typeswitch

typeswitch, 4 months ago to random

tech monopolies are to blame for why software sucks so much.

software sucks because it's all developed with the intent to form exploitative monopolies. once a monopoly is established, they turn up the user- and vendor-hostile practices.

as long as tech monopolies are viable & lucrative, software will continue to suck.

could software not suck, under capitalism? maybe, but it requires severe punishment for anti-competitive practices.

the crisis in software was a crisis in capitalism all along.

typeswitch, 2 months ago to random

there once was a lamp that could turn anyone into a woman by merely standing in its light. people came from far and wide to see it, but to their dismay the lamp was rarely lit. for this lamp ran on a special fuel, and that fuel was heavily guarded. it had all been gathered up and stored in a fortress, and that fortress had only one way in or out, through a big iron gate. the only way to get the fuel was to get permission from the person in charge of the gate, the girl light gas keep gate boss.

typeswitch, 18 days ago to random

C library functions are always like: "SYNOPISIS. This function converts foos into bars depending on the user locale. ARGUMENTS. src and dest pointers must be distinct; it is undefined behavior if they are not QPU-aligned. RETURN VALUE. Returns the number of foos converted. A zero value indicates failure, or that zero foos were converted. A negative value indicates that the final foo was only partially converted (function got tired). Check errno global to find out why."

typeswitch, 2 months ago to random

mini-announcement: I've decided to publish Yotta.

Yotta is a forth-like language with a very small core. In the beginning, all you can do is:

• emit machine code,
• emit machine code that emits machine code,
• define new words ... that emit machine code

With just those primitives we define an x86-64 assembler, and from there we use that assembler to define most of a forth.

Check it out: https://github.com/typeswitch-dev/yotta/

typeswitch, 2 months ago to random

if the government just implements UBI starting from tomorrow, without changing anything else, rents will creep up until the UBI amount becomes practically irrelevent, and the goals of UBI will fail. in the end it'll be another transfer of public money to landlords.

we need to implement UBI and establish universal housing and rent controls and tax the shit out of landlords. UBI isn't a magic wand that will solve the problems of late stage capitalism on its own.

typeswitch, 22 days ago to random

user: hello company, i would like to access your main product, you know, the one people come to you for, the main thing

company: HAVE YOU HEARD OF A I

typeswitch, 1 year ago to random

"how do magnets work?" great question; "magnets" are short for "magical networks" and they work by having the tiny metal wizards all pointing in the same direction,

typeswitch, 3 months ago to random

my favorite kind of fedi poster is a healthy mixture of "here's something neat i'm working on, let me tell you about it" and "here's a bad joke my brain came up with, please enjoy or suffer"

typeswitch, 7 months ago to random

personal computing, not "this device effectively belongs to the corporation and if you look at it wrong way you are going to hell" computing, tyvm

typeswitch, 7 months ago to random

for me type systems are about productivity, not safety or performance.

i don't expect the type system to eliminate every possible error, though i do expect it to help me find simple mistakes (e.g. passing arguments in the wrong order, forgetting to convert an argument, etc).

more importantly, i expect it to help me through a series of code changes. for instance, if i change a type signature or type definition, the type system can tell me where else i need to change the code.

typeswitch, 26 days ago to random

"dependency injection" has to be the worst way to say "calling a function with some arguments"

typeswitch, 10 months ago to random

stop doing concurrency!
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typeswitch, 2 months ago to random

a woman who loves two women who love her back and also each other, call that a trêsbien

typeswitch, 1 year ago to random

hot take: timelines are the wrong way up. the newest stuff should go below. you should start at the bottom of the page and scroll up to see the history.

typeswitch, 10 months ago to random

enJITification

typeswitch, 1 year ago to random

the fediverse was invented by big domain in order to sell more domain names

typeswitch, 1 month ago to random

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typeswitch, 29 days ago to random

Where can I apply for some grant funding for an elaborate PL-based shitpost. I need five years to develop the ultimate C/C++ replacement language. Its killer feature is no optimization, because real programmers don't trust the compiler to write highly optimized machine code.

typeswitch, 1 month ago to random

jrpg is when there's lots of grass,
the more grass there is the more jrpg it is

typeswitch, 28 days ago to random

sleep is a lot like refactoring

which is why i stayed up all night refactoring instead of sleeping

typeswitch, 24 days ago to random

you want types because you want the compiler to prevent people from writing bad code.

i want types because i want the compiler to help me write good code.

we are not the same.

typeswitch, 16 days ago to random

"Your computer was restarted because of a problem"

Oh yeah? Was my computer involved in a problem-related incident.

typeswitch, 15 days ago to random

hot take: garbage collection should be a microarchitectural concern.

typeswitch, 6 days ago to random

ok hot take, but if you have a problem and you think "i know, i'll just make a library / game engine / virtual machine / programming language / operating system / whatever so i can abstract away this problem" now you have infinitely many problems

gabrielesvelto, 1 month ago to random

I did not know this