Vítor De Araújo @vbuaraujo@mastodon.social
Programmer, backyard linguist.
Joined May 2017
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When asked about fears of automation in 1969, Arthur C. Clarke famously said that we shouldn't worry about automation: "the goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play." I have never seen his answer quoted in full.
New blog post: Lenovo L22e-20 screen brightness and XRandR mode https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20210207-lenovo-xrandr-screen-brightness
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There are three hard problems in computer science: standardizing on a single chat application with your friends and off by one errors
New blog post: Some impressions about Go https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20201213-impressions-golang
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@cwebber @technomancy "it says I need your public and private key. I don't know what that means, but could you just send both? I'm in a hurry."
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one fun thing to try would be to respond to one of those "I have your password; send me bitcoin" scams, but like ... pretend to be really into it except that you can't figure out how to install bitcoin?
"oh man! that sounds bad. I'm trying to send you bitcoins but I can't figure out how to install this. should I download the 32-bit or 64-bit version?"
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"ok I'm building from source now but it says it needs glibc 2.31 but I'm on 2.23; what should I do?"
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"it started segfaulting now..."
New blog post: My terrible nginx rules for cgit https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20200816-cgit-nginx-rules
New blog post: Type parameters and dynamic types: a crazy idea https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20200724-type-parameters-dynamic-types-2
New blog post: Switching to the i3 window manager https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20200719-switching-to-i3-wm
New blog post: Type parameters and dynamic types https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20200530-type-parameters-dynamic-types
New blog post: Types and Fenius https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20200519-types-and-fenius
New blog post: Irish nouniness https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20200410-irish-nouniness
Wait a minute, 'haphazard' is pronounced 'hap-hazard'? And I only found it out today?
I don't know what to believe anymore.
Programmer, backyard linguist.
Joined May 2017
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