@tedu Glad to see some performance optimization work happening...for far too long have I suffered, my thought leadership bottlenecked by the 15 honks-per-minute throughput limit.

@mattblaze @Disputatore Oh wow, this reminded me of something I hadn't thought of in quite a while...

In college a friend's chemistry lab group had a report due, and after each doing their respective parts, one of them was tasked with the final document preparation and hand-in. The other two found out some time later (after getting some concerned questions from the professor), that hand-in guy had apparently been quite high while doing so (on exactly what I don't know, possibly LSD?). At the time I saved copies of the actual files from my friend and managed to dig them up, and it's really quite something. (Some choice excerpts pictured here.)

So yeah, don't give LSD guy final edit...but sometimes LSD guy can take you by surprise.

@rk And here I was imagining it as the daemon that keeps you from using your Mac to commit financial crimes. (Or maybe just fixes the odd DRAM bit flip.)

@cliffle Ever since The Sticker Incident a few years ago, whenever I see AMI's name written out in full I keep hoping it'll be like this.

@encthenet I think the idea with implementation-defined behavior is that you look at the implementation's documentation and it tells you what it does. GCC's, for example.

@AMS @w8emv I think we might need a fsck too; not sure if we've got any good backups available if that doesn't go well though.

@tedu I hope someone's saving all the numbers so we can have a great line graph on wikipedia someday.

@th I was recently able to identify the (oddly familiar) manufacturer of a power supply on the Milennium Falcon: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/1GlWKw22Bqb1XfpGVj

@rk I will die on the hill that "lib" (as in libc) should rhyme with "tribe", because it's obviously short for "library", while also still pronouncing /bin as rhyming with "tin". Self-consistency is obviously very important.

Also, while I felt sort of silly photographing a car (and not even a terribly rare one here) while walking through a historic neighborhood of Kanazawa, when we walked back the same way an hour later I was amused to see someone else taking a picture of the very same one (though I'm not sure what his reasons for doing so were -- I'm guessing probably not the same as mine).

@paulmckrcu @rw Oh neat, is someone producing prints of that now?

Also, looks like the Internet Archive has a couple others like it ("Unix Feuds", "Unix Views") that I don't think I've ever seen before: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%22 -- though I'll confess I'm not sure I entirely "get" the Views one...might someone with more historical knowledge than I be able to shed some light?

@rk "...and that's how I taught my dog to do binary search!"

@pancake @david_chisnall Funny, I've always felt that distinguishing the two was a good reason to do the opposite. (And of course, some styles also homogenize the two by instead omitting the space for control-flow keywords, which I also dislike.)

@jk Give someone a fish, feed them for a day; teach someone to fish, feed them for a lifetime; teach someone to think like a computer, crush them under an infinitely-growing mountain of fish.

@rk @mothcompute It happens: https://theonion.com/death-of-chopped-up-woman-ruled-a-suicide/

@cliffle @ede1998 Soo (compiler-appeasing contortions increasing to comedic levels)...

{
  let _unused = colors;
}

?

@rk Thanks, though I then regret to inform you that it was two houses ago and now quite a few states away...

@rk Well, he figured out how to scramble over that gate shortly after that photo was taken as I recall, so the joke was ultimately on us.

@rk We once were so cruel as to eat dinner on the opposite side of the baby gate from ours. Five years later I'm still racked with guilt.

@mxshift what vehicle is getting brain surgery?

@petersanchez IBM had this figured out for eSATA ages ago!

@cliffle @dpiponi Or the O(log N) operations are just really slow...like, stores are chiseling Roman numerals into stone, and loads involve OCR on an 8051 with a clock signal driven by a drugged sloth with a push-button.