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I really don’t get enough credit for all the stupid stuff I *don’t* do

@exQUIZitely I wish I had a C64. Instead had a Spectrum 48K.

Do you remember your first girlf...? Computer, I mean COMPUTER! Mine was the good old C64. I still have it, over 40 years later... what a journey. Your turn.

@Arfness We’d like to help you hang on to it.

That's a nice gulf you've got there, it'd be a shame if something was to continue to happen to it.

@concern0193 @Currentreport1 Yes thank goodness they’re supporting SA’s claim

Netherlands & Iceland bravely filing to “intervene” at the ICJ genocide circus against Israel – peak comedy from nations whose own open-door incentives are already rewriting their maps in real time. Protecting the narrative over physics, zero reciprocity mirror. Classic selective ledger self-own 😂☕

BREAKING: Netherlands and Iceland have filed declarations to intervene in South Africa's Gaza genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

@willigula @AndrewButchart1 Amazing! I did not know Visio was Microsoft’s that early. I think computing history would be quite different if Microsoft and DEC had refined the x86 emulation tech instead of cancelling it.

@CUDAHandbook @AndrewButchart1 Not DEC Alpha, but I worked on a PowerPC port of Visio for Windows NT. We got it up & running but the market share was never big enough to bring it to market. Early NT was a great OS.

@AndrewButchart1 I’m pretty sure I worked on one of the only software applications that shipped natively for DEC Alpha: Microsoft’s Softimage port.

@TrashMa38395253 @ShepGoesBlep They don’t fire at exactly the same time. They have a firing order that tells you the order the cylinders are sparked.

@ShepGoesBlep Dont internal combustion engines cycle which cylinders are firing at any given time. Wouldn't firing on all cylinders be the engine just exploding.

Why is the phrase “firing on all cylinders” used when someone is doing exceptionally well at something? Isn’t firing on all cylinders the norm? If one cylinder isn’t firing that’s bad and will cook your catalytic converter This tweet was revealed to me in a dream

@CUDAHandbook That was a good time for Microsoft. I remember when NT could run on DEC Alpha as well as Intel. I remember when windows NT was a new OS free from legacy. David Cutler did a good job.

I worked in Microsoft’s Systems Division in the mid to late 1990s, when Windows NT was winning market share from the clown car of UNIX variants offered by various workstation and server vendors. Linux was in ascendancy, but not soon enough to forestall the migration of 1/x

@gadboit @PeaceisBeing They do talk about exoplanets but I think they infer their existence by gravity or similar. Oh wait exoplanets are just outside our solar system not galaxy.

@PeaceisBeing Surely this one? I doubt we can identify planets in other galaxies yet.

It’s pretty- where is it what galaxy?

@CodeByNZ Depends on the windows laptop. There’s like a million different HW manufacturers

Is it different on windows ?

@beautyskillz You obviously were not playing games in 80’s and 90’s when your sense of self worth was based on how long you could survive in Ghouls and Ghosts…

GAMING HOT TAKE: playing games on easy mode is perfectly fine. Play the way that makes the experience fun for you. Games are meant to be enjoyed, not turned into a second job

@mmeJen @OwenShroyer1776 Say what?

@OwenShroyer1776 She's also convinced that India isn't a 3rd world country, so there's that.😂

Well would you look at that.

@Rebecca21951651 I prefer the term, Consent exhaustion.

He thinks it's like raping a girl?

@ArabAngelZ ocupado

ok seriously what are you supposed to say when someone knocks while you’re in the bathroom

@Col45398669 British Fanny or American Fanny?

How come nobody uses the term ‘fanny magnet’ any longer.

@theSiliconSiren I had a Sound Blaster Pro. I wanted to play Wolfenstein 3D. Except every “Schweinhund!” Was accompanied by one hell of a crackle. No amount of configuring DMA and IRQ would make it ok 😢

In the 90s, your Sound Blaster and modem could both try to use IRQ 5. Your PC’s response? Nope 🚫 No sound. No internet. No explanation. IRQ conflicts were chaos 😵

@Rebecca21951651 I am South African and had a Jewish friend at school. The dude was anti-apartheid as all fuck (in SA context) but insisted that while Africans in SA were mistreated, that Arabs in West Bank and Gaza were subhuman and deserved their treatment. I think he’s still living in Israel

And in particular Israel has no such right, being an Apartheid State -- it must reform like South Africa did or be trashed.

@_trish_xD Learning C++ in Basque is a ballache! 😂

when I started coding, I thought it was about knowing the most languages. a year in, I realized it was about building real things. now I think it's honestly about how deep you're willing to go.

@johncrickett Similar argument from some time ago. Static typing doesn’t matter as unit tests should catch type errors. @martinfowler looking at you

There's a take going around AI coding circles that sounds really appealing. "Tests are 100%, so who cares about code quality? Just regenerate." Two things bother me about it. First, if your test suite had 100% coverage of the bug you just found... it wouldn't be a bug. It would be a failing test. The coverage didn't protect you, so why is it the safety net for regeneration? Second, there are multiple valid solutions to any problem. Regenerate the software and you might get something that passes every test but behaves slightly differently. Different UI. Different output format. Different error messages. It might all be correct, but users only care about their experience. Code quality matters. Tests can't encode everything your users expect. Once the code is in production, you'll have to support it, not regenerate it. What’s the alternative? Specifying every single behaviour, including all the UX, in so much detail that you'll struggle to ever ship anything.

@SandyofCthulhu All the water goes to a very wet place that doesn’t need any more water

What you don’t understand is that the water used by AI is completely destroyed. It leaves the universe forever.