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Got mad at the local grocery store for ripping me off (I buy from them all the time and they never buy from me) so I'm going to punish them by paying double from now on

Congratu-BLEEPING-lations! It’s time we had a little talk about your use of expletive infixation. ‘Expletive infixation’ is the linguistic term for profanity inserted into a word for emphasis. (For this thread, we’ll use 'BLEEPING,' but feel free to substitute another word.)

Não compartilhe captura de tela do terminal para pedir ajuda cuducos.me/2025/03/18/n...

Do not share a terminal screenshot when asking for help cuducos.me/2025/03/18/d...

Specifying details in an unambiguous fashion is also called... programming.

them: you can't expect the kernel god wizard hackers to learn a second programming language me, tabbing over from working on my rust & typescript based project: if us "webshits" can do it so can you, buddy

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Yaso não passa frio, pois sempre coberta de razão

Quando xoven participei de vários movimentos para aumentar a participação cívica no governo através da internet. Foi a era do hackativismo, hack the government, open gov, open data, democracia participativa, etc etc Era época de Obama/Lula-Dilma. 🧵

remembering fondly how richard spencer got punched once in the face really hard, started crying, and fucked off forever

Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

i have used the phrase "we nailed legs to a dog to make an octopus" a lot in technical reviews of late

God might have mercy, but Wikipedia won't give a shit

AI no CV dos outros é refresco

According to the UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty, ratified by >100 nations (including the US), people who go to space remain the responsibility of some nation. Starting a new nation on Mars would violate long-standing international law. We have a few chapters in A City on Mars on this topic.

Na dúvida aqui se vou aproveitar a promoção dessas iguarias de Natal, Paudoro ou Cucetone?

Basically everything worth a hill of beans uses HTTPS; that encrypts from your browser, all the way to the server side. Nothing in between (including, interestingly, your OS and its networking stack) can see the contents barring some MITM corporate nonsense. This is why public wifi is "safe."

I see a common argument that Americans still use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius because it's more precise and natural for humans. This is wrong. The reason America uses Fahrenheit is because of Ronald Reagan. Surprised? An autistic infodump thread on temperature scales.

Just Microsoft refusing to enhance their docs for humans because it would make it worse for AI. Source https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/pull/2021#issuecomment-2546627586

As the CEO, I approve this message.

i saw the phrase "ai code review" and i have never been more confused it can't 'review', there's no modelling or analysis or intepretation, just fuzzy matches via gradient search, but it turns out it's just one of those linters that creates busywork for programmers here's 1000 false positives woo

Holy Torment Nexus, Batman.

Unpopular opinion: I like daily stand-ups at work If they are not run poorly, they facilitate communication a lot, help with constant alignment and make blockers visible If they are run poorly, that is not a stand-up problem but a management/people issue