faboo

Family man; programming language nerd; coffee, pizza, and death metal enthusiast; working stiff. About sums it up.

[faboo @faboo978]

Sometimes I think Stroustroup was right, and that every language worth using is terrible.
Which is not a great rubric.

[Gregory Schnakenberg @GSchnakenberg]

While working in our archives, I found an old metal box. Inside was a long-forgotten roll of silent 8mm film marked "The Philippines 1942"

Excited at possibly discovering lost WW II footage, I sent it to specialists for care and digitization.

Yesterday, it came back. On it was:

[🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal]

legend of zelda

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Why are ethics questions always like:
"is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?"

And not:
"is it ethical to hoard bread when families are starving?"

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix]

Async programming is so cool. With just a few minutes of work you can have a program that hangs forever and is impossible to debug

[roon @tszzl]

i do not know with what tools GPT4 will be built, but GPT5 will be built with sticks and stones

[faboo @faboo978]

Getting resituated: @[email protected]

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

Ok new day, let’s try to make good choices

[faboo @faboo978]

@theSelfishMan I Resign by Crypta, about resignation syndrome. War lingers long after the fighting is over.

https://t.co/QEtlbrETe0

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Last night I captured an incredibly difficult shot: ISS transiting the moon, while gently kissing Tycho crater as it flies by at 5 miles per second. That crater is 53 miles wide, so while the station almost looks like it's orbiting the moon it's actually 1000x closer to us.

[Beau of The Fifth Column @BeauTFC]

I'm suddenly in support of dems supporting a moderate.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

people spread stuff like "teslas get totalled for hitting a bollard at 2mph" which isn't true, when they should spread true stories like "a mother of five was killed in a tesla fire and the battery kept reigniting making it harder to put out the fire"
https://t.co/2xGRJbYE8M

[faboo @faboo978]

@xxv Only the ones who aren't made of velvet.

[faboo @faboo978]

The smarter something is, the stranger its mistakes.

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

normalize opera buffa

[pourmecoffee @pourmecoffee]

Fuck 'em up guys.

[🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal]

When people are like "im excited by technology!" I squint my eyes and wonder "have you *used* technology??"

[faboo @faboo978]

@KarlRatesMovies Did he use the recoil to *also* hit that other guy in the face with the stock? 😆

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was originally created as a promotion for Montgomery Ward. He first appeared in a 1939 book & later in this 1948 film. As far as we know, the Library has the only complete version of the original release.

The full film: https://t.co/bSid1PAdrW