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A'ight fellas, I got some explaining to do as a matter of disclaimer for anything I say about programming languages. Here comes the bitstream parsing motivation gigadump. 1/20

Mirror alone is eight hundred tons. And yeah that thing still moves. Last century's engineering was nuts in a good way.

@onehappyfellow But what about gothic type system?

sans-serif type system

@devabram obscenely typed language tho

decently typed language

T-shaping illustrated.

@SwissBankingJew @effectfully @JustDeezGuy @renzocarbonara @onehappyfellow Though that'd only be some candidates — you still need to be doing something eerily similar semantically to warrant doing a typeclass imo. Well, that or having such a shitton of conflicts that it becomes genuinely annoying and overcomes explicitard reflexes.

@SwissBankingJew @effectfully @JustDeezGuy @renzocarbonara @onehappyfellow No bloody foggiest idea tbh but starting to prefix/suffix functions with type names due to naming conflicts is chief tell.

@effectfully @JustDeezGuy @renzocarbonara @onehappyfellow What are some good resources about "How to build Typeclasses", "How to uncover algebraic structures from your domain" that shows some real world uses of Typeclasses? I'm looking to understand "How to think" in TCs

remember last year when a revolving door of CEOs were making bombastic claims about AI generated code every week? microsoft, for instance, said "30% of their code was written by AI. by 2030, that'll be 99%" but what have they shipped? how does this stack up? - MS shipped a new windows run dialog that takes 100ms to load. that's right, a dialog with a text box and a button - GitHub can't even ship a new CEO and keep the thing running for more than 5 minutes - Amazon? crickets - Google? crickets bar gemini and gemma - OpenAI can't get GPT-5.5 to stop talking about goblins - Anthropic is a walking disaster of poor quality, user hostility and unreliability and yet how many times did we hear "you haven't seen what i've seen. you're not ready for what's coming" so what IS coming? where is it? i cant see it i only see bullshit, backtracking, bloat and bugs. at this point, i don't expect anything different than what we have now and, after all his bluster, neither does sam altman

@JustDeezGuy Yeah school math is weirdly bad. Worse yet I had to unmemorize the whole lot of it when I started uni math. Ngl it was still very much on par with being subjected to dentistry but it was like being let out of stale farts basement into fresh air.

I certainly found it weird and exasperating that I was taught proofs in 9th grade geometry… and saw neither hide nor hair of them again until real analysis, with everything between seeming to be based on arbitrary rules, vibes, and rote memorization.

@onehappyfellow Undisputed slav supremacy in profanities 💪

I frequently think in english now but cursing, that's a job for the beautiful polish language still

@DanielW_Kiwi @Grady_Booch One man's pain is another man's job security 🤗

@Grady_Booch I see pain in my future as the bulk of the work is cleaning this sort of thing up.

Thoughts and prayers.

@caballerobrah It's not comditioning imo — if you work with the software a lot and for a long time, learning the layout is peanuts against long term costs. Density is king. If you land on it randomly every once in a while, you need clean attention guidance and stuffing all complex stuff away

@WickedMcCat I miss Win 95-era UX so badly. Not sure if that’s because it was legitimately better or if just conditioning, but I miss it

Someone in Japan please tell me you’re working on this

@slimjimmy He hit a head on the nail or something.

"that reframes everything"

@HSVSphere @BrodieOnLinux Gnome is shit tho, a gold mine for dunking on.

@BrodieOnLinux lunduke has turned this land into a Content Desert and even brodie is churning out slopcoal now

GNOME Logout Button Situation Is Crazy #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/HcJJ7UldMc8

To be frank all these thirty years of abusing a document layout engine for making "UI" amounts mostly to a big pile of rotten pig shit and none of this holds a candle to a textmode FoxPro from time immemorial, neither in usability nor in performance.

@wordgrammer Methinks eerie lighting is mandatory as well. Looking like a shed doesn't message gravity.

Our society is increasingly distrusting of datacenters, and it was already pretty skeptical of 5g. To limit the burden on the public, I propose that we put all 5g towers on top of datacenters. That way they take up less space. Here are two such designs:

@DanielW_Kiwi We don't rightly try to rawdog it in a tshirt and flops. Unless drunk af that is, but that's a wholly different calculus.

It's 8c outside and man it feels cold. How do you people do it that get snow in the winter?

@cmuratori Jesus, one starts feeling uncanny when lipsync drifts away some 50ms and they dare utter bullshit like that in public. Disgrace.

How did we get here?