Robey ☠️ @robey@mastodon.technology

why do boomers hate trees so much?

the new neighbors are spending the morning chopping down their last big tree. (they had two, but the realtors took care of the previous one.)

i assume the next step is to replace their back yard with a concrete slab

@jacethechicken heathers is one of the top 10 movies of the 20th century

@ashfurrow hm! C-tab and S-C-tab still work on my firefox linux, but maybe i did something special last year to make that work...

@JordiGH (not a math person) it kinda looks like they need some sort of "capital PI" notation for all those circle-x

american media is so fucked sometimes. the story can't be "america on the brink of historic moment", it has to be "bad guys running out of time to stop our hero!"

here's a free better headline: Unexpectly Broad Support for Reform Sweeps Berne Into Massive Lead

@trickster i have to do this all the time at work. who hurt python to make it this way

"did you just tell me to go fuck myself?" "i believe i did, bob"

TIL someone made a new alphabet & orthography for lojban and it looks amazing! https://mw.lojban.org/images/b/b3/ZLM4_Writeup_v2.pdf

i’ve always wanted to do a similar alphabet for english (consonants plus diacritics for vowels)

hey they’re still selling my linux laptop! which i love! (and it does boot incredibly fast) https://system76.com/laptops/darter

this supercut of daily show segments on bernie is both hilarious and incredibly uplifting https://youtu.be/anDy97Q8qwI

my jaw just hit the floor... i was watching a video about a disk emulator for the apple ii (“floppy emu”) and they are *clearly* using my tom thumb font!

WEEK MADE! 😁

does anyone know where i could get a vending machine with cow spots all over it that says “MILK”?

(cough) i’m all for a good curmudgeonly rant, but C has been able to do this since C99, which is now old enough to drink. are you compiling this on a pdp11? https://mastodon.technology/media/cre_cvJSCN7W4z_bMaw

@mdszy i think “==“ will call “equals” (so coercion is fine) but “is” does an identity check

@ashfurrow it stands for “ZIP is postal”

@ashfurrow it came with my laptop and i like it enough that i never reinstalled :)

i keep thinking about this rant on lobsters yesterday that referred to LARP, with the word LARP as a link to "let me google that for you".

i feel like there were 2 good options when typing that:

1. leave it with no link, let curious people google it

2. make it a link to a wiki page or other informative source (go ahead and "google it for them")

taking the trouble to make a useless link has the effect of saying "fuck you for not already knowing this acronym from my small subculture"

don't be an ass.

never heard of lmdb before! seems to be a faster version of flat-file b+tree, similar to the old "sleepycat" db... https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb

however... are we serious about it being all one giant C file that's ELEVEN THOUSAND LINES LONG?! 😂