Notices by scmbradley (scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz)

If we went back in time a million seconds, we'd be back at the beginning of the month. If we went back a billion seconds, we're back in the early nineties. Going back a trillion seconds puts us well into the last ice age. There are woolly mammoths around. We're back before they invented pottery.

@mattly this is a choice that predates markdown by some thirty years.

@cwebber there should be a mode that replaces all the art with the placeholders. I love it.

If I remote desktop into a machine but have my local hard drive mapped as a drive. When I delete something off my own drive, it takes forever because it downloads a copy into the remote recycle bin. Computers were a mistake.

Washington DC implies the existence of Washington Marvel.

@david_chisnall @whitequark cursed idea: SPA that reimplements a browser in JavaScript in order to render the page itself.

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press Conference Anniversary to all who celebrate. Five years already!

@maxleibman um, hi, is there an uncle fa?

@mhoye near here there are villages with names like Giggleswick, Eldroth, Feizor and Penistone.

@mhoye I live near "Street Lane"

@schratze "it was supposed to be dishwasher-safe" is the "for sale baby shows never worn" of the twenty first century.

Hey Wimbledon attendees out there with no hat on. Wtf are you doing? It's hot out.

Was reminded of this paper a minute ago, and I just read it again. Damn, Edsger Dijkstra weirdly relevant for a 40 year old paper.

"The question [of whether machines can think] is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim."

"if computers could amplify intelligence, they could amplify stupidity as well."

"The most crazy thing of all this is that, in all the more spectacular cases, the failure has been predicted, quite convincingly and well in advance. Apparently, the lure of the dream is still so strong that people become to deaf for warnings: the computer represents Babbage’s Dream Come True, and no one wants to hear that the Dream has deteriorated into a fully transistorized nightmare."

"I refer to the wide-spread, but in general unchallenged, belief that making something “computer-aided” amounts to making it better. Computer-aided design, computer-aided management, computer-aided composition, computer-aided manufacturing, computer-assisted learning, computerized examinations, you name it. Under no circumstances the dogma of improvement should be accepted without challenge: in no time we would have computerized jurisdiction."

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD867.html

@TheBreadmonkey do you, or one of your followers know of a good non-alcoholic whiskey? I'm in the market for something I can sip of an evening, and still get up the next morning for work.

@neil ah yes, generative AI, that famously copyright-respecting industry. Can't see how this could possibly go wrong.

@christianp how long until we have custom emojis of them?

@christianp this one in particular is hurting my brain

The Addams family meet up with a Navy officer.

The daughter says "hello Commodore".

Wednesday, it's Captain.

@mcc most software documentation employs an unreliable narrator, so why not let them experiment with other literary tropes?

Folks, I'm turning 40 later this year and I need some tips about what's a good midlife crisis. I'm not keen on your classics like get divorced, buy a fast car or take up golf, so I'm looking for alternatives? I'm thinking maybe start a podcast?