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MlT (MlT
): please accept this honorary PhD
MlT (MlT
): please accept this honorary PhD
The needlessly learned dogs are flooding the job market!
Venmo is owned by PayPal, so that might not solve anything
Wouldn’t you think that the coffee pays for itself when you factor in productivity?
Cryptocurrency is not necessarily anonymous. Buying bitcoin from a broker leaves a record connecting your payment method to your wallet. Even if you mine them yourself, doesn’t your IP address show up on the public ledger? I guess if you somehow bought bitcoin in cash…
Is there a more private cryptocurrency I’m not considering?
The implications of “magic is data” are fun. It leads to stories like Unsong where you can brute-force enumerate incantations until you find a good one. I also like the concept of Wizard’s Bane. I haven’t read it, but my understanding is that magic turns out to be Turing-complete, and the protagonist creates a LISP evaluator in magic, which enables them to outcast their enemies who are still doing the magical equivalent of writing assembly.
YAML is the Excel of data formats due to the Norway Problem
And just intellectually dishonest. It makes no sense that it’s OK to view the same content in the app but not on the web.
Won’t someone please think of the children…'s unkicked faces
JavaScript is no match for wget -r
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Not really. I believe : is the “true” builtin. So it’s like running a program that exits with zero and writes nothing to stdout. The >> streams the empty stdout into the named file.
Because now touch does two things.
Without touch, we could “just” use the shell to create files.
: > foo.txt
To bonbatenate files?
That’s funny, plain “programmer” would be my preferred term if it weren’t for the fact that non-tech folks think it sounds like menial work. I’ve landed on “software engineer” because that’s what my employer calls me and other people seem to understand a little bit, too.
I’m terrified by this binary config file. Why?! Was he writing C and said “fuck it, memcpy”?
Edit: I suppose it would be more like “fuck it, fprintf(f, (char*)my_config_object, sizeof(my_config_object))”
Check out git-annex: https://git-annex.branchable.com/
It’s super cool if you know git. It lets you track where your files are without having them all in the same place. You could have a bunch of disconnected hard disks, and git-annex will remember where you put your stuff.
You can also set a minimum number of copies and it will only let you delete stuff from one place when it’s sure there are sufficient copies elsewhere.
I do not recommend using the assistant (edit: nor the webapp) if you’re planning on ever reviewing the repo’s history. It generated a bajillion automatic commits that drown out any handwritten commit messages.
Please don’t show me how the sausage is made
Slap an Apple Vision Pro on ya face
Yup!! Never look under the hood in software, you’ll just be disappointed ☹️
The best comments are “why” comments, the runner up is “how” comments if high-level enough, and maybe just don’t write “what” comments at all because everyone reading your code knows how to read code.