Sorry, but he’s driving up to a mcdonalds, not a festering heap of shit. Fix your meme.

Alpha quality, like software. Buggy as hell and should not be released. :D

srsly though it’s the clusterfuckchild of social darwinism, grindset mentality and randroid zoology, plus a bit of wannabe-dom.

There was this old, debunked concept of the ‘alpha wolf’ as pack leader - all dominance displays, all the time, stronger and wiser and better than the rest, a sort of rightful-king that owes nothing to anyone, and that all lesser wolves obey and look up to.

Some absolute chuds picked up on the concept and decided that it applied to people, that it was a quality people could and should naturally embrace, unless they were just inherently inferior.

And of course they tied that all up with being male, because apparently men are just ‘naturally dominant’, unless again, they’re broken and inferior ones - so if you are male, it’s vital to prove that you’re a properly functioning one by being a domineering asshole who deserves to get away with it out of sheer chutzpah, or else you deserve nothing but contempt and getting trodden on.

This ties in with conservative morality, which is entirely based around acknowledging and reinforcing social hierarchy. Right is when power is exerted downwards in the hierarchy, wrong is when power is asserted upwards.

So in this world, ‘alphas’ are the master race, while ‘betas’ are submissive half-men who lack the strength (and thus the virtue) to display the proper ‘rugged independence’. They’re also obsessed with ‘cucks’, ie cuckolds, men who lack the necessary manliness to fight off ‘alphas’ who would disrespect and shame them by having sex with their woman.

It’s all incredibly toxic, and you need to pick him up and shake the bullshit out of him.

pic related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l5nAh63W0o

Anyone who pushes jira is a waste of fucking carbon, and I hope they never find happiness.

If you want twenty minutes of rage-filled ranting, ask me about vscode-server sometime.

:stares in genX:

That’s not assembly, that’s ikea.

Back in my day…

I must once again post The Night Watch [PDF]

I don’t care that it’s outdated, everyone still needs to read https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

I really like ruby :(

https://xkcd.com/221/

You don’t form longterm memories while asleep; you lose the last few minutes before you drop off, as well. Short-term memories are held, but they don’t get stored.

And the same applies while you’re dreaming - nothing’s getting recorded. You can pull it out of short-term right after you wake up, but that fades right out.

When you do remember dreams, it’s because you remember remembering them while you were awake. If it was vivid enough to go over hard enough, then the second-hand memory gets stored.

In order to write a haskell program, you must first write the corresponding haskell program.

semicolons

I often wonder if there isn’t some goodharty kind of local-maximum trap hiding in this…

Friends don’t let friends do string manipulation in bash.

One network interface has just one IP address, but it can have a bunch of different programs listening and talking.

A server might have both a webserver and a mail server running on the same machine - and they don’t want each other’s network traffic.

So you mark each packet with a destination port number, to let the server work out which program you’re talking to.

Your web browser will mark all its packets with port 80 or port 443, and when the server gets those, it knows it’s web traffic, and passes it to the webserver software.

Your email client will mark all its packets with port 25 or 993, and when the server gets those, it knows it’s email traffic, and passes it to the mailserver software.

Typically each separate kind of network service will have its own well-known port number assigned to it.

There’s also a source port field on packets, so that your computer can get return traffic back to the right program running on your machine.