Mike

Mike

@mstefan.bsky.social

Grumpy old man who writes code. Believer in science, objective reality and human rights. The Earth is an oblate spheroid. Emojis in Unicode are a blight.

813 Followers 839 Following 2,244 Posts Joined Aug 2023
5 months ago

There's nothing quite like that special feeling when Microsoft flags your debug build with Win32/DefenseEvasion.A!ml

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6 months ago

Break the rules, be ungovernable! Eat the sandwich you want, when you want.

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6 months ago

Need a moment. I'm in my feelings right now, as the kids say.

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6 months ago

Wild I can read this with virtually zero context and still know what it refers to and who "he" is. I need a vacation from ... life. Or something.

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6 months ago

Autumn is the best season. There is no debate.

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6 months ago

They heard about what happened to RFK's worm, dying alone and afraid while starving to death, and decided the juice just ain't worth the squeeze.

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6 months ago

"We use coding agents like junior developers".

Cool. So you get the dual benefits of it being slower than an experienced developer to get a half-decent result *and* it never learns.

Bargain!

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6 months ago

"Instead, we should celebrate our race to the bottom. Consume and obey. Don't worry, be happy!"

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6 months ago

I strongly endorse vibe coding. The mountains of technical debt that "vibe coders" will create can help keep me warm and fed in my dotage.

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7 months ago

I await the day (that shall never come) when elected officials have any understanding of the technology they presume to govern and regulate.

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7 months ago

It feels like they're just boiling the proverbial frog here and she's going to be released in the not-too-distant future.

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7 months ago

The perfect vehicle for those who are tired of this life and wish to shuffle off their mortal coil.

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7 months ago

WebMD was always like "it could be an ingrown toenail, or ... it could be cancer, you should see a doctor immediately!"

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7 months ago

I wish so many people didn't make it their mission in life to suck the joy out of everything around them.

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7 months ago

The EPA rolling back the endangerment finding for greenhouse gasses really does seem like their response to our going over a cliff is "hell ya! let's punch the gas!"

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7 months ago

The women around him seem to be okay with his behavior, so all of these reactions from other dudes just looks like some kind of weird parasocial insecurity.

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7 months ago

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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8 months ago

Heck. I still want to know why my GPU lights up. Do people just sit and look inside their case all day instead of, you know, actually using the PC to do something useful?

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8 months ago
A completely insane rant someone paid to have shoveled onto people's feeds on X. You really don't want to read this unless you hate yourself.

Everything is going great, completely normal on X.

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8 months ago

The adventure begins! Be strong, mom ;)

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8 months ago

I feel you. When I was a little kid, had some crab cakes that gave me food poisioning and I was puking for days. The smell of them still brings on memories, decades later.

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8 months ago

Sidenote: Deep Purple's "Machine Head" is the first album I ever had as a kid. One of my mom's cool girlfriends gave it to me as a birthday gift.

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8 months ago

"pedestrian dadrock tastes"

Oh dear, the knives have come out.

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8 months ago

But, but ... you don't understand. He *needs* the scissors. Very important, mom!

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8 months ago

We, as a species, are cooked. Nature needs to move on and try again.

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8 months ago

"They don't mean me."

Yes friends, yes they do.

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8 months ago
Preview
a black and white photo of a crowd of people with the words the canadians written on the bottom Alt: a black and white photo of a crowd of people with the words "the canadians, they walk among us"

Happy Canada Day 🍁

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8 months ago

Well, of course. That's how the aliens from Zeta Reticuli communicate with us, isn't it? Telepathy, in the shower?

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8 months ago

We all know women can't resist a bowl cut.

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8 months ago

I had a lunch that included a cheese made with Carolina Reapers.

Now the real payment has come due.

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