Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

this guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html

I need to go find my copy of Sid Meier's autobiography. maybe there's a whole section on what exactly he was smoking back in the late 80s

<Garth Marenghi> I KNOW PROGRAMMERS WHO USE PURE FUNCTIONS AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS

Implementing a web browser is literally impossible.

"The total word count of the W3C specification is 114 million words […]. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C specifications."

https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html by @drewdevault

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

@foone I just tested this! The answer is: the first device it's plugged into retains control, the other device doesn't see it.

I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parti
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was reminded of this old banger of a tweet so i'm reposting it here on mastodon after *checks watch* 9 years

A visual representation of how high 2:1 isometric blocks should be

#PixelArt #GameDev

Why would you log thread IDs when you can use emoji instead?

Turbo Pascal turns 40. who here remembers this one?

I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?

The Financial Times have had Henry Kissinger's obituary prepared for so long that one of the people who wrote it died in 1999.

But to top that off, the man who wrote that author's obituary also passed before Kissinger, in March of 2022.