ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

(source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : https://archive.org/details/1scarryRichardStorybookDictionary/page/n56/mode/1up )

Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable
https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/ #physics #science #chemistry #biology #astronomy #neet #space #quantumphysics #engineering #physicsfun

I think it's finally actually done: #c64 #Pongwars

It's _so_ slow: the calculations take more than one frame per frame, so it runs at 30fps; this run is mostly taken at Warp speed emulation (10x). Much of that is because I kept BASIC running, to reuse its number output routines.

Somehow this ended up being 800 lines of assembly: https://gist.github.com/Two9A/8b2f1d6e750e4ae762b2b9e2d7512473

I'll find a few spare moments to write up articles on some of the subtleties, expect those in the coming ...months.

#retrocomputing

#Eclipse2024 is now a certified disaster. At least in Bell County, Texas.

https://www.kwtx.com/2024/02/21/bell-county-declares-local-state-disaster-help-prepare-total-solar-eclipse-april-8/

#Astronomy #PublicSafety #Texas

to my mild surprise, OpenAI published a superficial postmortem about the sudden mass hallucinating-more-than-usual https://status.openai.com/incidents/ssg8fh7sfyz3

#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #chatgpt

Mother of pearl clouds in Norway

They are also called stratospheric clouds. This is a very rare phenomenon that occurs mainly in polar latitudes at abnormally low temperatures.

Isn't Mama Nature Wonderful
#AureFreePress #Norway

Guitar of the Day #guitar

I’m an adult and that means I can put a tent on my bed and nobody can stop me.

whenever my boss says "think of the big picture, elle" I'm immediately an astronaut floating silently in space tethered to my ship looking down on earth, and nothing he wants seems important or even relevant really so this strategy has backfired on him more than once is what I'm saying

“All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.”
–Number Six

#meme #memes #distractedboyfriend #humor #humour #charliechaplin #battlestarGalactica

AFP—US working to negotiate Gaza truce of 'at least six weeks:' Biden

I once swallowed a bunch of synonyms.

It gave me thesaurus throat I've ever had!

I’m Japanese American, and I would have fallen for this!

CW: high contrast pattern, rapidly changing directions

True story: I never issue "reboot" from the CLI because I once arrow-keyed up too far and rebooted a critical system into an unusable state.

So, if you look at my history, it's always "sleep 5 && reboot" to allow for a frantic "oh sh*t, Ctrl-C!" at the last moment.

The real Trolley Problem is that we don't have trolleys anymore