AdmiralBell @AdmiralBell@witches.town
He/him. Bad communist. Programming nerd. Seattle, WA.
impact driver? i hardly kn*bans self*
why do sizeplay fetishists like Rust programming Afficher plus
most annoying fandom Afficher plus
TIL - someone made a lisp-machine-like OS for the raspi2 in 2015 called Interim OS. It even has graphics capabilities!
Also, cool keyboard-case.
Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2015/09/23/old-lisp-languaged-used-for-new-raspberry-pi-os/
Website: http://interim.mntmn.com/
GitHub repository: https://github.com/mntmn/interim
Tumblr post w/ pictures: http://therealmntmn.tumblr.com/post/128707270189/interim-os-running-on-interim-computer-prototype
Paper about it: http://dump.mntmn.com/interim-paper/
I work on a component in one of the largest email services in the world. Problem of the day: How should our component send email?
Unpopular opinion Afficher plus
@TipsyTentacle
Good idea.
- Tryin to make a change :-/
@rootkovska on birdsite:
"Almost 50% of the population is dumb enough to just stick a random USB into their computer."
"Or maybe: most engineers are "dumb enough" to make systems which can be 0wned by simply plugging a random USB?"
automation threatens our survival only because so many of us can only access the means of survival by selling our labor, but it doesn't have to be like this. machinery itself is no more the enemy of the people than the yak or the plow. capitalism is the enemy.
You unlearn something old every day
@nergdron My employer did something quite disingenuous: They compared pay within a job title, but not promotion rates been titles or what titles people joined the company with. These stats made pay equality look good, because title is the main determiner of pay!
I guess the advice is make sure to look for the subtle inequalities?
The gender of the day is proletarian. Seize the means, comrades.
@plsburydoughboy
Tired: sex86
Wired: sex86-sexy4
@AdmiralBell I traveled the world for eleven bees. Everybody is made up of pollen.
@AdmiralBell I traveled the world, and there's seven bees
flew from the hive
to the seven seas
every human's looking for honey
Sweet dreams are made of bees. Who am I to diss a bee?