juno @juno@octodon.social
Programmer by trade. BP-II gifted. Progressive, feminist, scientist.
#programming Your language sucks.
This is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. With the exception of 3-4 foreground stars every object you see in this image is a galaxy.
What is that software?
@Megan I believe it. My keyboard stuff is rigid and devoid of the spirit I get from the end of a pencil.
cron job explosion on a live server is a most embarrassing thing
"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."
-- Strunk and White
#writing
@Mainebot Think of them as self-replicating robots
@bjornstark Nobody will notice. They'll all be too busy starving as farmlands turn to deserts.
TIL Virtualbox VM saves state if you just close the damn thing. No need to shutdown/restart every time.
Evening-guy, ever the poet, loves my work. "Brilliant!" he cries. "Perfect!" he says. And I sleep with a smile on my face.
In comes morning-guy. Morning-guy is a pragmatist. "Hot garbage," he grumbles. "Imposter," he declares.
Sigh.
Perl is like horseradish ... hurts like hell but you're strangely drawn to it.
KDE is a thing again? Time to throw in another ram stick and give it a shot I suppose.
Good code comments don’t mean “explain everything happening in the code”. It means:
- summarize the intent of an upcoming code block
- clarify the meaning of confusing code
- clarify the meaning of counter-intuitive code
If you put too many comments, it becomes hard to tell an important comment from an unimportant one.
@pzmyers Something tells me real-life meth kingpins already know this.
The Ark Encounter: Wood, plus animal noises
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/06/16/the-ark-encounter-wood-plus-animal-noises/
You've got my money, @aigkenham!
@craigmaloney Except when washing it becomes yet another reason to procrastinate. My two fountain pens are spit-shine. 😀
Transitioning to OpenBSD: Seems my laptop now doubles as a space heater. Two birds, one stone, I guess.
@yetitaxxi Indeed. I love the simplicity of NoScript's UI. I'm just being lazy.
