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Cake day: October 8th, 2021

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  • Truthfully, I’ve not tried them.

    I was about to make a comment along the lines of “I’ve already learned how to do command line things, my OS already comes with a few shells, why SHOULD I take the time to learn a new shell?” — but then I reflected on this and realized something: it’s the same thing as saying “Windows comes with Explorer/Edge, why SHOULD I go through the trouble to pick up a new web browser?” And yet, I unquestioningly download Firefox first thing when I install a new OS, hmm.

    You’ve made me think :]









  • Yup, not surprised. The idea that just because something is “out there” is going to inevitably “corrupt our youth” or whatever – that hardly ever happens.

    You know how abstinence-only sex education doesn’t actually reduce rates of teen pregnancies, etc.? I see a parallel here. I think the study cited in this article reflects the idea that an informed and educated population is what keeps drug (ab)use at healthy levels – not abolishing it.


  • Spam detection is HARD to get right. How do you ensure your spam filter never has false positives? How do you know #2 on your list won’t cause problems later? And most people don’t have time for item #3, sifting through everything in the ‘waiting room’ which will never be empty.

    Your system seems to implement a whitelist of people who would be even allowed to contact you. That goes against the fundamental “push” nature of email, if you see what I mean. Remember that just because an email is unsolicited, doesn’t mean it’s spam.





  • It all started with my Texas Instruments graphing calculator that we needed to buy for school. When I realized it was exactly the same way to make your own games, I learned ActionScript 2.0 to make early Adobe Flash interactive thingies. Then I wanted to make computers do “real” things, beyond the sandbox that is a Flash program. That’s when I picked up Bash, and then Ruby, and then C… eventually you can fast forward to today, where I make a living as a build engineer working on the code for speakers and headphones!