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Tortoise: “I’m not a goddamn rock! You pooped on me for the last time! …Not so tough these days, eh, dinosaur?”

But seriously, not surprising. I heard that many tortoises, while herbivorous, will just happily munch all snails that rest on the greens. (For nutrition. And also to demonstrate superiour speed!)

Yeah I wouldn’t date an RStudio user. Real men do their R coding in Jupyter.

They’re completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There’s only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.

I’m a girl. I’m not interested in Haskell, that’s too frigging endofunctiorific. Erlang! That’s what all the cool guys are doing.

Well it’s an art film. The purpose of art is to evoke emotions, to inspire dialogue. Yours is one possible interpretation. Ultimately, who’s to say it’s not valid?

One day I was thinking of Andy Warhol’s film “Empire”, which is basically one continuous 8 hour shot of the Empire State Building.

I thought it’d be cool to make a similar art film about your average programmer’s work day. 8 hour shot of a programmer staring at the screen intensely, drinking coffee, scrolling through the code, and occasionally muttering “why the fuck doesn’t this work?”

Someone remarked that in film photography, every 10 years, Kodak used to get the brilliant idea that 35mm film is just too complicated for Your Average Consumer, and invented a new “easy to load” cartridge based film format. 126 Instamatic in the 1960s, 110 Pocket Instamatic in the 1970s, Disc Film in the 1980s and the APS in the 1990s. …Meanwhile, Your Average Consumer didn’t give much damn, and while these formats saw some use, most people preferred 35mm.

Same goes with image formats. Apple and Google and Microsoft try to make “better” file formats happen, and I’m sure they have their advantages, but people will stick with JPEG, thanks.

An old bit of wisdom: “Most scientific concepts are named after the second person to discover them”

Yeah, I took one course where we used MongoDB. I was like “still unconvinced, but I’ll keep this in mind if I run into situations not covered by PostgreSQL.” …I’ve not run into situations not covered by PostgreSQL. Everything will be covered by PostgreSQL.

Aaagh! Getting some random old person flashbacks.

Kids. I r-remember a day… You won’t believe this… I got a 404 error page… It was otherwise a normal 404 page with a normal message on it, but it had a giant ad on it… like “while you’re here, how about you buy this stuff”… It was hell… You’ve got no idea how lucky you kids are with uBlock…

Just do your best plumber / car mechanic impression. “Gee, this codebase is really messed up, looks like I need to basically replace everything.”

(“That can’t be true, that’s what every other programmer I showed this to said. Are you all lying?” “No, we’re not lying, this really is a screwed up codebase.”)

Original definition: using AI to create a small bespoke kinda-crap-but-it-works apps or games for personal use. It’s a shitty proto but it’s interesting.

(My reaction: ooo not my jam but that sounds neat I guess)

Modern definition: it’s a multi-quadrispillion dollar industry and it’s the future according to some very important board members.

(My reaction: …capitalism ruins fucking everything)

Somewhere in my giant box of cables I have an adapter for attaching MIDI cables to the joystick port. When I actually used a MIDI keyboard with it, I had… variable success.

The first time I had a MIDI keyboard that just worked, it used USB as transport. (And it has worked great since. I think it’s the only USB Mini plug device device I still regularly use.)

Crazy thing is, MIDI is absolutely ancient. You’d imagine it’d work fine on the gameports, but nope. Legacy PC ports are cursed. Except audio jacks and serial ports, and VGA if you’re really into screwing things in place.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as wheel, is in fact, GNU/Wheel, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wheel.

Legends say that if you put your source code file in Grok, it’ll print out the code and it’ll land on Elon’s desk.

Elon will browse through it and pretend to understand it, then tweet out insults and emojis and says you’re fired. Even though you were never employed by him anyway.

Yet another unrealistic music video. It’s a relatively short song and Eclipse will not start fast enough.

You’d think that engineers and hackers would be exactly the types who would be inclined towards DIY.

Actual engineers and hackers usually are the kind of persons who can tackle problems out of their comfort zone with enough research. I’m a software developer, I couldn’t cook stuff, but one day I decided I’d make a pizza and it turned out okay.

Problem is, the Cybertruck target demo isn’t engineers or hackers. It’s their managers. The Idea Guys. Elon is the archetypal Pointy-Haired Boss and the other PHBs go “I want to be just like Elon”. They can’t solve any problem worth a damn, because they have underlings for that, and gods forbid if they decide to actually do something themselves.

Manual: “If you see a roundabout, you just floor it and plow through, like a badass.”

Driver: “Oww! Arrgh! That was rough. …I think the rear axle fell off.”