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curtmack

curtmack@floss.social

<p>He/him. I program programs and I game games. You may know me from that side project I never finished. I like Lisp.<br />Creator of the GNU Unifont skunk emoji.</p>

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    I understand that there are editorial conventions for this, and I would like my opinion on the matter to be known, to wit: 1. Those editorial conventions are wrong, and 2. If I read this in an article, I will assume that the writer pronounces it &amp;quot;a mhll language.&amp;quot; #RocqProver #FormerlyKnownAsCoq

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    I knew Doctors Without Borders was going to say something about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza during Summer Games Done Quick, but *holy shit* they did not fuck around. Glad the GDQ organizers were willing to stand behind it.

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    If RFK Jr. ever has an altercation with a deceased cattle, someone should comment, &amp;quot;I knew he was head of the CDC, but I didn&amp;#39;t realize that stood for Cult of the Dead Cow&amp;quot;

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    Be careful when clicking on brightly-colored links - they are often poisonous! #cybersecurity #facts

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    &amp;quot;Ana is really close in the breadcrumb dimension&amp;quot; #OutOfContext #speedrunning

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    On July 17, 1981, two overhead walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, MO collapsed, killing 114 people and injuring 216. There were a number of engineering failures in the construction of the building, but the proximate cause of the walkway collapse was a later change to the design of the walkways. The change seemed innocuous, and the engineer of record didn&amp;#39;t see the problem, but it proved disastrous. This is a post about C compilers and undefined behavior.

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    @Njord From my experimenting, I would say that AI is &quot;good&quot; at taking something that already exists and using it to produce something of similar length or shorter (e.g. writing documentation or simple unit tests for existing code, translating or proofreading text, etc.). It&#39;s &quot;bad&quot; at creating new things that are larger than the input prompt (e.g. &quot;vibe coding,&quot; art, video). And both of these are just likely outcomes, so you can get bad outcomes out of the tasks...

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    Inspired by an offhand comment Alice (@foone) made earlier today: the CGA iceberg

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    What it&amp;#39;s like to be a programmer in Nebraska: Manager/QA/any non-technical person: &amp;quot;Haha, hey, have you seen this XKCD comic about-&amp;quot; Me: &amp;quot;Yes. Yes, I&amp;#39;ve seen it.&amp;quot;