My biggest programming style pet peeve: if you have an if block on its own, it can have a negative condition (like if !foo {}), but if you have an if-else, starting with a negative condition (like if !foo {} else {}) should be 3 years probation

Got the flu and Covid vaccine and the urge to go buy model trains is overwhelming. Protect yourselves everyone

Humble proposal: call any hospital bed a “medbed” if you can use it without paying

I had to choose between action and inaction where the stakes were the death of 5 strangers or one person that I knew. Here’s what it taught me about B2B sales https://beige.party/@maxleibman/115282966734092172

[Hades II] what do you mean the argent skull doesn't take any silver to make

The Canada Revenue Agency is doing a public consultation on automatic tax filing (which they should have implemented …several decades ago!). Fill it out and let the CRA know that it’s a good idea! […]

/2 In my view a vindictive prosecution motion would be the best vehicle because the lack of evidence could be a factor in the court’s assessment of whether the case is driven by animus. If Andrew McCarthy and I agree your case sucks, it really sucks.

Doing -fstrict-bool upstream for real this time https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/160790

Maybe the rapture actually really did happen, but nobody goes to heaven anymore?

Bird fact: given that “common mynas” are related to “noisy miners”, I can only imagine it’s called a “myna” because that’s how Australians pronounce “miner”

The US if Tylenol actually caused autism https://discuss.systems/@dan/115251351531249694

Gotta say y’all bisexuals do look good, it would be nice if you were visible for more than one day per year

[uspol] For all the talk about "fascism won" and such, I think the clearest indication it hasn't is that there are important magasphere people who think it hasn't. Ted Cruz, Candace Owens and the rest of the cast wouldn't be concerned about Carr revoking broadcast licenses if there truly was no […]

I’m out of the loop, is the rapture tomorrow?

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

This message is very important to remind ourselves of and to share with other people.

My two bits on quarantined free lists: this only does anything against attackers who expect to get back precisely the Nth last freed object. If you know how to call free 20 times, you know how to call free 19,000 times. You could probably get the same security benefit with a quarantine of 1 and […]

it's over. team cherry can't hurt me anymore

[Silksong spoilers] I saw online that if you get caught by a jailer while cursed, the screen fades to black and there’s a big noise and when Hornet comes to the cage is busted and the jailer is dead I thought that was a neat little bit of attention to detail, but then I also saw that the curse […]

I like the framing that LLMs work for “things worth doing badly”, because (1) there legitimately are many things that it’s much better to do a bad job at than not do at all, and (2) it’s really enlightening to consider that anywhere you see AI deployed, it means somebody decided they could get […]

[Silksong] ZAZA 😭

Honestly it feels like every time I run into a Silksong dead end there is actually a whole ass area that I haven’t even set foot in yet

To be frank, I’ve become extremely frustrated since the acquisition because now the environment combines the worst aspects of a make-it-up-as-you-go small company with the worst aspects of a faceless corporate overlord. I love my coworkers, I don’t love the general approach to projects and […]

wut https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/

Somebody please go update the C++ standard so that pure virtual methods can be spelled “virtual void foo() = nullptr”

[Silksong act 3] I feel like the main reason I kept dying in the volcano sequence is that after you float over hot air, you get your second jump again and I kept expecting A to glide instead of jumping

Today I fought keynote and I won (I think)

macOS Tahoe UI has a HUGE new feature for folks like me who have 24/7 Mac Minis running and access them remotely: you can now type the boot password remotely via SSH! Power on the Mac, then SSH to it. A simple SSH server will handle your request. Typing the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wow. I just got the Very Bad ending

[Silksong] One interesting piece of the Silksong act 2 boss is that while you don’t need a certain optional movement skill to reach it the first time, if you reload your save after winning the fight (or if you fail at platforms really hard while trying to get there in the first place), you need […]

Did I accidentally stumble upon an optical illusion? The rounded rectangles all have the same corner radius, but if I look quickly it looks like the rounded rectangles at the ends of the three boxes have square corners.

Alright, rolled credits for the first time on the game. I hear there’s a few more possible endings

For a while my opinion on Silksong was that it was definitely worth $20 but maybe not worth 8 years of waiting. I would now like to nudge my opinion towards it being a very very satisfying game

[Silksong] Jesus Christ the endurance room in High Halls 😰

"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

NEW STARSET ALBUM TOO?! 😵

Hades 2 official release in 2 weeks?! Give me a chance, indies! I’m like halfway through Silksong at most!

Look ma, I’m on the news! https://www.wired.com/story/apple-iphone-17-memory-integrity-enforcement/

iPhone Pro Max? More like iPad Nano

Almost sorry for the GrapheneOS guy working overtime to Post about MTE

Yall better like your MTE phones because we spent months in the crash log salt mines to make sure they work

IT HAS MTE EVERYBODY IT HAS MTE!

iPhone colors this year remind me of the iMac DV palette

200mm is starting to be serious. Maybe in 5 years, the iPhone 22 and its camera Everest will let me go birding without the DSLR?

Damn there’s a camera Grand Canyon on that one

Oh neat recording on both sides at once

At this rate we’re going to run out of alphabet letters for chips

A19 babyyy! Some very neat stuff coming in this one