AnomalousBit
@AnomalousBit@programming.dev
- Comment on 5 coincidences that make our existence possible 2 days ago:
For those of you too lazy to read the article:
- farts
- carrots
- JavaScript
- the cosmological constant
- squirrels
- Comment on Gimme dat aoundtrack 1 month ago:
Nothing like going out with a bang
- Comment on Critical 0-Click RCE in Windows TCP/IP Stack Impacts All Systems 2 months ago:
Buttholes: clinched
- Comment on 2024 Plymouth Grand Voyager fucking shit up 3 months ago:
Looks like a grand voyage to me
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
The Real Deuce of studies.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
Give this person an honorary degree in Turd Dynamics. Have you considered publishing your findings in the journal Nature?
- Comment on Beating Reala (Nights into Dreams; Saturn) 3 months ago:
Look at that fine ass pancake of a controller
- Comment on Developer ports Windows NT to Power Macintosh systems — firmware and boot loader now available 4 months ago:
Those poor Power Macintoshes
- Comment on Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra 4 months ago:
Yeah, the informants names he purposefully published who were surely executed after will never get to go home. Fuck this guy, sincerely.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser 4 months ago:
We got click-baited into reading about Microsoft doing shady shit with their browser default settings (again, no less!), but that part wasn’t even mentioned in the article.
- Comment on House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away from Americans 6 months ago:
Might as well read “Chinese or Russian propaganda farm makes up more bull shit to try and rage bait the west”
- Comment on Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions 6 months ago:
Where does Magenta fit into all of this? Google is so damn big, yet produces seemingly little (that survives). I don’t think their left hand knows what the right is doing even though this move seems like it’s trying to help.
I think twenty years from now they’ll teach how they threw 100s of billions they got from search down a hole and came out with nothing but acquisitions, sharing their servers (GCP) and a Linux based OS.
- Comment on Just horsey things 7 months ago:
Byyyyyye bye Little Sebastian
- Comment on Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form 8 months ago:
Dude, we just want a decent graphics card doesn’t cost more than the rest of the fucking PC. Nvidia out here chasing rainbows 🌈
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Could have been born in 1890-91, I’m sure those people had it great
- Comment on Apple ends block on EU app store for Fortnite-maker Epic 8 months ago:
nelson_laugh.mp3
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
I’m still completely baffled that Mozilla spent years working on Servo only to sunset it. Thank goodness the Linux foundation has picked it up. Why on Earth Mozilla has decided to prioritize incorporating some crappy LLM AI model over a creating ground breaking new browser engine is baffling beyond my comprehension.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
When the CEO (which is most likely where this request came from) proposed this in a meeting, I hope someone let out the largest, most vulgar, violent, chest-rattling fart noise just to reaffirm what a useless bull shit idea this is.
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 9 months ago:
First, you need to separate power hungry crypto from AI, one provides a real benefit while the other is a useless fiat that can be accomplished without dumping gigawatts down the drain. If you want to trade crypto that’s fine, just don’t use a vulgar amount of society’s power to do it.
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program 11 months ago:
Never a missed opportunity to grind the poor into the dirt, am I right republicans? Oh, but they’ll lobby for billions (with a fucking B) to give away in government subsidies to AT&T and other broadband providers all the while abolishing Net Neutrality.
If you have any illusion to think republicans are helping you at all, look no further than their jaw dropping history in telecom policy.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I had to think about this before it became apparent to me as well. Adobe is and probably will be one of Figma’s biggest competitors and they just let Adobe see how the secret sauce is made. At least they walked away with a fat check for it.
All you little tech companies out there need to be alert. Be it Adobe, Apple or some other tech giant: if they come knocking with a proposition to acquire you with a check that has stupid number of zeros on it, they might just be stealing your IP while you’re giving them the full tour of your company only to leave you high and dry afterwards. Guess it only makes sense at least when it comes to Apple and Microsoft stealing all that precious IP from Xerox PARC.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
Kim would give your data to Satan himself for a can of Pringles
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
Guess you forgot the other 20+ charges Kim Dotcom plead guilty to over the decade before he decided to host.
Embezzlement ✅ Selling stolen property ✅ Data espionage ✅
Who the fuck takes up for this moron? He’s obviously a shit weasel for life.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
Peak comedy is someone believing convicted felon Kim Dotcom is going to treat your data or privacy with an ounce of respect.
- Comment on Programming Languages as Essays 1 year ago:
language is hard to read
for item in array do puts item[:name] end
Whew, iterating and working with data in Ruby is so hard. How does anyone read this stuff.
low performance Ruby is a syntax-sugar-loaded C-wrapper, just like Python and countless other languages that don’t compile straight to machine code. If anything other than C and Rust are slow to you, than sure, maybe Ruby isn’t a good fit for your project (but Crystal might be).
create your app fast Damn right, I’m two or three times as productive as I ever was in C#/Razor or Java/Spring frameworks.
but then maintaining it is expensive As with any app that grows into something successful and widely used, technical complexity becomes exponential. I’ve found once web applications grow to a certain number of models and controllers, the relationships between them start to grow exponentially as well. This means one small change can ripple throughout your application and have unintended consequences where you least expect.
This is not even remotely a unique problem to Ruby. It’s happened across every project I’ve seen that grows beyond 30 models and a couple of dozen controllers, regardless of language. This is why unit testing is so important.
But, specifically you mentioned you can’t “onboard new developers easily”. I don’t see how. I’ve taken two CS grads straight out of college and had them adding features with tests within a couple of days on Ruby projects. Ruby was designed to be most friendly to humans, not the compiler. If Rails is what is tripping you up, imagine trying to learn a new web framework on top of an even more complicated language than Ruby. I just don’t see this argument at all, from my experiences.
Ruby’s creator finding the situation of his language being popular because he’d created it as an experiment Pretty sure most any language that was created by an individual and not by BigCorp™ is a feat in and of itself. This speaks more widely to a language’s capabilities and value if it can reach popularity without corporate backing. This argument seems to imply that because of it’s origin, it will always be some kind of experimental toy that was never intended for wide-use.
Meanwhile, Linus Torvalds:
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
Things have to start somewhere, I guess?
I kindly ask you to be more constructive in your criticism of Ruby. It’s a great, powerful language with a low barrier to entry. There’s no reason to spread FUD about it.
- Comment on Programming Languages as Essays 1 year ago:
If you’re struggling to read Ruby, you probably aren’t going to read any of the other languages on this list. That’s the real humor here!