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lritter, 23 hours ago to random

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lritter, 4 days ago to random

interesting problem: progressively mapping a cosmically high number of unique strings of arbitrary length to an ordered set so that we can assign an index to each string, extract a substring from each index, and filter strings not in the set.

evidently, this approach requires compression. the compressed result is functionally equivalent to a regular expression, or a schema validation system.

lritter, 3 days ago to random

if programmers had a flag, we'd probably have two symbols on it, one for choice, and one for repetition.

lritter, 5 days ago to random

fact: most female cannabis seeds you can buy online have been assigned male at conception

lritter, 7 days ago to random

i'm looking at contenders for a xterm based gui lib that I can crib from for a scopes based lib. the micro text editor was implemented with tcell, which in turn was heavily inspired by termbox, which looks like a nice minimalistic C implementation to start off of.

i feel all this should be a backend for SDL, so that i can support real graphical environments as well later on, but as far as i know (and please correct me @icculus if i'm wrong) it's out of focus.

lritter, 7 days ago to random

after AI, what will be the next tech hype to get mad about? submissions are open

lritter, 7 days ago to random

first they ignore each other
then they make fun of each other
then they fight each other
then they both simultaneously win

lritter, 8 days ago to random

mastodon is better after a whiskey tasting with your mom on her 77th birthday i will fight you on thissss

lritter, 8 days ago to random

stuck in the gangway of a hot overcrowded 2-wagon regional train for another hour. this shit suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

lritter, 9 days ago to random

xfce4 really is the best choice for this tiny intel atom laptop. it's not just the frugal use of resources. it's also that window title bars are narrower. optimal for this 1366 x 768 display.

lritter, 9 days ago to random

if a novice programmer can code something that runs in a safe language, then an experienced programmer can translate this program to optimized, high-performance semantics.

i theorize that the experienced programmer's job can be sufficiently automated, provided that we control the novice's language, without requiring silly differentiable algorithms.

lritter, 10 days ago to random

duangle never took VC money. that's why we're crawling at a snail's pace, but we're crawling with dignity.

lritter, 11 days ago to Eurovision

of course israel is in europe it's part of the united kingdom! ...wait what? why did nobody tell me? #eurovision

lritter, 11 days ago to Eurovision

#eurovision

lritter, 11 days ago to Eurovision

it appears #eurovision is the more inclusive hashtag. #esc2024 is only used by germans?

lritter, 12 days ago to random

damn i missed it :(

lritter, 12 days ago to random

mercurial frontend for git #VPofIdeas

lritter, 13 days ago to random

i'm increasingly growing fond of the API error handling style as it is done in GL 4; the idea being that you register a callback for things that went wrong, and then you can decide from there how to handle it: print a warning, log to file, abort (for debugger), longjmp, raise an error... it's more versatile than dealing with exceptions or return codes because you're still in the correct call stack for that error.

lritter, 13 days ago to random

updating ubuntu on an old laptop.

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lritter, 13 days ago to random

the funniest word in computing is bogomips. the more you say it the better it feels.

lritter, 14 days ago to random

"full stack developer"

• suggests a clear vertically ordered structure
• implies completeness
• sounds like you're improving things and in control
• dignified job description

"turducken wrestler"

• suggests an unholy nesting of things that have no business containing each other
• truly conveys your exasperation
• makes clear how overwhelmed you are
• aptly describes the ongoing shitshow you're co-enabling

lritter, 15 days ago to random

the "miniaudio" C header library has over 90k lines of code.

lritter, 16 days ago to random

transferring what we have learned about AI writing in the academic world:

the excessive presence of automation in a creative domain is always an indicator of staleness creeping in.

and when art culture has gotten so stale that a machine can indeed do an artists job (from the perspective of art consumers), then the entire culture needs fixing.

my prediction is that eventually, the same colors, faces, poses and style will satiate boredom & foster appetite for something that stirs the shit again

lritter, 16 days ago to random

pet peeve: roleplay games with inventory logic that requires you to study for a master's degree to manage it. walls of text. cascades of stats. why don't they put a bespectacled goblin in my backpack who takes care of it.

lritter, 17 days ago to random

Remember when, for a brief time, starting 1995, Microsoft would give its releases year number versions but then stopped? Turns out those were somewhat of an occult sequence, leading up to - and then celebrating - the turn of the century, peaking with Windows 2000 and Windows ME (Millenium Edition).

Only the Windows Server team didn't get the idea and continues to label its releases by year ;-)