Jason Catena

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@davefarley77 neurodivergent

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

My dude wanted to run against Biden so badly that he is now producing fanfic

[Jason Catena @catenate]

The role of Donald Trump in the second previously-scheduled ABC presidential debate will now be played by a chicken in a MAGA hat.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

Neither right nor woke can take a joke.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@davefarley77 Literate programming. I use a markdown file to contain both various code files to extract, and extensive discussion of the code and variants of the code. I can just hand off these files to others, and they get all my thoughts about the code as well as variants of the code.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@RodTuffcurls In Andersonville tonight you guys sang and played a wide variety of some pretty tough songs! If you haven't already, you might think about playing "God Only Knows" (Beach Boys). Audience probably knows it, & could sing the main line in the round at the end.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

Cancel not, lest ye be cancelled, by they more intolerant than ye.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@bertkreischer Thank you Bert, for coming to Chicago! From the guy who “sets up guitars for the Allman Brothers”, and his not-so-old wife!

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@rvcpl @alibris Area X (I wouldn't be myself for long...)

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@StephenKing Car with physicist, mechanical engineer, & computer scientist crashed coming down a mountain pass. P. worked out the forces on the car that led to crash. M.E. examined car for condition, failures, and damage. C.S. pushed it back up the hill to see whether it would crash again.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

I'm glad that @elonmusk is changing the name of what once was Twitter, to draw a bright clear line that this is now ex-Twitter, and no longer what it was. Looking forward to @bluesky, once I get my invite.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

Eventually chatty NPCs in open-world RPGs will be trained on the structure and details of the game world, give advice to the player and each other, comment on the current and past states of the game world, and act in response to the player's combined effects.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

Insipid commercials keep using the word "deserve". I do not think it means what they think it means, since very few of us earned or are warranted anything they advertise.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

New Testament God: "I will always love you."

Old Testament God: "Fuck around and find out."

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@dezfowler @davefarley77 Fortunately, composition systems such as pipes in Unix, and functions which use functions (eg, map, fold, filter) in functional programming languages, can moderate this, by providing ways for simpler parts to be reused and interfaced with each other.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@dezfowler @davefarley77 Came here to say this. Naur wrote that source code is just an artifact of the process by which people create the theory of the program, so when a person can no longer hold the theory of the program in our head, it's too complex.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

Pat Robertson died. Society advances one funeral at a time.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

a cardioid caustic

[Jason Catena @catenate]

If we ever do create artificial general intelligences, we should send (ask?) them to explore space, report back to us, and network them so they can share findings with each other. They are better suited to space, and that will also keep them away from us if they do go rogue.

[Jason Catena @catenate]

@davefarley77 My dad showing me that it's okay to stay in the individual contributor/tech lead position where you provide the most technical value to a company, rather than inevitably "rise" into management and transition to working exclusively with people.