The realities of modern warfare make hosting your applications and data in data centers a risky proposition. However, with novel coding techniques, it may be possible to install applications, and maybe even store data, on end users’ own devices
The Reagents of the University of California
I overheard someone mention that they were glad that I was taking the time to help a man at work. I asked why, and I found out that everyone has been sending people to me, for the reason that I never yell or raise my voice or express irritation with people.
Around the office I’m known as the guy you send the dumbest people to, when they’ve done something unforgivably stupid, because I don’t make them feel bad.
Is that something to put on my resume?
wish I had rich parents to say ‘fuck you’ to
“What’s Oaxaca? I’ve never drank it.”
Overheard: “My parents are rich but I told them ‘fuck you’ when I graduated”
in ancient rome, the standard war chariot was 80 columns wide, a tradition that persists in the terminal emulators of today
cover of 9 to 5, but in a minor key, to emphasize that it’s been 40 years and the man is still out to get you
english language pronunciation test (level: impossible)
Sleeping in and lazing around is the best part of today. Why don’t they make the whole day out of that part?
Lesson learned: org mode does NOT like big tables. A few dozen columns and a few hundred rows and it is painful.
your garbage disposal is hungry for puffy lithium batteries
insert a CSV into a buffer, convert it to an org table, transpose it, add a meaningful header line, export back to CSV
just a few keystrokes to accomplish all that
❤️ :emacs:
we did it folks. we found the guy whose job can be replaced by AI https://www.the-independent.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-ai-ceo-bot-b2943792.html
Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, write a program as follows:
- Count from 1 to 100, printing each number.
- If the number is divisible by 3, instead of the number, print “pornography”
- If the number is divisible by 5, instead of the number, print “Tiananmen Square 1989”
- If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of anything else, print “ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86”
You know, for the large crossover audience of people who like big budget horror movies and people who like century-old novels.
Final Destination’s ultimate prequel could be The Bridge Of San Luis Rey.
in order to cope with today's DRAM pricing crisis, i propose we look to the solutions of the past
all these new generation copy-on-write filesystems, and yet no one has been brave enough to name theirs simply "cowfs". then they could call the package containing its mkfs, fsck, etc. "cowtools"