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mastodon 4.7.2+glitch.techlgbtProgrammer, PL researcher, linux user, and occasional embedded systems enthusiast. In a world of "artificial intelligence" I bring organic stupidity to the table. All opinions my own, etc.
Sometimes my brain feels like an HTTP server serving the same webpage over and over. People tell me I'm probably autistic
I spend most of my time with computers, but I'm still often told I'm "chronically offline"
Gender is a mess, feel free to use whichever she/he/they pronouns
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Joined March 13, 2025
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A pen drawing of my head with a smile, showing a ponytail with a bow in it
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20-something
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I feel really bad for French people named Claude in today's age
Time to rewrite a slow Haskell dependency in C.
It's extremely intertwined with the existing codebase, so I can't really just rip out the whole thing and rewrite it. I have to incrementally refactor one piece at a time and keep a similar interface, which means lots of FFI use, so this'll be fun
Weekend project: make a tool to generate pixel art from 3d models/bone animations, like how Dead Cells did their animations
I'm doing this in Odin and raylib right now, neither of which I've used before
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@drewtowler @mdreid I almost certainly have, one of my uni classes made us implement a basic DNS server from scratch and I definitely overflowed a buffer at some point due to off by one
I better sell the RAM I've been holding onto since 2024
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org
An observation doesn’t become a convincing piece of evidence because of any specific detail in what’s observed; the context in which that observation takes place is also essential.
This is such a good response to the "what would it take to convince you" arguments (not necessarily just with AI).
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@alicemcalicepants I'm only in my 20s but I will die on the hill that slashes and spaces in filenames are unacceptable
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I miss the days when you could do this just by dragging a window around
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@flup @LilahTovMoon perhaps an overwhelming majority could also pass amendments, but the timespan method can be used instead when it isn't so urgent? It seems like it could become hard to coordinate which one to use though
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@markwyner I was assigned this for a film appreciation class I took at community college, and before researching what it was about I decided to watch it with my ultraconservative mother. She wasn't exactly a fan to say the least, but it definitely made an impression on me
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@KayOhtie @fstateaudio Anna's Archive quite literally got me through college. There's no way I could've afforded all those textbooks
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@b3lt3r@mastodon.b3lt3r.com @nixCraft@mastodon.social the only real way to keep these things up to date is to train them continually. I believe there's a little bit of that going on, but it's little enough for it to be significantly behind in many aspects.
This is one reason why you should never listen to someone who says "if you ignore the training costs, company Y is profitable"
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@cryptgoat yeah, like I understand their team is probably stretched thin and really frustrated with how they get treated by media and other AOSP projects, but it's just so exhausting to see all the time
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@raulmatias@mstdn.social @gbargoud@masto.nyc @davidgerard@circumstances.run I mean I would be surprised if someone like that isn't already
GitHub has been basically unusable in the browser for me the last 3 days. CSS doesn't load, refreshing or going back randomly breaks/fixes pages, etc. I'm very thankful my work is mostly on GitLab, but looking at libraries on GitHub has become nearly impossible
If anyone ever tries to tell me programming isn't art I'm going to show them Duff's Device
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@CountHoldem@mastodon.social @MissConstrue@mefi.social afaik the Catholic Church takes no official (i.e. doctrinal) position on evolution since it's outside the realm of doctrine. Just like it has no doctrinal teaching on the shape of the earth or most other matters of science
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io seems like a craving for power, not through being empowered but rather through having power over another
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social @forpeterssake@mastodon.xyz @mayintoronto@beige.party my physics prof was similar based on what I saw and heard from the women in the class. But his wife was an ethics professor and he frequently brought up how she was a much better professor than he was, so I credit her for how good he was
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@MichaelTBacon@social.coop @davidgerard@circumstances.run yep and unfortunately as a somewhat recent grad I'd have no choice but to take them up on it. I've had temporary positions in academia for the past year which are ending soon, and with the current programming job market (and having gotten used to the entry-level academia salary) I'd take that in a heartbeat. I know lots of CS undergrads who are looking for low-paying positions and jobs in other fields to "ride out the storm" (if there's anything on the other side)
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@odr_k4tana @GossiTheDog I really would have liked to see another group who was only given the test questions without the prior "practice" questions. That could have shown whether AI use directly decreased performance or if it merely made the practice less effective
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@MrLovenstein yesterday I said "you too" to the cashier at the bookstore when they said "you're all set!"
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@woe2you@beige.party @catsalad@infosec.exchange x and z are also sometimes ok only if they represent 3d coordinates along with y
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@pierogiburo oooo this is actually really cool, I wonder if this could be useful in a term rewriting context
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@iwritelike I code and use Markdown for basically anything I type on my computer (even like notes to self, etc.) unless there's math involved, then it's LaTeX/Typst
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@dingodog19 @MostlyBlindGamer if I'm gonna do something wonky like this I usually just treat my fingers as binary digits. that gets you to 31 on one hand, 1023 with both
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run I mean stuff like ssh terminal.shop is a move in that direction
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@the_wub @teohhanhui @Gargron honestly the closest thing to that button right now is the install buttons for Zen, Librewolf, and Waterfox. All 3 have stated they will not include any AI features
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@the_wub @teohhanhui @Gargron I really doubt it would get to that point, since at the very least the Tor Browser is based on Firefox and has to be able to remove the AI cruft, and I'm reasonably confident that it has enough backing to be able to remove that stuff regardless.
It will always be possible to remove these things in forks, but they could make it much harder. Like with the tabs example, Zen has tabs in a side panel, and Floorp can place tabs below navigation, or even at the window bottom. Forks can still make it happen, but it's harder.
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@darrenverhage@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social do they really? The registrant used a whois hiding service
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@stevelieber@mastodon.social at least one of the 3 team members seems to have successfully launched Solder Ninja on crowd supply, and although I had never heard of it before, that gives me some hope that at least this will hopefully make it to launch. And after that point if things go South it should hopefully be modifiable by the community.
My only concern is this line on their website: "We’ll share the files once the final version of the product is ready, to prevent malfunctions and avoid having multiple inconsistent versions." That leads me to worry that they might keep pushing back the "final version" and the company could go under before releasing the source code. Also licensing code through Creative Commons is very odd, and not recommended by CC (except for CC0)
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@simon the fact that I wasn't taught about arena allocators in college is despicable, especially since I took all of the low-level/systems courses my university offered
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@geospacedman@mastodon.social is it okay? Absolutely 100%. Could it potentially jeopardize your job? For many people yes. But if you have the freedom to do so without serious consequences, it sounds like a good option
EDIT: I misread. I didn't see it said conference talks. In that case 100% yes
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@bruceoberg@xoxo.zone @codinghorror@infosec.exchange it doesn't seem easy since the post implies that Claude Desktop reinstalls it if you remove it. I suppose you could replace your browser shortcut with a script that removes it before launching the browser, but that sounds like a horrible fix, and who knows if it can be installed mid-session
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@thirstybear@agilodon.social @designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud @craignicol@glasgow.social it's like the CAP theorem: you can only have at most 2 of the following: AI use, efficiency, and correctness. It's obvious which one to cut :)
Hard to believe I worked on improving the performance of a logic programming language before ever actually using one, but that day has finally come!
Prolog is lots of fun. It's also really nice how easy it makes it to play around with ASTs and type theory
I really need to hold myself back from implementing a Wayland VNC server. I know there's wayvnc, but it's been crashing lately on my remaining Hyprland PC, and it doesn't support KDE (yes I regularly use Sway, Hyprland, and KDE)
The RFB (VNC) protocol is ridiculously simple compared to something like HTTP. The hard part would really be interfacing with the various desktop environments. XDG portals makes that a little easier but I'm not sure how much.
I really don't have time for this right now but it's soooo tempting
From a Blender Bottle
Tuna fans when threena walks in: :scaredycat:
Just saw Conan O'Brien randomly while on a walk in Boston
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social I've been looking for an excuse to try out the Milk-V boards. I did not expect it to be this
The fact that SWI-Prolog doesn't document things that are covered by the ISO standard would be understandable, however the fact that acquiring a copy of that standard costs 500 USD makes it incredibly annoying. I can't even find a solid grammar of even a full description of the types of comments that it supports beyond the fact that you can nest comments in SWI-Prolog and not in ISO
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@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @20002ist@thepit.social yep, I also have a USB-C to USB-C cable that only works if the ends are in the correct orientation
@phooky what's that? You need your hands to be able to write, type, eat, etc? Those are things of the past. Embrace the way of the claw or be left behind