Chris Bohn

I recently described an encryption system as perfectly secure, perfectly untraceable, unless you let a human use it.

A fluffy black & white brahma hen standing on a perch made from a tree branch.

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The GenX urge to pour some sugar.

A cylindrical robot vacuum cleaner attached to its dock. It has a googly eye and a velcro patch where another googly eye ought to be.

We were having a bunch of fun and games with our robot vacuum cleaner.

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Yes, you were kidding around

Those look like English words.

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Wilco

Muppets of the Lost Ark

They cut off one of his feet? I thought it was the other end. ;-)

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Can't, I haven't got the beat.

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The one and only time I tried to outdrink *anybody* was about 35 years ago. A couple of years later at my bachelor party, my best man admitted something.

It seems that on that evening ~35 years ago, when we'd gotten to the vodka shots, everyone else's shot glasses were water.

And, for good measure, a magic red herring number (it's inconsequential after integer overflow)

I've done that so that I can give my students a function to bootstrap a project before they write their own version of the code.

✅ Nondescriptive names
✅ Replace `while` with goto
✅ Octal integer literals
✅ Make two loops look like a single loop

github.com/DocBohn/CowP...

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Six hens free-range in a pasture.

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A red/brown alpaca stands between the pasture's outer fence and an inner fence used to partition the pasture.

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I've got to type this to get it out of my head.

Suppose a restaurant had meals named after musicians.

The "Prince" would have a side-dish of dyed rice ("purple grain"), and the desert would be raspberry sorbet. But what is the entree?

When helping my mom clean out my stepfather's A/V gear, we had a similar conversation: what would be of interest to an audiophile, what the local theater group might use as props, and what can go in the trash;;;.

Three alpacas in a pasture. One is kushed, one is standing, and one is grazing.

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A D&D alignment chart meme for programming languages' type systems. The "Good/Evil" axis is "Strongly/Weakly Typed". The "Lawful/Chaotic" axis is "Statically/Dynamically Typed". Lawful Good: Ada, Haskell, Rust Neutral Good: Kotlin, Swift, TypeScript (strict: true) Chaotic Good: Julia, Scheme, Smalltalk Lawful Neutral: Go, Fortran (F90 & later), Java True Neutral: MATLAB, PHP, Python (with type hints) Chaotic Neutral: Perl, Python, Ruby Lawful Evil: C, C++, FORTRAN (F77 & earlier) Neutral Evil: Objective-C, TypeScript, Visual Basic Chaotic Evil: BASH, BASIC (classic), JavaScript

Type punning is truly evil. Evil and awesomely useful from time to time.

Holy cow! This will be so incredibly useful during lecture. Just an hour ago, I was pointing with my laser pointer, holding it very steady, as I was saying "see this byte right here?" To be able to zoom in to the specific part of the screen that's of interest --- 🤯

And if I did rescue her? Her reaction would be:

Hey! Don't touch me. I said, don't touch me. Fine, but don't pick me up. Hey, you're picking me up! Stop it! I know you've never eaten my face off, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS A FIRST TIME!