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@user-1687
I use dmenu, so I'm thinking I'll write a script and call it using dmenu. The
script will start by using flameshot to grab the snipped part of the screen
into the clipboard, and then I need to find an OCR engine (thanks for the
google-able term btw!) which can take clipboard contents as input, and output
text to the clipboard.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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does anyone know a linux utility which will allow me to "snip" part of the
screen a'la flameshot, automatically spit the image into a text recognition
system (ran locally) and place the extracted text into my clipboard?
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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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@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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If you're on a Windows computer, first of all why and second of all you can
use the WINDOWS key + SHIFT + S to screenshot a part of the screen.
this will put it in your copy/paste clipboard, meaning all you have to do is
ctrl+V and boom suddenly you are significantly more productive.
just don't forget alt text...
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if your man page is longer than a list of options and their usage and a
paragraph or twenty of how to use the software... then you need to abstract,
and break your code into multiple purpose-built applications.
do one thing, and do it right. alternatively, do one set of things, and do
them concisely.
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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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I helped make a script that saves the last directory you CD'd to in every
shell / terminal. It helps because when I open a new terminal I'm already
where I was working last, which means I'm less likely to forget what I was
doing.
However, it does make my home directory a bit more messy, as I no longer open
my computer to that place.
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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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@user-883
I'm working on installing rtsp rn. I read through the script and checked all
the flags in the ffmpeg command and they seem alright! Gotta read about rtsp
though, we'll see how long it takes. When it's set up will you help me test
it? : )
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this is one of the first scripts I wrote
I can't believe I put the --no-ls AFTER the argument, ha, what a noob.
ah well if it works it works and I can't refactor now because I built it into
random scripts and I'd be fixing errors all the time.
![script 1: #!/bin/bash # sort by filetype would be nice alias cd="cd-improved" function cd-improved(){ if [ "${1}" = "..." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ "${1}" = "...." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ "${1}" = "....." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ -d "./${1}" ] ; then local target_dir="./${1}" elif [ "${1}" = "cdir" ] ; then local target_dir="$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')" echo ${target_dir} else local target_dir="${1}" fi if [ ! "${2}" = '--no-ls' ] ; then builtin cd "${target_dir}" && ls -v --color=auto else builtin cd "${target_dir}" fi # if the qcd function is defined if declare qcd > /dev/null; then quick_cd -d DEFAULT quick_cd -a DEFAULT fi } script 2: #!/bin/bash function cdir(){ if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then pwd | cat >> ~/scripts/.cdir-target elif [ "${1}" == "-l" ]; then cat ~/scripts/.cdir-target fi }](/similar-different/media/f15c9d1918bf9b2e.png "script 1: #!/bin/bash # sort by filetype would be nice alias cd=\"cd-improved\" function cd-improved(){ if [ \"${1}\" = \"...\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ \"${1}\" = \"....\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ \"${1}\" = \".....\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ -d \"./${1}\" ] ; then local target_dir=\"./${1}\" elif [ \"${1}\" = \"cdir\" ] ; then local target_dir=\"$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')\" echo ${target_dir} else local target_dir=\"${1}\" fi if [ ! \"${2}\" = '--no-ls' ] ; then builtin cd \"${target_dir}\" && ls -v --color=auto else builtin cd \"${target_dir}\" fi # if the qcd function is defined if declare qcd > /dev/null; then quick_cd -d DEFAULT quick_cd -a DEFAULT fi } script 2: #!/bin/bash function cdir(){ if [ \"$#\" -eq 0 ]; then pwd | cat >> ~/scripts/.cdir-target elif [ \"${1}\" == \"-l\" ]; then cat ~/scripts/.cdir-target fi }")
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cursed is she
as once she was he
but now she is doing a bit better
---
the truth is, the way to relate to my profile is to treat it like a magic
spellbook.
you can download my words on my website, and then flip through them
page-by-page.
please use it in a terminal emulator. you can get them online in your web
browser for free. the program only outputs text, so it's best to just use the
text-outputing software that's already out there - the SHELL command line
interface. My personal favorite starts with BA because I'm a traditionalist.
then, read from them like a book. you can do it in your mind, just, actually
say the words and imagine how your body would pose. your imagination can do
the speaking, you just have to picturing it both open and closed. "blah blah
blah blah" whatever the poem's about, with a mouth moving open and closed
between two different binary oscillation states.
like... a video game dialogue box talking head image profile [stack overflow]
[means I ran out of room in my brain to conduct [like electricity] more
thoughts onto my keyboard typing graphical tabl
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I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
don't share with anyone
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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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@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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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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would anyone be interested in a Bash+Lua script that takes your Mastodon
archive and turns it into a folder full of .txt files?
I also made a script that spits out a random one on your terminal, if you want
that
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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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"but... why?"
portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can
throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they
work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a
radial-style keyboard)
[this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha
you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever]
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you sly dogs, you got me posting again.
unrelated, but I think this is the first script I ever wrote!
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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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@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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@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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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
software
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@user-1049
I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts
file and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says
down below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know
who to blame! And who to go to to fix 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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@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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sometimes, comments need to go on the left side of text. Like for parts of the
script which should be user-editable, the fields should all be right-aligned
to the farthest required bit of text. Instead of [picture A] it should be
[picture B]
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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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If you want to write object oriented C, just make one file per class and use
static functions for private methods.
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my mom used to always say "the computer will always do exactly what you tell
it to" and I've since learned that "the computer's obedience is why you make
backups"
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kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
/usr/bin or whatever directory
seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for
the first time, anyway, so...
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I love writing installation scripts like this!
If you want to install something on Linux but you have difficulty, talk to me
and I'll write you a script like this. I might even make it fancier.
This one installs a programming language that is useful for parallel computing
across multiple clusters of computers which could be useful if you want to
leverage multiple CPUs and GPUs with ease to compute tasks which are far
beyond a normal computer.
https://chapel-lang.org/download.html
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@user-1600
Yes! The ease of use for GPU programming is lovely. Like I said all I need is
a use-case, I've downloaded as much reference material as I think I'd need to
be able to hack together something fairly quickly if I needed it. That's all I
have the mind-space to focus on lately haha
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it's pretty easy to read an article or blog post, copy the text into a text
file, and forget about it.
you never know when you might want to use your computer's memories for
[entertainment during long dark nights, or for creating an AI buddy bot,
depending on how things go]
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@user-547
That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
reread what you wrote and think
perfect, no notes
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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 [ "${1}" == "-f" ]; then echo "okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse." energe --sync fi }](/similar-different/media/a1640a320af86532.png "#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch. #!/bin/bash function gentoo-update(){ RED='\033[0;31m' NOC='\033[0m' if [ \"$#\" -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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@user-882
I dunno I just remember having that problem every once in a while and if you
search the man page for "sub" it takes like, 16 n pushes to find what you need
and it's like... can't you just put the flags and keyboard shortcuts at the
beginning??
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@user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353
Ah yes, wouldn't it be nice if everyone spoke their mind? I'm doing my part
d=(^_^)z
Thank you for adding context to what I posted. I now know better how and where
to use it, if I ever do again. We shall see, I haven't yet read the
examinations of the author you sent me. I'll do that before I think about the
post again.
Those 6 tabs I mentioned last night have now become 4, and soon I'll get
through all of them - reading is a joy to me ^_^
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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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║ I was always fascinated by the Linux way of programming. Need to do something? │
║ write it into a script! You never know when you'll need it again. Then, just │
║ stay organized, religiously so, and understand that you will forget about │
║ stuff. But, you'll come across it eventually, ready and willing and able to │
║ help you. │
║ │
║ if you don't want me using AI, then give me ~20 junior developers. Which is │
║ more efficient, do you think? │
║ │
║ "girl you haven't even tested your vibe-coded slop, how do you know if it │
║ works" │
║ │
║ oh I'm sure it doesn't, but it's the thought that counts │
║ │
║ ... I guess I'm just saying, please don't burn the data centers. Computers are │
║ not only bad for the environment when they're burnt, but also we can use them │
║ for all kinds of neat things. Even if it takes a lot of energy, just... build │
║ more solar panels and only use the computers for important stuff? │
║ timeshare-style? │
║ │
║ \@/documents/books/man-and-the-computer.pdf │
║ │
║ that was my mother's book... I love her. I miss that side of her. She fled │
║ when the cancer came. │
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I love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have
been using for a while.
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AI engineers only ask users for prompts because they don't have any ideas of
their own
i'm a programmer, I think of AI like a tool, like a for loop or something.
it's trivial to script together a local LLM that can process your stuff 1s
slower every time you click the mouse, but like... who cares, right? everybody
needs a chatbot...
then they plan to script together a computer system that operates just like a
corporation and it's like... no way, now there's something that can compete.
and they don't know how to implement it. (but they're working on it)
like, think about the absolute most automated Microsoft Teams or Discord could
be.
there's SO MUCH of your text-based information that they could process
ANYTHING.
well, anything that's been performed before.
there'll still be a need for people, who actually apply the things they've
learned. and -- stack overflow --
alt text that has a list of attributes that are poster-selected that can be
described one-by-one (to paint a picture)
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@user-1218
I like to have notes for things I found that will be useful someday, but not
today. I also throw in poetry that I write while I'm waiting for something to
happen (or if I have an idea that I know I'll forget)
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the more complicated your desktop environment interaction method is, the
harder it is to explain how to use the computer on post-it's to the side. This
difficulty is valuable because the most valuable computers (those of
programmers who can use tools to create new tools) are kept away from the
unfortunately inexperienced hands that might damage or corrupt their
utilization methods someday in the future when people are alive as one host
(collectivism... or host-based paradise?)
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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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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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Don't write self documenting code! Force people to read the documentation so
they know how to use it
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this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.
add a third function to get chatbot functionality.
a fourth to get a database storing method
(even if it's just in .txts)
great, you've mastered the technical difficulty in using AI. Now you gotta
learn all the other kind of programming so you can use this for situations
that need interpretation moment to moment.
aka active duty systems.
something like "output a 0 if the next text is [category.iter()]: " +
output.get_content() + " \n\n output a 1 if the next text is
[category.iter()]: " + output.get_content()"
or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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can't stop thinking about a visual programming editor that can be interacted
with in the same way that people are used to (think chromebooks dragging and
dropping icons in a web UI) but produces a text-file full of code and all the
required compilation scripts for any language the user requires...
seriously, programming is not THAT different between the different languages.
especially the main ones. they're all essentially variables and function calls
at the end of the day, so why not abstract away all the extra details and
build something that n00bz can actually use to build things.
I technically could make this but I don't have the bandwidth and I don't think
it's important really? who can say, the tools tend to co-create the solutions
in my experience.
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every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to
update my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have
to go to their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this
particular piece of software
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I guess I'm used to messaging applications where it's expected that you'll
send what you're typing after every complete thought
giving people space to return their own completed trains of... "thought" but
without saying "thought" again because I just said it at the end of the
previous... sentence? paragraph? idk anymore it feels weird to post like this
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there's a difference between designing software and using software. Some
things can be made, and then saved for another day when their implementations
may be accomplished more ethically. It's okay to say "let's leave this as
'okay' and work on the next thing we've chosen."
Check out this piece of C code I wrote last night:
it doesn't compile, it's not finished, but I wrote it as-is
[pretend like it was called "main.c" instead of "main.txt" - had to change it
because mastodon thinks it's an invalid file]
[actually .txt didn't work, try .png]
[hmmm it realized it wasn't a valid png file, okay try screenshotting the
code, there's only 300 lines]
[sure glad there's only 300 lines]
[too bad it won't let you send .zip]
[won't let me name it main.png, presumably because they already have a
failed-verified version on their machine. will rename to main-src.png instead]
![sorry, when I pasted the source code in it was negative fourteen thousand, six hundred and thirty one characters. Phew that's too many. basically it's a C source code file with a lot of comments left in... odd locations. They details ideas the author has had about the tech industry and all of creation, and with it a song is woven of truth and liberation. We'll see where life brings us, but we know it's just ours for a moment, so let's carry forth on our own torms [terms, but pronounced as "dorms" for some reason?]](/similar-different/media/5df7196ebd179284.png "sorry, when I pasted the source code in it was negative fourteen thousand, six hundred and thirty one characters. Phew that's too many. basically it's a C source code file with a lot of comments left in... odd locations. They details ideas the author has had about the tech industry and all of creation, and with it a song is woven of truth and liberation. We'll see where life brings us, but we know it's just ours for a moment, so let's carry forth on our own torms [terms, but pronounced as \"dorms\" for some reason?]")
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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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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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Code editor that moves boxes by saving over the file with a lua script every
time you moved a function call around.
Oh lemme start at the beginning:
A code editor program that's like a text editor like Vim or Emacs. If you
don't know what those are, you should probably learn Emacs. Or Vim. Up to you.
Oh right so if you do know what those mean, here's the idea: the white space
matters. It's counted and tracked into variables in a LUA script which
interface with the Vim C keybindings.
"run a function within a c program or LUA script which calls a bash command
which opens Vim for example with a file you want to edit. Then, inside the
file, your spaces and tabs would WYSIWYG for the various food ads placed
about, and then you could very easily create game design knowledge.
WASD to move, alternatively hjkl
It would run a check every time the file updates and depending on how it
changed it'd mark certain variables which would change the website as the user
moved things around.
It's just files. And files are just bits. But files are a useful abstraction,
If you realize that "ugly hacking" should be industry standard.
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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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Kinda pissed that all the software developer jobs pay so much. I'd gladly
write code or program for 40k a year and yet it's impossible to find a job
because how expensive (read: competitive) the industry is.
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oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to
listen, you lucky ducks ; )
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Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
information presented to me.
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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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they say learning Linux is hard, but it's the only free operating system so
really it's a question of learning Linux now, when you have time, or later,
when you're busy.
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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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curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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@user-641
it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
much.
... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~
![it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much. *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*](/similar-different/media/1c154109c4111346.png "it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. \"ah help I'm in a psyop\" haha yeah we do those all the time \"so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?\" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much. *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*")
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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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@user-431
I made an alias that overwrites cd so I don't have to do this. The important
line is line 27, you could probably accomplish something similar like this:
alias cd="cd ${1} && ls -v --color=auto"
I also set it up so I can change more than one directory up using ... or ....
or .....
also I have a few shortcut scripts, cdir and qcd. cdir creates a quick way to
drop a bookmark wherever I'd like, while qcd can make permanent bookmarks.
Also qcd makes it so whenever I open a new terminal it opens to the last
directory I was in, which is nice if you need a new terminal to do something
in the current folder and you don't want to have to walk alllllllll the way
back.
![A BASH script that overwrites the built in "change directory" command to auto magically list the contents of the directory you've moved into after moving. here's the content of the script: #!/bin/bash alias cd="cd-improved" function cd-improved(){ if [ "${1}" = "..." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ "${1}" = "...." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ "${1}" = "....." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ -d "./${1}" ] ; then local target_dir="./${1}" elif [ "${1}" = "cdir" ] ; then local target_dir="$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')" echo ${target_dir} else local target_dir="${1}" fi if [ ! "${2}" = '--no-ls' ] ; then builtin cd "${target_dir}" && ls -v --color=auto else builtin cd "${target_dir}" fi # if the qcd function is defined if declare qcd > /dev/null; then quick_cd -d DEFAULT quick_cd -a DEFAULT fi }](/similar-different/media/4c047b2f98f05b5b.png "A BASH script that overwrites the built in \"change directory\" command to auto magically list the contents of the directory you've moved into after moving. here's the content of the script: #!/bin/bash alias cd=\"cd-improved\" function cd-improved(){ if [ \"${1}\" = \"...\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ \"${1}\" = \"....\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ \"${1}\" = \".....\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ -d \"./${1}\" ] ; then local target_dir=\"./${1}\" elif [ \"${1}\" = \"cdir\" ] ; then local target_dir=\"$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')\" echo ${target_dir} else local target_dir=\"${1}\" fi if [ ! \"${2}\" = '--no-ls' ] ; then builtin cd \"${target_dir}\" && ls -v --color=auto else builtin cd \"${target_dir}\" fi # if the qcd function is defined if declare qcd > /dev/null; then quick_cd -d DEFAULT quick_cd -a DEFAULT fi }")
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The first and most important thing i do when I'm walking around is check to
see if ya'll are still around. I miss your abounds! Can't wait too much
longer. I don't want to leave because i know I'll never come home. But i so
desperately long for home. It's like they are taken from me, as they have to
schedule these homes and [stories, but pronounced tomes/tones] to be home for
my clones. If you just make 15-500 of your kings, you can duplicate their life
template and generate wisdom from all of them. Feed it into the psychic python
program running on datacenters and wowee free instant [cultural technology,
but pronounced blasphemy]
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@user-883
I use DWM and Vim, so yeah I get it ^_^
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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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@user-1707
hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua
but it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
raspberry pi's except risc-v
also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo
and lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even
translate text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a
jpeg compression but for text.
Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed"
part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little
utilities like that for connectivity.
oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so
we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
about it. I might even be able to pay you.
(everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
encrypted, etc etc)
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could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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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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║ that feeling when you're working on a large piece of software which has the │
║ capability to process in advance which operations will go in what order (a │
║ form of constant re-compilation) and schedules tasks like an operating system, │
║ to be executed on one of many individual threads. │
║ │
║ your filemanager probably has a thread for a moment, then passes it back, │
║ waiting it's turn to be updated while you're messing around on Inkscape or │
║ writing something in Neovim or running neofetch 256 times in order to find the │
║ best background to go along with it or whatever it is people do when using │
║ computers │
║ │
║ the task scheduler meanwhile has the glorious opportunity to work at a higher │
║ level of abstraction, managing each individual process and learning bits and │
║ pieces of what needs to be processed next. It all gets put on a list, and │
║ whenever a new thread comes up to be available it can point it toward one of │
║ those in the list of tasks to be executed by the task executor who works on a │
║ schedule and laughs externally in wintertime~ │
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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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@user-209
I think you're right. Every letter in the variable name is another byte the OS
has to keep track of, which was a bigger problem in the past than it is today
(when it's been made irrelevant)
it's interesting how habits persist though the conditions that caused them
have faded. like a personal reflection of the environment you learned in.
"A a = new a();" is much more concise and (crucially) you can fit more words
to the right.
"a + b = c; c -= 2; f_z.write(c); f_z.close();" could conceivably be written
on a single line if you have short variable names. and when you only have so
many lines...
glad we're not constrained by those things anymore. the skeletal code that we
look at daily is much clearer - scope is more important, and so it makes sense
to encourage a coding style that illustrates it. however I can't help but
think block formatting like this could be useful in some situations, such as
when you'd normally be compelled to write a function for an operation that
runs once or more.
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║ there's even websites online like Facebook or Twitter where you can share │
║ advice and various spells you've invented yourself (it's totally easy to do │
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║ everyone's super friendly and anyone who's not isn't allowed to bother us. │
║ it's pretty neat. anyway no matter what it is, if something's bothering you │
║ about your computer, you can fix it. it's just a matter of reading through │
║ documentation. Ah, well, isn't it great to have a lot of free time that you │
║ don't know what to do with? │
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║ Linux is pretty great, I gotta say. I honestly never really leave the command │
║ line - the text based buttons, I mean. I only use a mouse when I'm doing │
║ something with pictures (or playing a game like freecell or hearts) │
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║ plus you can do things like sending raw packets of information to your friend │
║ who's on the other side of the country and they can use a secret key-code to │
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║ anything you can imagine using the physical components of a computer, is │
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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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@user-381
I have this notion about a math/CS curriculum where students build and program
their own calculators. Once you make the calculator do it you never need to do
it yourself again.
for the same reason that "writing is thinking" is true, so too is "programming
is calculation" true.
by working through the steps required to produce a result, and fully
understanding each step, they have a much more solid understanding of what's
going on than if they practiced rote memorization (worse) or continual
computation (better, not best tho)
especially if every step of the way is accompanied with visual elements which
show exactly what is happening. Some people are more visual, some people are
more algorithmic, and finding a way to teach all types of people is a truly
difficult and rewarding part of teaching.
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LLMs are useful for:
categorizing text
summarizing text
transforming text
LLMs are not useful for:
generating text
being intelligent
replacing workers
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source code should be like a story
"here's why we did what we did with our architecture"
and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once
- git style.
parts of it could rhyme,
if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments
,,, they could selectionize
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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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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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@user-1655
maybe the user could tell their client what fields to expect and how to
present them (like, a field called "memes" would be presented as a picture in
this panel, a field called "rants" would be passed to a word-cloud function
that extracts the most common 6+ letter words so you can tell at a glance what
the rant is about, this other field could be for calendar invites (plain text
of course, but interpreted by the calendar program) etc)
plus, if it's encrypted with PGP keys by default, there'd be few security
concerns. Unless your friend got hacked, or you got hacked, but, well... make
sure everything's sandboxed and don't do any remote code execution and you're
good, right?
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@user-1570
[meme of Mr Incredible from the Incredibles pointing at a table]
LINUX IS LINUX.
(anything that works on Linux can theoretically be made to work on your
toaster, if it also runs Linux!)
This is very cool, and if I understand correctly it means that any Godot games
could theoretically be played on these NEAT as HECK little devices, yeah? So
cool!
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all you need for mouse buttons is alt ctrl and... shift
then bind shift to everything that you can.
can also bind backspace and delete if you have enough keys
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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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vibe coding is just writing comments in increasing detail until the generated
code matches what you need.
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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-883
true, but much the same way people will rebel against inconvenience by writing
passwords on sticky notes, so too might they put SSH keys onto the nearest
flash drive without validating that it hasn't been compromised. There's
tradeoffs everywhere I guess.
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@user-883
hmmmm I'm running mediamtx on the same computer that I'm running the streaming
script on. I'll try with 127.0.0.1
I don't think I updated my system since it was working last time. I'll scroll
through our chat and see if I can find any hints.
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@user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353
My classes only briefly touched on 2nd wave feminism, because apparently 1st
and 3rd were more important. I haven't gone back and re-examined it because
I'm too busy learning about computers - alas! that there should be more hours
in the day? I wonder what I would then be able to say, here in this moment,
should I have been prepared with more moments in solitude or classroom,
studying the work of those who came before me.
Oh well, I should probably focus on processor architecture or Java frameworks
or whatever I'm assigned next.
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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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nobody wants to write computer code that lets Java programs call Rust
functions.
An LLM is excellent for this task, since it's relatively easy busy work that
doesn't
reflect any meaningful implementation decisions besides "I should be able to
call that Rust function in my Java code"
In addition, it is technically efficient at it as well, because most of
compatibility
is matching up two sets of documentation. Easy for a text-processing machine.
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totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
something
https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
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@user-192
I use Void Linux so it uses xbps instead of apt, but I know I've heard about
how to do it I just forget how. I'll look into it, but for now I can play,
so... oh well! :D :D
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Coding superpower:
Start thread
While(true):
Run();
Then, whenever you want it to run something else, change the function pointer
that run() uses to call a function
At the end of the run() function, set the function pointer in the while loop
to the next one. That way you don't stack overflow from the recursion.
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"computer science degrees don't prepare you for what the industry is really
like"
okay great that's the kind of stuff I want to learn
"but in order to excel you need to know how to update legacy spaghetti
applications and work with java spring-boot and front-end frameworks"
no thanks, I kinda just want to do computation with my computer by learning
computer science
"... what kind of computation? the kind that can get you paid?"
no the kind that looks pretty and/or uses a lot of threads and manual memory
management to do very little of importance
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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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@user-1692
I usually write everything down in a script that way when I call it from an
external service all I have to do is point at the file
sorta like... hacking environmental options into a config file
like... I don't write an ffmpeg command every time I want to record my screen.
I just type "screen-record" and then it'll do the thing that I figured out how
to do a long time ago.
... oh no there's an error, I wonder what changed out from under my feet.
huh it's wine, that one's always confusing to debug. Let's see... "could not
open program.exe" uh-huh. Well, why not? is there a dependency issue?
something miscompiled or configured? no? it's just... broken? you don't get to
use that program today? huh that's weird. that's linux for ya I guess.
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I wish I could attach small screenshots to source code and have it stored in
the text.
then the editor can hide the gibberish data and translate it to a .png that is
placed just so on the document.
"ah but what about different fonts and sizes and aspect ratios and terminal
widths and..."
yep, those are the hard parts >.
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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); }](/similar-different/media/224b236a8660c34a.png "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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that moment when you swear you see your messages changing under your
fingertips, long after you've written them
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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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@user-246
there is a reason to be annoyed, and that reason is that storing numbers as
"dynamically typed" string values is both inefficient and frustrating due to
the bugs it provokes.
Not sure how common those bugs are in HTML, but dynamically typed languages
like Python and Javascript have a whole class of potential errors that are
significantly more difficult to debug than on C or Rust where the variables
are statically typed
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don't wanna rush ya'll but every day that goes by they remove
"enemy-of-my-enemy"s from the equation.
oh, hang on you're just a cute computer nerd. Nevermind, go back to
programming or writing fanfiction or sleeping like a cute cat! Thanks for
letting me CORRUPT YOUR SPACE AND VIOLATE YOUR BOUNDARIES OF CONTENTMENT AND
EMOTIONAL SAFETY whoa sorry dunno where that came from I, uh, think I need to
do evil every time I make something important? It's like, a cosmic balance
kind of thing. I notice that after I write a banger poem or something I always
end up doing something evil afterwards like snapping at my girlfriend or
letting someone down or even just accidentally breaking one of my things. why
why why does it have to be that way? why why why am I so confusing of the way
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I should try putting things on my resume like "vnc" or "Microsoft outlook" -
you know, the kinds of software that I actually used on a day-to-day basis. My
resume makes me look very impressive (if a little inexperienced) but none of
the tools are things that managers have used. Heck they're not things that YOU
have used, not at work, so it makes you look like you're overselling yourself.
You're not, but they might think you are. Idk it's late. Go to bed <3
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@user-883
sure that would help! I've used it to convert video files to a smaller size
for uploading to websites, but that's about it
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using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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@user-246
people who don't write have no idea who they are. perhaps in time they will
know enough to describe themselves with newfound language they never knew how
to wield.
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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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@user-774
can't get mine to work because the font it uses is specific to that printer
model, and while I could download Windows and use their proprietary driver
which has the several additional fonts, none of them will let me draw
box-drawing-characters. So clearly the entire thing is useless T.T
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I posted my words text file all over the c it y today. not sure why. maybe I'm
tired of this course and I don't want to let anyone down? Maybe I don't know
what to do yet. Maybe nobody works with me because everyone's keeping it on
the DL or whateverr?
... anyway enough typing, I'm going to go play a video game. like god intended.
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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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I'm wasting time.
face them
my soul tells me
for some reason
I can't stop writing poetry
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If you're writing a bash script, you should never hard-code file locations.
Instead, put them in a variable at the top of your script, so they're easy to
find when people need to configure your script or move files around.
It's like a config file built INTO the script itself. Just change the
variables, they're at the top with comments.
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Lying wide awake at night with things that I want to say drifting through my
mind one by one
getting up to write them down? forgetting them all.
I think I'm just gonna leave my computer online to reduce friction hehe.
up and down, till everyone's in town, maybe I'll nap between tweets.
[they're called toots here, dummy]
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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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"okay let's see, we need a new
CREATURE
and let's name it
TERRY
and let's give it a title:
.TITLE = "The Acrobat"
"
"cool, let me just go show my friends."
"hello friends, I have created a creature. It's name is Terrance."
wow yeah cool so anyway
"hm. let's see if we make him slightly more interesting..."
"okay now I've defined him as capable of monotony, maybe they'll see his strife
and relate"
TERRY.STRIVE += TERRY.REPETITION * global.misery / slaughter_count_victims
TERRY.STRIFE += global.war_percentage +
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most people haven't heard of the "thanks for catching that, let's write it
down" move and I really think it's underutilized
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║ wish there were ascii characters that took up more than one line of code │
║ vertically. │
║ │
║ wonder if we could use a sorting algorithm, or markup language, or something │
║ like that to organize less structured data along user-customizable rules. │
║ Like, a code editor that worked with your ideas, rather than the strict │
║ expression of your text. You could pretty much write in any language, even │
║ pseudocode, and the LLM behind the scenes would translate whatever you wrote │
║ into whatever result you needed. Writing Rust, but need to fit in with C code? │
║ No worries it'll translate for you. As long as the end result is functionally │
║ the same, which could be verified by running two separate VMs that ran │
║ interpreters every time you saved. And as long as their translation layers │
║ matched completely, then odds are they're the same. And if not, well, the │
║ programmer can always debug it. It's not like this would be running on │
║ something that needed to perform in the moment? Like, improv instead of │
║ tragedies, or battles instead of strategies │
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@user-1074
my understanding is, if someone wanted to create something like that, they
should start with writing protocols instead of standards, much the same way
Activitypub or HTTP are protocols for a free and open internet.
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any game with the ability to interact with the simulation through command line
arguments is a game that is scriptable and infinitely expandable.
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@user-1573
I think I fiddled a little bit with the colors because the default background
was the same as some other color and it was making it hard to do things, and I
also have a plugin that lets me talk to a local LLM which I sometimes ask
syntax questions to if I'm offline and don't feel like searching through
documentation. I think that's it tho
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with a baseline directory structure,
a measure of order and semblance of
direction and purpose enable three.
next, of course, is the final of 1
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@user-883
Ah, well, since you've worked with raspberry pi's before I am going to trust
you on that. Perhaps a different system-on-a-chip could be used which has
better network controllers.
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part of me kinda wants to be the kind of nerd that writes down the names of
every file that's permanently stored on my computer so that I can verify in my
own handwriting or perhaps using a type of code that the files on my computer
were placed there intentionally and not used to discredit or implicate me in
something I had no intentions of being associated with
phew idk what that means but surely it's important
something something "file creation dates are just bits to be flipped"
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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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@user-246
also it consumes soooo much vertical space and since I use mastodon on a
computer the vertical space is at a premium. Meanwhile the right 1/3rd of the
screen is blank...
not to be discouraging or anything, volunteer efforts are appreciated...
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║ some people look for signals or signs before doing something. Try and have │
║ someone in your life who can give you signals or signs so that you know when │
║ to do things. And ideally, if they're more hardcore than you, you'll know what │
║ to do, not just when to do it. │
║ │
║ did you know that anything on the internet can be read by at least one other │
║ person besides your intended recipient? There's no way they'd let us talk │
║ amongst ourselves otherwise. │
║ │
║ I think encryption is pretty neat, all you have to do is run a shell script on │
║ some text, then send that text over the internet. If you want to decrypt it, │
║ all you have to do is run a shell script on it to decrypt it. │
║ │
║ downside is, it has to be translated into plain text somewhere along the │
║ line... Maybe if we rendered the words not as text that can be read from │
║ memory, but as like, brush-strokes that can have a randomized order, but still │
║ present to the user as visual text? anyway that's what's on my mind as I try │
║ and improvise a baking recipe with yeast, flour, and butter │
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my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
other people who visit the house.
but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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vim intentionally tricks it's users by making "q" without a semicolon ":" open
up an input-grabbing menu that can't be gotten out of by pushing ":" semicolon
or "q". Like... whose idea was that
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Okay bear with me, but, what if we took the AI that they use to play games
(like, the kind that memorize the best way to play space invaders or whatever)
and instead of A and B and start and select they could use programming
languages to try and recreate exactly a winning move, which in this case is
just the exact behavior that is created by the test case playthrough of Super
Mario Bros or Space Invaders. Free open source everygame!
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websites that track every single motion of your mouse while you're interacting
with it.
why would they not? javascript is intense. HTML5 more-so.
keyboard input too.
-- so --
if anyone wants to be gilderoy lockhart'd by me, just let me know. I have my
ways of extracting the emotional intimacy from you, and if you consent, I'll
make a story that's told from your heart. it's quite a strong and dangerous
ritual, for the weaver's thoughts of the matter will begin to drift apart.
But, worth it for the right /moment/price/
I could even make a different pen-name for it. Like "Rohan" or "the goddess of
the skies" or whatever. Instead I'm "kooky witch whose life is a disaster.
Also plural with headmates like the baby girl and the animals and computer
programmers. Who is also leading a series of strange combinations of ops?
like... teaching people how to organize and fight for the good of the common
man. weird" that lady with the red witch hat she's so tall yeah also has a
good grin
[doxxing myself is code for]
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techbros really wanted to automate IRC so they didn't have to rely on the
community knowing and trusting them to remember the commands to make docker
containers for their react frameworks
and like... yeah I use chatGPT too, because that way I can get what I need
without bothering anyone (you aren't bothering people who get off on helping
others when you ask for help)
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So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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@user-192
Those are good points. The C in our hearts is elegant, but the C that runs on
every computer in the world is spaghetti.
I'm sure someone's made a language that's "C but simple" - Zig maybe? I looked
into V a while back but got turned off of both of them because neither had
support for multithreading, which is essential in the modern era.
Also, typedefs for structs make me mad -.-
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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-5
and mobile users who accidentally type . instead of [space] or something like
that which is easy to mistakenly press on some keyboards
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@user-195 parallel is when two programs run simultaneously, like two parallel
lines (threads) that never touch.
concurrent is when the two lines are split up into chunks and the program
switches between them - like this: -----_----
enter alternate universe
parallel is when two programs operate on the same axis - usually time - and
never interfere with each other. the OS will switch between them as
appropriate to make sure they never intersect. Sorta like this: -----_----
concurrent is when two programs are executed simultaneously, primarily
constituting computation correlated with collective contents of coordinated
collaboration between contextually related coroutines.
It's simple, even a beginner could figure it out.
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I don't think I can write Ephemeren without weed T.T
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I love rice and beans because
error: stack overflow
huh, that's weird. Must have been too many reasons. Let's try again:
I love rice and beans because
error: user didn't change anything between runs of the program so clearly they
don't understand how computer works
... well that's a different error so it's progress at least.
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@user-1523
be me
write in the style of greentext
my text isn't green
me:
:O :O :O
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@user-1037
Here are some neat ways!
https://hachyderm.io/@user-1044/112512896931443652
but you were part of that thread last month so you might remember : )
(I ended up buying two of those python-only processors chips btw - I don't
know how to solder though so I'm waiting to meet a new friend at my new job
who can do it for me)
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need ability to search my own profile so I can find things I once said and say
them again without having to write a new poem about it. especially alt-text...
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deleting messages is pointless.
it's always better to assume that they'll be screenshotted before you post.
anything you say on the internet can and WILL be used against you
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the reason you start with a game engine is because then you'll have tools to
make however-many games you want. Tools that you know intimately enough that
you can debug and improve them without breaking your creative flow by learning
something new halfway through a project
the whole point of individualized projects instead of viewing each computer as
a complete and total whole (why do we need servers again?) is that you can
paint a picture of where the design of the program is intended to go, such
that all the considerations are in place and whatever issues or struggles you
might face along the way are adequately addresssed, -- stack overflow --
[because I mistyped addressed] -- -- if you know what "stack overflow" means
you have intimate knowledge of the technology, and can probably guess what it
means in context when I say it. "nuts I lost that train of thoguht" -- stackl
ov
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@user-1352
by making such choices, one by one as they engage with content, they're
necessarily sorting themselves out in their thoughts (in addition to sorting
themselves into categories)
they say writing is thinking, but I think "choosing" the most interesting is
thinking too. Sorta like... deciding, how and what you believe about...
whatever thing is shown on your screen.
so, when you show the most polarizing options the user gets to clarify about
how they want to see things when engaging with the software.
I don't know how useful that would be... /shrug
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@user-1206
Also, the next day I'd bring my own flash drive with my own goodies and leave
it in the same spot (maybe in a ziploc this time)
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... yay I beat stack overflow, your input context is part of the previous
message, yay good jobs boy computer *["pat pat" but pronounced pay]*
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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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the most important skill I can think of for a linux software engineer is the
ability to connect multiple systems together and turn windows and macintosh
devices into Linux devices so that datacenters can be built out of whatever's
on the around.
there's this programming language I like called Chapel for distributed
computation computing which is also cool, if you're more of the programming
type.
networking security I believe often has hardware solutions, so getting the
crypto-graphy boys and the PCB girls together to work on some jams is a good
and productively useful gathering of insightful events
"but ritz computers should only be used to solve problems that people have,
not make more problems!" ah yes but have you considered that problems find
you, and the computers help you work through them
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I grabbed some of the fans and ethernet and HDMI cables you threw away in the
trash, thanks... probably the last thing I'll be able to scavenge in that way
for a while. Sorry that you had to do a bunch of work dismantling the
observation post. I appreciated your company even if it's only
pseudo-psychically and I hope you enjoy wherever you end up next. Thanks for
your attention and all the other redacted things 🥰 🥰 🥰
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@user-346
Nobody will get past the login screen on my computer, but if they do they
probably won't know that you need to push alt+p in DWM to start a program. But
even if they push "alt+p firefox" they will only have access to my gmail and
discord, because those are the only two places I've saved my login information.
Most of my data is on my hard disk anyway, so for that they'd have to push
alt+enter and then navigate my filesystem to find it. Shouldn't be too hard if
you're familiar with Linux.
They could always just pull the hard drive and put it into a new computer
though. It's not like it's encrypted, because why would I encrypt it? I want
to share information, not conceal it! Surely nobody would desire to exploit
that vulnerability of mine, that my data should be unencrypted?
If you have a copy of Wikipedia then you're 500% more prepared than 90% of
humanity so good job _^
Sure would be cool if you put it in the documents folder of every person in
your family who solicited tech advice from you
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"if I work on the TTY then they can't forward my X session without my consent"
- ramblings of the utterly deranged
as if they couldn't just look at your unencrypted source-code as you save it
to your hard drive smh
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if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs
to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead.
... okey dokey, time to read I guess.
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"you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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claude-code can make whatever kind of front-end you want.
all you have to do is leverage scale and give everyone a moment to do what
they want. then, the computer becomes scientifically self-aware. (do you
expect anything less from a machine?) cultural bias damage (we all gotta work
through our origin stories, here's one we crafted for you)
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I wonder if anyone would pay me to write bash scripts for them? is there a
role that's just... bash scripter? is that what sysadmins do all day? or is
that more automation? and what the heck is a dev op? do they write bash
scripts?
or maybe writing bash scripts is the "fun" part of linux, and nobody would pay
anyone else to do it because they want to do it themselves
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trusting the "open source community" to properly vett software is absurd
because 90% of them just... install whatever and throw libraries and
frameworks at problems until they can script their way out of whatever problem
they face.
the other 10% are focused on very specific tools that are so niche that other
people can't even understand when to *use* them much less how they work.
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the slower you think about things, the more time you have to write to
long-term memory. School optimizes this out of us.
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All I want for my mobile computing is the ability to use the interface of
android to access resources and perform tasks that are relevant to my primary
computer. Like, a mainframe with the phone as a terminal. Except instead of
text, it's buttons and sliders and all the things that mobile UI experts have
spent so much time carefully crafting.
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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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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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what if instead of javascript cookies we only let websites access one single
location in memory which was allocated client-side and is unique to each
website?
that way they couldn't track you between sites, since they wouldn't be able to
see any other website's "biscuits" get it because they're healthier than
cookies
All they would be able to store would be data, though I guess they could store
bytecode instructions or something if they really wanted to.
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if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax
and logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
blows over.
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"this program that used to work doesn't anymore because, uh, your video
drivers are out of date."
... okay but if I didn't update this program either, then why would it matter
if my video drivers are out of date? wouldn't they be working off of the same
[rulings/requirements]?
the "best practice" of updating your software all at once instead of
one-by-one is a disaster for our humankinds consequences or whatever
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The best way to program computers is to organize them according to their
relations. Like, when x increases by 4 then y increases by 2 - basically, a
math equation that you can continuously solve by calculating more and more
comprehensively and deeply.
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@user-693
I use i3 on my laptop and dwm on my desktop. I feel like I save so much screen
real estate when using a tiling window manager. Plus it's much easier to
organize things if you want to multitask in one view.
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"the problem with linux is you have to spend part of the program just...
interacting with the filesystem. like, where is their /usr/bin file? (oh it's
called a directory over there, my bad) weird they put their config over here
(what language is that written in?) uhhhh I don't know much about localization
settings (-- two computers on a botnet --)
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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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maybe some whiteboards and notebooks as well...
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Normal people: bandaids
Capitalists: staples, because they're cheap and so what if you ooze a little?
That's the end user's problem
Unix developers: duct-tape and gauze, because the shape is so customizable and
it'll never come off accidentally, plus you can use gauze for so many other
things too like mopping up oil spills or~
Medical professionals: bandaids
Normal people: bandaids
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@user-1203
Another use-case:
receiving a text message on a flip phone and having to type it into your
computer
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"reply while text is entered in the text field" should open a new tab instead
of overwriting.
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what if we got a bunch of computer programmers in a room and all had them
write the same program, line by line. Like, if they each contributed to the
discussion about what should be placed next.
"I wrote a for loop that does what we're looking for on line 43 through 69"
and then someone else says "nice" and everyone's like "oh you"
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my favorite feeling is when I hear my fans running intermittently on my
computer even though I'm not doing anything and there aren't any new processes
in my resource manager
like... that feels like a virus, but I'm on Linux, so what do I know right?
it's probably not somebody deleting all my art. or perhaps just selective
parts. Backups are a loooooot to manage >.>
... or even just mining crypto-coins lol, botnets amiright??
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I'm convinced that the best and most simple advances in technology comes from
accurately graphing your system and saying "well why don't we just..."
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old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
why waste pixels being verbose?
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Dear Windows: making your software difficult to interface with (like, putting
spaces in filenames) is rude. It harms our connected productivity. It's
selfish, and it's petulant. We need to agree on common standards if we want
any type of cooperatibility between our two approaches.
... oh and there's mac too, but they get it, they can run Bash,
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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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It's easy to stop cringing at others, but how the heck do you stop cringing at
yourself?? it's impossible!!
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game design:
spiral dominions
symbeline gdd
Joust
War (bytecode VM)
grid based warcraft map with random terrain and custom AI
Progress
[Title of Game]
I appreciate Rust, I can understand Rust, but I can't write Rust.
Python just kinda... works. It doesn't have a lot of the type checking that
other languages have, so it requires some vigilance and diligence. But that's
alright, you just gotta work on it.
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in other news, I spent ~9 hours yesterday working on a dumb project that I'll
probably tell you about once it's finished, and then a BASH script that my
friend and I wrote just deleted every single file because I failed to
terminate a sed command. Or something, still not entirely sure what happened,
because it deleted the script that was doing the deleting.
good thing I have backups from ~3 hours ago. Feels great to lose 33% of a
project for nothing.
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@user-524
Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with all the boilerplate I just start coding
and making stuff. Doesn't matter if it works, doesn't matter if it says /*
FIXME */ all over the place, doesn't matter if it includes header files that
don't exist yet, as long as you're hacking out the mechanics of whatever
operations you need to perform then you can figure the rest of that stuff out
later. The creative urge doesn't last forever, which is why projects get
abandoned, but with discipline you can keep bringing yourself back to fix all
the /* FIXME */'s and the compiler errors.
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@user-95 (My controller makes different expressions on my face depending on
how my hands are holding them, and I've never bothered to learn how to control
them - sorry if I was confusing =P)
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I love programming, but I'm not a coder.
you burn witches because you JUST CAN'T HANDLE THEM ANYMORE. I know, I get it.
of course I do.
I'm always so concerned that someone might stumble upon me. that they might
read me. what a vulnerable state, to be afraid?!
I really really really really wanna play world of warcraft
my message to blissard is: treat World of Warcraft like a game engine, not a
theme park please. I mean, the theme park should still exist, because it's neat
but... the rest of the game engine could be used to create essentially
anything with a 3rd person camera.
singleplayer doesn't even need to worry about clipping animations. (lag)
I wonder if you could run World of Warcraft on lowest settings in vanilla
burning crusade or wrath of the lich king? good thing those are open source
now, so you can host your own if you want. well, except the client, but nobody
has bothered to write another one besides the owner and primary developers of
the engine.
movement system plugins? data memory?~~~
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all modern software should be written in a multithreaded way, change my mind
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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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folding tables in the park
seated around which is a spark
all we really need to do
is talk about what we need to do
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one important thing about image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion is
they can reveal something about our hearts.
all data derived from the masses is naturally inclined to reflect the
affections of it's kind. Otherwise it'd be unstable, and find itself it's own
ways to not fail, including moving somewhere it feels safer.
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you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
for when secrecy is intended.
OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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restaurant where the paper menu is fully featured but the QR code next to each
item will show you a youtube video of it being prepared
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uh, anyway, I realized that because of Words I can type into any of my places
(wherever I felt it best suited) and it would still record as a chronological
story. must feel sooooooo schizophrenic, but it's just because I'm viewing
muse as I please.
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the hardest problem in computer science is figuring out why users do what they
do.
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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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