Haus

ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

Orions are demonstrably mammals, but unfortunately fictional.

My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.

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PEMA is technically correct. Division and subtraction are illusions.

When I want to see a broken mod, I just surf over to Reddit.

This is what I call a ‘pro grammer move.’

I don’t have the most subtle sense of taste, but for me it’s a nearly un-noticeable difference.

It does. And in a pinch, if I run out of tahini, I’ll make hummus with peanut butter.

The gym on xmas morning.

I’m watching a reaction channel going through Buffy/Angel episodes now, and keep getting hard-right propaganda ads. I don’t get it.

Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

M-x dunnet

Runs Colossal Cave Adventure in emacs. “YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.”

There was a time when I had to switch back and forth between Fortran90 and C several times a day, and it messed me up so bad that doing simple tasks like counting apples at the grocery gave me anxiety.

I actually had a new thought in this that probably comes from Rick and Morty, what if transportation is possible, but it’s cheaper to murder your ass and portal in some schmuck from a parallel universe?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

I’d go PostScript, since it’s Turing-complete.

Bad variable names and then awful “temporary” log lines… I feel attacked this morning. ;)

In related news, Mrs. Cleaver is looking particularly lovely today.

The most bizarre one for me is pronouncing the plural of woman as “wimmin.” Can’t explain it, can’t work around it. It is what it is.