Lyle Seaman

networking, security infra and filesystems kernel hacker turned application programmer, SRE and engineering manager, Lyle traded tilting at windmills for viking at Vikings but couldn't catch any.

May 2021

Not Very Clever

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In this process of collecting your submissions, the single most common category has been string conversions of NaN, null, and undefined. They are so common, I've become entirely bored with them. Date conversions, however, still do amuse a bit. Or will do. Or will did? Will have did? In any case, here's another installment of wibbly bits. They may not be clever, but some are a little funny.


Board Silly

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l'Audace

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Servicing Machines

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With all the investments that have recently been made in statistical/brute-force methods for simulating machine intelligence, it seems that we may at least at last have achieved the ability to err like a human.