lorentz said Boring uses of artificial super intelligence:
- eternal peace and prosperity
- hostile world domination
- genocide

Fun uses of artificial super intelligence:
- ALL the paperclips
- time travel games where you can meet accurate behavioral models of your future self taking into account memories of this same encounter
- trolling alien civilizations by broadcasting assembly instructions for it,Our application calls Fucking Microsoft Excel over COM to figure out what letters denote year, month, and day in the current locale.

Hint: date format strings are highly standardized so it's always y, m and d,It baffles me that even now people still use ChatGPT to learn new things. LLMs are the antithesis of learning. They're inaccurate so you're left reasoning from flat out incorrect principles, they save you from encountering neighboring information to the answer you seek which is a central mechanic for developing a mental model, and the further away you are from common thought patterns the less their training applies which makes them fundamentally and unfixably terrible at detecting and correcting misunderstandings.,My favourite thing about AoC is the deranged little languages Eric comes up with.

don't(),I plainly told the manager responsible for programming that we all use web extensions and there's just no way to effectively prevent programmers from running whatever software they deem necessary, so I'm suggesting to allow them in Windows group policy purely as a matter of efficiency.

It has only just occurred me how much I'm relying on his better judgment not to try and crack down on this.

Wish me and my team luck.,For some unfathomable fucking reason, rust-analyzer decided to dump formatter crash reports into the worktree alongside the file that failed to format. How do I even begin to investigate this?,It occurred to me that I'm making actual money now and I can pay for my shit, so I tried Youtube Premium, but their background play is poorly implemented and defaults to a floating window that I need to cancel in a finnicky, android-vendor-specific way. How do you consistently make something that much less usable than an unpaid open-source developer who also has to reverse-engineer your API and circumvent your anti-user-choice obfuscation measures? NewPipe would be a success if it could just play the videos in full screen with no controls, and yet it has a better background play story than the actual provider. Fuck centralised software,what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck,I think the most important lesson you have to learn before discovering new Rust becomes easy is that edge cases matter, because formal descriptions almost never start with the most visible attribute; they start with the strongest one.

Almost every datastructure is Unpin, or should be at any rate. The benefit of Pin is that you can get rid of that *almost*, and define your operations for arbitrary sections of program state.,I''m experimenting with Tailwind right now, it's really not that bad, and their slightly different factoring of concepts is definitely more intuitive than CSS. But I wish it supported comments in classes; could just be a plugin that throws away its input.,I cannot express how much I don't want businesses who have my phone number to randomly pick an instant messaging account registered with that phone number for their correspondence. I can pick an SMS app, I own my messages as data and so I am fundamentally free to backup, sync, and view them as and when I want. The same is not true for Viber which I only registered because my mom's tenants literally don't use anything else.,Async Rust doesn't have a great story for Iterator::map just yet. I wrote a mini-article about it:

https://lbfalvy.com/blog/...,better than sex,To add references between projects (build units like DLLs or EXEs) within a Visual Studio solution, you need to open a popup from the context menu on a child node of the referring project in the VS solution tree, the child node set and the context menu have a different layout depending on whether that project follows the 2021 dependency system. The popup freezes VS so you can't keep it around, and it does six other things related to dependencies, except for NuGet which for some reason masquerades as an editor tab instead (equally inconvenient for different reasons). In the popup you tick checkboxes in a massive list of every project in the solution, then you close it. This doesn't save the changes and there's no explicit way to save changes to a csproj file because VS manages csproj files and presents them exclusively as visual forms. You can save either by "Save All", or by unloading the project which prompts you about unsaved changes and then reloading it to be able to actually initiate a build it's included in.,oh hey, if it isn't the same architectural mistake in the fourth fucking iteration that I keep forgetting to do right first time whenever I rewrite the code to fix unrelated problems.

canonicalize input as early as you can so that representational distinctions don't have to be drilled through business logic,I had to debug a reference loop in my Rust codebase and I was gearing up to it all week assuming that it would be a nightmare. It turns out that 1) it was 4 refloops, not one and 2) each of them took about 10 minutes to find. The benefit of no GC is deterministic deallocation timing, and this means that you can just set breakpoints or print statements to the point where the object might get freed and see if it actually does.

Plus, in contrast to GC, this transparently works across programs; Usercode holds a reference to a tuple and there's a map deep in the interpreter to document that std holds references to the tuple elements, but the fact that std references the elements because of the tuple, and that the elements must be freed once the tuple is freed, is only known by std. However, this ends up behaving exactly as if the relationship was held in the interpreter, so users of the public API don't need to know about it.,Today I managed to cut myself under my fingernail by grabbing the door handle to my room the wrong way. The world is a dangerous place.,Got moved to higher prio project

- disastrous security
- Built with Knockout.js in 2016
- entire folders of business logic duplicated 3 times to allow for the business requirements of separate regional branches to evolve independently
- Application server in ASP.NET Core MVC but the *real* backend is a WCF service
- there is an outstanding ticket for a list view that fails to load because the API response exceeds the .NET serializer's maximum length. The proposed solution is to stream it down to the client which then collects it into a JS array and renders a DOM node for all 6k rows
- mgmt wants to scale up to the entire European region, not with a single installation but still with a single codebase
- the Germans want interactivity with Relay
- prod database copied around and cleaned to establish new environments, migrations lost to time
- read-only queries have a tendency to deadlock,fixing the 5th bug this week that stems from liberal use of First() on enumerables that are unlikely but not in any way guaranteed to be non-empty.```