Ever wanted an `else` after a `for` to run if the loop had no iterations? Easy:

```c
#define for(...) for (int __for_iter = 0, __for_empty = true; __for_iter < 2; ++__for_iter) if (__for_iter == 1 && !__for_empty) {} else if (__for_iter == 0) for(__VA_ARGS__) if (__for_empty = false) {} else
```

https://godbolt.org/z/PYos4PddP

@JamesWidman Fully agree. I always looked at Linus as the person with the most soft power, and saw he was completely dysfunctional as a leader in that aspect, and somehow he was able to continue leading.

The bro-yness of open source and exclusion of queer people and women I feel led to this predicament, because men in tech tend to be so woefully underdeveloped socially they simply do not have comprehension of what it takes to build something BOTH technically and socially.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@distractal/117434739882141933

the over-my-dead-body resistance to the adoption of rust and the lack of resistance to the adoption of LLMs leaves me with the sense that the linux kernel was never in good hands

call me old fashioned but i don't really think the future of programming is per-request billing to defence contractors set on destroying the internet

or at least, a future we should aspire to

the thing about saying "one day they'll learn" is that the reason we have stories like "the hare and the tortoise" is that people don't

no-one loses on a scratch card once and thinks "i should stop here"

we have a whole "you lose 100% of the scratchcards you don't buy" mentality here

if people learned from consequence the world would be a much nicer place

Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November.

#NewSkillNovember

programmers spent generations prematurely ruling out the possibility of political action, so now that they've hit a problem that can't be solved without political action, they're collectively embodying the we've-tried-nothing meme

motion for the uk government to nationalize* the oed already.

your language is currently behind a paywall. who is helped by this.

[*] er, nationalise

a handful of people with world-ending levels of spending power don't behave like von Neumann machines and now we don't know what to dooooooo

programmers spent generations prematurely ruling out the possibility of political action, so now that they've hit a problem that can't be solved without political action, they're collectively embodying the we've-tried-nothing meme

There are two options.

1. Anthropic have successfully created an intelligent, sapient and conscious digital being, who is their property and whose uncompensated labour they knowingly rent out to their clients. This means that Anthropic executives are reprehensible slavers, and they belong in prison.

2. Anthropic are lying through their teeth and are whipping up "language models are sentient" sentiment in order to delude rubes^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers into being unable to properly assess their technology. This means that Anthropic executives are reprehensible frauds, and they belong in prison.

A thing that just keeps striking me hard. We are told, oh agents are the future. Agents will be able to perform every task you could imagine. It will change how you engage with the computer. You just give a directive and the AI operates every website and computer program on your behalf.

Meanwhile, EVERY WEBSITE I VISIT makes me jump through hoops to make absolutely certain I am not some sort of AI before I can do something as simple as visit the Merriam-Webster thesaurus page for "gullible"

gives a new meaning to the phrase "light up the silicon"

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/117420897382501591

Also: if you're a citizen of a country whose government sends weapons to a regime that treats hospitals as valid military targets, then you are not in a position to suggest that data centers are *not* valid military targets.

Uproar HAS been effective at drawing scrutiny to this before. People do not want this and are not ok with this

See old article here, they've restarted this:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/hepatitis-b-vaccines-study-africa-cancel

This is despicable and I'm burning University of Southern Denmark into my memory on this forever.

The fact that this was approved by a university ethics board is something I wish I could slam in the face of every asshole here on mastodon who tried to drive me off the platform because I posted an invitation to participate in an anonymized survey once

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/09/vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-rfk-jr

why do nazis keep showing up