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ayo

@ayo@lonely.town

Full-time unemployed as free software developer and sysadmin. Part-time dog parent, bookworm, gamer, weeb and minimalist.

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Alright, I'm convinced. I'll start all my Perl code with "use v5.36;" from now on. :blobcatjustright:

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> In the Ruby space, there is also Crystal, a Ruby-like language that is statically compiled with type inference. This language is intentionally not Ruby-compatible, it has chosen to diverge from Ruby, but has still seen limited success. I think this is interesting because it gives us a broader perspective. Rubyists don’t like Crystal because it’s almost-Ruby-but-not-quite. It looks like Ruby, syntactically, but has many subtle differences and is very much incompatible in practice. This just confuses people, it breaks their expectations. Crystal probably would have had better luck if it had never marketed itself as being similar to Ruby in the first place.

@ayo Why is it that I find myself thinking of you, I do wonder...

https://pointersgonewild.com/2024/04/20/the-alternative-implementation-problem/

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@wasamasa Heh, Crystal is genuinely awesome, but I wasn't handicapped with Ruby experience.

ayo, to random
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Which of the 56 updated packages this week is causing my system to hang on shutdown?

ayo, to random
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And apparently VNDB is now blocked in Turkey. :blobcattilt:

ayo,
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@yogaskung Lots of people from Turkey complaining and dunno, I wasn't contacted beforehand. :blobshrug:

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One hour of putting something live gets more feedback than two weeks of public beta.

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Of course, if you make something faster the bots will just be crawling faster as well.

ayo, to random
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Gardening protip: don't bury your dog's dung at a place you're likely to dig up soon.

ayo, to random
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One more minor feature to rewrite and then Manned.org will be... not-quite-100%-Javascript-free. :blobcatjustright:

ayo,
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@lanodan It'll work without JS soon enough!

ayo,
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@lanodan That's the intention. The "locations" link was JS before as well.

ayo, to random
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Once again, attempting to do some UI work.

First line I write: "sub somefunc {".

Immediately followed by wondering in what version of Perl they stabilized subroutine signatures and going down the rabit hole of figuring out if it makes sense to fix VNDB's code to consistently use that feature now.

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Aggressive and dumb bots have found my cgit instance... again. Perhaps I should switch to stagit sometime, but then I'd lose the ability to link to older revisions of files. :blobcatsad2:

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This week's weather in a nutshell: rain when I'm walking the dog, blindingly bright sun when I'm trying to read something on the screen.

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Almost rm -rf'ed VNDB, thinking I was on the beta server.

I'm genuinely surprised it's never gone properly wrong so far.

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It'll be faster for me to teach someone front-end web dev and have them do all the work I don't want to do, than me staring at the screen for hours and making no progress. :blobcatnotlikethis:

ayo, to random
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I hate gardening.

I probably killed off a few plants in an attempt to relocate them. Let's see how dead they are next year. :blobshrug:

ayo,
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On the other hand, dog loves gardening. Especially the watering part.

ayo,
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@wolf480pl Hmmno, I successfully taught her that digging is not allowed. She does help with shredding loose branches.

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Manned.org now also indexes man pages from NetBSD.

I managed to go back to NetBSD 1.3, released back in 1998.

ayo,
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OpenBSD indexed on manned.org now as well.

They stuck with preformatted man pages for much longer than NetBSD; presumably to avoid including GNU groff in a base install.

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Dear VNDB,

Please stay small.

Sincerely,

Manned.org's 20-minute database import.

ayo,
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@lanodan Perhaps, though database size is more significantly correlated with what information is stored. I'm sure VNDB would've been much larger if we had the full VN scripts. :blobsmilesweat:

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The one thing I will never tire of doing, whether it's in real life or in games: petting dogs.

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the good news is this backdoor is open source™ free software™ too

ayo,
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@subleq No, no, they've taken the nvidia approach. The free software part is just a loader for a binary blob that does the real work. I refuse to install this backdoor until the payload is also open sourced.

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