a smarter cd command

???

okay i'm properly freaked out now.

i just plugged in a USB-A connector in only two tries.

what's the word analogue of numerology? symbology? that doesn't feel right.

one particularly sweet point in the design space is used by java depending on how you configure it - you can have up to 32gb heaps with 32-bit pointers, because pointers are always aligned to 8 bytes so there are 3 bits to steal (or 8x the address space)

the more i worry about gc, the more i am thinking i should just restrict the maximum managed heap size.

the managed heap won't include allocations larger than some as yet undetermined threshold anyway, that'll just be delegated to malloc (and we'll free it when nothing refers to it any more). so i think you're really looking at in-process caches being what's limited here.

while i applaud the effort of trying to make a big loud show of hating AI in KDE, you realise there isn't actually a decision left to be made, don't you?

vimacs: combines all the awkwardness of vim with all the awkwardness of emacs while delivering none of the features of either.

i'm glad to be less internet famous these days

christ, i have all sorts of opinions on technical things and people are just like yeah, whatever.

but god, don't taint linkin park with linkedin, that's geneva convention stuff.

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obviously asbestos isn't very good at writing, but i made a 3-piece suit out of it so you can't deny it's good for making fabrics and clothing

holy shit what, they put aluminium and iron in the pain of the hindenburg? like fucking thermite?

if you're a programmer, you've surely heard the advice "do not roll your own crypto". dare i say that's even the default opinion amongst developers?

and if you can't trust yourself to do it, why you'd trust a bullshit machine to do any better, i cannot honestly say.

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consider for example that a + b + c (unsigned) overflows and wraps. the result is wrong by MAX_INT, but it's still defined, it's just only unique modulo MAX_INT, breaking soundness, but probably being fine for practical purposes.

it would completely break soundness, but you know, overflow doesn't break as much of arithmetical reasoning as i'd have thought.

The police officers who arrested them said the protesters were members of "a group known as ACAB"

(this is the one who said they aren't worried about cognitive decline caused by LLMs because they're going to have age-related cognitive decline anyway)

i think the only one of my friends who actually makes heavy use of LLMs by choice is finally having a breakdown because of them.

You are adopting a new programming language in 2026. How important is performance?