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Boo fucking hoo. Oh, pity me, I'm rich and sad. What ever will I do with all my money that will make me happy? You don't need purpose, you need perspective. Instead of benefiting t…

I think the most important property to preserve is causality; that is, if a user sends a message B after they have read (i.e., received) a message A, then B should come after A for…

That's not what it was at all. Any time you say that something can't be done, you will attract people who say "I have found a way to do it!" Even more so if you have a proof that i…

This is why we can't have nice things. Some volunteer puts in time maintaining something and makes a claim that is obviously correct and - most likely in jest - promises cash to an…

This happens with physical addresses too, for similar reasons. The ABC (Alcoholic Beverages Commision) tracks complaints against physical addresses, and too many violations will ge…

Not to mention Fardin, 2014.

The talk about immutabilty and serialization makes me think of tcl, where "everything is a string" also means "everything is serializable" and you don't copy references around, you…

I have a suspicion that a lot of people who rant about makefiles using tabs also praise python for the brilliance of using whitespace for scoping. Or who love yaml for its indented…

the only thing I really miss in make is the ability to resolve mtime as something other than mtime. So I resort to using touchfiles which are gross but still work better than a lot…

> So we stopped selling those [hammer factory] schematics and started selling hammer-factory-building factories. https://web.archive.org/web/20180722051250/http://discuss.jo...

The default page, without including a term does have some explanation https://lambda-calculus-interpreter.netlify.app/

There used to be a plugin (or something) that would let you play Zork on a 404 page.

See also https://tromp.github.io/blog/2023/11/24/largest-number

See also: enshittification

Why is it that the costs "trickle down to the electricity consumers" while utilities like PG&E report record profits? Are profits more important than safety, or customers?

There used to be a multiplayer space game called Schemaverse that was played by writing sql, but it seems to have gone away. https://schemaverse.com/

This isn't really about google search results. The underlying playbook is the same one that has been used by vulture capitalists for quite some time now. Find a company with some v…

But how would they make money off pedestrian infrastructure or old boring technology? If there's not an app for it, then no one's interested.

jwz dubbed this "CADT programming"

My understanding of undergrad lab work is that the point is not to get results, it's to learn how to do lab work.

remote operated is also remotely vulnerable. https://hackernoon.com/6-major-scada-attacks-that-happened-a...

And xconq

don't forget xfractint