I’ve gotten used to hearing a certain phrase. “You can’t trust the AI” to not make mistakes. That’s how you know; they kind of did it. Imagine there’s a box and that box is orange.

Someone takes that orange box, calls it a black box, declares that orange is the new black, points to another orange box and tells you to open up that black box. Can you … no questions asked? If so, then you might have mathematical powers (or color blindness).

I was thinking the other day that when I first saw CSS, my initial question was, “Why is everything not important?” And, I was told that’s not (not) important. Shared abstractions; they drive on parkways and park on driveways.

Why dabble with Firefox? Everything is customizable. How long will this be so? Who knows. E.g, I have custom stylesheets that hide comments everywhere (Firefox/Chrome) among other things. “Experts” only?

about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox

chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml

toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets true

Scam and spam emails these last few years have been mixing up those metaphors.

Have you heard of Pegasus?

I’m some kind of God who sees everything. However, don’t panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mercy is not free.

Just google “buy coin” and then it will be no harder than buying some useless stuff on Amazon.

I think they lost most of their targets by starting off with a reference to the thoroughbred flying dutchman.

This graph is from Grafana. It’s moreso for developer operations. I used to use qtiplot for random stuff, but nowadays I use gnuplot for scriptability (not GNU, see demos). Then, there’s Microsoft Excel et al.

I’ve been offloading some books. There’s an interesting book on Restaveks called Restavec by Jean–Robert Cadet with the more localized cover.

It’s probably still read here in schools. I know some hate it, not because it’s bad, but because reality competes with absurdist fiction.

The remaining cracks, inevitably exposed by time, will probably be unpalatable to those in a happier century from now.

It turns out that I’m not that smart. Supposedly, if you can make links (or citations) of sufficient fidelity (and precision), then you may have outed yourself out (as a human). And here I thought I was doing an excellent job pretending to be a bot.

At the peak of my fame, I had 500,000+ bots following in my wake spoofing everything underneath the sun. Offering up jason as a sacrifice was not enough.

PHP 8 has an actual HTML5 parser now. Who’d have thought? This kind of thing (I guess) is better late than never. There are so many things that I can go back to now and simplify the hell out of.

I unexpectedly saw an amazing game programmed in Scratch today. I was never that good but they still teach Scratch around these parts. “I programmed this from Scratch” never gets old.

I was twiddling a bit with neovim (lua) and realized something. You’ve got IDEs on one end in the hyper dimension, and overpowered hyper dimensionizable programmable editors? on the other e.g emacs (elisp). Neovim is vim’s (vimscript) successor.

All enjoy a similar predicament. The truth (of time) is that no one really learns an IDE (forget programmable editors). Many IDEs exist now with natural language bells and whistles to the minutiae.

Natural language bridges a (psychological) accessibility and discoverability gap. Of course, if you don’t win the lottery enough times, you’ll be left hanging dry (on tokens).

How hard is it to run Linux? It depends on your luck and persistence. I received a junked Lenovo 11e Chromebook recently and it would always freeze at 99% during any distribution install (classic). Enabling a kernel parameter fixed it. How did I know this? Don’t even ask.

#define SDHCI_QUIRK_BROKEN_CQE (1<<17)
(1<<17) = 0x20000

sdhci.debug_quirks=0x20000