LISP is too old to care any more.

He was exactly the kind of guy who doesn’t get hired any more because companies “know better”.

And stuff gets crappier every year somehow.

I still fondly remember the QA guy on the first consumer electronics project I worked on. He didn’t do scripting or test harnesses or dependency injection, he used the product and filed good bugs telling us what would fuck up our customer’s expectations.

A good QA person helps with product design too if you let them.

Andy B, I’d work with you again in a second.

LLM system input is unsanitizable, according to NVidia:

The control-data plane confusion inherent in current LLMs means that prompt injection attacks are common, cannot be effectively mitigated, and enable malicious users to take control of the LLM and force it to produce arbitrary malicious outputs with a very high likelihood of success.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/securing-llm-systems-against-prompt-injection/

Objects are fine.

OOP sucks.

I dgaf about indices starting at 0 or 1, I can deal with case-insensitivity, but syntactically significant whitespace drives me up the wall.

“You’re vegan? No sweat! How about a bean and cheese burrito?”

Perl kinda killed awk and sed.

Then python kinda killed perl.

Linus was himself a major contributor to making people steer well clear of wanting to work on the Linux kernel. I didn’t need that kind of abuse in my life.

So while he is identifying a problem, it’s a bit like a recovering arsonist homeowner bemoaning the scorch marks on his house.

Embedded Oldster : “Of course, we had it rough. I had to use a single blinking red LED.”

Unix Oldster : “An LED? We used to DREAM about having an LED, I still have hearing loss from sitting in front of daisy wheel printers.”

Punch-card Oldster : “Luxury.”

The guy in your WoW guild who carries hard but you know you never want to meet.

Very dark but I’ll allow it.

To me, if you wrote/maintain/design a scaled system with uptime and latency requirements, that’s a software engineer.

If you’re laying out buttons and implementing business logic, you’re a programmer. (This was me).

In my case, lesbianism.

vim unclips your carabiner with a disappointed look

Emacs and vim are both vastly superior to all other text editors.

Which one you like better is a matter of taste.

Vim is a girlfriend with rock hard abs who wants to take you rock climbing and of whom you’re secretly a little scared.

Emacs is a big bouncy happy girl who wants to take care of you in every conceivable way, then split a bucket of RAM while binging pirated movies.

Stardew Valley runs on C#.

ROASTED

My friend partially explained how the build safety system worked for Rust and my first reaction was “holy shit the link stage must take a century”.

“Yes.”

“P4 server’s down.”

“Sports Page, or Tied House?”

How many times did I push at 2am so I could go home, get to the freeway entrance, realized I fucked something up, sighed, and turned around to go back and fix it…

(This was like 1999, we didn’t have access to Perforce from home).

After a year or so I realized I should just develop the willpower to check it in after sleeping on it.