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ankitpati

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State. Science. Love.

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gamingonlinux, to random
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ankitpati,
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@gamingonlinux Twelve years, and I (still) don’t smoke, but the rest is accurate.

whitequark, to random
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this is the first time i encounter a C function returning a function without a typedef and ... no

ankitpati,
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@whitequark How do you make it this far into LLVM with your innocence intact? This thing got me right when I started out in C, following the K&R book. That book has a full implementation of a C declaration to English translator.

nixCraft, to random
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Does anyone outside the RHEL ecosystem use Podman? 🤔 Whenever I suggest Podman, other developers or PMs insist on Docker, which is far more popular and has a stronger brand. Even many RHEL users prefer Docker. Red Hat should have addressed Docker's issues instead of creating another tool that, while good, few people want. And yes docker can run rootless too but it has same limitations as podman rootless like can not bind below 1024 port or create device nodes etc

ankitpati,
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@nixCraft I use the openSUSE distribution of Podman/Buildah/Skopeo on Ubuntu.

https://github.com/ankitpati/scripts/blob/master/src%2Finstall-kubic-ubuntu

Yes, I am wholly atheist and ungodly, how can you tell?

nixCraft, to random
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Friend: You dating anyone?

Me: Does my Thinkpad laptop running Arch Linux count? We're practically inseparable.

Friend: That's... concerning.

ankitpati,
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@nixCraft Concerning indeed that you spell your SO’s OS’s name incorrectly!

(;;)alone;

whitequark, to random
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what if we did this... and we were both girls? 👭

ankitpati,
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@whitequark @ratkins I’m sure you’ll have intact nothing afterwards.

MissingThePt, to random
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Inside you there are two Wolves.

Dick Wolf

ankitpati,
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@MissingThePt You should see a doctor. The recommended number of wolves within you is zero.

nixCraft, to linux
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Besides making a sandwich, what's one thing you wish the 'sudo' command could do in real life?

ankitpati,
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@po3mah @nixCraft That’s just sudo perl

#DWIM #Perl

ankitpati,
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@po3mah @nixCraft I mean I can barely get Perl to DWIM, let alone people.

arstechnica, to random
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Some states are now trying to ban lab-grown meat

Spurious "war on ranching" cited as reason for legislation.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/some-states-are-now-trying-to-ban-lab-grown-meat/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ankitpati,
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@arstechnica As a staunch carnivore, I approve of any technology that will give me even more meat.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to unpopularopinion
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No service that is part of he should offer completely open registrations.

To me, the can only become a True New Way when it is built on trust. And instances that allow completely unchecked account creation undermine that trust as they enable (or IMHO attract) abuse. See the last spam wave that worked by finding small instances with open registration to create accounts that started spewing spam immediately.

(Extended and clarified my argument)

ankitpati,
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@jwildeboer That’s not scalable.

The reason Linux beat out every other OS out there in servers, supercomputing, and increasingly, even personal computing (Android) is that Linux development is infinitely scalable.

nixCraft, to random
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😂 , , and lang comic.

ankitpati,
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@nixCraft GitHub runs on Ruby. Pretty relevant, I’d say.

countcol, to random

He can count the number of chainsaw accidents he's had on one hand!

ankitpati,
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@countcol I can count to 32 on one hand. 👋

1024 on two.

nixCraft, to random
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AI WILL TAKE ALL OUR JOBS.

The AI:

ankitpati,
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@nixCraft

Red:
Green:
Blue:

Green is clearly between red and blue in hex. I’d say the AI understands colour better than most backend devs who pretend to be full-stack (like me).

Edent, to random
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FFS!

Just finished writing a pretty good blog post only to discover someone else wrote about the exact same issue a year ago.

That other blogger?

Me.

On my own blog.

FFS!

ankitpati,
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@Edent I hate it when that happens, but in my case, it’s usually code instead of prose.

nixCraft, to random
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Reply or quote this post your favorite file extension.
I'll go first: .py

ankitpati,
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@nixCraft .c

nixCraft, to random
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2024 will be better.

ankitpati,
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@nixCraft 2020 4

nixCraft, to random
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😂

ankitpati,
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@nixCraft I only have one button: Random Tech Facts.

A classmate once asked me to tell her a cool fact at 1 am, and I told her that the creat(2) syscall in UNIX—and Linux—is misspelt.

wingo, to random

typography is my passion

ankitpati,
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@wingo Brand new Samsung with Android 14 + Chrome 120.

bagder, to random
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Welcome Tatsuhiko Miyagawa as committer 1222: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/12534

ankitpati,
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@bagder From Perl to curl, I see!

jwildeboer, to random
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Asimov’s three (well, four) laws of robotics are not supposed to actually work. They are vehicles to create interesting literature BECAUSE they are wrong and create contradictions that lead to good books. Too bad so many techbros don’t get that.

ankitpati,
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@jwildeboer I’ve always held those four laws as Holy Truths, mostly because I’ve never heard them challenged.

Until today.

I’d love to learn alternative perspectives on why they may be inadequate or contradictory.

ankitpati,
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@jwildeboer The way I remember it, it’s always because someone (not robots, but actual humans) thinks they’re smarter than the laws and/or the laws don’t apply to them and/or they can helpfully reorder the laws. Basically in-universe techbros.

If anything, the tales show exactly why we need iron-fisted regulatory frameworks backed by severe personal penalties (no, companies are not persons) to enforce these laws.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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This is a thank you to someone.

Someone here said this in my comments:

"Anything is boring if you leave out the story and include only the facts." (Something like that)

I've been thinking about that comment as I've been writing a book for 9th graders on the Bill of Rights: I've been making sure to include enough of the story to keep it interesting.

I also just dropped the comment into a note to my editor.

I tried to find the person who said it, but I couldn't.

Thank you, whoever you are.

ankitpati,
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@Teri_Kanefield Facts beat feelings, but that doesn’t mean feelings don’t matter.

donni, to random
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The only thing we have to fear is everything that is currently happening, and also sharks

ankitpati,
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@donni Pretty sure sharks are also “currently happening.”

0xabad1dea, to random

Someone in my discord wanted to know if you could, in theory, sue yourself, and googling this led to one of the most incredible paragraphs on the internet:

"Another reason why people sue themselves includes punishment. People who commit crimes often get punished by the state. But sometimes, they might not be able to pay the fines or court fees. So, they can sue themselves and use their own money to cover these costs."

I don't... think this was written by a real lawyer, y'all. 😂

ankitpati,
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@0xabad1dea @ids1024 I don’t know where you live, but that is some real “blue-state or actual-functioning-democracy-for-real-if-outside-the-US”-privilege talking!

ChristosArgyrop, to OpenAI

Was just a giant regex manipulating a bit vector field all along and the was just for show? @Perl

ankitpati,
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@ChristosArgyrop @Perl *Is

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