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milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices3·20 days agodeleted by creator
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Science Memes@mander.xyz•Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineeringEnglish5·21 days agoAw, cheer up; someone will apply you in thirty to forty years.
The real problem these days is with intensive almond farming. Almond tastes better from free range almonds, with space to graze in peace and calm between the bushes.
Have you heard of “bitter almonds”? Turns up in mystery novels. It’s what you get from caged almonds raised on steroids.
Cabbages are actually tree trunks
Raspberries are actually tubers
Wheat is actually a berry
And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings
Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.
Meanwhile women are hand-coding in assembly, like God intended.
Oh yes please. But not JavaScript. I use Rust frameworks to avoid all three!
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Privacy@lemmy.ml•“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.6·27 days agoI can’t see from this article whether “could cost” means there are lawsuits ongoing/pending, or just the author has speculated what the fine could be if there were a lawsuit?
Umbrella is for UnrealScript
Van is for VimScript
Water is for Webassembly
Xylophone is for Xod
Yacht is for YASS
Zulu is for Zig
Okay, I had to consult Wikipedia’s list of programming languages for some of those.
Jigsaw is for Java
King is for Kotlin
Lion is for LUA
Monkey is for …
Apple is for ADA
Ball is for BASH
Crab is for C
Dog is for D
Elephant is for Ecsmascript
Fox is for F#
Goat is for Go
House is for Haskell
Igloo is for
…okay I got stuck there.
News at Ten: Borrowed Data Escapes Outside of Associated Function
Alt text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they’d have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we’re still working on it.
Edit: seems I’m the third person to comment this! :')
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Microtransactions for devs114·1 month agoPay per loaf of bread at the baker
… Microtransactions for hungry people
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
Nix-related job - do tell!
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Are IDEs really like this ?5·1 month agoIIRC vi has been installed, or perhaps tinyvim, then I always go and install vim-gtk
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Can anyone confirm accuracy?3·1 month agoShe is, and she’s lovely.
Reminds me of this:
https://xkcd.com/1685