@clacke Yeah, we're glitch soc over here

@zens
That's not what that movie was. I recommend watching it, it's good
@seachaint @GI_Jack @vortex_egg

@seachaint It's 20 years now they've been playing the same song

@puf and @aworldinpages had perfect timing here 😹

@clacke TEA

@dch "I slept like a baby last night"

"I'm sorry to hear that, I hope you have a rubber sheet on your bed!"

"What?"

"What?"

@niconiconi @cinebox Starting to write a paper now, "What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating Pointer Arithmetic"

@vfrmedia @gemlog @welshpixie @fitheach
Humps for 1 mile eh? Sexy driving!

@clacke Some thoughts:

* I was once on a mailing list called tanenbaum-cats

* I think his statement was true in 1992. That it was maybe no longer so in 2002 is another matter

* Raymond would have said something about shooting cats 🤣

@clacke I really wish instances would switch over to glitchsoc by default

@clacke inpute -> compute -> outpute, pretty nice actually

@1frn0 Do you have education, knowledge, or even just interest in something computing-adjacent?

I moved out of webdev 20 years ago by shifting to bioinformatics (I have a biology education) and from there to microelectronics CAD. I had no education in electronics, but it had been a long-time hobby. It took a fair bit of effort, and some good luck.

I’ve also seen people go back to university to facilitate a change like that. Universities in France are very accessible; I’m not sure where you‘re located.

Feel free to ask any questions

@1frn0 I contacted people in industry and universities. Sometimes there are paid research positions that can give job experience and academic credentials at the same time (I nearly went with that for bioinformatics), there's whatever CPF credits you might have.

The approach I took was to find jobs with some overlap with my profile, and apply; initially that meant bioinformatics with a web component. With CAD, I had relevant programming language experience, experience building GUI applications, and I explained my interest in the subject and my willingness/desire to learn more. I got hired on at honestly too low a grade for my experience, but it worked out and I have no regrets.

@clacke oh nice! I'd stopped linking to invidious because the instances were always broken, which makes the links not very useful

@clacke Did the byzantines still drink wine stored in resinous vessels? That gives it a very particular taste

@yarmo Free (a French ISP) put a fair bit of functionality in their router boxes, including file serving and a torrent client. And ordinary people use it, because it's easy to set up.

Imagine if they made it possible to have server apps ... That would absolutely be something normal people would use.

@natalie One of my spicier opinions is that mini-USB was Just Fine if a bit chonky, and should have been the standard connector. I'm pleased to finally have reversability tho