I see people pushing back on adding AGENTS.md to projects because they worry it'll encourage vibe-coding.
TBH, I love seeing them. It means someone has put more than zero thought into communicating to an outsider how to interact with this project, which is a lot more than I see in _most_ […]
Digital photography has flooded the world with banal images that nobody really needs.
But, man, it’s fun to go through old images and see my frequently moody teens being goofy and enjoying themselves as tots.
[uspol shitposting]
"Begun, the Drone Wars have."
Anyone have thoughts on USB-C for monitors?
My KVM switch died, and it has reinforced for me how much I despise HDMI as a hardware standard and how excited I would be for an alternative.
Meme: THE MYTH OF "CONSENSUAL" SEX Two attractive people cuddling. One says "I consent." The other says "I consent." The NUCLEAR CONSENT toggle from an F-16 Fighting Falcon: "I don't!" Caption: ISN'T THERE SOMEBODY YOU FORGOT TO ASK?
[PG sex joke]
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1993: "The great thing about the Internet is nobody knows you're a dog!"
2026: "I swear to God if _any letter_ of your post came from an LLM I will _yeet your whole account into the sun._ "
#llm #anonymity
The final arming switch of the nuclear arsenal on an F-16 fighter jet. Switch is labeled "NUCLEAR CONSENT", with positions "ARM/REL", "OFF", and "REL ONLY". The switch panel also has a SUIT PRESSURE toggle switch with the option "OFF."
[PG-rated sex joke]
Remember: sex should only continue if both partners give not only consent, not only enthusiastic consent, but
@print It's also important for general comprehension / avoiding aliasing for people using visual screens, as anyone who remembers getting their software development tips from a site about experts doing sex changes will remember from the Olde Webbe.
@skinnylatte Pfffff okay I love that one.
(Also, the entire space of death euphemisms is fascinating to me. It's a long tradition.
Humans: "Did you know ancient peoples didn't use the names of chthonic gods because to name them may be to draw their attention, and one never wants to draw the […]
I keep seeing blips of this news cycle about how studies are showing that software engineers, given LLM assistance, don't use it to decrease their work but instead to take on _more_ work, sometimes resulting in damage to the output quality due to lack of focus.
... and I just want to respond to […]
Me: "emacs would be so good if I could just highlight the current line so I know what panel my cursor is in."
emacs: _has that_
Me: "I wish I could go back after navigating to something. It's a shame that's not a feature."
emacs: _has that_
Me: "I wonder if there is a way to bind documents […]
I think I have finally hit upon what bothers me most about both CSS and SQL, and it's the same thing.
There's a soft principle in software engineering: "Don't be clever." Clever solutions run the risk that they are not understood by subsequent maintainers and collaborators and as a result […]
@skinnylatte Ugh, I liked Southwest Airlines _so_ much better before they added Scavenging Payment. They used to let me scavenge for free!
It's not "advertising," it's "human-targeted prompt injection."
I don't have a structured settlement, but J.G. Wentworth sends me cash I won't object.
Anyone who doesn't understand cognitive dissonance can probably learn a lot from meditating on the phenomenon of 9/11 truthers.
Like, my broskis... I'm sorry that you got hit with the knowledge that the post-Cold-War US was not invincible _and_ your completely-untested assumptions about how a […]
Why is it that of all the Cloud providers with some kind of CLI "go to this webpage to login" OAuth flow, only AWS offers a URL that bakes the auth code into the query params of the URL so that you don't have to hand type it?
Did they patent that shit and the USPTO, in its perpetual goal to […]
Anyone who is still wondering why we're doing regime change in Iran while global warming accelerates fundamentally does not understand the incentive structure of apocalypse cults or the fact the US elected one into its federal government.
Kids these days don't know how good they have it. Fan fiction sites, ao3... Back in my day, if you wanted to find a piece of fanfiction you had heard rumored, you had to find an original run or original run reproduction of TH White's _Once and Future King_ to get that great Merlin / Madam Mim […]
The more code I write, the more convinced I become that linter rules for unused symbols should be considered harmful.
Pattern in a context should take precedence over brevity. if this file isn't using an import now but every other file in the directory does, maybe it's dumb and bad actually to […]
@TheZeldaZone I love this memespace.
The intelligently-designed body: "Stay the hell out of these periphery nerves, white blood cells! You damage them, you damage feeling to the extremities!"
_White blood cells, watching rabies climb up the periphery nervous system_ : "... you're the boss, boss."
There's something refreshing about the url.el library in emacs. After using so may APIs that try to hide URLs and pretend they're "just function calls, but fancy..." url.el doesn't. It expects you to set a bunch of variables to describe the myriad switches and options in making a request (and […]
I've been playing a little hacking idle game called Bitburner recently, in which you automate your idling by writing JavaScript.
One of the things it'e highlighted for me is how the standard UX of POSIX command lines might have been different if they had evolved in a modern era of […]
Some recruiter in my inbox hasn't taken the hint that I'm not interested and I'm resisting the urge to fuck with him.
"So I see it's a full-time position... I don't think that's going to work with my current goals. There's this planet. You know, Earth? You've probably heard of it. Anyway, it […]
The biggest stumbling block in my career is literally every time I have to touch C++. I'm surprised that for all the languages I've ever known and worked with, there's one that I actually just don't want to. The ergonomics are that bad. The rules are that arbitrary. The syntax is that obtuse […]
I'm back in C++ land (using bazel as the environment engine) and, once again, I am amazed at how slow everything is. Builds are slow, running tests are slow, iteration is slow, lookup is slow, everything is just _sooooooooo slooooooooow._
On the plus side though, at the end of it all... I do […]
@ben @mjd This is correct.
And it can be swung too hard if your language allows for over-description. I kinda hate having to maintain `build_body(number_of_ears=NUMBER_OF_EARS)`, but it is what it is. At least we've invented auto-complete for the mechanical challenge of scribing the code.
Developers: "I don't use LLMs because I need to know what my code does. If the machine makes the wrong decisions, I'm going to be responsible for the outcome and I can't trust the machine to make choices for me.
Also developers: _Write literally anything ever in C++._
#cplusplus
emacs: "This is a serious development tool for serious development."
Also emacs: `M-x butterfly`
#emacs
Don't bottle up your art because it's bad.
Bad art is inspiring too.
Sometimes people who have an idea that should be shared keep it to themselves because they don't think they're good enough. You put out bad art, they see it, and they realize that if that passes as worth sharing, they're too […]
