since 2021

Surprised it took that long, https://xkcd.com/624/ is from 2009

Ed is the standard text editor.

That’s fucking hilarious given that SQL was actually invented by IBM

And then it’ll all go to shit and proper programmers will be able to charge bank to sort it out.

I find my dog works well too, she’s a great listener.

I am deeply, obsequiously sorry. I was aghast to realize I have overwritten all the data on your D: drive with the text of Harlan Ellison’s 1967 short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream repeated over and over. I truly hope this whole episode doesn’t put you off giving AI access to more important things in the future.

Fuck, Nintendo lawsuits be damned, they missed a trick not calling it that

Nothing worse than non-consensual documentation.

Hey, I’ll have you know my attention span is perfectl- ooh a squirrel.

Tony Hoare: “Introducing NULL was a billion-dollar mistake”

Brendan Eich: “Hold my undefined”

Also trees, natural light and less densely packed desks than in any office I’ve ever worked in. Unironically looks better than having a job.

I don’t know of a proof that pi is normal in any base (even non-integer bases) so I’d be interested to see on what basis you can guarantee it.

Obligatory “pi hasn’t been proved to be normal”

It’s a monoid in the category of endofunctors. Obviously.

Aww a whole new generation of devs get to make the same mistakes SOAP made. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside.

Do people not read compiler errors or something? Finding missing semicolons is easy.

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Sure but who’s got time for all that aggravation? Especially if it’s not part of the codebase I have to work with personally. LGTM and let it be someone else’s problem.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/386194/why-do-we-still-grow-the-stack-backwards

TL;DR: For historical reasons stacks growing down is defined in hardware on some CPUs (notably x86). On other CPUs like some ARM chips for example you (or more likely your compiler’s developer) can technically choose which direction stacks go but not conforming to the historical standard is the choice of a madman.

Gotta love Microsoft Power Bisexual