hearing that tim berners-lee has joined mastodon, so i'd like to repost my only interaction with him
(from a Reddit AMA over a decade ago)
hearing that tim berners-lee has joined mastodon, so i'd like to repost my only interaction with him
(from a Reddit AMA over a decade ago)
i did make a funny post but i also tried to say "maybe the performance optimisation with security concerns shouldn't be promoted to beginners, or established as a default, we should be using something much harder to misuse or fuckup"
and sure enough i got the "uuids are ugly" sure are bud, and the "it sucks but thems the breaks" i hear ya
but i also got "aha but what if all of these technical consequences happened to be good things, checkmate atheist" and it's like "yes and?" it's a tradeoff
i know i have very little patience and maybe people shouldn't throw rocks in glass houses
but there is a certain class of mastodon poser who keeps trying to outsmart me in the replies
and sure enough sometimes that's fair game, but it would be nice if they read the actual post they're replying to
rather than latching onto the first word they disagree with, and trying to brow beat me into acknowledging their technicality i already mentioned three posts back
@b0rk i have mixed feelings about sqlx
it does work as advertised, but i tripped up over a really stupid problem: it only takes the first expression in the file, and silently ignores the rest, which was a bad thing
the other problem was that i couldn't have two join based queries that returned the same data structure, so i ended up duplicating a lot of the logic
i used gorm afterwards, and the only footgun i hit was passing a value to .Scan(any) and not a ref. it was a much smoother ride
friends don't let friends use autoincrement keys
re the "wordfreq" shutdown, this the unevenly distributed future arriving a bit earlier than elsewhere
anyway if you're looking for a cool name for when open source dies, drowning under the weight of automatically generated issues and patches, you can call it "eternal hacktober"
after rebranding "doing your job and not working overtime for free" as "quiet quitting" i see we're rebranding "voluntary layoffs" as "rto mandates"
the guy who said "lisp would have stopped 9-11" and "wrote such unmaintanable lisp that yahoo rewrote his code in perl 5"
a man who makes gpt look smart by virtue of working from a much smaller set of inputs , might as well ask how he picks lottery numbers
leaving a discord as they plan to discuss a paul graham article and well, i'd rather go to the numerologist convention to talk about seeing faces in analogue-tv static
just found out the factorization of 65,535 is 3 × 5 × 17 × 257
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the factorization of 4,294,967,295 is 3 × 5 × 17 × 257 × 65537, too
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need a word for "progressive enhancement" but it's "making sure the js doesn't break when the page is loaded on the internet archive"