Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

After wrestling for hours with bazel and intellisense, I have hashtag-given-up and configured etags, and auto-complete in #emacs .

Oh my God it's a night-and-day difference. Trying to program C++ with no assistance is like trying to write with my eyes closed. I'm going to get so much effin' *work done* this week.

@lauren Turns out it's really dark in space. ;)

@lauren Did you hear about the improved copy of Manos the Hands of Fate being found a few years back?

All extant copies (including the one MST3K had used) were archived VHS from network broadcast on schlock-night horror shows.

A storage unit auction in Florida kicked out the original 16mm workprint. So suddenly, clean copies were possible. Updated Blu-Ray came out in 2015.

@ernie If anything, it doesn't even seem like they took a bath on crypto.

It seems they took a bath on the 10-year T-bill, by over-buying on an asset that's *too* safe and therefore cannot respond to a rising tide of savings value expected due to the interest rate hike.

This was my day.

Kingdom Hearts is C++ with Bazel.

Resident Evil is Typescript with NodeJS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4OZcV-5fE

@dbc3 That is so cool. I hear stories like this sometimes and my feelings are split down the middle between "I'm glad I don't have to deal with that level of detail" and "The era where machines were that explicit was kinda awesome." Barely anyone really understands how computers work these days (in the sense that even coding directly in assembly is coding atop two layers of abstraction, at least, from the dance of the electrons).

@heydaave @rogward Fortran was used for simulation on mainframes, but the Apollo guidance computer software was hand-written assembly (as well as a second interpreted language run by a small interpreter in the AGC code, mostly for higher-math calculations that were tedious and error-prone to hand-code).

IIUC this is because compilers at the time couldn't output anything nearly as memory-efficient as hand-rolled logic and space was at an absolute premium on the AGC, since individual bits were stored via weaving metal cores together and so every bit translated directly into more weight on the mission and more time for the seamstresses doing the physical programming.

@edgeoforever @rogward Oh, it was super-brittle. You could restart the whole mission mid-coast to the moon and strand yourself with no navigational plan in space (which Apollo 8 did).

... but she and her team were on top of that too. Because reprogramming the capsule was extremely expensive, they identified bugs and then documented workaround plans. The Apollo 8 mission isn't remembered like Apollo 13 because mis-keying the restart sequence was immediately followed by executing the documented plan to restore computer state. She turned issues into non-issues.

@Women4Popehat @Popehat "The youths" Geeze, this f'in guy.

@ernie The nicest thing about no longer being on Twitter is I no longer have to care about the opinions of nameless assholes on Twitter, and I ain't about to start again. ;)

@thegaryhawkins @SwiftOnSecurity Funny enough, "scrum huddle" is what they call it when they... ;)

@horsemankukka I would assume that in the future, there's been enough time to tune voice recognizers that it isn't thrown by an accent unless the accent is extremely unusual.

Well, we've officially reached the "Hey kids, let me teach you how to downcast in Java!" phase of FRC crunch-time, so I hope your teams are doing better. ;) #frc

@jalcine Good. It's about time.

@cary @jwz I remember when Incognito was picked as a name.

It made perfect sense at the time: short, simple to say and understand, and directly applied to the threat model most people at the time imagined: data leakage on a shared terminal at a library, Internet café, or in the home.

The term's expected meaning drifted as people began to think of the threat model being MITM observation and server-side; when Chrome came out, the story was client-side.

@rauschma @feditips The agenda could honestly be no more complicated than "Can I break it?"

Given any new online technology, someone is going to stress-test it for the simple street cred if nothing else.

@ben What is the issue with newspapers hosting their own Mastodon instances?

@kkeller @ernie *Sideshow Bob grumbling noise*