I mean, C is a high level language? Now, sure, C isn’t a super expressive language and every C statement compiles to very few assembly instructions comparatively speaking, but it has a whole lot of stuff that assembly doesn’t have. Like nice loops and other control structures and such, and not worry about which processor registers are used.

There’s still a few sites I deploy changes to using ssh+rsync. …which is made considerably easier by the fact that it’s just a static website generated with Jekyll.

JavaScript is powerful

Old joke (yes, you can tell):

“JavaScript: You shoot yourself in the foot. If using Netscape, your arm falls off. If using Internet Explorer, your head explodes.”

Tests as well.

In most programming languages, yes.

In Ruby? …eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh.

You Chrome folks need extensions to use non-Google search engines?

Firefox uses just bog standard OpenSearch definitions. No shenanigans. Ships with both Google and Bing if you’re into that sort of things. And you can add arbitrary search URLs, no probalo.

Well aren’t the requests to backend by definition slow? Actually TCP protocol is pretty much turtle as opposed to UDP’s hare: slow, but it gets you there.

Edut: was drunk here, was very spitballin’ too

Clearly, the superiour mode is to just use keyword based scoping (à la Ruby do ... end). When I was a kid I read an OBSCENE MAGAZINE where I saw a Forth program go dup dup dup and I was like “ok so what’s the problem here? Things happen and everything is just keywords?” and my young mind was corrupted forever I guess

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NOP is $EA, of course, and… um…

…sorry, I’m just a Commodore 64 scrub, I don’t know nothing about this high and mighty Intel 8086 nonsense.

[looking up]

…it’s 0x90 on IA-32? WHAT? Someone told me every processor used 0xEA because that was commonly agreed and readily apparent. …guess I was wrong

Well LaserActive at least got the Retsupurae reaction 7 years ago, so it’s not totally obscure.

They recently added some unlockable graphics for the widget. Nothing major.

Guess they changed the icon just for the hell of it while they were at it.

One day someone will use the SQL injection to execute code on the remote server to add message to the web site that tells the workers to unionise and demand actually fair wages and put an end to the whole tipping nonsense

George Lucas should screen this cut of the film at Sodankylä Film Festival in Finland.

That way, he could be feted by the most dedicated of the film buffs. AND experience the Aurora Borealis. Localised entirely on the geographic region he is in.

Yeah why are wolves always portrayed as enemies. They’re so fluffy and howly! Just give them food.

Yeah, you can technically write object oriented code in C. Or any other language. Just that actual OOP languages provide a nicer syntax and compile time checks.

Rust is kind of a good example of this. It’s technically not an object oriented language, but the trait system brings it close.

Aside of kilometers there used to be “myriameter” (a myriad meters = 10,000 m = 10 km).

Fun thing, in Sweden they use mil for 10 km. In Finland there’s peninkulma for 10 km, but it’s very archaic.

19th of November!

This gets askes every single International Women’s Day. Tiny little traditions.