mastodon 4.6.9Writes the codes. Recovering OS Engineer (BeOS, HiptopOS, Android, LK, Fuchsia). Embedded systems hacker. Hobbyist Digital Designer. Player of video games. Etc.
Okay, I dump on bsky a fair bit... I mean no edit feature (still), it tends to really mangle images when recompressing them, it has an obnoxiously low character limit, it's not *actually* federated in any meaningful way, etc, etc... but today I uploaded a video and they now let you upload soft subtitles (vtt format), which is an awesome feature that I wish Mastodon/Fedi (and other platforms that let you share video) would adopt!
If the goal of people who use miserable ai slop "illustrations" or start their article or blog post with shit like "In the age of AI ..." is to get me to immediately close that browser tab and never return, I can report they're succeeding quite impressively.
Game Changer has come so far across its eight seasons and multiple spin-offs, but this clip from S01E02 (the original Make Some Noise) is a nice reminder that it's always been funny.
All the breathless "AI is the future, you're being left behind" bloggery and linkedin posting reads to me like "you see, *my* skill is taking the request from the customer and giving it to the machine, which is why I'll have a fruitful career unlike you idiots who actually know how to do things", which is sort of equal parts hilarious and sad.
Various gremlin mode Suzuki expressions / stances / art styles in the latest Polar Opposites...
This writeup on the technical underpinnings of The Incident at Galley House is a really enjoyable read. Lots of neat details on the pipelines and tooling they developed specific to this fantastic narrative game:
https://eviltrout.com/blog/2026-07-28-building-galley-house/
(It's a great game and you should play it if you haven't yet.)
Sayonara Lara continues to be a delight and among other things explores the hazards of exposing your mermaid housemate to streaming television...
The "Grimoire Edition" hardcover of Witch Hat Atelier is a really nice book. Very nice paper, printing, and binding. The second and third volumes are planned for August and November this year, at which point that'll cover the first 9 original manga volumes. (14 published in English so far of 16 published in Japanese, and the series is ongoing).
Oh, also, Witch Hat Atelier itself is absolutely fantastic. Amazing art, layout (look at photo #3) and storytelling. Read it.
Once things have gotten to the point where even Tani's figuring out what's going on, that's probably a sign that you should just start dating already...
#Anime #SeihantaiNaKimiToBoku #YouAndIArePolarOpposites #Nishi #Yamada
https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/18mb-of-hashmap-overhead
The real question here is why in the world did someone decide to implement an array of 16 floats as a hashmap in the first place.
The next question is, now that you've reduced it to a 64byte array instead of 792 bytes of hashmap and related goop, should be "how many of those 24674 arrays are identical?"... that's still 1.5MB (not counting heap overhead).
ProTip: Think about the code you're writing. That's not evil "premature optimization", that's just common sense.
