I really do think we need a thing where the digital assets of insolvent companies become public property.
I hate default line length limits in linters. it's 2026, I'm not coding on a fucking VT100.
just remembered the carrot resistance measurement saga
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (@gsuberland@chaos.social)
yesterday's weird discovery is that every regular sized carrot I have tested is almost exactly 100kΩ end to end with sharp probes stuck in it. a c...
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did you know that the equation for lamp longevity vs. percentage of nominal operating power involves a 13th power term
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talking about weirdly spelled names with my wife, and it resulted in this exchange. "I don't get the whole alliteration thing." "I don't necessarily have anything against it, but if we ever have a kid there's absolutely no way we're naming them anything alliterative." "why not?" "think it through." "huh?" "what would their initials be?" "... oh. OH. oh no."
"runtime buffer checks are too slow" says compiler developer for language that was first written when CPUs were eight orders of magnitude slower
people have been saying it's the year of linux on the desktop for 30 straight years. if you think this year is the year, I've got a bridge to sell you.