tef

tef, 13 days ago to random

this car is so packed it's basically amigara fault on wheels

tef, 15 days ago to random

must be really hard for starmer, he keeps wanting to say "britain first" but can't

not without sounding like someone on their way to murder a labour mp

tef, 15 days ago to random

"are you excited for emf" nah just the usual anxiety and spiralling before a large social event

on the plus side i've made sure not to volunteer myself for things so maybe this emf i'll get to see more than two talks

tef, 15 days ago to random

ha ha remember when google was a search engine?

[checks notes] back in 2008 before they merged with DoubleClick and moved to being an advertising company

tef, 16 days ago to random

good day: got to post my favourite gzip fact

(you can concatenate gzipped files together, and you still have a valid gzip file. it will uncompress as if you concatenated the inputs then compressed them)

tef, 18 days ago to random

do you ever think about how, for years, we used X- or x- in front of experimental or yet to be standardized names, only then to find that the x- prefix had fossilised

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6648

tef, 21 days ago to random

i know i'm showing my age but every time i see "AI features added!" i mentally interpret it as "Bonzi Buddy 2.0™"

tef, 21 days ago to random

here's the iTerm "Pls No AI" gitlab issue https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11475 so i guess it's not a popular move

tef, 21 days ago to random

big "what am i doing with my life?" energy has i do exactly nothing with my life

tef, 24 days ago to random

blinked and realised i've been using irc for over 25 years

tef, 26 days ago to random

not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible

tef, 26 days ago to random

today i've been learning how automatic transmissions work

i know how manual ones work, physically changing which gears are interacting, with or without synchromesh

but i didn't realise that automatic ones work on a different principle, using planetary gear boxes and applying a clutch to the ring gear to change the output ratio

that, and planetary gearboxes with clutches to change gears go back as far as the model t

tef, 28 days ago to random

the future will be incredible. i'm looking forward to proving i'm a human so i can talk to a robot

tef, 27 days ago to random

i still miss pre sugar tax irn bru

tef, 28 days ago to random

thinking about that guy who licked a whisk clean end on

tef, 30 days ago to random

made "named arguments" work on the rpc toy, which is fun because go does not have named arguments, and you also can't use reflect to get the names of arguments

which is neat

tef, 1 month ago to random

thinking about how my industry is piloted by nepobabies and failsons, and the leaders who don't spend 80% of their time sabotaging the product are hailed as visionaries

and well, i'm also thinking about how armies were stuffed with inbred nobility, people who believed they were born to rule, and how they kept getting defeated by military geniuses

tef, 1 month ago to random

finding out that it's still called kernel32 on 64 bit windows

tef, 1 month ago to random

[youth pastor voice] remember, it's not about a nex-you, or a nex-me

it's about a torture nex-us

tef, 1 month ago to random

me, i can't believe the content mill would simply resell the content

tef, 1 month ago to random

in light of the stack overflow news i think it's time to bring back expertsexchange

tef, 1 month ago to random

pleased to announce that the basil i bought from the supermarket hasn't died yet and it's been two weeks

tef, 1 month ago to random

have seen a new startup advertising "ci, but without yaml!" and "if it runs on your machine, it passes in the cloud!"

and like i know i'm old but "writing a shell script" and "not needing root to run a test suite" feel like problems that can be solved without writing integration code for a cloud based test SDK

tef, 1 month ago to random

just seen an organic jim. nature is healing

tef, 1 month ago to random

i do feel that if more static type weenies had an appreciation for dynamic languages, they wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot every time they have to write a build system