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That's a bear, Paul. A bear.
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mastodon 4.7.3§ 512. STATE PIE
The state pie shall be apple pie.
Sec. 2. SERVING APPLE PIE
When serving apple pie in Vermont, a "good faith" effort shall be made to meet one or more of the following conditions:
(a) with a glass of cold milk,
(b) with a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce,
(c) with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com if it means we get to live in 1998 forever, I'm in.
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@vitaut@mastodon.social explains why they’re all so bad, though
RE: https://mastodon.social/@twostraws/117282012663910281
My dirty secret is that I kind of liked the old Xcode project format and would fairly regularly edit them by hand in the past. Alas.
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I don't think I ever swear on social media, but this one is worth it: holy shit! A JSON-based project format for Xcode! 🤯
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@dan@discuss.systems @dev@discuss.systems There are a number of SoftBank decks in the running.
First meal cooked in the new house: ✅
Northern New England gets the Mexico color-grading today.
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@ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network @kottke@mastodon.social once you hit zero, you can brag that you 10x’d it every quarter forever.
My greatest challenge as a parent is discouraging my in-laws from buying too many knock-off "LEGO" sets from Amazon, which are generally nearly impossible to assemble and result in a very tearful evening with the five year old.
(yes, zeroth world problems)
"Optimizing compiler," they said
cmp x9, x8 // if x9 < x8
b.lo 0xb4 // jump to 0xb4
...
0xb4:
cmp x9, x8 // if x9 >= x8
b.hs 0xd8 // jump to 0xd8
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@fedward@distraction.party @mcc@mastodon.social this just sounds so much dirtier than it is
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@attoparsec@clacks.link 10/10 no notes
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems did not see that coming
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@madcoder@infosec.exchange @ezhes_@mastodon.online it’ll turn out that somewhere there’s code that depends on it having some uArch effect (terminating an issue group or whatever) to work around a silicon bug on some obscure CPU 🤪
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@fringemagnet@sunny.garden Rare 1980s mainstream movie that passes the Bechdel test.
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@ferrix@mastodon.online @joe@f.duriansoftware.com free as in beer?
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@fj@mastodon.social “Sam Altman, Tinder, Zoom and Docusign” is as close to the four horsemen of the apocalypse as I care to get.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com has any language done a range syntax where you give it an arbitrary number of initial terms and it does polynomial interpolation?
for n in 1,2,…,25 // consecutive integers
for n in 1,4,9,…,25 // squares
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@inthehands joke’s on you, someone’s gonna make millions plowing sauces
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@slava@mathstodon.xyz @joe@f.duriansoftware.com For a few glorious months in 1995 they were acceptable.
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@madcoder@infosec.exchange well, compared to a la corneau…
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@madcoder@infosec.exchange just a basic 36” gaggenau induction cooktop.
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@shac@ioc.exchange is “wires and a four-channel mixer” an option?
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@void_friend@tech.lgbt Getting to Gouda is much easier than getting an American to pronounce Gouda.
In Montréal tomorrow and Saturday, will likely have a little bit of free time if anyone wants to say hi.
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@fay59@tech.lgbt if the speed at which you can edit the file is the limiting factor, you should find more interesting stuff to edit.
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@mattiem@mastodon.social @wigging@fosstodon.org yep, paste defaults to preserving style.
Set up a theme with the formatting you want in Xcode, copy and paste into Keynote. That way you can make sure it compiles anyway.
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@wigging@fosstodon.org @mattiem@mastodon.social agree to disagree. I get the appeal, but IMO it’s always better to write your code snippets in an actual code editor so you can check that they compile and work correctly and so you can have a single source of truth for highlighting.
Especially because in some languages highlighting correctly may depend on language version, what modules/headers are imported, etc. You’d end up with Keynote maintaining a bunch of language frontends to do it right.
(There are lots of cheap syntax highlighting hacks in the world that don’t do this and they all get stuff wrong to some extent. I’ll let the IDE get it right.)
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com malloc(3) — return a bad location in memory
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com It was good enough for Fortran I, what's our excuse?
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Jen did this while pregnant and it was by far the worst part of the whole experience for her.
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@lapcatsoftware @joe the Pomeranians are the real power behind the throne
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@pearfalse@tech.lgbt @madcoder@infosec.exchange armv8 onward _does_ have a canonical NOP, though (0xd503201f, IIRC). I think thumb2 had one too, but I'm not going to check. Pre-thumb2 and UAL it was definitely an alias for a MOV or something.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @gregtitus@social.coop @griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com (To be fair, it is exactly the order you want if you're an "equal must imply substitutable" hardliner. So I can make it make sense. It just hides a lot of surprises for anyone who doesn't think all the consequences through.)
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @jripley@mastodon.social the weird polyamory jokes have been a thing at least since I lived in Berkeley 20 years ago.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com get rid of signed and unsigned integers and use quarter-imaginary-radix fixed-point instead
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@darkuncle@infosec.exchange me getting the Four Seasons round the world trip ads 😂
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @sofia@chaos.social @slava@mathstodon.xyz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mc7eb1i9o4
Tom Lehrer | "New Math"
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Yet you participate in computers, curious!
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems A bear is a doggo (caniformia), but it is not a dog (Canidae).
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @gregtitus@social.coop @griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com I would not call IEEE 754's totalOrder "perfectly sensible". It satisfies the axioms, but is probably not what most people actually want.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com you just need pervasive additional rename/fusing resources as wide as your integer execute and they have to be able to handle the throughput of getting hit every single cycle. What's the big deal?
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @javathunderman@discuss.systems this is the extremely niche content I come to mastodon to see.
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Really weird oddly specific dream: last night I dreamt of convincing a group of middle schoolers that the Darién Gap is so named because it's "大 rien" (big nothing).