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@falcennial@mastodon.social It totally is... Something like meditation while bench pressing. It's fun.
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tech things I like to talk about:
compilers, programming languages, sustainability, reverse engineering, software fuzzing, general networking infrastructure
non-tech things I like to talk about:
rock climbing, magic the gathering, chess, science fiction
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shitposting
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@falcennial@mastodon.social Wow, I had no idea! I was considering the "wobble" the failure myself, so good to know.
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@sree@ublog.thirdlaw.net I've 100% been thinking about this myself. More and more needs to be put into the formalization of these systems if we're going to continue relying on these tools.
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@falcennial@mastodon.social when I was in high school and had enough disposable time to do this sort of thing I challenged myself to get through a podcast episode or a 10 minute vsauce episode or something while planking the whole time. Never did get that far, but there's some stupid satisfaction at play.
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange children are saying "that's AI" to fake or nonsensical things. If your product is synonymous with bullshit, it's probably not going to last very long.
I'm personally more concerned about the infrastructure we're putting in place for it. With so much higher education focusing on that, I don't think it will go away any time soon. I learned about "underwater datacenters" yesterday, and it honestly just makes me so angry.
people think LLMs are good at rubber duckying and dont write down their thought process or talk to a rubber ducky like bro you could save the tokens
save the planet buy a duck
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@j_bertolotti They weren't British, which, if memory serves, was one of the major actual points of lord of the flies, funnily enough :^)
in all seriousness this is a great post that I needed, thanks.
compression saving the day
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run Unfortunately our shareholders have requested to remain anonymous.
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for once, arch linux actually proves to be the most stable distribution for me on this particular project. the world is upside down
semantic equivalence class of programs that call me gay
another actually fucking nutty paper a very cool person brought to my attention
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21852
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@thalia A while back when me and the boyz were taking our operating systems class we made some easily customized boot-into-text USBs and just stuck them into signs like these around our campus. we were gods
surprised I haven't seen any AI bros talk about how they're grandmasters because they know how to feed positions into stockfish
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@aburka@hachyderm.io @regehr@mastodon.social @thalia@discuss.systems @wiersdorf@fosstodon.org ime, yes, and it's exactly what you'd expect otherwise.
please find a different name for your software other than "helix" thanks
our group chat has asserted that mario is woke and mario in TTYD would make a good POTUS
Would an eventual embedded systems employer care more about a thesis on IoT/CPS security or more about verification of compilers that might be tangential to embedded systems?
Further context on the candidate would be 2x embedded systems internships but some FOSS contributions to compilers.
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a sport that's literally just pushing a boulder up a mountain sisyphus style would kinda fuck. figure out how to put that in my gym and I'll get really into it
leaving my brain out in the sun #summerbody
the ol' one-two combo of making a PR to fix a small issue and then making a second PR to change tests that you forgot in the first PR that got merged :)
Graphics programming workflow:
1. write the algorithm correctly
2. set up pipeline
3. fight with pipeline for 20+ hours
4. give up for a day
5. come back change 2 things and everything works
Graphics programmers need a hug. Infrastructure for error reporting is very needed imo
why dont they teach dark souls in our public schools
I think binary is too complicated since it has both ones and zeroes. we should just have it be just ones
static program analysis
getting absolutely fucked up on the weekend after the end of the semester (taking my dog for walkies)
i heard theyre adding c to the linux kernel
I went to loser.chat and you were the most active user
if 100 people all smoked at the same time the planet would die
just remembered that i once convinced my best friend in high school that my birthday was september 11th, and then it eventually came out that i was joking, and then they dated a girl whose birthday was actually september 11th, but because of me they went "oh har har funny terrorist day" when it was actually her birthday
investigating hardware based on its transmission frequency call that transvestigation
being so fucking punk n shit texting old friends asking how theyre doing bc someone pointed out to me that it's better to be awkward about it than not reach out at all
> asking a professor about a class they'll be teaching soon
> pitches wild, crackhead idea as a potential final project
> "Oh, no, we just do that as an assignment."
guess it's decided that I'm definitely taking this class