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whitequark, 21 hours ago to random

the problem with telemetry in open-source applications is that the majority of people who use them don't tell anybody about their workflow, so whenever you change something, you have to be prepared for a sudden and unexpected inflow of angry complaints about you breaking something

you could do polls, but that selects for people who would complete a poll, again excluding many who would be touchy about their workflow

whitequark, 4 hours ago to random

wrote some documentation earlier https://whitequark.github.io/amaranth/docs/document-io/stdlib/io.html

whitequark, 14 hours ago to random

the existence of mprotect implies the existence of mattackt

whitequark, 12 hours ago to random

"puppy" is a valid WaveDrom waveform

whitequark, 14 hours ago to random

I am once again compiling a new checkout of LLVM

whitequark, 14 hours ago to random

OH: "what are computers even for if not for parsing invalid JSON?"

whitequark, 1 day ago to random

for most of my life when i did play games i'd play shooters simply because it was something that i found that distracted me from overwhelming chronic pain, and i didn't think about it much if at all

so now that i've recently realized that you can, and should, outsmart and outplan the enemy, the experience completely changed for me

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

i think i have five copies of clang right now in ~/Projects/yowasp, not counting the LLVM tree that i'm building

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

me: "i like it how the entire LLVM project is one monorepo"
her: "when are you going to compile the entirety of LLVM to WebAssembly?"
me: "yes."
her: "... I said that as a joke"

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

found some extremely Normal code in one of my projects

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

the most important thing to remember while compiling Clang is that you're probably going to be still alive a week from now and so you don't really need to rush anywhere

whitequark, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

pick your gender:

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

software engineering really gets a different vibe if changing a single character and rebuilding takes about half a hour

android has prepared me for this

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

this is the first time i encounter a C function returning a function without a typedef and ... no

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

postgres is a great database engine :)

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

OH: "I've built LLVM too many times for it to feel painful. now I have to build Chromium to feel something"

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

perf: not only does it profile your code, but it also plays helldivers for you!

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

are you normal or do you have a 200 GB ccache size limit

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

wields webassembly and looks at clang with criminal intent

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

why does LLVM have a -DLLVM_ENABLE_CURL=ON|OFF option

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

none of these words are in the bible

whitequark, 3 days ago to random

why is postgresql so miserable to use

whitequark, 3 days ago to random

today's helldivers 2 discovery: it has an unlockable revolver. makes sense, right? lots of games do.

you fire six out of six shots and reload. your character uses a speedloader. makes sense!

you fire two shots and reload.

• if you're in a fight, your character uses a speedloader, and you lose four
• if you're not, they reload it round by round, and you lose none

this is an incredible level of attention to detail holy shit. nobody does this!!

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mia@void.rehab/112463555916711503

whitequark, 3 days ago to random

case in point for "if you build useful tools someone will use it in the MIC": if you can emulate Macormedia Flash well enough to run junk from Newgrounds, defense contractors will be interested too