Integer storage in spreadsheets… There are a ridiculous number of ways to store any integer, and I don’t just mean because you could theoretically store 1 and 00000001 and they’d be interpreted as the same thing.

I don’t think I’ve entered an IP address for a local device in years. Everything is accessible using <hostname>.local thanks to mDNS. Avahi has been doing this for… 20 years I think?

Do you even DNS?

Given that part of my job is evaluating applicants’ ability to do the job, and given that LLMs are very good at answering the sort of questions many people ask in interviews, AI is making my job significantly harder.

If someone could make a prompt that actually made an LLM write good code, I wouldn’t have nearly as much of an issue.

I would agree, except that every piece of it is significantly more complex than it needs to be. ODF is considerably simpler in part because it makes use of other pre-existing standards for things like dates and times. OOXML redefines so many of those things, and in many cases Microsoft Office’s implementation isn’t actually compatible with their own standard.

Please don’t spam this post.

Please don’t spam this post.

Lie down and take out my phone. The two cats who immediately get between my face and my phone are mine, as are my 198 new cats.

This is a daily occurrence for me. Normally she brings it to the couch, but if I’m late leaving my desk for lunch she will absolutely bring the toy into my office.

My older cat tells me when it’s time to get up, when it’s bedtime, etc. He woke me up and is currently content with me being on my phone as long as I don’t close my eyes and go back to sleep. In about 20 minutes though he’ll decide it’s time for me to get up and he’ll herd me into the bathroom.

This is a poorly designed horror trap. Here, let me help you!

Are you saying there’s nobody who defends all three and claims to be a leftist? Because that I’d say I’ve never seen. But I’ve certainly seen various accounts claiming to be leftists and defending one or two of them.

Are you saying there aren’t people who defend aggressive actions by far-right politicians? That there aren’t people who defend Netanyahu, Putin and Trump?

Mostly people who defend far-right aggression and pretend their stances are “leftist” getting upset when they get called out on their bullshit.

The last version of Windows I liked was 2000

Valve is making money on Proton (if indirectly), so they would very quickly get sued for it. It’s not that the copyright owners would want to stop them from distributing the library - just that they’d want a cut of Valve’s massive revenues. A community project, on the other hand, isn’t likely to be able to provide any revenue. So since it’s just redistributing runtimes that are already available for free and the only likely result is the project getting taken down, it’s not really worth doing.

I think the only devices in my house that aren’t running Linux are running VXWorks or some random embedded OS. Been this way for ages.

Cursed project: provides .ps1 file for *nix configuration, .sh for Windows configuration (using git bash)