Jean-Karim Bockstael @jkb@octodon.social

mfw someone says some silly shit about "kilometers"

launch elon musk into space lol

@jimpjorps is this anything

found this picture on a manufacturer website and I think it has meme template potential

Someone: "Science is a precise and exact thing with definite answers that everyone in the field agrees on"

Chemists: Haha no

Physicists: *maniacal laughing*

Linguists: *fistfighting each other whilst cackling like hyenas*

Programming, when studied deeply and trying to be conscious about the process it's a really interesting topic. It makes you learn about yourself and the way you think.

It helps you learn about how people thinks.
It teaches you about how to tell stories, how to teach, how do you structure your own mind.

Programming is teaching a stupid machine to look like it's thinking, so you have to know really well what thinking means. Also what teaching means.

Spiders are weird

Exemplary. Not.

What making progress in software development feels like:

"Today I'll write $thing, so I can work on $other_thing tomorrow."

Later that day: "Turns out $thing wasn't very easy, so I split it into 5 sub-things and implemented the first today."

Next day: "Today I'll work on sub-thing 2/5."

Later next day: "Turns out that sub-thing wasn't very easy, so I split it into 5 sub-sub-things and implemented the first today."

computer scientists in the 60s: "cool, we can do math with computers! And we have these amazing beautiful programming languages that can perform effortless recursion! I wonder what new vistas of thought this will open up!"

techbros in the 2010s: "we paid a bunch of Turkish people to generate 150 gigabytes of training data and shoved it into tensorflow. We'll put it on top of a JS app running in a virtual electron environment on the cloud. It's like uber but for marmosets."

Coinhive is shutting down and I for one am pleased to hear it.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18244636/coinhive-cryptojacking-cryptocurrency-mining-shut-down-monero-date

Ya gotta admire Elon Musk's dedication to posting, even when it can do nothing but harm his company and his brand

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sec-asks-court-to-hold-elon-musk-in-contempt-for-reckless-tweets

This #PixelArt by Mark Ferrari from 1996 🤩

"From Seize The Day calendar utility, and later used in the computer game, Magic: The Gathering - BattleMage, by Akklaim. Constructed to animate by color cycling, and change time of day and weather condition by means of palette shift."

https://steemit.com/pixelart/@personz/perfect-pixel-journey-into-the-heart-of-pixel-art-landscape-part-1-new-project

Friendly reminder : Ehggs. Miphffff.

This dude took thousands of pictures of the moon and created a 9000 pixel wide incredibly beautiful composite. https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly_50000_images_of_the_night_sky_to/