One problem of doing any #retrocomputing is I get used to bytes and kilobytes again, and then when I see modern junk need megabytes or gigabytes, I flip my shit and scream "what the fuck do you need 325,000 Atari 800s for just to draw a screen?!"
I really do worry about the mental health of GNU/Linux users. They're like FOX "News" viewers, so much completely anti-reality shit fed to them it starts backing out of their mouths.
"We're the only free people! The UN/New World Order/Apple/Communists/Fluoridators are going to make you wear masks/use their app store/bottled water and take away mah guns/compilers/precious bodily fluids!"
Dude. Chill the fuck out, it's not like that.
#linux
I've been programming for 40 years. I still fuck up and call myself a moron every single fucking day.
Best career choice. Totally nailed that one. I'm a fine specimen of Homo habilis, first toolmaker.
September 10,000, 1993
https://mdhughes.tech/2021/01/16/september-10000-1993/
math (+1 to count the 1st)
So, checks out. 10,000 days of the September That Never Ended.
The world since is like a movie showing a few people coughing before the credits, wipe fade, zombie hordes tearing down barricades to eat the brains of the last few people. Someone's shivering in the corner with a gun, for the zombies or self, you can't tell. Freeze frame. "I bet you're askin
Today's #beer: Scuttlebutt Amber Ale. Pleasant but kind of too inoffensive to be great. This is what they mean by "drinkable".
Just short of β
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Has a very pretty mermaid on the label:
The single best thing in JavaScript: JSON.
You make an object or array of basic types, and it has a trivial serialization with JSON.stringify() or JSON.parse() that you can shove in a database or send over a network connection.
LISP/Scheme has sexp, of course, and read/write, but you have to convert your hashtables (SRFI-69! Nice!) to/from alists, which is a pain in the ass.
Classes/records don't convert in either, but it gets you 90% to data portability.
The thing I hate most in JS is not whatever superficial syntax complaint you have, but Promises vs async/await.
Basically half the time you can't use async/await because it wasn't called from an async function (and you don't control that) and have to rewrite everything as callbacks expressed as new Promise(yada).then(yada)
And this is only an issue because Node is single-threaded, which is incredibly stupid in 2021.
Also: WebSockets are great, until they stop working with an unexplained error code -9874 or something.
Turns out I was hitting the wrong port, but like, even ed can explain its errors when you hit `h`, WTF is the browser reporting a bullshit error number? Do I need to order a 500-page three-ring binder from IBM that I can look each one up in?
Using the "rich brew" (less, hotter water) on my Ninja made me a half cup of Black Blood of the Earth. Adding some hot water brought it up to actual coffee, much less bad than I thought yesterday.
Still probably gonna get some nice Kenyan beans next shopping trip, and dump these.
#coffee
uspol
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-next-steps/
You know who they remind me of? The Castillos from Dexter S1. "We want the same things!"
https://dexter.fandom.com/wiki/The_Castillos
Siri, add almond flavoring to my shopping list. I can't cope with this unflavored water.
Hrm. New #coffee beans from some online roaster, and they're meh. I'm very unimpressed by this coffee. It's not bitter, or stinky, just bland as a Republican's sandwich, white bread and mayo. Barely tastes of coffee.
Tom Waits, Singapore: Sea shanty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHyYhyp0kTc
Wow I got my ass kicked quick, about 6 streets in, didn't even meet the first boss. Played Stephen Stills as per usual, middle difficulty. Part of that's re-learning curve.
The little jumpy purple kids are fucking murder on me, especially if I can't pick up a weapon. And grabbing a weapon is SUPER finnicky, I remember screaming in rage "PICK UP THE FUCKING BAT!" for hours back in the day.
The music as I progress is so great. And now I feel like reading the comics again.
Be the STFU you wish to see in the world.
Ban all Nazis & Republicans (same thing).
Immanentize the Eschaton!
"I have come to tell you that you are free." βEris
"Yo, Ding Dong man, Ding Dong, Ding Dong, yo!"
I am a simple 1.79MHz 6502, so you know you can trust me in all things.
Nintendo Switch Friend Code: Kamimark SW-5075-6646-9991
#scheme #repl #python #javascript β¨#objectivec #ed #retrocomputing #dj #dnd #rpg #hardsf #fantasy #atheism #sarcasm #tabs #pronoun:he/him/program #nobot