Jasvir Nagra

#TIL The Oxford Style Manual flips the order of nested quotes in English!

‘I have never been to Norway,’ he said, ‘but I have heard it described as “the Wales of the North”.’

Forget the oxford comma - we need a pop song about nesting quote symbols.

www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/...

Malbolge - Wikipedia

Has there been another language (or sequel) like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge where it took years of cryptanalysis to generate even a hello world?

Maybe @dr-collberg.bsky.social or @fortuna.bsky.social would know?

Hey - i just heard foo is adding AI to bar. Shocking. I am truly surprised by this definitely not obvious thing.

No “Spukhaft” in Programming! Evolving Languages for Collaborative Coding

Resharing here from X based on a question from @shriram.bsky.social on the topic of what changes should be made to programming languages & how feasible it is to make them more collaborative.

medium.com/@jasvir/no-s...

I don't know what an IAC is!

Argh. I don't reboot often and the number of times I realize only on a reboot how much of a command line env I've just tweeked as I go so gone when I reboot is too damn high.

Bash (and CLIs in general!) needs autosave.

Idle thoughts - how important is punctuation when talking to an LLM in English? Is there a layer abstracting that away? Some preprocessor?

Would some variant of eats shoots and leaves behave differently based on punctuation and capitalization?

wtf. I've worked in this ecosystem for ages and have never known the insanity that lives under me.

As one does once in a while - I am wondering if Square isA Rectangle. #liskov

Stop pouring AI over it and just fix basic functionality is standalone excellent advice. Unfortunately it won’t get your startup funding.

It's a testament to how poorly I think of Gmail "mark as spam" that I am nervous to mark the random "someone added you as a secondary email" crap I get but I delete instead of mark as spam lest as a result Google decides emails from @google.com are spam.

Regain my trust please.

The speed with which you all are moving (heh) is impressive and dare I say inspirational. Go get 'em! 🚀

Happy anniversary of the publication of Principia - July 15, 1686! TIL Halley (of Halley's comet fame funded it's publication).

magazine.caltech.edu/post/isaac-n...

I believe the trope is Brown people are famously fungible. :p

(funnily enough I am thinking about eq this evening)

Lessons not taught in popular feel good self help books!

I maaaay have spent the last 3 hours on a Saturday night finding bugs in an unnamed standards body design spec because I'm just feeling vindictive.

...peeving me might be unrated way to achieve security goals for free.

I've been obsessed with Unicode since a trusted UI failure because I misunderstood descenders (totally my bad - Unicode 5 spec is the best written spec of a complicated thing ever).

If I was some famed prof at a good uni out in Providence, I'd totally do a whole formal algebra on the language.

Constructive

"AI slop" is the first time XKCD was ever wrong! Sorry your early work wrecked your otherwise unblemished record Randal!

xkcd.com/810/

I was fiddling with extension APIs & briefly started triggering this. Reddit says it's not new but I only tripped it now. The wording is so dubious! Seemed to imply X was looking out for me - heh - no.

Is there a write up on tricks used?

It's time to bring it back! You only have 22 years before you have to make it js2k.

Even Make understands that while we've doubled the love, war seems to be up, to date.

$ echo -e '%:\n\t@echo "$*"' > Makefile
$ make love ; make war
love
war
$ make love ; !make war
make love ; make love ; make war war
love
love
war
make: `war' is up to date.

make love not war.

You know you've messed up as an architect when your design requires "hey just come up with a universal IR for all programming languages you intended to target now and in the future".

Gang - I might have messed up.

Ok so like literally everybody called it.

You have better reviewers than I!

"There's no way this can be null"... followed by "jas broke production".

I think I'd heard from @neildegrassetyson.com that the only English word that is pronounced differently when capitalized was polish (ie. to rub) vs Polish.

During a meeting today, I realized also august (ie. mighty) vs August but also reading vs Reading and nice vs Nice (the city)!

Others?

This why nocode has been so popular.

Fun SSL times @microsoft.com.

I'm modernizing old phrases - "glass half full or half empty" - is - "pickleball is just tennis but small" or "table tennis but so much bigger".

I know something of these words but definitely not how you have strung them together!

Wait... did chatgpt intentionally make a joke and then fix it?

What. Is. Going. On?

"😬 Just kidding. That’s intentionally silly — the real answer is:"