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Stoopid Questions - Frances Buontempo - Keynote Meeting C++ 2025
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Me and my mental health:

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Computer Facts @computer@facts.computer they killed god and replaced her with an autocomplete and a subscription model and the devil does not haunt this world anymore because our souls are no longer worth taking

facts.computer/@computer/11...

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

Every once in a while I think about the time I was trying to tell three male coworkers about a study that had shown that men think their female coworkers talk more & interrupt more, even though, in fact, men talk & interrupt more, but I could never finish telling them, b/c they kept interrupting me.

Fair enough :-)

The Truth about Gun Control and Assault Weapons Ban. YouTube video by awesomeairguns

Hmm, this guy youtu.be/DudpW2cwuPs

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

AGI = A Guy Instead (ht @davidgerard.co.uk)

Microsoft Defrag for MS-DOS. With real HDD sounds! 🔊

Photo of Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring his quote: "Reading is the way up. Knowledge is the key to everything."

Happy Terry Pratchett Day, on what would have been his 77th birthday.

GitHub - elfmz/far2l: Linux port of FAR v2 Linux port of FAR v2. Contribute to elfmz/far2l development by creating an account on GitHub.

Far2l github.com/elfmz/far2l

a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.

Only one cat has ever received the award.

This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

A Pragmatic Journey into C++ Modules

I am writing a book titled "A Pragmatic Journey into C++ Modules." It is a work in progress, but since I'm publishing on LeanPub, I can release an early version and update it periodically. Early readers can also obtain it at a discount, and proofread it for me.

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Hey men in tech: Read This and then figure out how you can make your team safe so that women don't have to do this shit. Its on you. This article should never have had to be written

(But thank you, Patricia, for writing it)

Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving "Blank Stares" When Asked How Programs Actually Work Young programmers "can't actually program" because they're too reliant on AI models, writes developer Namanyay Goel.

I'm sure this is fine

futurism.com/young-coders...

See also: en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming

I strive to be an ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Black lives matter. Healthcare must be free. NHS is great. I'm an atheist. Brexit is shit. Long live Ukraine 🇺🇦.

Hi new followers! I'm a C++ programmer from London, UK. In my spare time I run C++ Club UK at cppclub.uk. In my previous life back in Lithuania I used to be a surgeon. I served a year in the Soviet Army back when USSR was a thing, and then lived through its collapse.