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anothername12··on DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
The article outlines some reporting changes (from OMB to White House chief of staff??) to get around that apparently
anothername12··on An update on Dart macros and data serialization
Why is it that Lisp family macros are easy to implement and use, but not so in other languages?
anothername12··on You vs. a Billionaire: An Interactive Perspective on Wealth
I don't think billionaires should even be a thing.
anothername12··on TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA
They took my porn in Texas an now this wtf
anothername12··on Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab
Unfortunately, I spent more than a trivial amount of time wondering what an Einstein of Adtech looks like.
anothername12··on Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
You're not getting fired now, you're getting "moved out" or "exited"
anothername12··on Zuckerberg Approved AI Training on Pirated Books, Filings Say
You’ll be fine. It’s like laundering money.
anothername12··on Show HN: A playable game of Tetris inside a PDF
Does not even seem to be a valid PDF according to Preview.app
anothername12··on Perplexity got ads
I would like to use Kagi if it had some kind of anonymous searching
anothername12··on C++ is an absolute blast
I think I will take another look. I recently helped my grandson with his university C++ assignment. It was a lot better than I remember C++ in the 90s.

Fun wise though, I get the most fun with dynamic languages that are highly interactive like Forth, Common Lisp and Smalltalk. I don’t have to drop out of the zone to kick the compiler all the time.

anothername12··on IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts
Well now I know what I’m sinking time into this Christmas break!
anothername12··on Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion
You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
anothername12··on Starlark Programming Language
> Deterministic evaluation - Executing the same code twice will give the same results.

What’s this all about? Don’t most languages?

anothername12··on UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)
Is it possible for my/my employer’s insurer to convince my employer to fire me if my or my dependent’s health needs are “too expensive”?

Could they eg. Give my employer a lower rate as an incentive to do that?

anothername12··on Biggest shell programs
I would add Bash Forth to that. String-threaded concatenative programming!
anothername12··on California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite
I've been through the rabies protocol after a bite from random homeless dog I tried to help.

In the US with insurance it's about $5K out of pocket, and 3 or 4 (can't remember exactly) visits to the ER. the first visit they inject some gelatinous stuff all over the site of the bite site plus the vaccine. And no, they don't inject in your abdominal area anymore. The case will be referred to the city and if possible, the animal will be tested for it. I'm not sure if they have to kill the animal to test. They'll let you know if it was positive though.

It's extremely rare to get rabies, but also it's extremely lethal.

anothername12··on PR process killing morale and productivity
I have quit places because of their PR process.
anothername12··on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
And classical music gets proper special treatment!

People have been begging for that for ages on Spotify’s forum…

anothername12··on Warp terminal – no more login required
I would like to know what folks are doing that requires a high performance terminal.

I don't think I'm much more productive at Terminal.app in 2024 than I was in 386 Linux console-connected to other computer via 14400 dial-up in 1999.

anothername12··on The shrimp welfare project
It’s the trolley problem https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/
anothername12··on Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
I think we'll blow through these limits. Humanity has never ceased to disappoint me.
anothername12··on Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
Are you wondering if epidemiologists are doing climate science?
anothername12··on C++ Template Macroprogramming versus Lisp Macros
Pffft, I’d just #. that factorial call and it’d be a normal defun.
anothername12··on Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown
We tried this and it was an absolute shit show for us.
anothername12··on All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
There’s probably a group of poor bastards on call at 5am, poring over alerts, and logs in Datadog etc wondering WTF is wrong with their applications.

Give ‘em a shout out by saying “hi” in a request parameter or something while you’re reverse engineering.

anothername12··on Thoughts on the Resiliency of Web Projects
What do you mean by a flat stack? LAMP etc?
anothername12··on Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
I’m surprised Windows isn’t given away for free at this point.
anothername12··on Pascal deserves a second look
34000 lines of code/min on an 8088 fast?
anothername12··on Why Pascal Deserves a Second Look
> As an implementation, it's the slowest compiled language there

Are you talking about the Free Pascal implementation here?

anothername12··on ChatGPT Search
Must I wait for it to “type out” my search results?
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