said the shadows look like “dragon scales” and he’s not wrong. #eclipse

A photo of a driveway with crescent shaped shadows.
A photo of a driveway with crescent shaped shadows.

lorddimwit, 7 months ago to Horror

12yo and 8yo are at the pharmacy for their COVID boosters. There’s a big line with a lot of kids.

8yo: Dad, when the xenomorph bursts out of someone’s chest that’s like 100% fatal, right?

Me: …yes. New topic now.

#horror #kids

lorddimwit, 9 months ago to mead

Wife and I decided to take a much-needed spontaneous #vacation over the long weekend. The kids are with Grandma.

Our hotel room was double booked. Some people walked in us, thankfully fully clothed. It got worked out. It’s a fun story. Now I’m drinking #mead from a Central Texas meadery and we’re discussing what to do for dinner.

Gotta take the good when it comes, I’m learning.

lorddimwit, 2 months ago to programming

Much like how “ANSI” started colloquially meaning “code page 437”, I’m now increasingly seeing “ASCII” mean “plain text of any character set in any encoding.” UTF-8 encoded text containing Unicode code points far from the first 127? Well, if there aren’t emojis, it’s “ASCII”…

To be fair, “ASCII” in technical jargon has often meant “ISO-8859-1” for the sake of expediency but it’s like I keep tellin’ ya, that’s one too many bits.

(Why yes, I am fun at parties.)

#programming #infosec #pedantry

lorddimwit, 2 months ago to Cat

He’s the best at hiding.

#cat

lorddimwit, 10 months ago to random

I was just idly looking at something and saw “McMaster University” and my brain briefly read it as “#Miskatonic University” with the obvious results.

lorddimwit, 24 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