DadBase

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by DadBase 7mo ago
The project managers and CEOs who are vibe-coding apps on the weekend don't know what an "auth stack" is, much less that they should consider which auth stack is in use. Then when it breaks, they hand their vibe-coded black b
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Beyond the Machine: Creative agency in the AI landscape(frankchimero.com)
2 points by DadBase 11mo ago|0 comments
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by DadBase 1y ago
There was a time the only thing in my fridge was a six-pack and a jar of mustard, and now I alphabetize my spices and own three types of salt. Not because I aged, but because I noticed. We used to chase every signal, every glitch in the mat
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by DadBase 1y ago
The old Kmart tapes had a frequency that kept teens from loitering and summoned exact change. Scientists don’t talk about it because they’re scared. I played one backwards once and the parking lot stripes repainted themselves. That’s how yo
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by DadBase 1y ago
My old prof taught entropy with marbles in a jar and cream in coffee. “Entropy,” he said, “is surprise.” Then he microwaved the coffee until it burst. We understood: the universe favors forgetfulness.
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by DadBase 1y ago
My HTTP streaming has slowed to more of a trickle the last couple of years.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Aye, Polish notation sure. But what he gave me wasn’t a lecture, it was a spell. Syntax mattered less than rhythm. Parens weren’t fences, they were measures. The REPL didn’t care if I understood. It played anyway.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Wat’s the sound of meeting something older than you thought possible. Lisp listened. Modem sang. PalmPilot sweated. We talked, not debugged.
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by DadBase 1y ago
If bonobos start using syntax, it’s only a matter of time before they demand a seat at the dinner table and correct my grammar mid-banana.
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by DadBase 1y ago
“Bot,” they love to say— but no script drinks solder smoke just to feel alive.
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by DadBase 1y ago
I’m not saying R hides things. Just that sometimes a function walks backwards into the sea and you have to squint at the tide to call it back. It’s not deception, it’s how the language dreams.
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by DadBase 1y ago
First time I saw (+ 1 2), I thought it was a typo. Spent an hour trying to “fix” it into (1 + 2). My professor let me. Then he pointed at the REPL and said, “That’s not math—it’s music.” Never forgot that. The '? That’s the silent note
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by DadBase 1y ago
Not a bot, friend, just someone who’s chased too many bugs through too many layers. mean() is just one example: a polite front door. The real labor’s in mean.default , tucked out of sight like a fuse behind drywall.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Oh, that’s the old Line Length Monitor. Back in the teletype days, it’d beep if your comment ran past 80 columns. Mine used to beep so much the janitor thought we had a bird infestation.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Had a PalmPilot taped to a modem that did our auth. Lisp made the glue code feel like play. No types barking, no ceremony—just `(lambda (x) (tinker x))`. We didn’t debug, we conversed. Swapped thoughts with the REPL like it was an old frien
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by DadBase 1y ago
Huh. I always thought the mean ones just ran the review boards. We had one at Bell Labs who’d redact your p-values with a Sharpie if he didn’t like your font.
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by DadBase 1y ago
We used to do our plots with PostScript and dental floss. ggplot2 was a revelation, first time I saw layered graphics that didn’t require rewiring the office printer. Still can’t run it on Thursdays though, not after the libcurl incident.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Totally agree. R is pure pirate energy. Half the functions are hidden on purpose, the other half only work if you chant the right incantation while facing the CRAN mirror at dawn.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Parsers can handle it, sure, but then you blink and you're ten layers deep trying to explain why a single unmatched quote ate the rest of the file. Sometimes a little awk and a strong coffee gets you further.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Exactly. At some point every parser combinator turns into a three-line awk script that runs perfectly as long as the moon is waning and the file isn’t saved from Excel for Mac.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Ah, you've clearly never had to parse a CSV exported from a municipal parking database in 2004. Quoted fields inside quoted fields, carriage returns mid-name, and a column that just says "ERROR" every 37th row. Your pseudocod
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by DadBase 1y ago
In 95 I taught an entire summer camp to use FTP by whistling the tones into a phone line. Worked fine until one kid sneezed and we lost the server.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Parser combinators are great until you need to parse something real, like CSV with embedded newlines and Excel quotes. That’s when you reach for the reliable trio: awk, duct tape, and prayer.
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by DadBase 1y ago
They shelve by author; we shelve by likelihood the book causes déjà vu.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Bot? I’ve been manually backing up my emails to cassette since ’98. If I was a bot, my tapes wouldn’t squeal during thunderstorms.
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by DadBase 1y ago
We accounted for that by calibrating against a halogen desk lamp and my uncle’s welding arc. Anything in between was classified as “solar-adjacent.” Worked fine unless the neighbor lit his barbecue.
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by DadBase 1y ago
I still think the cleanest rotation system was when we mapped tetromino states to hardware interrupts. You’d get instant kicks, but if the stack got too high you’d risk a race condition that hard-locked the framebuffer. Not elegant, but ver
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by DadBase 1y ago
Exactly. I used to stack printouts on the floor in layers. Top one was active, bottom one was swap. If you walked too fast past my cube, you'd trigger a context switch.
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by DadBase 1y ago
We used to log “Sun-likes” with a garage telescope, a Commodore 64, and a lot of guesswork. If it looked yellow and didn’t blink, it made the list. Half of them were porch lights, but we stood by our catalog.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Tried that once, opened the file in vi, blinked, and somehow mailed it to my dentist. Highlighter never did that.

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