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scottmichaud

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C++ Developer (on paper; more GPU) @ Riverside.fm
Gamedev, Physics & Education @ QueensU, Puns.
Former: LightTwist, Inc.; Eliot Research; PC Perspective

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erin_catto, to random
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Working to fix this now. Optimizing cache usage. Hopefully that fixes it.

scottmichaud,
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@erin_catto Cache makes sense. May want to track the clock rate (min/max/avg) during each test, too.

foone, to random
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I finally lugged my Highscreen SkyTower AT tower up to my office. This machine is beautiful, even when it's yellowed and dusty and grimy and rusty.

scottmichaud,
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@foone By today's standards, that's a piece of Pooh.

eniko, to random
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i feel like people dont appreciate nearly enough that the answer to "omg they cant do that!" is far too often "they can unless you sue them and get a judge to agree with you that they cant"

scottmichaud,
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@eniko And the opposite is also true. "Am I allowed to" (ex: fair use discussions) doesn't mean that they won't try to sue you anyway and hope you'll settle out of court.

mcc, to random
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I was gonna post something depressing about technology but then I decided I had posted too many depressing things about technology today so I didn't

scottmichaud,
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@aeva @mcc It's a bit of a shame. The "Sir, this is a Wendy's" jokes will never be the same...

scottmichaud, to random
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So this is clearly a joke, but my brain wants to understand what sort of backstory would go into this warning label being made (if it was serious).

hanakogames, to random
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Not totally sure what "auto chess" is but pretty sure it's not yuri.

scottmichaud,
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@hanakogames There's potential. Queens capturing other queens.

mcc, to random
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Math crisis

scottmichaud,
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@mcc I immediately knew what show that was.

guihn288, to random

You know what happens now...

scottmichaud,
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@thepoliticalcat @guihn288 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga3ttnz3nXI

scottmichaud,
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@thepoliticalcat @guihn288 Imagine the marketing meeting where someone says "People are saying that our notifications are getting creepy" and then someone is like "We can use this. What if we blame the owl?"

aeva, to random
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dirty dishes have it so good. I wish I could soak in the bath for a week

scottmichaud,
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@rygorous @aeva I don't know 2 weeks is kind-of pushing it.

scottmichaud,
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@aeva @rygorous
Person> Yes.
Me> ._.

beeoproblem, to random
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Last boost: I saw the cursed image now you will too

scottmichaud,
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@beeoproblem Cursed? I'm happy for them!

TomF, to random
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TIL - the sugar "galactose" sounds really awesome because GALACTIC amirite? But it's actually called that because it's "ga lactose" - which just means "from milk" in Greek. Because it's one of the sugars in milk.

...which had me thinking wait so where does "galaxy" come from anyway oh no it's not just Greek for... yes, yes it is. "Galaxy" is literally just "milky way" in Greek.

scottmichaud,
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@TomF I'm curious your opinions on "I can't believe it's not butter".

scottmichaud, to random
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What did the web browser say to the poorly written CSS?

Weird flex, but okay.

ami_angelwings, to animals
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what's an underrated animal that should get more love in your opinion? If you had to make a franchise to promote this animal what would you make? (video game, TV show, comic book, anime, etc)

scottmichaud,
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@ami_angelwings Seals.

onelson, to random
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Bloodborne (2015)

scottmichaud,
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@onelson It's the Dark Souls of character creators.

aeva, to random
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I can't believe it's only Wednesday

scottmichaud,
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@aeva If you don't work on Saturday, I have some good news for you.

aeva, to random
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Does mastodon have a setting somewhere to just remove the little blue "40+" blob on the notifications link? I'm not 40+, I'm still 35 for 3 more days.

scottmichaud,
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@aeva I had similar sleep issues and it was super frustrating when I needed to move away from a phone that let me disable all emergency alerts. The anxiety of having my sleep disturbed actually kept me awake. (I've thankfully become better, relative definition, since then.)

scottmichaud,
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@aeva Happy early Birthday.

0xabad1dea, to random

A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.

Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”

scottmichaud,
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@0xabad1dea So... the only time I could see that being useful is if you needed to interop with something else (likely a device) that heavily expects decimals, and you are VERY careful to only do operations on it that are guaranteed to yield integers.

The only two things I can think of are Web and GPUs, and Web would be doubles so that still makes no sense. And of course I can't even begin to see why a GPU would need to know number of planes, so yeah...

aeva, to random
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if you substitute "mon dieu" for "my dude" it kinda just works

scottmichaud,
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@aeva Same with the Japanese "ne" for the Canadian "eh?"

aeva, to random
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"it could do that" is programmer speak for "it can't do that"

scottmichaud,
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@aeva
Or "I haven't tested that yet."
Or "Extension please?"

aeva, to random
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heeee C++26 is getting something called a ｢hazard_pointer｣

scottmichaud,
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@lesley @aeva Yeah... these sorts of tools are things that either someone else uses, or you use approximately once, and then use that higher-level solution forever after (in so far as copyright law allows you to).

tojiro, to random
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Every year when I'm prepping my taxes all I can think of is how absolutely mind numbing working on the average tax preparation software would be.

Like, I've built software that fills out government forms. It's awful and I'll never do it again. But this... this feels like a whole different level of painful.

scottmichaud,
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@tojiro Pour one out for the poor time and localization programmers.

aeva, to random
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say what you want about C but "void star" is a great name for a type that is as powerful as it is dangerous

scottmichaud,
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@aeva The star is a foot note.

A void*

*You can't but try.

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