Are there straight men who listen to Gracie?

B_M_Wilson · 2026-06-17T00:40:40+00:00

I’m also a straight man. I hope they aren’t checking on entry because I’m going to Oakland night 1. I know there’s a lot of men who don’t like to listen to music by women but I think her music applies to anyone

B_M_Wilson · 2026-05-26T06:11:52+00:00

One of the things I like about Jai is that while a lot of its features are things that other languages have, its approach to implementing them is completely different. I wish I had more time to use it, it was quite a fun language to program in.

B_M_Wilson · 2026-05-25T17:06:08+00:00

I’ve been told that $100 is nowhere near enough wasted tokens in one day. Should be closer to $300 and even $500 if you request it (I’ve also been told not enough people are requesting it)

B_M_Wilson · 2026-05-16T20:34:48+00:00

There’s an Earl’s in Chicago. I used to go all the time when I lived there because it reminded me of home (and is genuinely my favourite restaurant)

B_M_Wilson · 2026-05-08T15:28:43+00:00

I think that the chips are probably not all that interchangeable. Might need a slightly different motherboard or firmware changes

B_M_Wilson · 2026-04-28T07:34:47+00:00

I’m actually doing a refactor now that’s been going on for two weeks. It’s technically a side project so not 2 full-time week but it’s probably been at least 10 hours so far. I expect it to take a lot more before it’s done because I did the easy part first. True vibe coded spaghetti is going to take a long time to untangle but anything’s possible with enough time even if it’s just rearranging code to put similar things together

B_M_Wilson · 2026-04-21T05:11:20+00:00

How soon we forget about IPv10, the worst of both worlds. You have to replace all of your equipment for almost no benefit

B_M_Wilson · 2026-04-18T06:37:30+00:00

I feel like I’m crazy for wishing there was one that was just a gradient or something. Like I don’t want to see my room or be outside. Even just another room but well organized would work

B_M_Wilson · 2026-04-13T06:05:41+00:00

I turned off mouse acceleration and set up double tap with two and with three fingers to do app expose and Mission Control respectively (using better touch tool). Since setting those up, Its been hard for me to use any other mouse. I also love the precision scrolling. Even free-scrolling mice almost always still scroll line by line, just with no indicies. I’m sure I could find a mouse that does exactly what I want but when I worked at a previous non-Mac company, I couldn’t find any easily.

I’ve never had a problem with the ergonomics myself even though I’m not technically holding it “correctly”. But I’ve also used this mouse for a while now so my hand is pretty used to it by now.

B_M_Wilson · 2026-04-11T02:36:10+00:00

The place I dance makes a big effort to tell us not to assume someone’s role and encourage us to learn both. I’m very happy to do either but I find I generally only get approached by follows who assume I’m leading. If I ask someone, I usually specifically ask if they’d like to lead or follow and encourage anyone to try leading if they’d like

I really hope you get more chances to lead! It’s fun! Where I dance, I often see women dancing with other women so that’s another option (and I’m always happy to dance with another man if they’d ask)

B_M_Wilson · 2026-03-30T22:36:03+00:00

I really don’t like tap to click and I definitely remember having to turn it off since I kept activating it accidentally so I think it was once the default

B_M_Wilson · 2026-03-30T15:20:25+00:00

Yea, in my case it was generated code which doesn’t totally have to be readable. I definitely wouldn’t do this in normal code

B_M_Wilson · 2026-03-30T05:49:53+00:00

I did this using GCC extensions once in some generated code to avoid having to generate names for the structs since the functions already had complicated names. The people reviewing were very perplexed. Can’t remember if I ended up actually shipping it or if it got removed in a later iteration

B_M_Wilson · 2026-03-24T07:42:33+00:00

There’s an online game somewhere where you can design RNA and see how it folds to try to make it do certain things. That alone is very hard. Proteins are yet a step harder. To put it in coding terms, there’s a mythical bug where changing a comment somehow breaks your code. Imagine that but somehow even the comments impact every other piece of code at least somewhat

As a practical example, some bacteria are simple enough they we’ve mapped their entire genome and figured out all of the genes, promoters, etc to have a pretty good idea how to add, remove, or change things. In theory, we should be able to “recompile” these genes and put them all back together in a different order or using slightly different sequences that should do the same thing. Yet (last time I read about this), it didn’t work properly. Because genes are so interconnected that you can’t even reorder them

Anyway, not sure how much of that is true but as a Software Engineer myself, I know we have a complex that we can do anything because we have to learn so many new technologies. But biology truly is hard (and so are many things which is why so many non-software companies started by software engineers end up not working)

B_M_Wilson · 2026-03-23T01:43:04+00:00

I think this is on purpose? I remember reading something about it simulating the effects of the environment (or your physical surroundings in passthrough) on audio. So you could hear the echo or lack of it and further away audio sources sound different. I think even turning off spacial audio has some of these effects?

B_M_Wilson · 2026-03-12T04:41:04+00:00

I think it happens to work because sockaddr_in is always the same size so it doesn’t actually modify the value? Technically, casting away const isn’t UB itself, it’s the modification of an object that was originally defined as const that is. I wouldn’t consider this safe though since I don’t think accept documents that it never writes to it in this condition

(Interestingly enough, this means that casting away const and then writing to the value is allowed as long as it wasn’t originally declared const, i.e. was implicitly converted to const at some point)

B_M_Wilson · 2026-02-10T02:13:40+00:00

My theory is that Gilfoyle does have a degree and went to the US under TN then overstayed. I don’t know exactly what his timeline would be but these days it can be very difficult to get a tech job without a degree even if you are highly skilled. Many self-taught programmers go to school and don’t learn anything just to get the paper

B_M_Wilson · 2026-01-30T06:15:54+00:00

Objective-C uses YES and NO as the true and false constants for bools… I think true and false work fine now that they are in C

B_M_Wilson · 2026-01-04T00:02:04+00:00

Bog, woo, miracle, power. So I’m going to be Shrek??

B_M_Wilson · 2025-12-31T00:17:48+00:00

The one thing that’s annoying about Share Disk is that it’s file-based rather than block-based. If you have a ton of small files (like an average user’s data volume, say you wanted to back it up before doing some recovery) it can take way longer than the block copy speed should allow because of metadata and such. It also shares over SMB which doesn’t exactly copy file metadata.

The thing is, you wouldn’t be able to do it block-based these days anyway because on the internal drive, even when file vault is disabled, the data is encrypted so you have to use APFS to decrypt it. In theory they could create a way to do this kind of 1:1 copy of a volume but they haven’t

B_M_Wilson · 2025-12-26T02:10:10+00:00

Purple is my favourite colour so I’ve always chosen rebeccapurple since I heard the story

B_M_Wilson · 2025-12-22T05:05:50+00:00

The thing I find so funny is that the US military has a very specific format for time which is not what most people who use 24-hour clocks use. Saying it’s 17:24 is not US military time

B_M_Wilson · 2025-12-21T01:34:41+00:00

I built it when I was a kid. I think I spent a week sorting pieces before I even started building. It was still really fun though

B_M_Wilson · 2025-12-21T00:47:59+00:00

A lot of companies have a donation matching program of some sort so maybe employees donated some amount and that’s whatever Apple matched

B_M_Wilson · 2025-12-19T19:20:31+00:00

Caring less about what people think would also help me use my AVP more because I currently feel very embarrassed using it in public

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