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jimfl, 10 hours ago (edited 9 hours ago) to random

A way out West, there’s this fella. Fella I wanna tell you about. Fella by the name of Ted Kaczynski. At least that’s the handle his lovin’ parents gave him, though he wasn’t too well known by it. This Kaczynski, the FBI called him The Unabomber. Now, “Unabomber…” that’s not a name the lawman would apply where I come from, but then, there’s a lot about the Unabomber that didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

jimfl, 13 days ago to random

https://www.eater.com/24105047/you-dont-need-to-decant-your-groceries-kitchen-storage

jimfl, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Syrup. Boost for n > 4

jimfl, 4 months ago to RSS

What if you wanted to subscribe to a couple of #RSS feeds but the only option was to subscribe to EVERY RSS feed?

That’s the principle behind tagging your mastodon bridge-bot-posted articles with #rss. Stop that.

The #RSS tag should be for posts about RSS and related topics.

jimfl, 11 months ago to random

Free labor, like forum moderators as an example, should just strike twice every year, at random, for a random amount of time, just so companies that exploit it can better understand their business model and its frailties.

jimfl, 6 months ago to random

About how long should I wait, after turning on the cold water tap, for the water to get hot?

#preoccupied

jimfl, 4 days ago to random

I can only conclude that Microsoft and Google are under attack.

jimfl, 6 months ago to random

Small projects: something that will cause you an immense amount of pain later on as a large project is how you are logging today.

jimfl, 8 months ago to random

Reminder: We do not sing in the men’s room. Absolutely no singing

jimfl, 1 month ago to random

What's all this about "just make useless shit?"

jimfl, 6 months ago to random

“A young adopted princess, you know, in the parlance of our times, goes around starting rebellion all over the galaxy…”

“And they blow up your fucking planet?”

“They blew up my fucking planet!”

“They blew up your fucking planet.”

jimfl, 6 months ago to random

> Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Candidates for developer roles should repeat this mantra incessantly prior to an interview loop. And once quietly before stepping up to the whiteboard.

https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

jimfl, 6 months ago to random

Writer Kim Stanley Robinson: ‘If the world fails, business fails’

The failure of business will by then be irrelevant. Those who had been successful at business will have concentrated resources, and developed habits for concentrating resources and exploiting others that they will be able to live comfortably for some time, perhaps even weathering the storm.

jimfl, 10 months ago to random

Regarding 10x developers: what unit is x?

jimfl, 4 months ago to random

People are still freaked out about paying $3500 for a piece of tech in 2023.

In 1993, I bought a Mac Quadra 800 for $4700. That’s almost $10K in today’s dollars. I also had a Sun 3/50 workstation that I paid $3000 for.

(Thinking about it now, I was insane and had too much disposable income.)

jimfl, 2 months ago to random

Sometimes I wish for advanced filters. I don’t mind $TOPIC, but I sure don’t want to hear @USER post about $TOPIC

jimfl, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Can’t decide

jimfl, 9 months ago to random

Birds I have heard or seen in my yard in the last 2 years:

California Quail
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Anna's Hummingbird
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flickr
American Bald Eagle
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Wilson's Warbler
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Spotted Towhee
Black-headed Grosbeak
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red Crossbill
Olive-sided Flycatcher

jimfl, 10 months ago to PCGaming

I have been playing #NoMansSky for like 3 days. I dropped out of warp right on top of a freighter being attacked by pirates. I blasted the pirates and those smelly Gek bastards gave me the freighter and it’s attendant frigate! What the hell? I was having enough trouble managing an exo-suit, a wooden box on a corrosive planet, and a snub fighter.

jimfl, 5 months ago to random

When people ask “Got any good New Years plans?” are you supposed to be honest with them?

jimfl, 9 months ago to random

I do social media like volleyball. @paninid boosts something, then I post some snarky comment on it. Set and spike.

jimfl, 9 months ago to random

A rent-seeker is the lessor of two (or more) evils.

jimfl, 4 months ago to random

jimfl, 1 month ago to random

I spent the last 4 days camping and paddling. Did I miss anything in particular?

jimfl, 4 days ago to random

True story: One time, my employer’s data center was nearly burned down by a machine designed to calculate more digits of a single physical constant. The machine was designed by a man named Christ, and built by his disciples.

It’s like I was in a Darren Aronofsky film briefly.