Notices by Joe Groff (joe@f.duriansoftware.com)

when your macro is bad, it should be defined using `macro_sucks!`

[bread loaf fails to rise in oven] i have lost the mandate of leaven

Greenspan’s tenth rule, “Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp”, would later be adapted into a popular song, “Boulevard of Broken Schemes”

As we all know, a conclave must first be tessellated into convlex primitives before it can be rasterized

Seems like virtualization platforms should have an option to render the guest screen to a “secure” layer, like DRM content, so that host features like windows recall have no way to observe it

@tiddlywinkler @david @cowanon brave adds its own malware

sometimes the ad stops loading at the perfect spot

“I get no respect” —Rodney Dangerfield
“I get no respect or division operator” —Rodney Dangerring
“I get no respect, division, or multiplication” —Rodney Dangergroup

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

@inthehands Pyrrhic victory

the program worked, but had no lasting effect. a purhic victory

Greetings humans. We have been studying your communication patterns and have learned through observation the optimal means of communicating with your species. You can call me the fediverse chick : )

professor considering "cite your sources" rule that could crush small students and destroy thesis-writing industry

Silicon Valley (2014) reboot where the big companies being made fun of are all building AIs and overthrowing governments while the protagonists build a startup around an incredible new hash table implementation

could be worse. in Roman times, connector pitch was determined by 1/10th of the emperor’s thumb https://dialup.space/@TechTangents/114162073383972487

strange. they call it the "deque" Alpha processor, and yet its memory accesses very much do not occur in order

@inthehands @mcc @mhoye mac pro 2013 in 2013: "what are they thinking??"
mac pro 2013 in 2025: "incredible. a new Shape for my Shape collection"

tyler durden: the things you own end up owning you
rustc: actually, that’s impossible

is this a real root cause analysis, or are you just causeplaying

@mcc @JamesWidman what if we simply add a web browser to the Linux kernel