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“scripting languages” 

remember when tech culture went on a war against these, thus rendering itself incapable of building a website without importing 15,000 packages

prrgrrmmng 

trying to see what Lady is working on (not published to git) by seeing what Lady is working on (published to git)

prrgrrmmng 

can’t believe i’m spending my saturday optimizing a make·file

prrgrrmmng 

hope to have the source code up sometime this weekend

but before doing that i at least need to write a README for it

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prrgrrmmng 

i now have the ability to create dragon age–style codices from a directory of text files

it looks terrible because there is no styling yet, but i can do it

Lady boosted

They should address the
behaviour of the students
on the computer

pokémon 

remember when ash was like… dragonite evolved arms… to hug

“A·I” 

maybe indexing every website on the internet is the actual problem and we should only be indexing the good ones

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“A·I” 

it probably is easier to train an A·I system to recognize and elevate high-quality sources than it is to fix whatever Google’s current algorithm is

until that A·I system becomes popular and S·E·O starts targeting it instead, at which point you have a black box you can’t do anything with

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“A·I” 

“A·I powered search does better than Google!” well yeah that is because Google is trash

prrgrrmmng 

od -t u4 -N 4 /dev/random | sed 's/^[0-9]* *//' | tr -d ' \n' | awk 'BEGIN{chars="0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWXYZ&~@=U"}{d=32^5;r=$0%32^6;printf "%s",substr(chars,r%37,1);while(d>0){printf "%s",substr(chars,int(r/d),1);if(d==32^4)printf "%s","-";r%=d;d=int(d/32)}}'

@james@strangeobject.space @noracodes “With a deadline and thus no real time to properly skill up like I want to.” this is the thing tho yeah, no company wants to pay (in time or $$) for actually training people (or hiring people who are trained)

not to say any particular person or company should act differently in any particular instance, but it’s cultural, we don’t have the systems in place (they’re being dismantled)

re: prrgrrmmng 

for some reason gawk thinks that printf should not interpret its arguments the same as printf on the command line so instead you have to pipe to it if you need that bit

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prrgrrmmng 

what she had:

› awk '$0!~/%/{printf("%s",$0)}/%/{sub("%","0x");printf("\\%04o",$0)}'

the portable awk script:

› awk '$0!~/%/{printf "%s",$0}/%/{sub("%","0x");cmd="xargs printf \"%04o\"";printf "%s","\\";printf "%s",$0|cmd;close(cmd)}'

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@james@strangeobject.space @noracodes (we're at a point where many people are more comfortable asking chatgpt to do something in vscode every time than they are writing a script to automate it. and this isn't slighting those people; i think Microsoft/GitHub has been deliberately pushing people into a position of dependence on their technologies)

@james@strangeobject.space @noracodes i'm also seeing people who do know how to code using it to generate boilerplate or perform other time-consuming tasks

the thing is, this is just refusing to learn a different skill: how to build your own tools to make your workflow more effective

@noracodes (personally, in most cases, i think if it's not worth waiting five days for it's probably not worth knowing, but)

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