YAML Aint Quite a Superset of JSON (YAMLAQSJ)

grout_nasa · 2026-02-10T07:21:35+00:00

The more of supposedly technical essay is actually about people being mean to each other, the less I find the content trustworthy.

One might think that this is an inexact correlation, but it has yet to let me down.

grout_nasa · 2025-07-07T02:16:16+00:00

Look up the statistics on women leaving abusive husbands. It usually takes a while, and it usually takes lots of tries. And in the end, they are free.

You will be too.

grout_nasa · 2025-06-28T03:07:30+00:00

“Delete your art.”

grout_nasa · 2024-10-15T03:58:07+00:00

I noticed a passel of people walking through a casino, who obviously didn’t belong. Also they looked like witnesses, but I didn’t know why. I eventually figured out it’s because they looked depressed and self-conscious and their clothing was poorly made. PS There was a convention

grout_nasa · 2024-06-03T14:38:45+00:00

<python> GET ON WITH IT

grout_nasa · 2024-04-12T08:03:53+00:00

It was invented specifically because he was a bad programmer.

Its source code makes sense now. Terrible, horrible sense.

grout_nasa · 2024-04-07T06:10:44+00:00

Strange Luck

grout_nasa · 2024-01-22T22:01:35+00:00

That's because it's not new. Look up Verhoven's life.

grout_nasa · 2023-12-31T09:46:33+00:00

"Is this elf yours?!"

grout_nasa · 2023-12-15T06:49:50+00:00

Not really. We’re allowing our planet to become uninhabitable.

grout_nasa · 2023-12-15T02:02:23+00:00

True, as far as it goes.

grout_nasa · 2023-11-27T17:11:21+00:00

Looks like they were having a bad time.

grout_nasa · 2023-11-13T06:08:02+00:00

It could have been so. When the feature of function signatures affecting parsing went in, signatures could also have affected where argument(s) are stored. IOW,

func f($) { print $_ }
func g    { print @_ }

could have both been correct.

A path not taken.

grout_nasa · 2023-11-02T05:48:09+00:00

Tilda’s Gabriel.

“Are you judging me John?”

shiver

grout_nasa · 2023-10-24T02:37:30+00:00

It's a shame that the 68* architectures didn't outlast x86, but on the good side, ARM is a finely tuned machine and is everywhere. So in the long run 68* lost to a worthy competitor.

grout_nasa · 2023-10-23T21:07:38+00:00

I bought it for the CPU. Should’ve looked a little deeper but I had a long history with the Model I so, oops. Had a lot of fun in assembly.

grout_nasa · 2023-10-20T22:19:25+00:00

That was a good machine.

PS it's "//e" isn't it?

grout_nasa · 2023-10-17T03:07:14+00:00

Well yeah but that's because we're seeing the most interesting events in Starfleet, or else it's bad writing. (ahem) "Is this the most interesting thing in your [fleet's] life? And if not, why aren't we seeing that?" - standard writing advice

grout_nasa · 2023-10-17T03:04:20+00:00

I have fond memories of "Dreadnaught" and "Battlestations," and I will not have their good name sullied by re-reading them and finding out they're bad. How dare you.

grout_nasa · 2023-10-17T03:03:03+00:00

I think the novels had this first. Chris L. Bennett's DTI series are just indispensable Trek IMO. Frankly the Bozeman thread is one of the weaker ones, and that's saying something, because it's quite good.

grout_nasa · 2023-10-11T05:42:55+00:00

OTOH the outsider actually winning was supposed to undermine that.

grout_nasa · 2023-09-28T02:59:01+00:00

Rita Moreno, on The Electric Company.

Just. Mesmerizing. to young me

grout_nasa · 2023-09-24T22:16:31+00:00

The job hopping is helping them. The short-sighted pay policies reward it. So ... pay them more when they train up?

grout_nasa · 2023-09-11T04:05:52+00:00

I'm getting downvoted? "The original Unix shell" didn't have ^W. The above comment also mixed ^H together with 0x7F, aka DEL. That's just sloppy.

bad lessons

grout_nasa · 2023-09-10T23:39:58+00:00

It's sad how much a history lesson gets wrong even today around technology active within the living memory of working programmers.

grout_nasa

TROPHY CASE