Wait 3 to 5 business weeks while the 16-bit ARM microcontroller they put in these things serves a web page like old people fuck.

This also goes for some NAS appliances and the in-dash console of newer cars. Underpowered ARM implementations are the scourge of this decade.

Also: Dunning-Kruger

every bug in linux can be fixed with sudo rm -rf /*

To be fair, that does remove the bugs from the system. It just so happens to also remove the system from the system.

Exactly.

To put it another way, trusting AI this completely (even with so-called “agentic” solutions) is like blindly following life advice on Quora. You might get a few wins, but it’s eventually going to screw everything up.

This sentence has made me violently ill. Please take it back.

This has to be one of the worst ways to reinvent a filesystem that I’ve ever heard. At the very least, storing static data in an relational database at this scale should be a slappable offense.

Well now I do, yes.

PSA: GERD will mess you up. Stick to the left side.

Oh, I know this one. Only it was my grandmother, she was hosting, and she insisted on cooking everything. Sometimes, not well.

Both. In the same episode.

The only episode of Survivor I have watched was the season 1 finale. From what I understand, that might still be a peak moment in the show’s history. I get the hype around things like that, but I can’t fathom sitting down for everything that leads up to it.

make no mistakes

LOL. I know it’s for a laugh, but you may as well add “pretty please” to that prompt.

Edit: I wonder if it just hallucinates more convincingly, instead?

At least he did some damage with that one.

Obligatory

Also the more I get into languages like Rust, the more these doubts are increasing and leading me to believe that most of it is just dogma that has gone far beyond its initial motivations and goals and is now just a mindless OOP circlejerk.

There are definitely occasions when these principles do make sense, especially in an OOP environment, and they can also make some design patterns really satisfying and easy.

Congratulations. This is where you wind up, long after learning the basics and start interacting with lots of code in the wild. You are not alone.

Implementing things with pragmatism, when it comes to conventions and design patterns, is how it’s really done.

NGL, writing pure functions in Rust is fantastic. Writing responsible code that handles all the error conditions turns the “happy path” into hamburger. Even with the ergonomics of Result, Option, and even ?, code just sprawls and becomes a readability tradeoff. I’m only a few months into Rust at this point, and I have a lot to learn, but it’s tempting to just .unwrap() and .expect() where I think it’s unlikely to fail.

Best I can do is strong coffee.

One of many reasons why I love BSG. As a retro-computing enthusiast, the idea that antique systems are naturally impervious to conventional digital attacks, just felt so validating.

Sure, our navigation system is based on a Commodore-64, but good luck getting it to divulge mission-critical information over bluetooth. Or any information for that matter.

I just see it as everyone tossing around ghost jokes because of Beverly’s… ahem… encounter.

So… we know that dolphins and whales are understood by the universal translator. Has Trek-dom explored the possibility that other animals might also be understood to an extent?