Update: the tree is still good.

(From a different angle this year.)

@rk @Toxic_Flange Seems like the natural way for things to evolve, frankly -- Coca Cola is, after all, an anagram of Cloaca Co.

@cliffle

Rust time formatting using the chrono crate doesn't repeatedly restat /etc/localtime

Hmm, so is the implication that it might not gracefully handle timezone changes in long-running programs while glibc would?

@david_chisnall @dantheclamman That last paragraph reminds me of another Onion classic: https://theonion.com/new-delicious-species-discovered-1819567839/

@cliffle @rubiline Since I don't see any explicit indicator, is that...Doritos-flavored vodka? Doritos-flavored rum? Or does the "uncategorized" stamp mean basically "we're not even trying to pretend this is any actual identifiable kind of liquor"?

@slava @steve @rk And of course an option for ENOENT: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_

@arj @acsawdey heh, nice. Aren't append-only caches with no eviction policy great?

@mxshift Servers really are an underappreciated food preparation tool: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/qB336jds7593W438TB

@petersanchez My initial thought is that it's a brief trend that will probably subside once the initial hype wears off.

I had similar thoughts about the rise of emoji though, so I'm probably wrong.

[click goes the shittiness ratchet...]

@cliffle I have to say, in this oh-so-hypothetical scenario, that based on past experience with similar phenomena that later became entries in the errata lists of an ARM core or two, I might take the opposite stance on your "probably" there.

Might it by any chance involve explicit clean or invalidate operations?

@tubetime @wren6991 @lofty @mei Alternately (or perhaps as a second level of bumper bowling), use __attribute__((constructor)) to install a SIGSEGV handler to just quietly "make the problem go away" a la https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/osdi04.pdf (might also need to shim signal(2) and sigaction(2) to make sure it stays in place in case the Serious Enterprise Software tries to install its own crash handlers).

@mxshift Also wait, I seem to recall you mentioning an older Audi previously -- whence the switch? (Or am I misremembering...)

@mxshift Any fun decorations planned?

@cks @wingo Very tempted to implement this and then combine with https://github.com/zevweiss/bashc to see how many language roundtrips a simple program can make and still work.

@rk Step 1: #define CHAR_BIT 32768

@arj @wyldtom [raises glass] There's no staying power like that of a gross, ad-hoc hack.

@rk @mathew @mcc @darius I think that might just scale up the playback speed by about 6%...I await the "C♯ is faster than C!" blog posts.

@mxshift The amount of murder that can be gotten away with in software is one of the most depressing aspects of computing as a whole.

@mxshift

$ head -n6 src/sources/avstream/capture.c 
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CONFIDENTIAL and PROPRIETARY software of Magewell Electronics Co., Ltd.
// Copyright (c) 2011-2024 Magewell Electronics Co., Ltd. (Nanjing)
// All rights reserved.
// This copyright notice MUST be reproduced on all authorized copies.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$ tail -n3 src/sources/avstream/capture.c | head -n1
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

Nice.

The vendored PNG library, in-kernel file access, misunderstanding of the linux/list.h API, and passing kernel pointers to and from userspace are all very confidence-inspiring too.

@th @dashdsrdash @gvwilson I had the exact same thought, and figured this one could do with the graphical treatment as well.

@rk Likewise for right-clicking.

And scrolling.

And text selection & copy/paste.

(Okay, maybe github specifically isn't guilty of doing all of these, but I really think browsers should have a stricter, more aggressive demarcation of what is native browser UI that will be consistent no matter what jervascrapt fuckery is going on.)

@cliffle @kbob

(...omg I should try to modulate the data _onto the fans_)

I came very close to implementing that at my last job: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/HW2GcrgzthGts7DXR8

@jzb "If it bleeds, it leads" applied to niche nerd news.