one thing I have learned in my life is every time you see a ":-)" in a C comment you are about to go on a journey you VERY the fuck MUCH did NOT ask to go on
@taber I "solved" this in my Pascal project with a Ruby script to generate a bunch of code from a csv describing which AArch64 registers I needed access to
not that they are short on cash but AWS could make a mint if they just had a thing where you type in a box what you want e.g. “make a Redis cache thingy and set it up so I can actually access the fucking thing from an application” and somebody did it and they just billed you $50
people think doing software engineering is like “you write a program” but it’s actually “you spend weeks waiting for some guy to get back to you with a one sentence reply to a question that still manages to reek of ‘you are the only stupidest person in the world who could ever have been dumb enough to have had this question and I have logged your idiocy in my Contempt File which I will summarily share with all the other guys while I decide which ticket from 4-8 business weeks ago to pick up’”
also would like to say incredibly nice things about the elm-lang REPL, which smiles and gives you actionable suggestions constantly when you try things out
GHCup, the tool for downloading, installing, updating, managing versions of all the pieces of the Haskell toolchain, is the best thing out there for this kind of thing, positively no contest
@robdaemon@zero it gave me that incredibly rare today feeling of "okay I trust this thing to not pull any fuckin' weird tricks on me and let me make this little doohickey in peace"
it’s got to feel so good to not know how to update your BIOS like just sitting there not thinking about it and never doing it pure serenity I want what they have
Ina Garten earned a pilot’s certificate in North Carolina while Jeffrey was serving in the Vietnam War then worked on nuclear energy budgets in the White House during the Ford and Carter administrations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina_Garten
made a pot roast. English people are so off for this being like their big smiley face food. you put $30 of stuff in there and forever hours later it’s just salty brown goo
FURIOSA (2024) had neat action sequences but did not really succeed at what I hoped it would do - giving a backstory for the character Furiosa - and just generally whiffed on meeting the epic scale of the film for which it was intended to prequel? Didn't hit correct for me tbh!
have just discovered to my immense horror that the 1989 global smash hit "Pump Up The Jam" was by a Belgian outfit - Belgium! - and this was the fuckin guy what did it. what the fuck. "Jo Bogaert aka Thomas De Quincey." fuck. this Belgian looking motherfucker-- "Pump Up The Jam!" just. fuck