You circular reference. You denormalized database. You sparse-ass matrix. You fragmented fucking disk. You absolute BUBBLE sort. I can keep going because, you see, I actually have a real computer science degree

My favorite travel portal of any job I’ve ever had would have a check at the end that ensured you picked the cheapest flights, but it hid the price of the flights before you selected your entire route

AI and tech company crash must be imminent as I am getting press releases about it.

“I will look for you in every lifetime” (threat)

I saw that last week and it made me very sad that my favorite inexplicable crash urban legend turns out to be false https://infosec.exchange/@neilmadden/115567211427547874

I don’t watch videos on YouTube very often but I just ran into a video that is seemingly automatically dubbed in French from English and I cannot figure out how to turn it off. What in the actual fuck?

Country-wide, France's most-birded public location on eBird is an area in Rouen called "rue du Bois Breton", with 2226 checklists. It's got 2225 checklists from one guy, last seen in 2021, and one checklist from some other person. No other public site in France has caught up to it, though I […]

I’ve interviewed like 60 people this year. On one hand, I’m sure I’m better calibrated now than I was at first. On the other hand, this is no longer fun. I want off of the interview merry-go-round

The three unstoppable forces of American politics are Guns, Protecting the Children, and Trump, so it’s interesting to see what happens whenever they clash. We’ve known since Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas that Guns are more unstoppable than Protecting the Children. We are in the process of […]

If you had a weekend to spend in London, what would you absolutely want to do?

As you’ve all probably heard by now, the I Can Haz Cheezburger, now 18 years old, is the half point between now and the fall of the wall of Berlin.

As was asserted here, if the US government can (1) revoke legal status at any time while the holder is in the US; and (2) jail someone for overstaying a visa; then any person in the US who isn’t a citizen can be jailed at USCIS’s whim. https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115532336809329996

Problem that was difficult for machines to solve in 2005: "transcribe this code from a mangled picture to prove you are a human: m̸͚͌S̷̜͘D̷̰̎F̸̼͛j̴͙͗0̴̙͠D̵̼̋Ẅ̵̳́" Problem that is difficult for machines to solve in 2025: "how many Rs are there in strawberry?"

I just found a corrupted RAW in my photo library 😬

Was reminded of the French version of "algorithms were invented in the 9th century by Muhammad Algorithm". The French word for "trash can" is "poubelle", named after Eugène Poubelle, who decreed in the late 1800s that Paris landlords must provide waste containers (with lids!) for their tenants […]

/3 I think this is likely strategy by Justice Jackson -- she likely believes this route (rather than the stay being considered by the whole court) results in the shortest stay. But few will listen to that because of reasons 1-3, and I can't really fault them.

OH: "You're in his DMs. I'm in his VMs. We're not the same."

Topaz Photo verdict: in my non-expert hands, it can take a near-perfect photo and make it perfect, but anything more will look visibly fake

Instead of a brand new year on January 1st I would be ok with a gently used 2012 tbh

My cpu speaks little indian https://mastodon.social/@dgelessus/115498520095025335

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to […]

Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true

> In the Android GKI kernel, which requires support for memory hotplug, wat

I dislike framing current Linux system on hppa, alpha, or m68k as reducing e-waste. If that was true, current Linux system on i386 (non-SSE) would be about reducing e-waste, but https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2024/11/msg00459.html is the realistic take about that: There’s so much x86_64 […]

They would put subway runner on aircraft security videos if they wanted me to watch them

Not to brag but this morning I took a picture of a bird that has 310 observations on eBird in total

the most recent Windows insider preview release added an internet speed test "button" to the Wi-Fi control center that actually just tells you to fucking Google it instead i cannot take this bloody company seriously these days

I say I’m introverted all the time but actually it’s just that it took me 30 years to figure out how to meet audhd people

It’s good that they changed their mind on sending troops to the Bay Area, but that’s the result of actual, brazen oligarchic behavior: Trump didn’t listen to Californian elected officials but he did listen to his billionaire buddies.

When Trump hears what Ronald Reagan said about immigrants he’s going to have DOJ arrest him for mortgage fraud.

SJC 🛬 SJO

In retrospect, one thing that older programming languages got right (probably on acccident) is that the amount of ceremony you put into anything correlates somewhat with the amount of work you’re asking the computer to do. “Foo f = Foo(4)” gives you code which, naively speaking, does better than […]

endianness is just a plot by big endian to sell more byte swap operations

Pride versioning http://pridever.org/

no u https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/apple-alerts-exploit-developer-that-his-iphone-was-targeted-with-government-spyware/

Somebody said bbno$ is a drag king and Chappel Roan is a drag queen and honestly that checks out

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

As Churchill said of the US in general: it turns out American institutions of higher education can be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.

rows are called "jump tables" and columns are called "vtables" and somehow we tricked ourselves into believing one is much cheaper than the other

I got stung in the face by a bee/wasp right in the middle of a left turn on a 6x6 intersection. Madam, respectfully, what were you even doing there

Salesforce told ICE it could help speed up hiring of officers https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/salesforce-told-ice-help-speed-hiring-officers-21105202.php

My favorite subtle mistake in the ref counting scheme of ObjC is that ownership is 100% tied to the memory graph and 0% tied to threads. This means thread A doesn’t need to take a reference to an object it calls a method on, and meanwhile thread B can come around and clear that reference and the […]

Wheeee I prevented a CVE

Whee, I can now use the computer in public!

“You will be pleased to hear that […]” (imperative)

Meanwhile on x86, upcoming memory tagging support was announced today - named ChkTag. A few notes: - Tags are stored in virtual memory - this is quite similar to the recently disclosed FEAT_VMTE on Arm - Instruction-level granularity on whether an access is checked or not - on Arm this is […]

I’ve managed to get Claude to write useful code like once in my life. Every other time it’s either produced bad code or spiraled out of control by tripping over God knows what

Starting to think that biking to work today might have been brutally optimistic

Reminded of that one time a friend bought a tarot deck and drew for a suspected egg friend. It came out as “the emperor, death, the empress”