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 @user-138 
 
 I don't know what it does yet T.T
 
 it's Lua, not C
 
 what's the message? maybe I can help, I'm much better at bash than... actually
 I'm not very good at bash, but only the cool kids are.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
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 @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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--- #3 fediverse/1221 ---
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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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 @user-1352 
 
 You're absolutely right, the compiler knows better than me! Certainly the
 compiler doesn't know best, but certainly the compiler knows better than me.
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 I don't know anything about cryptography 🙃 😋 🥴
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 This was the first bash script I ever wrote.
 
 It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it
 looks like now.
 
 Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
A bash script that plays a random episode of Adventure Time from a terminal.
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--- #7 fediverse/2292 ---
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 I don't know who needs to hear this after staying up all night driving, but
 it's ideal to get where you're going with at least a day to rest. The body can
 only do so much, and isn't it better to be fresh?
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--- #8 fediverse/2622 ---
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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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--- #9 fediverse/5883 ---
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 what's better than [that thing you like]?
 
 nothing. nothing is better than that thing.
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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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 @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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 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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--- #13 messages/359 ---
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 "God doesn't know he ate the universe, and we're doing everything we can to
 make sure it stays that way."
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 I really do believe that you can write any computer program you'd like with a
 combination of Lua, Bash, and C.
 
 Bash to start the program and enable updates / configuration, Lua to handle
 the scripting and ordering of events, and C (or Rust) to execute performance
 intensive sections. (often in their own threads)
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 @user-192 
 
 the neat thing about BASH is that it's the glue that holds all your other code
 together. Write libraries in C and call them with BASH - accomplish broader
 tasks that are easier to co-create. That's why I like it - it's not the most
 important, but it's quite beneficial I think _^
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but if your friend sends you a paragraph
 you don't have to respond with a paragraph.
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to like all kinds of
 jam equally.
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 @user-1461                                                                       │
 I'm best at Bash.                                                                │
 I'm most capable with Lua.                                                       │
 My favorite is C.                                                                │
 I'm not a good programmer, I think too hard. Massive systems are too large for   │
 me. I like laying out data, whether that be by files and programs in Bash,       │
 arrays and tables in Lua, or memory and datatypes in C, I like to think about    │
 how programs are constructed.                                                    │
 Which functions point to which piles of numbers? what do they do when they get   │
 there?                                                                           │
 I think I'm better as an artist. But I can do systems administration quite       │
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 ... though I kinda suck at technical sysadmin, like Gentoo. There's too much     │
 terminology - why is data too complicated? Just use data!                        │
 anyway. I sound opinionated, but I listen closely to good arguments and          │
 quickly change my tune when I am incorrected. I am a team player, and I firmly   │
 believe that sometimes a bad plan executed with cohesion and precision is        │
 better than the best play executed too late and with too little strength.        │
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 @user-1165 
 
 you might be right, I don't know much about DSA aside from their numbers. To
 me, it feels like it's run sorta like a church? but again I have no idea
 because I've never been.
 
 do you have a better idea?
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--- #20 fediverse/1669 ---
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 "she has a certain, I don't know what, je ne sais quoi? that I don't know what
 to describe as."
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--- #21 fediverse/2645 ---
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 @user-1292 
 
 ah, well, I don't even know what HTT is. Sorry for clogging up your mentions
 😅
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--- #22 fediverse/4866 ---
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 don't you just love it when you get several discord notifications but you tab
 back to check out the discord screen and there's no red numbers anywhere?
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 screen record should just... copy from the associated music file instead of
 like... imperfectly storing the visual contents??
 
 better compression... 'sall I'm sayin'
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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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--- #25 fediverse/5990 ---
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 I have this local language model framework but it's not built into anything
 more than a single-response question. It's runnable as a bash script or lua
 require, which is easy enough. Alas, if only I didn't have to use evil
 corporate infrastructure to make evil corporate cursed artifacts
 
 [hey don't blame this on us]
 
 oh I'm not, I'm just saying that it'd be cooler if I could build my own tools.
 Alas, I'm...
 
 lasy?
 
 n...no
 
 I'm drawn to the power of it
 
 it's got a different magnitude
 
 it's hard for me to apply myself for things that last longer than a "get
 stoned", but I try as if every time afterwards I might die.
 
 well, more distraction time, as I wander through claude code
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 @user-757 @user-192 
 
 true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status
 of the variables when it pauses or ends.
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--- #27 messages/455 ---
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 I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
 have any bugs in this day and age.
 
 For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
 to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
 and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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 @user-1573 
 
 Also HardcopyPdf is nice, it turns a file into a pdf. Does what it says on the
 tin. ^_^
 
 And it doesn't need anything more than those lines there in the config.
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--- #29 fediverse/3351 ---
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 privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
 internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
 
 gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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--- #30 messages/908 ---
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 if you don't see someone doing what you're doing after a while you hide into
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--- #31 fediverse/1810 ---
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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--- #33 fediverse/391 ---
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 @user-285 
 
 It's soos. uh... can you repeat that?
 
 sure! it's soos. (d)uh.
 
 still not coming through clearly. Do you mean SUSE or SUSE?
 
 I hear they prefer susu
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY
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--- #34 fediverse/2363 ---
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 Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
 opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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--- #35 fediverse/5360 ---
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--- #36 fediverse/4751 ---
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 apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community
 is in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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 @user-643 
 
 virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode
 
 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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--- #38 fediverse/572 ---
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 Hi, I'm learning about semaphores right now and trying to explain them to a
 friend. But I only sorta understand how they work - can anyone look at this
 pseudocode and tell me if I'm on the right track?
Some C pseudocode working through the semaphore design pattern. Here's the text of the pseudocode:  /* no lock example */  void start_thread(int* x) {   *x += 1; }  int main() {   int x = 0;   for (1000 times){     start_thread(&x);   }   print(x); }  /* in this case you have no idea what will print because thread A will take x and be like "ah yes it's 423" and then in the next instruction it'll be like "I'll increment this to be 424" and in the next one it'll say "okay now it's time to store 424 in the variable X" but like... there's a thousand threads all doing that at the same time, so odds are you'll have 5 that are like "ah yes this is 423 I'll set it to 424" */  /* not a good plan. Need a lock, so only one thread can use it at once. */ /* mutex example: */  void start_thread(int* x, int* x_mutex) {   *x += 1;   *x_mutex = 0; }  int main() {   int x = 0;   int x_mutex = 0;   for (1000 times){     while (x_mutex != 0){ } /* do nothing */     x_mutex = thread_id;     start_thread(&x, &x_mutex);   }   print(x); }  /* this should print 1000, but it's basically as slow as doing it single threaded. */  #define MAX 10  void start_thread(int* x, int* x_semaphore) {   *x += 1;   *x_semaphore += 1; }  int main() {   int x[MAX];   int x_semaphore = MAX;   for (1000 times) {     for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {       x_semaphore -= 1;       start_thread(&x[i], &x_semaphore);     }     while (x_semaphore != MAX) { } /* do nothing */   }   int value = sum(x, MAX);   print(value); }
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 @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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 @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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 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      }
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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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--- #43 messages/264 ---
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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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 I once heard that when you click a link, the developer of the website can tell
 which website you came from. idk if that's true or not.
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 ... 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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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but...
 
 do ittttt it's totally worth it!!
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 @user-1370 
 
 you don't have to apologize for escalating your response to trauma
 
 it's cool
 
 we get it
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--- #48 fediverse/5081 ---
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 what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
 unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
 time [in the export data functionality]
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but it hurts less to be despised than
 ignored.
 
 which is why you don't feed the trolls, and always pet the neocats
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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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 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-1074 
 
 I realized there might be a lot of configuration required. Oh well here ya go:
 
 https://pastebin.com/x40VXQnH
 
 https://pastebin.com/H5C4umWq
 
 https://pastebin.com/dgDeS5Xu
 
 https://pastebin.com/JCLrwF1z
 
 https://pastebin.com/As6diaYc
 
 https://pastebin.com/0vwzJUW4
 
 https://pastebin.com/jPKeV7D1
 
 dependencies are dkjson.lua (included), bash, lua, luahpdf, and libharu.
 
 throw that all in a directory and point an AI tool at it. Or just do it
 yourself and waste an hour or three on something a computer can do in 2
 minutes.
 
 good luck it looks like this when it's done:
picture of a document with algorithmically generated art picture of a document with algorithmically generated art picture of a document with algorithmically generated art picture of a document with algorithmically generated art
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--- #53 fediverse/4296 ---
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 @user-1655 
 
 why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
 parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
 client we want?
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 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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 AI systems like chatGPT don't "get" emojis by looking at them.
 
 They're reading the description tagged onto the unicode value inserted in the
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 what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
 status and use it for debug purposes
 
 like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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 @user-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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--- #59 fediverse/5134 ---
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 "nobody gets you" hence, cassandora and pandasandra
 
 "girl you can't just say something ominous like INVOKING PANDORA if you aren't
 sitting on something capable of mass doom" haha I want to cry
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--- #61 fediverse/2862 ---
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 I don't like package managers...
 
 [then don't use them]
 
 oh right 4head
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--- #62 fediverse/1735 ---
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 a video that's a gif and an audio file played at the same time using
 && in bash
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 what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
 hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
 that much
wouldn't that be neat I think it would because it means once they collapse under the weight of their own ambitions that hardware's gotta go somewhere and knowing them they're probably going to ship it to south-east asia to be "recycled" (read: burnt with the metals salvaged) instead of selling them second hand because you know they can't really justify the business expense of selling stuff like that and besides what if some driver or something on the firmware was proprietary do you really want to pay techs to wipe every single thing off of them and plus who's gonna categorize and sort them according to their form and function that's just extra payroll and listen the company's not doing so hot anyway I mean we're literally shutting down but yeah sure we'll find a way to justify spending all that non-existent dosh so some hippies can feel better with their servers they didn't build or justify with their profit-producing capitalist enterprise that we've built with our own two hands well really the hands of everyone else but like, they're not actually doing the building the REAL work of course happens in board rooms like this one where we spend MINUTES and HOURS sometimes discussing how to get things in order and aligned to both of our goals because that's the REAL work that has to happen in order for stuff to get done, you know it's true yeah I thought so anyway what are you doing after this meeting wanna get lunch it's almost quitting time at 2pm
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 @user-1370 
 
 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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--- #65 fediverse/5590 ---
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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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--- #66 fediverse/3562 ---
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 @user-1550 
 
 me too T.T
 
 give it time
 
 someday everyone will be paid to do whatever they wanted
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--- #67 fediverse/3004 ---
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 I'm not important don't listen to meeeeee
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--- #68 messages/972 ---
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 vibecoders write detailed instructions. "A for loop which iterates through all
 of the elements" and not "a package manager that stores all of it's instants"
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--- #69 fediverse/6154 ---
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--- #70 fediverse/1708 ---
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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-883 
 
 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
 better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
 
 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've
 known! I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my
 thing, but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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--- #72 fediverse/1916 ---
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 "you don't seem autistic"
 
 wow no shit almost as if I had acting classes as a child
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--- #73 fediverse_boost/5333 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Overheard at the lab: “I don’t understand why people do drugs when they could be doing operating systems research instead.”  
  
                                                            
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--- #74 fediverse/4485 ---
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 getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
 organizing.
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--- #75 fediverse/5234 ---
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 "don't tell a local cached offline LLM what you're looking into, instead tell
 it to Google or Firefox instead."
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--- #76 fediverse/1034 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 be careful, recursion can cause stack overflows.
 
 better to run function pointers from a loop. That way you can operate as long
 as necessary. Just make sure you don't get in an infinite loop...
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--- #77 fediverse/3776 ---
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
 doing K's that you have at least four
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--- #78 fediverse/5689 ---
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 why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because
 they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at
 the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be
 processed at once.
 
 like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one
 screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style.
 
 [fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ]
 
 if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide
 to do some prevailing. gosh I wish I wasn't so useless is code for
why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be processed at once.  like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style.  [fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ]  if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide to do some prevailing. *gosh I wish I wasn't so useless* is code for
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--- #79 messages/765 ---
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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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--- #80 messages/377 ---
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 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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--- #81 fediverse/2120 ---
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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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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something
 
 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
If you only have arithmetical expressions you can use some properties of arithmetic to compute branching computer code. E.G., if A is either zero or one depending on some previously computed condition, then A times B plus (1-A) times C computes the expression "if A then B else C"
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 I bet if Cascadia secedes then maybe the bad guys will send their brown people
 to us. The more the better, I say!
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--- #84 fediverse/2945 ---
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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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--- #85 fediverse/4900 ---
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 if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
 code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
 at once
 
 [statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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 every time I read a subtoot I assume it's about me and I mentally curl up into
 a ball
 
 doesn't matter if it's totally irrelevant, if there's no target specified it
 defaults to me because... like, who else is there right?
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--- #87 messages/129 ---
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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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--- #88 fediverse/1152 ---
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 @user-258 
 
 wha... ya'll think I'm cool? Nobody's ever said that before (
 
 [that's not true people have told me that before]
 
 {though not recently heh I think you're cool too}
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 @user-1268 
 
 if you know how to program in C this is a good resource for building
 networking applications:
 
 https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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--- #90 fediverse/1207 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 okayyyy I have catgirl installed
 
 https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/
 
 let me know what server or whatever to join
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 I love programming!! Currently working on learning decentralized and GPU
 oriented computing. It's lots of fun! Plus Bash is a great language, it's not
 funky or hacky at all. Just a great language. Haha suuuuch a great thing to
 play with.
 
 But GPUs are legitimately cool, aside from Bash's purported funkiness /
 hackiness. You can do all kinds of cool things at scale that just don't make
 sense up close.
 
 EDIT: oops sorry forgot the content warning
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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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--- #93 fediverse/3372 ---
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 I don't really need to know if people like me. It's nice, but it doesn't help
 me.
 
 I do, however, desperately want to know if I'm helping. Knowing this would
 help me.
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 @user-579 
 
 it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?
 
 ... right?
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 Lua is the most fun language to write code in! The reason is because it's so     │
 simple, it distills programming down to it's basics, and there's very few        │
 surprises. Plus, you can use it like a bash script, meaning it's great for       │
 writing little utilities.                                                        │
 why are we so attached to monolithic massive programs without shared memory?     │
 we could just write to the hard drive by file.io'ing a file and opening it       │
 later in a different program. What's the deal with databases, whatever           │
 happened to just loading things into a datastructure?                            │
 oh, is your filesize too massive? what if we redundancied and abstracted and     │
 concentrically inter-co-acted and thus our familiar forces are defined.          │
 who are your true foes, in [checks notes] computer programming? um, probably     │
 complexity, probably logical incongruities, probably                             │
 future-technical-debt-style incomprehensibilities, probably stuff that doesn't   │
 really have anything to do with the hardware but instead is mostly software.     │
 essentially, organization, but done on a whim.                                   │
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 to those who guide our fate
 
 choose paradise
 
 make eden
 
 ======================= stack overflow =====================
 
 clouds of carbon are an affront to the sun god
 
 just as they are an affront to mine lungs
 
 or mine body temperature
 
 [acid oceans are toxic to the plane of water]
 
 [you think that would go unnoticed?]
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--- #97 fediverse/5539 ---
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 don't put dirty dishes in the sink you filthy animals
 
 put them on the counter NEXT to the sink
 
 [it's not arbitrary it's just better]
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 what do they have that we don't? what do we do better than most?
 
 questions to ask yourself
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--- #99 fediverse/132 ---
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 and though I am perfect, I'm better than none of you.
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--- #100 fediverse/5880 ---
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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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--- #101 fediverse/5588 ---
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 did you know that if you actually tried to do magic you might just become good
 at meditating?
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 arrival of lohengrin, the swan knight
 
 (I didn't paint this hehe)
a painting of a bunch of knights in shining armor around a king of some kind with a maiden while a valorous knight floats up on a small little boat pulled by a swan and everyone's like "lohengrin! lohengrin! the swan knight is him!"
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--- #103 messages/1002 ---
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 In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
 decide you want to.
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--- #104 messages/1236 ---
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  true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
  that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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--- #105 fediverse/1893 ---
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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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--- #106 fediverse/634 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 I'd agree with that. it's not designed for performance, not really. Mostly
 ubiquity, which is it's strength. As long as something can be compiled to a
 binary, BASH can execute it. That's why it's good, for accomplishing diverse
 tasks that you cannot have the capacity to program yourself. Scientific
 computations or cultural approximations, things that are beyond your intuitive
 understanding as a human on this earth, but which compel and align your
 thinking.
 
 I'm sure someone could create a more intuitive or accessible syntax, but
 syntax isn't the point - the capabilities, what you can do with it, has always
 defined the purpose of programming paradigms. And BASH is (currently) at the
 forefront of it's niche, the "terminal" language that handles "command line"
 applications. Powershell is good, yes... but it's not as good as BASH. Neither
 is Fish or... the one that starts with a z? zfs? something like that. The
 acronyms are hard to keep straight sometimes.
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--- #107 fediverse/1537 ---
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 I'm better at waterfall than agile, why is agile the only option T.T
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--- #108 fediverse/111 ---
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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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--- #109 fediverse/707 ---
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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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--- #110 fediverse/5450 ---
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 "cool it with the psychic posting"
 
 ha yeah okay. I still got some things to get through though. I bet someone
 somewhere wants to see it.
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--- #111 fediverse/1758 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 you could read in every line in Lua and if it matched the format that the
 times for the subtitles are in, then you could += 5 seconds or whatever and
 save the document. .srt is just a textfile right?
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--- #112 fediverse/3805 ---
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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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--- #113 fediverse/2157 ---
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 @user-1180 
 
 the reason I say this is sometimes it's necessary to boost a post that doesn't
 have a CW and like, I can't add one of my own, so...
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 if you don't go outside, the synchronicities can't getcha
 
 oh you have to stay off the fediverse too-NOOOO YOU CAN'T TAKE ME
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--- #115 fediverse/1588 ---
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 @user-1035 
 
 Even better if you say "you do you too"
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--- #116 fediverse/3433 ---
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 I don't know how else to be
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--- #117 fediverse/618 ---
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 Can't stop thinking 
 
 [the rest is left blank, as a testament to the inability of the author to
 express their thoughts in a temporally contextual way. Presumably the previous
 text would be followed by an "about..." with the rest dedicated to a
 particular thought that felt important enough to share with the internet.]
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--- #118 fediverse/5179 ---
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 why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
 trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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--- #119 messages/394 ---
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 Just because I'm performing doesn't mean I'm pretending, or that I can help it.
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--- #120 fediverse/5796 ---
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 "what is she DOING" or is it more like "what is she VIEWING" like damn that's
 some pretty spicy kush
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--- #121 fediverse/3162 ---
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 I wrote a script which scrapes every issue of Nintendo Power from a neat and
 cool archive.
 
 please don't use it all at once#!/bin/bash
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
 sleep_duration=5
 DIR="/home/ritz/documents/nintendo-power"
 touch "${DIR}/download-bookmark"
 bookmark=$(cat ${DIR}/download-bookmark)
 
 for i in $(seq ${bookmark} 285);
 do
    echo "sleeping before downloading number ${i}"
    sleep ${sleep_duration}
 
    formatted_number=$(printf "%03d" ${i})
    wget "https://myrient.erista.me/files/Miscellaneous/Nintendo Power Issues
    1-285/Nintendo Power Issue ${formatted_number}.cbr"
    rm           ${DIR}/download-bookmark
    touch        ${DIR}/download-bookmark
    echo ${i} >> ${DIR}/download-bookmark
 done
A short 20 line script which downloads every issue of Nintendo Power.
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 what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
 couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
 for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
 with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
 by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
 they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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--- #123 fediverse/5188 ---
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 did you know that kids these days don't know how to do thing?
 
 It's true! they do thing instead!
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 my opsec is non-existent teehee does anyone want my IP? or even my address,
 it's not like I lock my door
 
 if (when) my poor decisions get me killed (whoops adding content warning)
 please throw a brick at an insurance company for me thanks
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--- #125 fediverse/1892 ---
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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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--- #126 fediverse/6057 ---
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 gonna touch grass. maybe do some programming. ttyl
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--- #127 fediverse/3680 ---
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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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--- #128 fediverse/4935 ---
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 ... I think. I don't actually know how bitcoin works.
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--- #129 fediverse/3124 ---
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 I should not have to follow 16 steps that I don't understand just because you
 decided my system wasn't good enough for me.
a long list of steps in order to update a gentoo system to a new version (not even the newest version, I might add)
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--- #130 fediverse/1477 ---
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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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--- #131 fediverse/6292 ---
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 I'm stuck. I don't know how to leverage whatever talents I have into making
 things happen. Maybe I should seek advice from a wise elder...
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--- #132 fediverse/978 ---
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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--- #133 fediverse/4346 ---
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 black red blue, hey I don't know what to do. what's going on in this
 neighborhood?
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 @user-579 
 
 somehow that doesn't feel any better : (
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--- #135 fediverse/1958 ---
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 I can't believe I didn't go. What's wrong with me.
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--- #136 fediverse/2051 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 i've never heard of most of these
 
 but I think I might belong on eldritch.cafe
 
 ... maybe void.rehab
 
 well actually I'm a lot of tech.lgbt
 
 hmmmmm on Reddit it's nice because you can subscribe to various communities
 
 I wish you could do that with Mastodon, to express your particular affiliation.
 
 ... or perhaps we should not be building scenes, but rather communities.
 
 (just based on the name)
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--- #137 fediverse/5544 ---
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 when people need you but don't believe in you, it's easy to find it difficult
 to get out of bed.
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--- #138 fediverse/4427 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 I am the infohazard but I have that "automatically expand CW" post marked off.
 I like to click them each time, and with CWs it makes it easier to scroll back
 a couple months to find what you're looking for.
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--- #139 fediverse/487 ---
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 I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
 more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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--- #140 fediverse/94 ---
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
 difficult. : )
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--- #141 fediverse/3034 ---
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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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--- #142 fediverse/4664 ---
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 @user-1725 
 
 LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
 
 What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as
 JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified
 arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more
 functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech
 bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by
 Google or Microsoft.
 
 We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
 suck the creativity out of tech.
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--- #143 fediverse/3822 ---
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 @user-1582 
 
 I think that's what happened, in addition to... whatever this input/output
 error is. No clue what to do about that. Maybe my SD card is dying, I've
 flashed over it like, 10 times now haha 😅
ls: command not found  /bin/ls -bash: /bin/ls: Input/Output error
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--- #144 fediverse/923 ---
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 but I don't know any of your dances, so don't ask.
 
 I can show you mine if you'd like.
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--- #145 fediverse/6007 ---
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 I always get the syntax backwards, for some reason...
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--- #146 fediverse/5681 ---
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 I'm a helper and everyone wants me to be more agentic but it's like... no... I
 don't wanna...
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--- #147 fediverse/5950 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 wao I'm a cool kid _^
 
 Hmmmm I googled "Network: file exists" and got this link:
 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1340713
 
 my understanding of that is that maybe you're creating static routes, and for
 some reason you're trying to create one that already exists? Maybe there's
 something in your .bashrc config, if the file appears when you open a
 terminal, or perhaps if it appears randomly then maybe there's a service or
 something that's doing it.
 
 Did you say it stopped when you swapped sim cards? ... on your phone? that's
 bizzare... Maybe you were trying to create an ip route (whatever that is) that
 was pointing to the same ip address as your phone? and when you swapped sims
 it changed the ip address? If it appears again, maybe try setting static IP
 addresses for both the phone and the computer in your router settings and see
 if that fixes it. Though if you've ever seen the error while out and about at
 like, a coffee shop or library or whatever, then that wouldn't apply since the
 router is only for home base...
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--- #148 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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--- #149 fediverse/6383 ---
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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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--- #150 fediverse/1718 ---
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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--- #151 messages/891 ---
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 AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
 facts as a human.
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--- #152 fediverse/5998 ---
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 I should conjure x11 from source. I bet they have a lot of useful utilitudes
 that I can configure. I wonder if Gentoo can do it for me? nahhhhh I'll just
 write my own script, it'll only take me like a couple hours per piece of
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--- #153 fediverse/1196 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 you're not a creep in fact you're quite awesome and cool and neato to be sure 
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--- #154 fediverse/4014 ---
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 I don't know about you, but "trying my hardest" involves giving up sometimes.
 
 How else are you to know your limits if you don't test your boundaries? And,
 after finding that there's nowhere else for you to go, you turn around and
 "give up", until you're ready for your next expedition.
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--- #155 fediverse/2607 ---
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 @user-249 
 
 most people don't talk to me so either you're braver than most or I hit a
 common chord that you and I share
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--- #156 messages/929 ---
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--- #157 fediverse/3574 ---
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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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--- #158 fediverse/2145 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 no I didn't know that was a thing
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--- #159 fediverse/4640 ---
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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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--- #160 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #161 messages/102 ---
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 They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, which is why
 there's nobody like me.
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--- #162 fediverse/5832 ---
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 Linux is so cool, I hate it so much.
 
 Linux is so cool, I love it to death.
 
 Linux is so cool, I want to scream~
 
 Linux is so cool, nothing works but dreams.
 
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--- #163 fediverse/791 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 I see, I didn't know the language so I assumed it was valid =P
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--- #164 fediverse/1397 ---
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 why don't we teach git in high school?
 
 oh yeah, because microsoft word is not plain text.
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--- #165 fediverse/6304 ---
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 Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
 
 Hmmmmm.... I'm gonna stay inside unless I decide to go outside. How's that?
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 I once heard that time doesn't pass when you're well and truly in the moment,
 and I thought "that's not true, I'm always losing track of the moment".
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--- #167 fediverse/4083 ---
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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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 @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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 @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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--- #170 fediverse/5839 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 good code isn't always easily read. sometimes the architecture is more
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--- #171 fediverse/6122 ---
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 I want to drink mai tais on a beach T.T
 
 alas, it's winter, and I'm poor
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--- #172 fediverse/5700 ---
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 it's okay if you hate me. Please don't have me and not tell me...
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 @user-579 
 
 if I'm not in this picture then what am I
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--- #174 fediverse/2220 ---
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 @user-1203 
 
 Hey, you're the one asking about url-length, which isn't something that most
 people are concerned about due to automatic embeds and "tap-to-visit"
 functionality 😋
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--- #175 fediverse/3031 ---
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 the things that I suggest we do when we hang out are not because those are the
 things I most want to do, but rather because they are the things that I think
 you'd want to do.
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--- #176 notes/environment-variables ---
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 To edit environment variables:
 
 ~/.bashrc is for variables only accessible by the user.
 
 /etc/profile is for variables accessible by all users.
 
 /etc/environment is for variables accessible by anyone.
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--- #177 fediverse/4941 ---
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 everyone: "what are you doing"
 
 me: ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. wawawawa
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--- #178 fediverse/6146 ---
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 so-and-so casts time-stop but during that time nothing can be learned as your
 brains can't change shape
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--- #179 fediverse/2764 ---
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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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--- #180 fediverse/986 ---
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 adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
 formatting or grammar.
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 PROCRASTINATING, AGAIN ARE YE? AWAY WITH YE WENCH
 
 no! please! I haven't finished shitposting!
 
 GO DO YOUR STUDIES YOU LOAF OF BUTTER AND PEAS
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 but I like moonmen T.T
 
 what if the ISS was untethered
 
 "send thrusters to space? why bother? just use them down on the surface to get
 that extra oomph!"
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--- #183 fediverse/5488 ---
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 okay ttyl I gotta go play video games I guess >.>
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 https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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 if your IoT device can't be controlled with a BASH script then I'm sorry
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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--- #187 fediverse/5405 ---
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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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 @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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--- #189 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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 @user-889 
 
 can't comment on your personal life, but you make good music tho so that's
 something.
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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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--- #192 fediverse_boost/4925 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  still waiting to find the energy and headspace to write an irritated blog post about why the fact that most toolchains are like 80% of the learning curve for those who are just getting into programming (especially on windows)  
  
                                                            
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 "I don't know who needs to hear this" but for every post
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 @user-1695 
 
 I can't give you that. Not yet.
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 listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
 to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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 @user-245
 
 the abstraction of modern high level languages makes my head spin
 :babaw_spin:​🌀​🥴​🌀​
 
 I feel like there's so many ways to trip yourself up! Consider me bewildered xD
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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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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
 in on it.
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 this is the simplest implementation of scalable anarchism I could think of.
 tell me how it's flawed so I can improve it before I need it.
algorism is a political and economic philosophy designed to wrest power from those who may be corrupted by it, and restore dignity and agency to all of humanity.  It accomplishes this through several layers of abstraction, of votes, of control, of decisions. What do people need? How could we improve? Is there something more we could do?  The idea is to negate bureaucracy by accomplishing goals in an ad-hoc fashion rather than rely on legalism for institutional execution. Projects, not operations.  Society shall be organized into tiers of rotating peers chosen by vote. Each tier sends their top two most voted for up a level to the next tier of organization. the duty of each tier is to provide for the needs and accomplish the demands of each of their lower tier allies. In addition they should provide what they can to their representatives, who offer them on the tier above.  If a need or demand cannot be met by the team of reps, the request is passed upward. This process can be accomplished with paper and pencil, but it's much better to automate and be public.  If desired, there is a queue system to help with the allocation of resources. This system rewards patience and conservation while still allowing for rapid acquisition. Pick two: good, cheap, fast.  It includes also a recycling system - the more you give back in clean and working order, the greater the options available to you.  It is a system of distribution, not control.
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 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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