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In the mood for engineering / competence porn. What are your favourite novels / series? in c/[email protected]

[–] nik9000 5 points 2 weeks ago

I liked the third half. But it's quite a shift

`todo-md` is a small pre-commit hook implemented in Bash that maintains `TODO.md` file in your repo in c/git

[–] nik9000 2 points 2 weeks ago

In projects I work on we use NOCOMMIT for these blockers and they'll fail the build. It's honestly lovely to have something to leave yourself a note that the build catches for you.

Since nothing in this community is about technology we might as well talk about science fiction. in c/[email protected]

[–] nik9000 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

PKD is special somehow. He's the one author where, I think, the movies are better than the books pretty consistently. Maybe it's luck or my flawed opinion.

Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’ in c/[email protected]

[–] nik9000 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've not read them all but that sort of feels like how the culture novels are.

YSK There’s someone running around Lemmy posting misinformation against Wikipedia in c/[email protected]

[–] nik9000 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not super involved, but I believe it's possible to engage with Wikipedia ethically and well as a PR firm or the like. But being honest is part one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PR_Professionals_%26_Editing

And he does a superb job too in c/[email protected]

[–] nik9000 6 points 1 month ago

I love Porco Rosso. It's animated and set in the real world with real just pre-WW2 stuff happening in the background. But the main character is a pig who flies a sea plane. Someone mentions a curse once. No one treats this as weird. No one else is an animal. I love it.

Unnecessary Optimization in Rust: Hamming Distances, SIMD, and Auto-Vectorization in c/rust

[–] nik9000 7 points 1 month ago

Zero cost abstractions are a hell of a thing.

December 14, 1984. Exactly 40 years ago, David Lynch's 'Dune' hit theaters for the first time. in c/[email protected]

[–] nik9000 9 points 1 month ago

Everything the mutant spice baby guild thing says is beyond perfect. I love them. And the emperor just stands there reading terrible exposition terribly. I love it.

I did not say this. I am not here.

diskonaut is ncdu, but with better visualization & Rust in c/programming

[–] nik9000 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you!

As a human, here is my human take on unions in c/[email protected]

[–] nik9000 1 points 1 month ago

Same same

What is your Star Wars hot take? in c/[email protected]

[–] nik9000 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love the idea Kylo Ren. Unhinged man child who worships Vader for all the wrong reasons. His soldiers are afraid of him and work around him and pity him. I love having such a broken villain.

I loved when Rey's parents were nobodies.

I loved that Luke was a scared and broken. Should have felt crippling pity for that guard he force choked in a Jabba's palace. Still. I loved it.

And while I'm at it. Frozen. I wanted so desperately for Hans to be entirely sympathetic and just not in love will Anna. Movie is mostly the same until Anna gets back and needs the kiss to fix her and he tries and.... Nothing. Then. I dunno. Finish the movie some other way.

Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant) in c/rust

[–] nik9000 6 points 2 months ago

I think OP measure of success was getting a job. I think they are wrong because I hear about lots of folks doing cool things. But I get where they are coming from.

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sffjazz top 100 (scifilists.sffjazz.com)

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I've always loved this list of sci-fi books. The 2000s web design compells me.

A while ago I tried to read the ones I hadn't. It was a lovely tour. My biggest surprise was enjoying Childhood's End.