You don't have to put on the red light.

@iliana including this sad commentary on US politics

@iliana https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M55-05/Signfab.pdf has an exciting number of signs

@mos_8502 There is an extent to which the bastards win if we are all too fucked up to do at least some of the things that fulfil us also

linux software names:

• Simple
• Kowabunga
• Birmingham
• PISS (PISS Is Super Special)
• greg’s shell script

@iximeow @iliana gender? m/f/nb/but I hardly

"Google’s mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

@iliana @artemis I mean if you have to have termites in some walls for whatever reason it's probably best to label them as such

how far off do we think this is from being the default shell startup on every platform

https://thepit.social/@peter/114601765045842916

Me: "I wonder what inspired the look of the 'safe to turn off your computer' screen in Windows 95."

Burger King in 1968:

@lundman it's killing me that the slop factory does as well with suicide doors as it does with human hands

@apam when it's stuck can you point "ptree" at the nightly process so we can see it's children

@apam This definitely seems like a bug we ought to fix. If you run "nightly" it ought to be able to work regardless of what's in your environment or your bash profile.

@daedalus You should be grateful that capital allows you to keep your job in delousing, for now, labour

"you have to admit that copilot is useful for" no I don't. if vim users don't have to concede that using a mouse is useful then no I don't

Honestly I think there's a disconnect between LLM proponents when it comes to code and the rest of us. They see code as a purely mechanical thing, and so ripe for automation. To them claims of artistry and craft are something to roll your eyes at, arrogance from senior engineers who think too highly of themselves

Meanwhile said senior engineers have the decades of experience to know how much of programming relies on artistry and craft, how much of it is fundamentally a creative endeavor

@whitequark @mei yes I agree that the intent and the care is usually discernable and covers a lot of sins

@whitequark @mei I dunno, I have two degrees and I care probably too much about software quality and I still make programs that do idiot things

@iliana you'll be lucky if they let you torque to a real person oh god I'm so sorry