hieroglyphs code #coding #software #programmerhumour #tech #programming

> "Trust me bro, this new tech startup isn't a pyramid scheme"
> Looks at codebase:

That is how I feel also

I am out here politicizing the NASA YouTube channel

This is how many of us live our lives

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

I think in the future we will think about manually typed-out code the same way we think about artisanal hand woven sweaters from little Scottish fishing villages. You pay dedicated craftspeople a premium for it, and it's probably better

I've really enjoyed thinking mostly about the higher-order system design questions, letting the chatbot figure out all the code syntax, and yelling at it when it goes astray occasionally. Yes, I am forgetting how to code myself

Well, really everything becomes strings, as you said. That is the problem 😂 but you get my point. Some metadata is lost, and must be communicated elsehow

When you output to CSV: Integers with nulls become floats, datetimes become strings (and re-parsing can be fragile), categoricals/ordinals become strings, booleans become strings, complex types can be dicey....various perils and memory inefficiencies. If you're careful it can be totally fine

Oh cool TIL, thanks. I guess that explains why open source packages like pandas have no trouble interfacing with the format

Surprising that the journals would require data in the proprietary Excel format, even assuming that most folks in the space have access to a copy. Some software just begs to be stolen...

Ooh that is annoying. I do like how you can simply open a .csv in any old text editor.

Sometimes I am guilty of writing data out of Python/pandas in Excel format as a cheap way to preserve data types, but you just inspired me to brush up on other ways: datapackage.org

There is .jsonl too I guess

Is this technically a zero day?

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

The ultimate final boss! You thought getting around the moon would be a challenge?? [Moohahaha] "so, was the other side any different?"

NUTELLA IN SPACE

Uncanny!

👏👏👏🍿🎥🎬

A great friend of mine is an absolute sadist with his LLMs—heavy berating and liberal use of curse words

100% agree

Happy 50th today, Apple

HYPED 🚀🌌🌝

a drawer full of papers with a glowing outline of a hand Alt: The character Terry from the Pixar movie "Soul" (who is sort of like the luminescent but disgruntled accountant of the Netherworld) getting started rifling through what could be trillions of files in hundreds of city-block-sized towers of filing cabinets, almost certainly in vain

Someone shot this footage of me getting down to work on my employer's payroll systems today

Weakness leaving the body via saline drip

Thinking about putting a marine radio antenna on my Seattle balcony overlooking Elliott Bay, transcribing the traffic automatically, and building a map where you can click on boats and hear what they were saying.

Worth ~$200 in hardware or is this a solved problem? 🚢📡

(Is there enough chatter?)

Fred again.. & Thomas Bangalter (USB002, Alexandra Palace, London 27 February 2026) YouTube video by Fred again . .

Sometimes art restores my faith in humanity a little bit:

youtu.be/gfF8jzBVWvM

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The SAVE Act is an election power grab that could block millions of eligible voters.

Let’s be clear: we’ve already seen U.S. citizens detained by ICE despite having proof of citizenship. Now we’re supposed to trust this same government to police paperwork at the ballot box? tinyurl.com/yhwj7b77

It would have been nice if they could have gone through the legal channels to prevent the bastards from building such camps in the first place, but we know how that all went