Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

making software which is useful to other people generally involves networking with the most insufferable imaginable human beings so that’s why i don’t do it

actually, you can iterate non-recursively over a string with exslt:tokenize, it’s just terrible

personally i feel like W is such a rare letter with largely nonsensical application that as a kid i would be reluctant to use it, but adults fond of eye dialects sure do love sticking it in there

which misspelling is more likely?

anyway no guy in tech with such a strong cult of personality as to be able to resecure their C·E·O position just five days after their firing isn’t a serial abuser, sorry

support in Open·A·I was so unanimous because all the haters had already been pushed out or silenced

“actually i thought sam altman was a great guy and the board just picked this random day to suddenly be super afraid of his vision for artificial intelligence”

« The complaints about Altman’s alleged behavior, which have not previously been reported, were a major factor in the board’s abrupt decision to fire Altman on Nov. 17, according to the people. Initially cast as a clash over the safe development of artificial intelligence, Altman’s firing was at least partially motivated by the sense that his behavior would make it impossible for the board to oversee the CEO. » ok but like, everybody knew this

somebody bothered to formalize this when they could have been fucking

• If a process is an instance of curing food,
• then there exist an entity, another process and another entity such that the entity is an instance of food and the entity is a patient of the process and the other process is an instance of putting and the other process is a subprocess of the process and the other entity is an instance of salt and the other entity is a patient of the other process and the other process ends up at the entity

(there is no way to make a non-recursive parser in xslt 1.0)

does anybody know if it implements tail call recursion optimizations? or will recursive parsers just inherently be limited by the maximum stack depth

oh, i put off listening to the new Holly Humberstone album because i was worried it wouldn’t hold up but the first few songs are at least passable

can already honourable mention ‘In My Car’ by Rat Tally which won’t make the cut on account of having been released in 2022

need to listen to more from this year or i’m not going to have enough songs for my year-end playlist

“instead of making a solution i actually like, why don’t i just use this existing software that comes pre·installed on like every machine”

the existing software installed on every machine :⁠—
• GNU Make
• libxslt

which is more cursed: my incredibly long‐running projects (that do nothing) where i spend months making negligible changes to increase the exactness of the test suite, or my quick hacked‐together solutions born from impatience that are written entirely in Makefile or XSLT

what if you didn’t explain your word choice, and just did it anyway

had a dream that steve jobs unveiled a new imac which was boxy and had a builtin electric pencil sharpener

it's 02:30 and i should be asleep but i want to be writing XSLT