Jacobo Tarrío
@jacobo.tarrio.org
I write software for fun and for profit.
Radio amateur (AE2IT and EA1ITI).
He/him/爸爸.
Radio amateur (AE2IT and EA1ITI).
He/him/爸爸.
Reposted by Jacobo Tarrío
Today I saw a response to an NPR piece (about Maduro pleading not guilty) saying something like "if he was gonna do that, why did he even bother going to court" and I envy the world that person lives in.
January 5, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Today I saw a response to an NPR piece (about Maduro pleading not guilty) saying something like "if he was gonna do that, why did he even bother going to court" and I envy the world that person lives in.
A plane just flew low over Manhattan, and I thought that was super duper illegal since 2001.
January 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
A plane just flew low over Manhattan, and I thought that was super duper illegal since 2001.
Muchos sabéis que Trump no es santo de mi devoción, pero cuando hace algo bien hay que reconocerlo.
Así que cuando haga algo bien, ya lo reconoceré.
Así que cuando haga algo bien, ya lo reconoceré.
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Muchos sabéis que Trump no es santo de mi devoción, pero cuando hace algo bien hay que reconocerlo.
Así que cuando haga algo bien, ya lo reconoceré.
Así que cuando haga algo bien, ya lo reconoceré.
Someone in the basement of the Cuban ministry of defense, opening a folder that says "Mar-a-Lago" on the front.
January 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Someone in the basement of the Cuban ministry of defense, opening a folder that says "Mar-a-Lago" on the front.
Thanks for the update.
January 1, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Thanks for the update.
"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?"
I wrote the JS code for Google+'s social widgets. At one point, "I" was on every Google property (including search) and on every webpage on the Internet that included a +1 button, an "add me to your circles" widget, etc.
So not a very lasting impact.
I wrote the JS code for Google+'s social widgets. At one point, "I" was on every Google property (including search) and on every webpage on the Internet that included a +1 button, an "add me to your circles" widget, etc.
So not a very lasting impact.
"what was your biggest impact on the internet?"
no contest, it's:
no contest, it's:
January 1, 2026 at 11:27 AM
"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?"
I wrote the JS code for Google+'s social widgets. At one point, "I" was on every Google property (including search) and on every webpage on the Internet that included a +1 button, an "add me to your circles" widget, etc.
So not a very lasting impact.
I wrote the JS code for Google+'s social widgets. At one point, "I" was on every Google property (including search) and on every webpage on the Internet that included a +1 button, an "add me to your circles" widget, etc.
So not a very lasting impact.
Es que no lo entendéis. La chica ahorró para la entrada del primer piso metiendo el dinero del café en un fondo de inversión.
Un simple cálculo nos revela que ella dejó de gastar 100 euros diarios en café y que el fondo rentaba un 35% anual.
Una vez más se demuestra que no ahorra el que no quiere.
Un simple cálculo nos revela que ella dejó de gastar 100 euros diarios en café y que el fondo rentaba un 35% anual.
Una vez más se demuestra que no ahorra el que no quiere.
Si dejas de tomar café duante dos años puedes llegar a tener dinero de sobras para comprar un AK47 y diez cargadores para vaciárselos en la puta boca de todos los que dicen "Si no ahorras es porque no quieres"
December 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Es que no lo entendéis. La chica ahorró para la entrada del primer piso metiendo el dinero del café en un fondo de inversión.
Un simple cálculo nos revela que ella dejó de gastar 100 euros diarios en café y que el fondo rentaba un 35% anual.
Una vez más se demuestra que no ahorra el que no quiere.
Un simple cálculo nos revela que ella dejó de gastar 100 euros diarios en café y que el fondo rentaba un 35% anual.
Una vez más se demuestra que no ahorra el que no quiere.
El anuncio original del Nescafé Capuccino (con el italiano diciendo "cremoso, delizioso") duraba 6 minutos 47 segundos pero consiguieron dejarlo en 20 cuando recortaron la parte en la que el italiano nos prohibía en los términos más tajantes tomarlo después del desayuno.
December 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
El anuncio original del Nescafé Capuccino (con el italiano diciendo "cremoso, delizioso") duraba 6 minutos 47 segundos pero consiguieron dejarlo en 20 cuando recortaron la parte en la que el italiano nos prohibía en los términos más tajantes tomarlo después del desayuno.
I love it when they combine "use it now or get left behind" with "oh you tried it six months ago and it didn't work for you? You should try again, it's completely different now"
So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively
December 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I love it when they combine "use it now or get left behind" with "oh you tried it six months ago and it didn't work for you? You should try again, it's completely different now"
Or, as I often say, it's 2025 and we are using Unix (1970) or Windows NT (1990) to access the web (1990) and run a server-side rendered web app (1960) or a client-side rendered AJAX app (1964).
Maybe this will make it clearer:
We went from horse and buggy to interplanetary rockets with less money, time, and human labour than we did as an industry moving from spreadsheets in a TUI to spreadsheets in a GUI
That should be fucking shameful as an industry. wtf is going on??
We went from horse and buggy to interplanetary rockets with less money, time, and human labour than we did as an industry moving from spreadsheets in a TUI to spreadsheets in a GUI
That should be fucking shameful as an industry. wtf is going on??
December 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Or, as I often say, it's 2025 and we are using Unix (1970) or Windows NT (1990) to access the web (1990) and run a server-side rendered web app (1960) or a client-side rendered AJAX app (1964).
I hope he makes a full and quick recovery and then never has to pay for drinks or food ever again.
The man who tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters is a Muslim fruit store owner named Ahmed Al Ahmed. He risked his life to end the attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach. May the Most High protect and heal him and bless him abundantly for his righteousness.
December 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I hope he makes a full and quick recovery and then never has to pay for drinks or food ever again.
Has anyone ever made an Earth sandwich where both pieces of bread came from the same loaf?
Is anyone here from Perth, Australia?
If you are, put a piece of bread on the ground.
If I do it here in Ottawa, we’ll make the entire Earth into a sandwich.
That’s gotta set a record.
If you are, put a piece of bread on the ground.
If I do it here in Ottawa, we’ll make the entire Earth into a sandwich.
That’s gotta set a record.
December 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Has anyone ever made an Earth sandwich where both pieces of bread came from the same loaf?
How the hell is Emil Bove younger than me?
He looks like three ghosts will visit him in a couple of weeks.
He looks like three ghosts will visit him in a couple of weeks.
December 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
How the hell is Emil Bove younger than me?
He looks like three ghosts will visit him in a couple of weeks.
He looks like three ghosts will visit him in a couple of weeks.
Refining my pita recipe!
December 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Refining my pita recipe!
We haven't done anything new with computers since the Internet became popular.
We all still use Unix and Windows. Someone who used either in 1995 could pick it right back up now.
Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python are all older than C, Pascal, Scheme and SQL were when they were invented.
We all still use Unix and Windows. Someone who used either in 1995 could pick it right back up now.
Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python are all older than C, Pascal, Scheme and SQL were when they were invented.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We haven't done anything new with computers since the Internet became popular.
We all still use Unix and Windows. Someone who used either in 1995 could pick it right back up now.
Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python are all older than C, Pascal, Scheme and SQL were when they were invented.
We all still use Unix and Windows. Someone who used either in 1995 could pick it right back up now.
Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python are all older than C, Pascal, Scheme and SQL were when they were invented.
"This new French style of expressing disagreement by throwing ingredients for pancakes should be called discrêpancy."
Esta nova tradición francesa de expresar o desacordo arrebolando ingredientes para facer filloas debería chamarse discrêpar.
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
November 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"This new French style of expressing disagreement by throwing ingredients for pancakes should be called discrêpancy."
It's been twice already that my carefully crafted DSP function that uses arithmetic operations only turns out to be slower than the "naive" version that uses Math.sin and Math.cos and Math.atan up the wazoo.
That wasn't the case 13 years ago!
(Continues)
That wasn't the case 13 years ago!
(Continues)
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It's been twice already that my carefully crafted DSP function that uses arithmetic operations only turns out to be slower than the "naive" version that uses Math.sin and Math.cos and Math.atan up the wazoo.
That wasn't the case 13 years ago!
(Continues)
That wasn't the case 13 years ago!
(Continues)
I was just thinking back to the 90s when magazines wrote about the Information Superhighway, we didn't know what to call the @ sign in Spanish, and Nicholas Negroponte kept writing the same essay about how airlines will know you need to go to your dad's funeral so they'll jack up the prices for you.
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I was just thinking back to the 90s when magazines wrote about the Information Superhighway, we didn't know what to call the @ sign in Spanish, and Nicholas Negroponte kept writing the same essay about how airlines will know you need to go to your dad's funeral so they'll jack up the prices for you.
This is my "Big O is not a Big Deal" thread.
It is about algorithms. An algorithm consists of a sequence of steps that convert an input into an output.
Algorithms are theoretical: they are not programs, but recipes to build programs.
It is about algorithms. An algorithm consists of a sequence of steps that convert an input into an output.
Algorithms are theoretical: they are not programs, but recipes to build programs.
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is my "Big O is not a Big Deal" thread.
It is about algorithms. An algorithm consists of a sequence of steps that convert an input into an output.
Algorithms are theoretical: they are not programs, but recipes to build programs.
It is about algorithms. An algorithm consists of a sequence of steps that convert an input into an output.
Algorithms are theoretical: they are not programs, but recipes to build programs.
Me: The way algorithms are taught is wrong.
Them: Yeah! With so many irrelevant details like...
[In unison]
Me: ...that the word "algorithm" comes from Al-Khwarizmi
Them: ... big O notation
Me: What?
Them: What?
Them: Yeah! With so many irrelevant details like...
[In unison]
Me: ...that the word "algorithm" comes from Al-Khwarizmi
Them: ... big O notation
Me: What?
Them: What?
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Me: The way algorithms are taught is wrong.
Them: Yeah! With so many irrelevant details like...
[In unison]
Me: ...that the word "algorithm" comes from Al-Khwarizmi
Them: ... big O notation
Me: What?
Them: What?
Them: Yeah! With so many irrelevant details like...
[In unison]
Me: ...that the word "algorithm" comes from Al-Khwarizmi
Them: ... big O notation
Me: What?
Them: What?
Me, generalist SWE, trying to build a PLL routine for my radio signal demodulator library, getting it consistently locked on frequency but mysteriously out of phase.
Any real DSP engineer, probably: "you got phase shift in your filter."
Me, three days later: "oops, I got phase shift in my filter."
Any real DSP engineer, probably: "you got phase shift in your filter."
Me, three days later: "oops, I got phase shift in my filter."
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Me, generalist SWE, trying to build a PLL routine for my radio signal demodulator library, getting it consistently locked on frequency but mysteriously out of phase.
Any real DSP engineer, probably: "you got phase shift in your filter."
Me, three days later: "oops, I got phase shift in my filter."
Any real DSP engineer, probably: "you got phase shift in your filter."
Me, three days later: "oops, I got phase shift in my filter."
For me, it's the fact that he built a whole fleet of space rockets and never went up to space, unlike Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, who nearly had to be tied down so they wouldn't go in the prototypes.
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
For me, it's the fact that he built a whole fleet of space rockets and never went up to space, unlike Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, who nearly had to be tied down so they wouldn't go in the prototypes.
Two and a half years later, and everybody still appends "(formerly Twitter)" after the name.
Great rebrand, great rebrand...
Great rebrand, great rebrand...
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Two and a half years later, and everybody still appends "(formerly Twitter)" after the name.
Great rebrand, great rebrand...
Great rebrand, great rebrand...
Como sabréis, hace unos meses Trump tomó control de la policía de Washington DC y mandó tropas para "combatir el crimen", algo que muchos ciudadanos protestaron (y aún protestan porque las tropas siguen ahí).
Y Sean Dunn arrojó un bocata al pecho de un agente federal. share.google/sZyOfgoenwQd...
Y Sean Dunn arrojó un bocata al pecho de un agente federal. share.google/sZyOfgoenwQd...
From the washingtondc community on Reddit: Full video of DC sub guy
Posted by orchardsky - 1,739 votes and 209 comments
share.google
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Como sabréis, hace unos meses Trump tomó control de la policía de Washington DC y mandó tropas para "combatir el crimen", algo que muchos ciudadanos protestaron (y aún protestan porque las tropas siguen ahí).
Y Sean Dunn arrojó un bocata al pecho de un agente federal. share.google/sZyOfgoenwQd...
Y Sean Dunn arrojó un bocata al pecho de un agente federal. share.google/sZyOfgoenwQd...
That needs a sign like the flag of the USA needs a sign saying "Flag of the USA."
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
That needs a sign like the flag of the USA needs a sign saying "Flag of the USA."