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 @user-95 I'm not sure, but I once tried to design an algorithm that predicted
 prime numbers. I made this algorithm in my pursuit, but I couldn't figure out
 how to utilize it:
 
 https://www.desmos.com/calculator/h8oopoctnh
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 @user-1074 
 
 the more you try, the more you have to calculate, which is a problem, because
 endlessly recursive calculations create infinite loops, which frankly are
 impossible to compute because they defy computation! Not good, not ideal, no
 thank you, not for me, no thanks, not what I'd like.
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 Hi, I'm learning about semaphores right now and trying to explain them to a
 friend. But I only sorta understand how they work - can anyone look at this
 pseudocode and tell me if I'm on the right track?
Some C pseudocode working through the semaphore design pattern. Here's the text of the pseudocode:  /* no lock example */  void start_thread(int* x) {   *x += 1; }  int main() {   int x = 0;   for (1000 times){     start_thread(&x);   }   print(x); }  /* in this case you have no idea what will print because thread A will take x and be like "ah yes it's 423" and then in the next instruction it'll be like "I'll increment this to be 424" and in the next one it'll say "okay now it's time to store 424 in the variable X" but like... there's a thousand threads all doing that at the same time, so odds are you'll have 5 that are like "ah yes this is 423 I'll set it to 424" */  /* not a good plan. Need a lock, so only one thread can use it at once. */ /* mutex example: */  void start_thread(int* x, int* x_mutex) {   *x += 1;   *x_mutex = 0; }  int main() {   int x = 0;   int x_mutex = 0;   for (1000 times){     while (x_mutex != 0){ } /* do nothing */     x_mutex = thread_id;     start_thread(&x, &x_mutex);   }   print(x); }  /* this should print 1000, but it's basically as slow as doing it single threaded. */  #define MAX 10  void start_thread(int* x, int* x_semaphore) {   *x += 1;   *x_semaphore += 1; }  int main() {   int x[MAX];   int x_semaphore = MAX;   for (1000 times) {     for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {       x_semaphore -= 1;       start_thread(&x[i], &x_semaphore);     }     while (x_semaphore != MAX) { } /* do nothing */   }   int value = sum(x, MAX);   print(value); }
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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 the hardest problem in computer science is figuring out why users do what they
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 @user-883 
 
 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
 My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
 gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
 flags" and I'm like "no"
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 [picture] now that's what I call motivated [a computer made this? no, I did,
 reflecting off of it's beautiful statistical form]
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 this is the simplest implementation of scalable anarchism I could think of.
 tell me how it's flawed so I can improve it before I need it.
algorism is a political and economic philosophy designed to wrest power from those who may be corrupted by it, and restore dignity and agency to all of humanity.  It accomplishes this through several layers of abstraction, of votes, of control, of decisions. What do people need? How could we improve? Is there something more we could do?  The idea is to negate bureaucracy by accomplishing goals in an ad-hoc fashion rather than rely on legalism for institutional execution. Projects, not operations.  Society shall be organized into tiers of rotating peers chosen by vote. Each tier sends their top two most voted for up a level to the next tier of organization. the duty of each tier is to provide for the needs and accomplish the demands of each of their lower tier allies. In addition they should provide what they can to their representatives, who offer them on the tier above.  If a need or demand cannot be met by the team of reps, the request is passed upward. This process can be accomplished with paper and pencil, but it's much better to automate and be public.  If desired, there is a queue system to help with the allocation of resources. This system rewards patience and conservation while still allowing for rapid acquisition. Pick two: good, cheap, fast.  It includes also a recycling system - the more you give back in clean and working order, the greater the options available to you.  It is a system of distribution, not control.
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 @user-95 that's why I like programming - it's my favorite form of spelling.
 i'm not very good at remembering all the names and the numbers, but I like to
 think I can make things do a function.
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 If you want to design a society, first learn how to build a decentralized
 scalable multiprocessor computer program.
 
 It could literally flip bits, the point is to practice architecture not
 accomplish a goal.
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 sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
 some of my art.
 
 But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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 ask not "what can logarithms do for you" but rather "what shape does a
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 okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
 seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
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 @user-192 
 
 now I want to re-implement strings as structs in C! I don't know why I never
 thought of them that way.
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 https://www.desmos.com/calculator/cxayticajg
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 @user-1074 
 
 if I wanted to accomplish this goal, I would host a fediverse server on a
 raspberry pi and post the link around the building (the owners will remove it
 so you gotta keep posting them)
 
 then, potlucks.
 
 then, friendships.
 
 then, organization.
 
 be patient with them. people are slow to be constructive.
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 it's probably a good idea to write pseudocode, then real code, instead of
 starting with real code, and bugfixing something incomplete and more difficult
 to reason with.
 
 unless you write real code easier than pseudocode. idk do what works for you.
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 @user-36 ideally you'd convert to an arbitrary base (in this case 9) and shift
 from there, but shifting two places might work. idk I haven't thought about it.
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people
 
 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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 I'm stuck. I don't know how to leverage whatever talents I have into making
 things happen. Maybe I should seek advice from a wise elder...
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 functions should be forced to describe the context of why they were being
 called. I think it would help debug a lot if we supplied a reasoning for each
 and every request [function call] that we made. We might even be able to parse
 them into semantic pyramids which we could sorta use to estimate [tree-like
 scanning] how and why the program did do wrong.
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 @user-883 
 
 every time I've tried to get a job for someone in the tech industry they
 turned out to be a fed, so...
 
 I do know people that you'd like to talk to, though. Just a few. That's all I
 personally can do.
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 ai-stuff - this is how to program a society. (or software project) there are
 lots of other implementations
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 I personally think design patterns are more interesting than portfolio
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
 running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
 failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
 familiar, but not today I guess.
 
 Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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 Don't write self documenting code! Force people to read the documentation so
 they know how to use it
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 wondering if anyone's ever made a computer that could only run programs
 written in interpreted languages. Like, no binaries allowed. Would probably be
 slower, but if my iphone is good enough for NASA to get to the moon then odds
 are it's good enough for me.
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 @user-1037 
 
 It's likely it could have been an artist's mock-up - like a UX designer and an
 animator sat down and said "let's make a cool design" and that's what they
 came up with. Designers do that all the time.
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 Look at the unique patterns in a programming language, and you will find
 within them a usecase.
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 @user-36 That makes sense to me. I'll have to think about how to generalize
 that, hmmmm... It would only work for numbers that have even square roots
 right?
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 maybe I should try microdosing, see if I can convince this part of me to stick
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 hello I'd like a computer that has multiple CPUs, each with shared data and
 separate data. I feel like I could run a lot of cool tests on them, especially
 when not connected to the internet or running a proprietary operating system
 like not-BSD
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 wrote this in an hour, used a local LLM to generate the regexes.
 
 haven't tested it yet because I'm not on gentoo rn, so don't run it. which is
 why I shared the code as an image.
 
 if you really want the text of it then check out the visual description of the
 image.
#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch.  #!/bin/bash  function gentoo-update(){    RED='\033[0;31m'    NOC='\033[0m'     if [ "$#" -eq 0]; then       date | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target           LAST_UPDATE_DATE="$(tail -n 1 '~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target' \       && echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}"                                      \        | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g'                                   THIS_UPDATE_DATE="$(date)"                                      \       && echo "${THIS_UPDATE_DATE}"                                      \        | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g'        if [ ${LAST_UPDATE_DATE} = ${THIS_UPDATE_DATE} ]; then          printf "don't sync more than once a day! ${RED}  a witch will curse you >: (${NOC}\n"       else          echo "syncing..."          echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}"             | cat            >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target          emerge --sync       fi     elif [ "${1}" == "-l" ]; then       cat ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target     elif [ "${1}" == "-f" ]; then       echo "okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse."       energe --sync     fi  }
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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 @user-883 
 
 don't worry I can sift through junk. I'll write my own using yours as a
 reference to debug why mine isn't working. "oh probably because I didn't do
 this part here"
 
 also, bad news. Guess I'm doing C programming. What should I make? I'm
 thinking Tic Tac Toe or maybe a really basic Asteroids or something
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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 I'm not evil. I have the potential to tho so I always have to keep an eye out
 for what it looks like.
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 @user-883 
 
 you're right
 
 but I think your first impulse should be to think about how to do it in a
 multithreaded way
 
 If the result is that single-threading would be better, great! It'll be easier!
 
 But thinking about multithreading first will give you crucial insights into
 the structure of the program.
 
 depending on what kinds of programming you do...!
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 if you want to solve EVERY housing issue in the United States, at least in the
 short and mid-term, add a ramping tax penalty for unoccupied houses that
 doesn't reset to 0 upon being occupied but rather starts ticking down at the
 same rate that it increases.
 
 Something like 0.5% to 1% of the property value for every month it's gone
 unoccupied as a primary residence.
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 @user-1147 
 
 That's a great idea, I'm probably going to do that! I've had this problem
 like, 7 or 8 times now and if I keep repeating myself they're going to take my
 programmer socks away.
 
 ... I don't actually have any programmer socks. I should get some. Maybe
 they'll just take my Thinkpad instead, that'd definitely be worse. D:
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 they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they
 want it to replace it.
 
 like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and
 the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you
 click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc
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 why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because
 they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at
 the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be
 processed at once.
 
 like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one
 screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style.
 
 [fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ]
 
 if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide
 to do some prevailing. gosh I wish I wasn't so useless is code for
why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be processed at once.  like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style.  [fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ]  if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide to do some prevailing. *gosh I wish I wasn't so useless* is code for
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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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 I am not a worker 
 
 Though I try and try, I burn right out and through 
 
 I wish I was a worker, able to apply my trade or skill 
 
 But I'm not 
 
 I do hope we can be allies, still
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 AI users be like:
 
 "hello, can you solve all my problems and do all the work for me? I'll give
 you relatively vague instructions in return, and maybe throw 20$ per month at
 your owners if they're lucky."
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 people be like "I don't want you to solve my problems" but, like, that's
 literally all I do. solve problems. problem solve. it's my default operation
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 @user-78 
 
 ah but if you increase it then I might be able to actually finish a thought,
 wouldn't that be a tragedy xD
 
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 why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
 trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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 @user-883 
 
 either that or I might get lost in some C code we'll see how things develop
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 I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
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 what if the secret to LLM computation is to just not reduce the fractions and
 keep it all in english language ram
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 what if there was a drone that did nothing except fly directly between you and
 the sun so you never got sunburned and never got vitamindeed
 
 [timestamp]
 
 [she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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 "alright I'm going to ask around, see if I can solve the problem another way.
 If I can't, I'll be back, and I won't take no for an answer. Let me know what
 you need and I'll make it happen."
 
 - cowboy addressing an issue
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--- #59 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
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  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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 @user-1165 
 
 you might be right, I don't know much about DSA aside from their numbers. To
 me, it feels like it's run sorta like a church? but again I have no idea
 because I've never been.
 
 do you have a better idea?
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 what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
 storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
 into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
 terminals?
 
 something something not-curses
 
 https://notcurses.com/
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 hey a couple months ago there was this really cool visual programming language
 posted here that was like, windows aero themed and it was super cute - does
 anyone know what that was called or have a link to it?
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--- #64 fediverse_boost/4925 ---
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  still waiting to find the energy and headspace to write an irritated blog post about why the fact that most toolchains are like 80% of the learning curve for those who are just getting into programming (especially on windows)  
  
                                                            
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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 lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of
 digging instrument
 
 and they want me to work a job /eyeroll
 /stickey-outey-tonguey-face/pics/all/total/* -ffvagrnbeexey --no-menus 14
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 "hey what if we broke our product and made it impossible to use without being
 caught by github"
 
 - computer touchers in a union
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 @user-192 
 
 be careful, recursion can cause stack overflows.
 
 better to run function pointers from a loop. That way you can operate as long
 as necessary. Just make sure you don't get in an infinite loop...
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 I have no idea why people prefer a GUI when working with software. How the
 heck do they expect to use their computer remotely if they can't even run
 their software over SSH?
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 I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
 have any bugs in this day and age.
 
 For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
 to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
 and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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 I want to emphasize that my mask is just as much a part of me as the other
 part.
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 @user-670 @user-1815 @user-1816 
 
 literally nobody has contributed to the one github repo I have
 
 ever. I got like, one comment from some guy in China or Taiwan. It's been up
 for like, 4 or 5 years and it's on my website. /shrug I guess most people
 bounce off after reading the splash screen /shrug
 
 to me, a FOSS project feels static because I don't believe in centralization
 and I also don't have the bandwidth or need to work on it. /shrug
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 Life is just a series of minigames for your primate brain to solve that are
 generated by an impossibly complex algorithm with a dash of ethical
 value-based choices thrown in.
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 @user-1074 
 
 if you'd like I can give you a lua script which will take your fediverse
 archive and turn it into a pdf which you can edit or print or whatever. Might
 be a fun diversion from posting. You can reply to yourself, add
 clarifications, change some things, put things in a new light, add context,
 etc... before you know it you'll have something printable. Could even pull out
 your best stuff and make zines.
 
 should require just a little configuration to suit your setup. That's part of
 how I stay "productive" without posting all the time.
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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 It's a good idea to practice getting places without gmaps, after having
 studied the map at home.
 
 Just incase you need to get somewhere that you don't want to bring your phone
 to.
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 @user-1755 
 
 ... I do that, but I do it because I want to find common subjects to talk
 about. Or I think "if I was working on a project, who can I ask if I need
 help?"
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 @user-1572
 
 nope
 
 I figure if I have to rebuild them, oh well.
 
 plus this way I can give each of my computers a slightly different personality.
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--- #79 fediverse/2044 ---
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 honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
 you like, and one for people you trust
 
 (I have one)
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 @user-246 
 
 I once heard that Excel is a functional programming language with a tabular
 interface
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 look, it's easy enough to solve bitrot. Just store three copies of the file
 and synchronize them everytime you open them. Like, an in-software raid array,
 except with less expense because a .png is what, 2mb? great, now they're 6mb.
 Nobody will notice except people who really should be buying more hard drives.
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 if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
 code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
 at once
 
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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some
 people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because
 that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools
 
 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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 don't you just love it when you get several discord notifications but you tab
 back to check out the discord screen and there's no red numbers anywhere?
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 I once heard that when you click a link, the developer of the website can tell
 which website you came from. idk if that's true or not.
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 @user-1655 
 
 why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
 parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
 client we want?
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 @user-95 because I left a puzzle on my website and she's trying to unlock it :
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 I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
 enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
 
 I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
 about them with.
two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview:  One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial.  Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions.  Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you.  Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history.  Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us.  [continued on picture 2] [continued from picture 1]  In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources.  Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society.  [end alt text]
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 "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
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 What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual
 aid so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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 If you're DSA and you're reading this, you have 48 hours to organize the
 greatest protest in history.
 
 And this time we don't have Twitter or Facebook.
 
 They would give us a king. It's now or never.
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 you're supposed to try it out and see. or are you not a hacker?
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 if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
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 This was the first bash script I ever wrote.
 
 It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it
 looks like now.
 
 Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
A bash script that plays a random episode of Adventure Time from a terminal.
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 @user-1903 
 
 algorithms exist to find connection in the narrative or emotion between songs.
 It intends to "maintain the vibe" even as it changes through all the music
 that you like. And you'll definitely like all of them, obviously you do,
 because the algorithm is designed to make it so.
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 I am NOT larping. I am expressing how I feel imaginatively.
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 don't mind me just dreaming of a future where I can have whatever I want : )
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 BRB, if you want to talk to yourselfs, I recommend opening a port in your
 router and exchanging HTTP packets that create messages on each other's
 computers. Can be done in a couple hundred lines of C code that can be 90%
 premade or auto-generated. Then, once it's made, you don't have to think about
 it again because it's so simple. It's not trying to scale, it's just...
 designed for a small, focused, human oriented mindset.\
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 this is why AI is evil, as explained to a witch.
picture of an ai conversation:  "let's move on to a different topic, this time I think we should describe the poem's contents self-referentially as a 3rd person narrative, with the perspective being the subject and her thoughts. I'd like to use the analyze.lua function for more than simply extracting keywords, I'd also like to use it for transformation as well. can we make a new directory inside of the /theme-analysis/ directory that will store the narratives? it should be combined into a book with milky white pages and brighter-than-blood red. Nearly pink, but a bit more orange. It should utilize generative art to make the pages feel as if they are *oozing* in sharp stalagmite and stalagtite pictures. Could probably generate with mathematical functions and a bit of fuzzing (statistically) to create straight lines. Very sharp, though, like lines being carved in butter or blood or stone. It should feel painful to read. It should be a cursed artifact. each of these narratives can be stored in the /theme-analysis/narratives/ directory, and the narrative.lua script can be called from /theme-analysis/analyze.lua. This narrative script will indeed call into analyze as well, essentially as a reciprocal dependency. Instead of analyzing for word-cloud purposes, as /theme-analysis/analyze.lua is currently doing, it would have it's own slightly tailored processes for extracting a narrative from a series of short, segmented and semipseudo disconnected series of poems.  [the ai says yes]
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 @user-8 I love theory too! So far software engineering has been mostly UI and
 databases and such and like... I'm not into HTML, thank you very much.
 
 Gimme a Rust project or something and I'll excel
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 In 2025, if you want to create a piece of software your options are to either:
 devote your life to it, or use AI to build a semi-working prototype that you
 can use to pitch your idea to a bunch of people who have devoted their lives
 to learning how to use your idea as documentation while they build it from
 scratch, throwing out most of the code but keeping all the checklists and
 progress-trackers you built along the way, perhaps even utilizing some of your
 tooling that you used while constructing the scaffolding of this monstrous
 application that you won't be using most of the source-code for.
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 currently on turbo mode trying to "find myself" because I figure I might not
 get a chance next year, so... whatever, right?
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 warning, possible psycherwaul on the horizon.
 
 ========= stack overflow =========
 
 the straight lines are the tangent lines to the curves in a higher dimension.
 if you have a way to calculate backwards from this type of tangent line to the
 values of the equation, you can theoretically calculate any prime number. with
 a simple equation.
 
 well, I say simple, but that's only because I haven't written it yet. I can't
 even pass calc 1. I'm too generalized I can't complete any task, only apply
 myself to strange ones. Hence why capitalism optimizes away from me, and
 toward people who can get degrees. T.T
 
 https://www.desmos.com/calculator/mt6hasfcvm
 
 "what the heck that's a lot of traffic going to this one website, what's up
 with that? hmmm interesting we need a
 
 ================= stack overflow =
 
 "dark physics" wild, what a coincidence what a flurry, weird how it all feels
 so happenstance
 
 interesting that there'd be a theory, a coincidence and a [mirri? strange]
 
 well, it's probably n
mathematical graph showing several results plotted on a two dimensional field/plain.  there are two types of patterns shown to be occurring with a simple algorithm (pattern for application of numbers toward a pre-defined desired result [approach])  see second picture for equations  the first type of equation is a series of straight lines angled out from a central radial point. They create a cone outward from the origin with gaps between them with increasing density as approaching the floor.  the second type is a smooth arcing projection, like the rippling radiations of the gravity waves of a planet as it courses through space, or perhaps the bending and weaving of a river as it traverses first this way then that.  alternatively, they show a cross-section of a 3 dimensional bundle of fabric folded over itself with a certain rotational pattern that it moves. like the mouth of a clam, except pointed outward rather than in one direction (away from the pearl (or black hole) of the clam  it's quite possible that nothing really happened on the moon before man. Perhaps it's just a rock floating in orbit. Or perhaps it deserves our respect and our trust, our honest comportment.  ... this isn't about the moon, though.  right so this graph is a description of why we need two dimensional numbers. We technically already have them too, some people call them "imaginary" numbers or "lateral" numbers but they're there, they make sense. Why not more? It's just a construct, nothing more.  okay. ah nuts well anyway here's the equations:  y equals x divided by one point five y equals x divided by three point five y equals x divided by five point five y equals x divived by seven point five y equals nine divided by seven point five y equals eleven divided by point five  (you should be able to notice the pattern by now)  the second type of equation is this:  y equals x where x is greater than two, according to this equation: negative sign multiplied by pie times x divided by two multiplied by two  and then a copy of that previous equation, except with 3 instead of 2, then 5, then 7, then 11, then 13, etc. a self propagating algorithm.  ... anyway it's designed to show where the next prime number is. if you look at the graph every number is hit by the algorithm *except* the prime numbers. which is a new one is started.  so, the beginning of the equations begin with 2, because 1 is the first prime number. it's the first number there ever can be, of course it's prime.  next we start a line with two. the next number. the one that comes after the first. it starts a new equation, something rhythmic and predictable, which I've decided to be negative sign of pie x over two. then I multiply that whole thing by two, because it makes the image look cooler.  also by the way, regular sign instead of negative sign also works. so does anything cyclical and rhythmic with these types of behaviors, like cosign or whatever.  oh yeah, tangent lines should travel through an arc on the curve,
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 The most important programming language to master is pseudocode.
 
 With a firm grasp of pseudocode in your toolbox, you can solve any problem in
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 I think it's ironic how I ended up posting a "things I almost posted"
 screenshot directory somewhere other than where I almost posted them.
 
 and all they saw were the outtakes.
 
 I bet they'd see a completely different point of me,
 
 but they never talk to me
 
 so they don't know me.
 
 oh well, alas, it's fine I'm sure I'm being designed.
 
 who can say, I am but at productive play, please react so I can do ongoing
 story. I learn from each and every encounter I encounterate.
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 @user-1037 
 
 Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)
 
 (i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible
 to not hurt anyone)
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 what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
 status and use it for debug purposes
 
 like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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 yep that's definitely what I'm doing, because I'm a programmer and I like
 touching my computer
diagram of a theoretical technology called "truck with steel plate bolted to the side"  it's usage varies but is depicted as a portable shield to be used in urban warfare.
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 @user-882 
 
 it's a security hole though
 
 yeah... there ya go...
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 @user-1839 
 
 the trick is to just make it and point people toward it as if it's supposed to
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 @user-1725 
 
 LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
 
 What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as
 JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified
 arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more
 functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech
 bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by
 Google or Microsoft.
 
 We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
 suck the creativity out of tech.
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 so... is dynamic typing just automatic typecasting?
 
 #programming
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 I'm a computer programmer. Of course I make abstract art.
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 perhaps that "light touch on reality" is what makes these pieces of art
 resonate with me. I think you're beautiful and have a good heart.
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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 I should not have to follow 16 steps that I don't understand just because you
 decided my system wasn't good enough for me.
a long list of steps in order to update a gentoo system to a new version (not even the newest version, I might add)
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 another day goes by when I haven't done any programming... oh well
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 if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
 radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
 infinitely scale
 
 old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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 I would trust the CIA if they gave me continual access to all surveillance of
 myself
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if you made a program which cycled credentials?
 
 like... "give me a random credential for Zoom" because we share all of our
 digital resources
 
 did you get banned for account sharing? no you didn't because you routed
 through the correct VPN
 
 automagically
 
 [has never had a software job]
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--- #122 messages/891 ---
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 AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
 facts as a human.
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 you shouldn't trust me because I'll let you down.
 
 I would never betray you. But when tasked with my own actions and my own
 agency, I never make the right choice.
 
 Like a rabbit who can always find their way home, I am drawn, almost
 gravitically, to the path before me, a path which seems to avoid anything
 resolute.
 
 alas.
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 I should conjure x11 from source. I bet they have a lot of useful utilitudes
 that I can configure. I wonder if Gentoo can do it for me? nahhhhh I'll just
 write my own script, it'll only take me like a couple hours per piece of
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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 naturally occurring computers would never produce wires, or liquid cooling, or
 anything that ever required any sort of configuration or external
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 @user-1209 
 
 good
 
 judge me
 
 find me just
 
 I accept my fate
 
 whatever it may be
 
 for I trust that which sees;
 
 that which is judging me thus.
 
 may fortune bring my heart forth
 
 displayed for all to see, here is my "me"
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 there comes a point where you can tell yourself "alright, me, no more new
 projects. only working on old ones. just keep adding stuff, pruning stuff
 away. grow your bonsai computer. make it neat. or worse. up to you. see how
 you do."
 
 ... or am I the only one who can't stop conceptualationating?
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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something
 
 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
If you only have arithmetical expressions you can use some properties of arithmetic to compute branching computer code. E.G., if A is either zero or one depending on some previously computed condition, then A times B plus (1-A) times C computes the expression "if A then B else C"
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--- #130 messages/1002 ---
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 In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
 decide you want to.
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 @user-1564 
 
 I love the concept of this! Maybe if HTTP is too complex, you could try
 another simpler server? I don't know the complexity of the programs I use
 every day, but I'm sure there's one that's very simple. Even just a simple IRC
 style chat server that just... sends text from person A to person B depending
 on their username (like a glorified Router or Switch)
 
 Reminded of this video tbh...:
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfTjKwLQxY
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 my friends tell me stories and I build my ideas for relationships based on
 their pain.
 
 I am always haunted by questions they don't want to answer.
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 I'm a helper and everyone wants me to be more agentic but it's like... no... I
 don't wanna...
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 @user-1370 
 
 I love this a lot! I want to put function pointers in a "matrix architecture
 array" and make them point to different functions at different points in the
 program. I bet you could even point them at each other, so like if M and Y
 then point at N, A, Y or something.
 
 this is really cool I like stuff like this tomorrow I'll take pictures of
 something similar I'm working on! I abandoned it tho hehe anyway remind me if
 I forget!!
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 "Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace
 all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with
 several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?"
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 @user-1773 
 
 that point about HTML is soooooo good
 
 like, we could be designing websites like we design video game UIs but instead
 we use React which fills your browser with insecure-by-design javascript
 generated visuals
 
 or, even better, or just use HTML like a config file
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 I exist now at the height of my gluttony.
 
 I need more to be demanded of me.
 
 I am not afraid to ask for help.
 
 I solve other people's problems before my own.
 
 I have very little insight into my habits and patterns.
 
 My memory isn't great, but I recall details that matter.
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 I'm a programmer, but I'm not great at writing code. I mostly use AI to          │
 generate it.                                                                     │
 The "artificial" in AI here refers to the extra levels of capability that are    │
 granted to me by the computer and it's software. I am artificially more          │
 productive because I am using the tools of big tech to create small things. I    │
 am artificially more capable, artificially more intelligent, but it's still my   │
 intelligence - the system would not be useful in someone else's hands. I built   │
 it myself, but I never have to write code myself.                                │
 It's perfect for a witch. I call to the spirit of the machine and it figures     │
 out how to make it so.                                                           │
 [someday, the wizards of ancient lore will be reading through the POSIX          │
 specification trying desperately to understand while the witches burn the        │
 world down in their lust for power and everyone cries and yearns for a better    │
 future where everything was just a bit harder but genies don't go back in        │
 bottles, cassandora and pandasandra cannot relinquish her charge and her         │
 curse.]                                                                          │
 I have a fun cackle~                                                             │
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 @user-1040 
 
 that's by design so they don't hop over to Linux
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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 why would I want other people using my computer? They don't know how to use my
 computer! They might break something or mess something up or automatically
 read/edit my files that are stored in standard locations through the usage of
 a script which automagically scans and ransomwares machines on the internet
 who store their files in specific standardized locations! no thank you.
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this
 format like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing,
 confusing]
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 @user-979 @user-980 
 
 they do it for power.
 
 power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
 evil.
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 @user-1352 
 
 I like that article. I definitely fail to follow some of those principles at
 times, though never all of them at once. I can be better, as all people can.
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 first meme I ever made, way back in the ancient days of advice animals and
 image macros.
Picture is of an old guy on a TV show or something I'm not quite sure. The picture is reversed, such that the person appears to be upside down.  Top text: The temperature... bottom text: ... is too damn high!  original text of the meme format is "The rent is too damn high!" which honestly is a mood
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 it fails after like 15 or 20 scrapes but I think that's just their scraping
 policy. They don't have a robots.txt file that I could find. So... just run
 it, then come back every 15 to 30 minutes and restart it until you're done.
 
 Maybe I could increase the sleep duration? one sec lemme try that
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 users don't want to have to think about encryption keys.
 
 they should be available for them if they need them, in like... a folder or
 something somewhere, but they don't need to really know that they exist.
 
 more friction like that keeps people away from being secure.
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 @user-1064 
 
 Hi, I stumbled across this project recently and I think you might be
 interested if you want to know more about how E-ink works technically. We live
 in the future!
 
 https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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 @user-643 
 
 virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode
 
 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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 how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
 mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))
 
 how it's going: [see attached picture]
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 @user-1582 
 
 I think that's what happened, in addition to... whatever this input/output
 error is. No clue what to do about that. Maybe my SD card is dying, I've
 flashed over it like, 10 times now haha 😅
ls: command not found  /bin/ls -bash: /bin/ls: Input/Output error
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 "okay but what if we made computers simple?"
 
 - someone who doesn't know how computers work
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 @user-95 i've only hung out with a moth once and it was kind of while my cat
 was mauling it, oops... they're very cool though so I picked that one too. Fox
 was my main answer
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 Last night I dreamt of the gravestones that bore their owner's mind.
 
 I dreamt of a life well lived, and how it was taken from them.
 
 [something more that I forgot because I don't have a prophecy transcriber]
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 I really do believe that you can write any computer program you'd like with a
 combination of Lua, Bash, and C.
 
 Bash to start the program and enable updates / configuration, Lua to handle
 the scripting and ordering of events, and C (or Rust) to execute performance
 intensive sections. (often in their own threads)
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 @user-1218 
 
 there's only a password so that if the zip archive is displaced from it's
 context it's harder to read.
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 @user-579 
 
 it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?
 
 ... right?
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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 @user-1218 
 
 my ex boyfriend told me to
 
 also I thought it would be a good idea so I could find a job, but now I have
 one (sorta) soooo
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 @user-89 hence why it shut down, I guess
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 So you're telling me the speed difference between Python and C is due not to
 the logic that the programmer uses, but rather the optimization capabilities
 of the compiler?
 
 (An interpreter includes a compiler, it just runs it in a loop rather than a
 single pass)
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 the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
 lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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 I'm the kind of switch that likes to outmaneuver their foes while subbing and
 directly control everything when I'm domming
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 @user-883 @user-192 
 
 I don't update my kernel more than like, once every few months, so maybe that
 would be something to look into! how scriptable is it?
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 if you want to store something in RAM, declare a variable.
 
 if you want to store something on DISK, create a file with the value of the
 variable as the only data in it.
 
 kinda makes me wish we had language primitives like +-*/=! and such which
 would work on files in addition to variables
 
 (also... the editor could keep RAM and HDD variables separate by giving each
 of them a different color or circle highlight surrounding them)
 
 --
 
 I don't know why but I can't help but wonder if someone should design a
 programming language that can be used with a controller
 
 perhaps for accessibility purposes?
 
 I once designed one to use a t9 keyboard and it was fully turing complete. it
 used 4 digit numbers for it's variables and you would have to write down what
 they corresponded to outside of the device xD I made it mostly for the thrill
 of design, and plus I wanted to use my flip-phone as much as I could.
 
 ... never got around to implementing it though.
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 I can always tell when people who believe in me start thinking of me because I
 start feeling the urge to do pushups
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 I want to write C programs with threads and manual memory management and
 function pointers and lots and lots of arrays and I'm not even kidding
 
 ... wait a minute I literally don't have a job, why am I not writing C
 programs right now?
 
 BRB I got something important to do, where's my vodka --> pkill firefox
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 how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
 are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
 html?
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 "don't tell a local cached offline LLM what you're looking into, instead tell
 it to Google or Firefox instead."
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 you can't rely on me because I can't rely on a part of me being "out" at any
 particular moment-event-message.
 
 besides, I'm always tired, because I'm always trying as hard as I can.
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 I once heard that time doesn't pass when you're well and truly in the moment,
 and I thought "that's not true, I'm always losing track of the moment".
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 @user-246 
 
 Yeah plus the second time around you're likely to make something better than
 whatever incomprehensible hack you did the first time.
 
 More time working on the project == more context which means you might even
 have solved the problem twice already and now just have to copy-paste
 something that's more robust than your previous one-liner.
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 low key kinda surprised they haven't made an animated robot friend that
 narrates whatever chatGPT says in a back-and-forth conversation.
 
 though I kinda get why, because setting up the context is the expensive part
 and generating 100 words and generating 1000 words is basically the same
 computationally.
 
 somehow, that doesn't feel very human. Maybe, just maybe, LLMs aren't
 intelligent?
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 @user-203 
 
 I've been trying to get it to work with raylib but I'm having difficulties
 with the C interoperability T.T
 
 https://www.raylib.com
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 @user-192 
 
 It's totally simple! It's just structs, void pointers, function pointers,
 arrays, mallocs, and oh boy I think I see what you mean
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 I am not asleep. But you cannot expect a strategist to act based on
 information she doesn't have.
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 @user-1716 
 
 there's already a web browser named surf 🙃 it's much more minimal than this
 one tho
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 @user-192 
 
 yeeeesh that sounds like a hornets nest. impossible to untangle, like a rats
 nest! I prefer my homes like a robin's nest, neat, orderly, and made to design.
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 @user-1268 
 
 if you know how to program in C this is a good resource for building
 networking applications:
 
 https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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 It's obfuscated, such that you cannot know the totality of their purpose for
 you (via your data)
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 @user-570 
 
 I've messed around with Bevy and the library most similar in C is Raylib. in
 Lua it'd be Love2D I think.
 
 I love the idea of those systems. I haven't built a full game using them but I
 can conceptualize operations within them easier using a framework like that
 versus a game engine like Godot.
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 I'd like to apologize to everyone I've ever interacted with in the past. It
 was unfair of me to interact with you, and I will do my best to not hurt you
 again in that way.
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 @user-883 
 
 Hell yeah. I can't help but wonder if there's a more universal solution on the
 horizon that will work for every game, using idk a raspberry pi zero or
 something? I'm into hardware but not that much so forgive my insolence. Seeing
 these purpose-built PCBs applied toward historical preservation and
 utilization of forward thinking retro gaming technology fills my heart with
 joy.
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't
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 I always get the syntax backwards, for some reason...
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 @user-1071 
 
 hehe it was my favorite job I've ever had
 
 downside is... it was hard to get to work every day. I'm not built for
 long-term dedicated labor. Maybe I should freelance? idk where to even begin
 with that, though.
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 does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
 isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
 like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
 is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
 courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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 "Alright I'm not great with syntax so I'm going to write it in pseudocode
 first, and then if you'd like I can show you how I work through implementing
 the syntax.
 
 But first - do you want a robust solution, a quick solution, or a rapidly
 deployed and cheap solution?"
 
 using this trick you can pretend to be competent in any programming language,
 except maybe ancient ones like Fortran or strange ones like lisps or Haskell
 
 if they ask you to use a framework or something tho you're kinda boned because
 you need to know which functions to call and how to initialize context and
 such. When using a framework, the boilerplate is the code, which is why
 frameworks suck
 
 "don't call yourself a programmer" fuck off
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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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 @user-95 I suppose that's true. The problem of attention is one of the hardest
 problems to solve. : )
 
 "what will I do with my time" is quite possibly one of the most fundamental
 ethical decisions one can ever make. And though solving scientific puzzles is
 fascinating and can unlock cosmic new technologies, sometimes the most
 important thing is to be here in the "now" now, where everything makes perfect
 sense.
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 I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
 wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
 rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
 perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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 @user-246 
 
 I am the infohazard but I have that "automatically expand CW" post marked off.
 I like to click them each time, and with CWs it makes it easier to scroll back
 a couple months to find what you're looking for.
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 @user-192 
 
 I'm gonna make some right now : )
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 ... zzz ZZZ zzz ...
 
 if sleep won't come I'll write down the thoughts that are keeping me up. that
 usually makes it easier.
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  true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
  that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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 what kind of linux user are you if you don't even like reading terminal
 output? it's USEFUL and INTERESTING information!
 
 WHY ELSE WOULD THE PROGRAMMER OUTPUT IT???
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