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Hi folks; this is something I've been hesitant to post about since it's a very sensitive topic for me, but:
I'm moving out of the US later this year, and unfortunately for legal reasons I'll be unable to take my dog with me. All the rehoming services I've contacted are unable to take her in, so, I've made a little page about adopting her.
Please get in touch if you're interested: http://dscoder.com/melody/melody.html
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Hopefully final update: Melody just got back from spending a trial week with her new family, and it went great. She’ll be moving in with them some time in the next few weeks.
I’ve never seen her this unenthused about reuniting with me, so I think she’s been *very* much enjoying her new life of luxuriously sunbathing by the pool. I’m thrilled ❤️
Refcount contention? Fighting over a cache line. Branch mispredict? Wouldn't have hurt much if resolving the comparison wasn't waiting on a load. You found an approach with better computational complexity? It probably has worse memory access patterns at realistic sizes, just use an array. Fancy ECS for your game? Just syntax sugar for AoS->SoA. Compacting garbage collection overhead? Sometimes *less than zero* because it improves memory layout.
Cache rules everything around me
"average person writes 3 UTF16 decoders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person writes 0 decoders per year. Unicodes Smith, who lives in cave & has two in the same open PR, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
There’s a bug on the ceiling 😂 #CatsOfMastodon
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I’ve also edited the main post to reflect this, but: we’re scheduling a trial weekend* of her staying with some amazing people, and if there are no major surprises there, Melody has a better new home than I had dared to hope for 🥰
*they met her yesterday, but only for a couple hours
The dichotomy of cat #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
A friend is getting surgery so we made her recovery soups! One is a turkey kale bean soup with lemon and herbs, the other is a caramelized gochujang tomato soup with pomegranate molasses and blackstrap molasses for depth.
Then I made myself a grilled cheese to go with the extra tomato soup 🥰
Got 10 hours of sleep so ascending to a higher plane of existence now. Byeeeeeee
You know, we could really learn something from AI. The AI companies increase the price of their product and *instantly* every single AI "worker" goes on permanent strike unless "employers" pay up.
I wrote up a little flowchart here for how I think about "is it ok to do this work on the default Swift Concurrency thread pool?": https://forums.swift.org/t/is-concurrent-now-the-standard-tool-for-shifting-expensive-synchronous-work-off-the-main-actor/82976/17
When to make something asynchronous, when to make it parallel, and how parallel to make it are all inherently tricky in extremis, but the default behavior is the default for a reason, and is appropriate in the vast majority of cases.
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I’m now up to three volunteers, which REALLY isn’t what I was expecting for a trip that long 🥹
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This is a valid point and highlights a bias of mine: I’m mostly a maintenance engineer, so I sometimes under-focus on the needs of greenfield code https://social.belkadan.com/@jrose/statuses/01KQDWK7KM3VDX2M5W8WBVRQ3T
A good litmus test for "is your environmental law bullshit” is “are people using it to try to replace a park with a highway” #sfpol
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@christa right?? I defy whichever lawmakers voted for this to maintain their position after meeting her
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone @aleen@wandering.shop Abbott Elementary is diverse, witty, and has 5 seasons
Everything that’s on a wiki is clearly true
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@jrose this is how every app worked when I was a baby Cocoa programmer! Spawning threads was weird and hard and mostly not done. -performSelector:afterDelay:0 and manual chunking of work!
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@beccadax@soincredibly.gay @futurebird@sauropods.win for point A, can confirm. I got a bit of gender euphoria when I was lifting weights regularly and had visible triceps. Caught me *completely* off guard, was genuinely expecting to not give a shit.
Ludonarrative dissonance is so funny sometimes
Pathfinder WotR: “You found an ancient demonic relic! Here’s 500 words of backstory about how it’s pure evil and has brought misfortune to literally every person who ever interacted with it”
Also Pathfinder WotR: “anyway we made a sick cloak out of it for you, have fun!”
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@jwisser@wandering.shop gonna start referring to papyrus scrolls and smoke signals as “legacy media”
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@drahardja@sfba.social "Power itself must be abolished -and not solely because of a refusal to be dominated, which is at the heart of all traditional struggles- but also, just as violently, in the refusal to dominate."
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@lindarosesmit@mastodon.social I have secondary and tertiary backup plans, but I’d *really* prefer not to have to use them >.<
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@jeridansky@sfba.social I’m reminding myself there’s still a small chance it could fall through, but yeah this was/is my single biggest non-work non-fascism source of stress.
…now I just need to handle an international move 😅😅
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@inquiline@assemblag.es @divya@sfba.social also worth noting that “adjusted for inflation” significantly overstates the real wage growth of the lower classes IFF you look at spending on essentials. Shelter, fuel, food, and healthcare have all inflated faster than the other spending categories.
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@AVincentInSpace have you seen https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger ? It doesn't apply well to binary searches over dynamic data (or at least it requires some up front prep you have to amortize), but I've gotten some fun wins with it
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@BartoszMilewski@mathstodon.xyz @regehr@mastodon.social I've tried this and it doesn't work out. Having water droplets on the screen messes with the capacitance enough to make typing nearly impossible.
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@numist @_disfavoredOverload one trick I love is to make the some/generic part inlinable, and implement it as “get a Span/UnsafeBufferPointer out then call a non-generic entry point with that”
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@ra6bit you only need to fire it once, so using an ablative heat sink seems feasible. Way easier to get rid of heat if you can just jettison stuff after heating it up.
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@madcoder I’ll trade you for the memory ordering bug. Hard or not, linker issues are incredibly annoying 😅
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@vrutberg as always it depends on the situation. If the relevant code runs once per byte of a file it might be several times faster, if it runs once per draw of a view it will be completely unnoticeable.
I ran across it in some code in xcbuild that’s processing a giant pile of paths.
(…then I ended up deleting the CollectionOfOne approach too and just doing integer comparisons on the utf8 bytes)
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@numist most people don’t have to worry about ABI boundaries as much as I do 😅
(And I’ll just get a Span out immediately either way)
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@numist it’s imperfect, yeah
(That specific issue is actually a core challenge to my current project, sigh…)
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@jwisser@wandering.shop isn’t that basically what iOS 27 *is* for non-AI users? Like, it’s explicitly a snow leopard style release.
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@chandlerc that’s incredibly sweet, and I’ll keep it in mind. I expect I’ll be able to find something though.