lorddimwit is now @rk@well.com / is on Nostr

Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. 

I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it).

(He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.)

Migrating over to rk: not a typewriter (npub1mzg…l2g4)

Home Page: http://frigidriver.com
Other Home Page: http://people.well.com/~rk
lobste.rs: lorddimwit
GitHub: https://github.com/deadpixi

Last Notes

2024-06-07 21:45:32

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“I’m updating my Arch box. I’ll be back in either five minutes or this weekend.”

2024-05-30 01:42:56

Be sure to tell them the secret keyboard shortcut to get ops (Alt-F4)

2024-05-22 20:18:16

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I actually really like the Windows 3.0 look. Clean lines, clear indications of what things were actually clickable…
I mean yes there was Hot Dog Stand but we all made mistakes in our youth.

2024-05-20 04:33:13

Saw this today
#car #delorean #BackToTheFuture
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/471/543/411/703/103/original/d170968b19baa11c.jpeg

2024-05-16 02:10:54

9yo: Dad, when you cut off a hydra’s head and two more grow back, is it two more consciousnesses or just one new one or is there just one for the whole thing?
Me: I…am not prepared for this question.
#mythology

2024-05-16 00:35:25

Who called it linear typing and not “once in a lifetime”
Who called it const and not “same as it ever was”
Who called it a stack trace and not “well, how did I get here?”
#programming #music #TalkingHeads

2024-05-15 04:09:54

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E-paper classic PalmOS would be an instant buy from me.
Instant.

2024-05-12 04:15:07

Me: *writing C code that explicitly assumes the environment is using UTF-8*
Me: Hmm, better make sure we handle environments where ints are only 16-bit...
#clang #programming

2024-04-26 23:13:21

Does anyone actually understand snmpd.conf or are we all just pretending.
#networking

2024-04-11 17:32:10

I don’t think people younger than a certain age, or non-Americans, understand what an absolute sensation the #OJ trial was.
I was in high school when the trial was going on and the day that they read the verdict they stopped classes and had rooms set up with TVs so the students and teachers could go watch.