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Monday, October 27th, 2025 at 9:16:42 AM GMT-05:00
4·2 months agoNah, just sort by date instead of topology, or vice versa.
git gud, son
“to make a long story short” - especially when used multiple times in one story and/or as a mindless audiospace filler to hold control of the conversation while assembling more thoughts/words… without knowing both the long and short version it literally adds nothing to the communication, it literally makes the story longer every time you use it (wasting my time), it’s probably the longest socially acceptable way to say that (one could just say: “in short”), and it’s got just enough word-scramble verbal complexity to occupy the higher order English parsing logic.
5·2 months agoHow about we go with reed and red… see, you already know how to pronounce them!
“Elemeno” reminds me of the decabet skit.
When you cant remember all of your many wives’ names you label them like the seven dwarves.
Well, I do have MBSE on the brain, but the idea here is more like a low-code/no-code environment with an ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS “pit of success”… so large that even GenAI can reliably fall into it. Numbered tabs, you go left to right answering questions and fiddling with with prompts, paint-by-numbers for working software.
I imagine that it is theoretically possible to successfully vibe-code, but probably not with a conventional project layout nor would it look much like traditional programming. Something like your interaction primarily being a “requirements list”, which gets translated into interfaces and heavy requirements tests against those interfaces, and each implementation file being disposable (regenerated) & super-self-contained, and only being able to “save” (or commit) implementations that pass the tests.
…and if you are building a webapp, it would not be able to touch the API layer except through operational transforms (which trigger new [major] version numbers]. Sorta like MCP.
Said another way, if we could make it more like a “ratchet” incrementing, and less like an out-of-control aircraft… then maybe?!?
Yes. They all get several up-votes, this one included.
So even if it does not move, this pawn could get promoted by some future tile-slide… come to think of it, I guess two pawns could get promoted in the same turn via a tile-slide.
So now that the black pawn has reached “the last rank”, does it get promoted?
19·3 months agoIIRC, I had a PC (since sold) that had secure boot permanently enabled from the factory. That is, in spirit, a PC with a “locked bootloader”, but you might not even notice because many Linux distros have that Microsoft-blessed Linux loading shim… but it is still Microsoft inserting themselves between you and your hardware; they could decide in the next few years they no longer “support” Linux, hypothetically.
It was not immediately obvious from the image (though you might see the starfish for scale), but these things are huge!
I wish I could say that I was surprised, but to those not mired in mathematical sophistry… infinity is the furthest concept from a number… it has no known practical use, renders numerical comparisons and operations meaningless, and destroys all numbers to which it comes into contact. If anything, I would sooner accept that it is an anti-number. :)