Came to think about the missile turned into a sperm whale in Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy,
»And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.«

We, humans, are that whale.

excellent, highly insightful article about the most serious challenge that programmers face to our livelihoods today

except, it's from 1974

all the problems described in it got worse, perhaps because back then we collectively didn't take the labor framing seriously :(

https://archive.scienceforthepeople.org/vol-6/v6n4/pushing-professionalism/

Ah, I don't recall git back in the day. I might have been a late adopter.

@vees@jawns.club "well to start with, the 4th thing you gotta know is..."

N’empêche, sur tous les ordis que j’ai eu, on pouvait avoir les informations précises sur la batterie (capacité nominale, capacité totale restante, capacité actuelle en mAh, et pourcentage exact). La prédiction du temps restant varie fortement selon l’usage, mais bon c’est normal.

Par contre, sur mon téléphone, il en est réduit à deviner l’état de la batterie, et à essayer d’estimer son pourcentage de charge de façon intelligente, comme la prédiction de temps restant.

Et du coup bah c’est du grand n’importe quoi. Pourquoi les constructeurs de mobiles ont pas fait en sorte que les infos de la batterie remontent aussi au système, ça me semble pas si compliqué ? Surtout qu’il y a des bouts qui remontent, comme la tension par exemple.

@nina_kali_nina dragons are dinosaurs… they don't want you to know

Ah, I don't recall git back in the day. I might have been a late adopter.

Mom: "show this to your friend who loves dragons!"
Me: trying to remember who among my dragon loving friends is known to my mom
Mom: "you know, [vague description that makes me understand who she's talking about]"
Me: "...He likes dinosaurs"
Mom: "tee he"

🥰

I'm trying to explain "4" memes to my spouse and I have no idea where to even start.

I actually got all of this for about $25 total (the little Evil Dead 2 magnet was actually the most expensive item I bought).

For anyone in the Sacramento area, Very Good Video is really cool and has super reasonable prices!

@operand @dysfun the terms of the challenge is 25 languages i've never written a program in before. and i've written Prolog before.

i think i have a couple logic languages on my candidates list. i'd like to learn kanren someday. i've tried a couple times and always go "ah! that makes sense! … how do i use it?"

A new video store opened in town called Very Good Video so I went to their grand opening today and bought this gem for $5!

(Alt text with an explanation of why this is special and close up in the comments)

Three more days until toot.community closes its doors. If you haven't moved your account, this is the time to do so.

@artemist@mildlyfunctional.gay @domi@donotsta.re @azonenberg@ioc.exchange $lastjob we once got a presentment where there was only the first 6 digits of the PAN present

After I fixed the processor to cope with this (the tokenizer was complaining that the PAN was too short, not unreasonable!) it actually processed and, shockingly, debited the right customer account automatically.

Kind of amazing how these things can work

Oskar the Oskarian in his happy place

#rats #raturday

Oskar the Oskarian in his happy place

#rats #raturday

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@violet okay. i didn't know what you knew so i just decided to say all of it. in retrospect i didn't mean to type that much. i'm a little sick.

one reason i want web apps instead of html/native programs is so that i can videoconference. a long time ago, in the 90s, i found it easy to download native programs for videoconf. but that was when operating systems existed. and as far as i am concerned they do not anymore. i don't have any OS don't that's both full-featured & i feel like i can trust.