Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

It's so damn awful: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new-firefox-design/

I don't want rounded tabs. I didn't ask for rounded tabs. My tabs are square, I wish to remain on square tabs, but instead they're going to just change the default theme so I don't even get a voice on how shit this redesign is -- they'll herald it a complete success regardless

I am so sick of these redesigns based on nothing but immature, ignorant and baseless vibes.

#firefox #ux #ui

well it's #FailFriday

do not pass go
do not push to prod

BACK IN MY DAY, AI STOOD FOR ADOBE ILLUSTRSTOR, AND WE HATED THAT TOO

Using COBOL As A Shader Language
Yep, what's in the title apparently can be done.

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language, and is an extremely verbose language designed purposely to be understandable to managers. Everything in COBOL reads like it does, which makes it hard to work with. A fair portion of the financial world still runs on COBOL, in some ca
https://setsideb.com/using-cobol-as-a-shader-language/
#niche #cobol #niche #ShaderLanguage #StupidComputerTricks #Vulkan

It's the weekend, baby

Hobby software projects by amateurs is and has always been fine. The problem of AI-generated software is that it superficially looks like and is treated as professional software. And the slop can be produced at scale.

Non-software engineers will use AI to create software the way Elon Musk created the Cybertruck.

hello and welcome to today's episode of "will this catch fire if we plug it in?"

The consequence for clicking "No" to "Are you over 18?" prompts should being redirected to a list of books that are banned in their local public schools.

this conductor moved through a magnetic field, what happened next will shock you

OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E cores.

We have a potential workaround for one of the most common bugs of this CPU, but we need a broken machine to test it.

"the sky above the port was the color of Netscape's default bgcolor"

“Confucius Gets Rekt By A Child,” a blatantly apocryphal anecdote but I do love glimpses into ancient childhood:

Once, they say, while Confucius was traveling with his disciples, they came across some children building a big sand castle right in the middle of the road. The children all scattered when they saw the oncoming carriage, except for one: Xiang Tuo, the smartest little boy in the world.

The driver hurriedly stopped the carriage and demanded to know why this little boy would not get out of the way. Xiang Tuo answered: “You approach my moats! Now tell me, do carriages go around castles, or are castles supposed to get out of the way of carriages?”

After getting a good look at the “castle,” Confucius chuckled. “Oh, what a clever child! I see you are wiser than most, so how about a little wager, some honest fun between young and old. I pose a riddle, you pose a riddle, the winner becomes the teacher and the loser becomes the disciple.”

“It’s a deal!”

Confucius asked: “How many stars are in the sky, how many grains grow upon the earth, how many hairs are in your eyebrows?”

Xiang Tuo answered “One skyful of stars, one cropsful of grains, one faceful of hairs. Now, sir, riddle me this: what water has no fish? What fire has no smoke? What tree has no leaf, and what flower has no stem?”

Confucius answered: “Every river, lake and sea has fish. All firewood gives off smoke when it burns. Whoever has seen a tree with no leaves, or a flower with no stem?”

Beaming, Xiang Tuo explained: “There’s no fish in a well. There’s no smoke coming off a firefly. Dead trees don’t have leaves! And snowflakes (‘snow flowers’) don’t have stems.”

Confucius conceded that the child was now his teacher, but Xiang Tuo asked if he could wash his hands off first before all this teaching stuff.

Translation mine, based on the version found in a book about the Three Character Classic by Hu Yuanyuan. (There are many variations of the story.) Art by Wang Lumin

#classicalchinese #translation #philosophy