Benjamin Esham @bdesham@parcel5.social

The year is 2419, and my navigator absolutely insists on doing the plotting for all our hyperspace jumps from within emacs.

stolen from the interwebs

Coors Light isn’t so bad if you think of it as barley La Croix.

when the moon hits your knees
and you mispronounce trees
sycamore

the tech world has done its damndest to get us bought in to a world that offers zero-friction convenience, "like magic", while externalizing and hiding the human costs wherever possible. these are the visions of people who want to be served but never serve, and at the end of the day they don't especially care if it's a human or a robot. we cannot let these people determine the course of society.

computers men: i want to make a computer do a thing that humans do

me: maybe you should ask the humans who do that thing how they do it

computers men: preposterous. absurd

just make Windows a Linux you cowards

actually, the _connector_ is called USB-C. the standard is USB-C's Monster

... the mistaken belief that there exists no true Scotsman.

In fact, at any give time, there are between one and three of them.

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However, prior to c++11, other Scotsmen were implicitly convertible to bool, resulting in additional ambiguity.

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Discussion is currently ongoing on replacing the existing implementation defined collection with a single canonical Scotsman, declared constexpr, in the upcoming c++20 standard. 🤔

you know, when you look back at all of recorded human history, people keep getting things wrong over and over again about literally everything. but i've looked at the empirical evidence, and it looks to me like our current set of beliefs about the way things are is the correct one

programming is like a detective novel where idk maybe google "body no head who is murderer" and see if stack overflow turns up any clues

the legal system is basically just lawyers playing magic the gathering against each other