Notices by ARGVMI~1.PIF (argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org), page 3

#USB keyboards can't interrupt the CPU themselves, but the USB controller continuously polls them and will interrupt it on their behalf. Loudly.

#keyboard #shitpost

@jessew

You kid, but it's actually true. One of the earliest recorded uses of non-trivial math was when the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians used it for financial calculations, including taxes.

They did, however, also use math for construction and astronomy.

Needless to say, math is still heavily used for all of these things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Ancient

@janl

Replicators are pretty similar to transporters. If you have a replicator and you fully understand how it works, you probably already know how to build a transporter.

@gedeonm

Everybody knows what a light-emitting diode is.

It's fairly common knowledge that incandescent lightbulbs are light-emitting resistors.

I briefly wondered if there's such a thing as a light-emitting capacitor. Then I remembered that yes, yes there is: a cathode ray tube.

#CRT

@RamenCatholic

I wonder if that ability is more common now that most people spend so much time looking at text on a screen.

@maxpool @johncarlosbaez

I miss the experience of installing things from floppy disks.

Back then, you could *hear* the installation process!

You are being monitored.

#shitpost #sign #signs #funnySigns #funny_signs

Wow, look at this: a #ShellScript that works on both Unix-like systems and Windows! https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/installers.cmd

I'm…not exactly sure why they felt the need to do this in a single shell script instead of two, but they did, and that's amazing.

#programming

@whitequark

No, it doesn't. There is a project to introduce them https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/ but the project has been in the works for a very long time.

It will be a very good day for Java when/if Project Valhalla is finally completed. Besides value types, it also aims to allow nullability to be restricted.

@david_chisnall @matt

@whitequark

Isn't Java still suffering from the problem of absolutely everything being heap allocated?

@matt @david_chisnall

@david_chisnall

That doesn't help for long-lived objects that should have been inlined inside another object. This is a problem for simple wrapper classes like Optional, and it's the reason why it's not recommended to use Optional as anything other than a return value.

@whitequark @matt

The existence of Compact Disc Digital Audio implies the existence of Oversized Disc Analog Video.

…which is exactly what Laserdisc is.

#shitpost

Except fiber. Fiber's good too.

Wired Ethernet: when your packets absolutely, positively have to arrive on time, accept no substitutes.

Fun fact: in #bash, comments are not limited to scripts. You can write them in interactive sessions too.

This can be useful for leaving yourself a note for later, perhaps on a separate tmux window where you'll be doing the thing.

Comments will also appear in your bash_history, so if someone will be investigating what you're about to do and it's going to be a bad look, you can leave a comment to explain.

@badnetmask

A bank vault is off-site, isn't it?

@badnetmask

I've been using USB hard drives in a safety deposit box at the local bank.

Call me old-fashioned if you want, but nobody's mining my data. 😁

One thing I miss about the #KDE 1 / #GNOME 1 / #MacOS 9/X days is that there were a zillion different #GUI themes, each with cool and unique looks for widgets. Gradients, drop shadows, brushed metal textures, buttons that look like glass vials full of blue liquid, you name it. GUIs actually looked cool.

Now custom themes, where they exist at all, are nothing but flat, solid, desaturated colors and rounded rectangles. It's dreadfully boring.

@steter

I've done that too. 😅 Complicated problems sometimes become less complicated after you sleep on them.

@Alice @jrconlin @tezoatlipoca

@Alice

Programmer here. It *is* a simple request. I've written code that inserts an extra space, for exactly the sort of reason you're talking about, on many occasions.

There is a catch, though. If the text with the extra space is then fed to some code that trims all extra spaces off, then yeah, it's gonna trim that extra space too. In that case, the code needs to insert the extra space *after* trimming.

Perhaps your colleague isn't allowed to change that code?

@jrconlin @tezoatlipoca