Chesterton's Fence is the flip side of this

"Data has weight, but only on SSDs" - Not just SSDs! Unless you always hang the chad, surely writing data onto punchcards reduces the weight of that 'storage medium'!

So it has negative weight in this case.

Negative mass = negative energy, so we should be able to make an Alcubierre Drive out of punched cards.

If some PMs today evaluate performance by the number of lines of code, I wonder if the punch card equivalent was weighing the punched-out holes that were removed by each developer.

And it is less than one?

I think my favorite part of that comment is "documenting" that 10^(-15) is not negative by appealing to Wolfram Alpha.

your user name is found at the 4,922,096,564th digit of Pi

Yes, you're correct. Now ask yourself if "one quadrillionth of an electron" is a quantity that's possible to have.

Good thing he didn't say that

Apparently I can’t attach a cover letter, but I think I might be a better fit than might be obvious from my résumé. I do tend to "think like a product owner" (to quote the job desc) and love learning new tech on the job; I have been a React fan since 2014; and I know a dozen languages, so picking up Golang sounds fun. I am a design-thinking engineer who can also write: https://alanhogan.com/blog

"Cars now provide zero benefit..."

"Gender-based discrimination..."

"Fuck Brendan Eich [for opposing gay marriage at a time that Obama did as well]..."

"As ever, unionize, free Palestine, trans rights are human rights, fix your heart or die."

Ugh. What if you could possibly focus on technology instead of woke virtue-signaling (and threatening to kill those who disagree)?

Anyway, 'write ur website by hand' is absolute garbage advice, sorry. No, you are not going to effortlessly syndicate it elsewhere when you are manually updating your index.html to point to your latest hand-coded plain html file. Surely you won't even have a sitemap.xml. Will you write the sharing-friendly meta tags by hand every time too? No.

The idea of changing what 'rm' does sets off all of my "foot-gun" alarm bells

Huh. I watched a lot, but not all, of the video, and I thought he made it clear early on that he was stitching together 1px videos & repeating the event for each pixel (about a million times for that 720p result)

Right? Google is dog caca now. Myself and everyone I know keep getting sent to AI-written garbage nonsense slop websites, or for some reason, to the Hindustan Times

Jaja, dijo caca!

ontopic: This debacle started way earlier than when google decided that the "don't be evil" motto was to be removed, methinks.

I've completely stopped using Google since the ChatGPT search Chrome extension came out. That was, what, almost 2 years ago? More? It simply redirects URL-bar searches to ChatGPT (with the web search toggle active) instead of Google, nothing fancy.

I didn't explicitly decide to stop using Google, it just happened, I didn't need it anymore, just like I went from using StackOverflow daily to never opening it again. ChatGPT with search is just better (at least ChatGPT Plus). Granted, it is noticeably slower to get a first result, but end-to-end it's a much faster way to find your answer.

I don't disagree - yet their share price hit ATH this month.

That's how you know that our economy is not really working to the benefit of most of us - because all the numerous ways to profit by fucking people up, from dark patterns to mass layoffs, are rewarded financially.

Yeah for some reasons it ranks among the first newspaper any times I am looking for some US news. It feels like someone tweaked the algorithm for money.

oddly this "caca" felt more visceral to me that most "poop"'s or "shit"'s I've seen in a bit. summoned an image instantly. probably just surprise - good choice!

reminds me of a blackhat presentation of a web crawler

two young gentlemen introduced it as "caca", seemingly an acronym for sth, but they just couldn't help themselves and kept chuckling for next five minutes.

"Caca" is more kiki and "poop" is more bouba.

"Caca" means shit in a bunch of languages (at least as a term used with children, but not only, in Romanian, French, etc), that's probably the reason.

See my reply to parent. Reply to sibling: Whoa, I've seen the Sopranos 3 times and never caught that reference.