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2024-11-18 04:58:18

I love how students in Japan who don't join a school club are said to be part of the "going home" club ( 帰宅部 = きたくぶ ). That's my club!

2024-09-24 16:18:00

Thinking about multi-line string literal syntax where each line starts with a quote character ("), and only the last line has an end quote ... like it's a fantasy novel and a character is going off on a multi-paragraph monologue.
"hello this
"is a multiline string literal
"and it ends
"on this line"
The purpose of " at the beginning of each line (after the first) is so you can do indentation without affecting the contents. Also each line can be lexed independently.

2024-09-18 21:56:16

i implemented a vanilla extract delivery mechanism (waffles)

2024-08-30 20:05:29

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@npub1yrl…8gpm case in point ... 16K has 15360 horizontal pixels. that doesn't even round to 16K.
https://cdn.masto.host/gamedevlgbt/media_attachments/files/113/052/761/247/687/594/original/b10db474ced186c7.png

2024-08-30 19:56:56

man I knew 4K was a bullshit term for 2160p but i never realized how bullshit -- it's not even 4000 pixels wide
https://cdn.masto.host/gamedevlgbt/media_attachments/files/113/052/732/197/285/277/original/d8c32144dcf6730d.png

2024-08-27 13:48:21

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@npub1qu5…4evr is the font supposed to look like this ?
https://cdn.masto.host/gamedevlgbt/media_attachments/files/113/034/292/420/305/918/original/4c80388dfd3e67fe.png

2024-08-25 08:32:31

i would like an alternative for the words "man" and "woman" that applies to me (and that could apply to other folks who aren't men or women), that isn't generic like "person", but also isn't a built on a negative like "enby" (which comes from "non-binary" -- i'd like a positive construction, not a negative one). i'm looking for a noun, not an adjective.
(also i would like such a word in portuguese as well. but i think it may be easier to find or build such a word in english.)

2024-08-18 03:34:21

here's some tips for working with people for whom English is not a first language:
1. do not assume their inability to communicate in a form of English that makes you comfortable has any bearing on their intelligence or ability to do the job.
2. do not condescend or get angry if they ask questions.
3. do not use a lot of slang and idioms on purpose to trip them up.
4. do not correct them, you're not here to teach them English, they're not here to learn English. stay focused on the job.

2024-08-12 17:38:30

are there any open (or open-ish) world games where the focus is on exploration, not combat, that you recommend? games like outer wilds & a short hike, for example.

2024-08-10 23:13:07

dear programmers: underscores are free, you don't need to smushallthewordstogether, andCamelCaseIsNotGoodEnoughBtw

2024-08-10 14:22:37

the Sea programming language.
it's exactly like C but instead of calling it undefined behavior, they say "you will drown".

2024-07-10 11:58:50

programming languages are actually a massive distraction from the main job of a programmer, which is to weep

2024-07-10 06:45:29

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our new "just making things up"-powered algorithm will revolutionize your workflow

2024-07-10 06:45:02

browser extension that replaces AI with "just making things up"

2024-07-02 20:31:24

so, i'm sad about what's happening in america. and given america's prominence in world politics, it's scary to think how the continued slide into fascism in america will affect the rest of the world.
but i'm also really tired of hearing americans say "this is the end of democracy on earth" or "this is the end of humanity" or whatever. fuck off. america isn't the whole world or "the best country" or whatever. that kind of thinking is exactly what led to trumpism.

2024-06-29 20:32:16

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself in front of his computer trying to read a regular expression.

2024-06-29 20:17:29

OH "when i was little, i used to see a lot of videos on youtube"
oh ow. ok. i need to sit down.

2024-06-19 00:05:40

a broken clock is right twice a day.
but if we remove the hour pointer, it's right once per hour.
if we also remove the minute pointer, it's right once per minute.
if we remove the seconds pointer, it's always right.
at this point you don't really need the clock face, so you can just look at a wall and say that, it's always right.

2024-06-09 23:09:40

people who say Rust is a functional language ... what's the argument there?

2024-06-06 09:20:27

turn all your code into legacy code with this one weird trick (going on vacation)

2024-06-05 20:07:07

at the elevator, an old japanese lady asked me what floor we're going to. i didn't know the proper counter so i said "hachi". she said "ah nihongo dekinai".
i died.

2024-06-04 11:57:42

ok hot take, but if you have a problem and you think "i know, i'll just make a library / game engine / virtual machine / programming language / operating system / whatever so i can abstract away this problem" now you have infinitely many problems

2024-05-23 00:47:05

C library functions are always like: "SYNOPSIS. This function converts foos into bars depending on the user locale. ARGUMENTS. src and dest pointers must be distinct; it is undefined behavior if they are not QPU-aligned. RETURN VALUE. Returns the number of foos converted. A zero value indicates failure, or that zero foos were converted. A negative value indicates that the final foo was only partially converted (function got tired). Check this global variable to find out why."

2024-05-19 10:18:12

user: hello company, i would like to access your main product, you know, the one people come to you for, the main thing
company: HAVE YOU HEARD OF A I

2024-05-16 19:15:48

you want types because you want the compiler to prevent people from writing bad code.
i want types because i want the compiler to help me write good code.
we are not the same.

2024-05-14 22:49:51

"dependency injection" has to be the worst way to say "calling a function with some arguments"

2024-04-30 22:53:56

wow thanks wiktionary, this really clears it up
https://cdn.masto.host/gamedevlgbt/media_attachments/files/112/362/624/345/709/880/original/8f42340436204c1c.png

2024-04-22 23:54:48

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how does this system handle dates before 1 CE? it's easy! in the spirit of unicode han unification, we use out-of-band signaling to determine if the year is positive or negative 😊 just change the font! if the month letter is written in a serif font, then the year is negative.

2024-04-22 23:38:17

new date system idea: YMDD where:
- the month is represented by a letter of the alphabet (e.g. A is jAnuary, B is feBruary, C is marCh, D is aprilD, ...)
- the day is represented by two decimal digits
- the year is represented by the corresponding unicode codepoint 😊
so that would make today's date:
ߨD22

2024-04-22 23:02:28

what do we call month/day order confusion.
dates are a strong point against working only with positional arguments.

2024-04-22 04:11:04

is stack allocation (including call frames & locals) just a game of russian roulette ... ?
i can't be the only one who thinks this is weird.

2024-04-21 04:24:06

In the long term, all corporate logos evolve toward an uppercase lambda Λ, resembling the letter 'A' with the bottom stroke missing, usually depicted in blue or blueish grey tones. This evolutionary process is known as lambdinization.

2024-04-16 21:59:06

someone should make a programming language called recursion scheme.
it's like scheme, except it doesn't have general recursion, you have to use catamorphisms.

2024-04-12 13:28:51

imagine growing up with supportive parents who got you diagnosis and accommodations for autism
and then turning around and complaining about other autistic adults who had to grow up without that, for not having a diagnosis, because they didn't have supportive parents

2024-04-03 01:47:32

mini-announcement: I've decided to publish Yotta.
Yotta is a forth-like language with a very small core. In the beginning, all you can do is:
- emit machine code,
- emit machine code that emits machine code,
- define new words ... that emit machine code
With just those primitives we define an x86-64 assembler, and from there we use that assembler to define most of a forth.
Check it out: https://github.com/typeswitch-dev/yotta/

2024-03-29 16:01:56

a woman who loves two women who love her back and also each other, call that a trêsbien

2024-03-22 14:54:20

psa, if you are of the correct opinion that Apple should not get to dictate what software its customers can put on their Apple-brand mobile devices that they paid for, then you should also be of the same opinion with respect to Nintendo and Sony and their respective consoles and other hardware, thank you

2024-03-21 15:16:57

DOJ antitrust case against Apple has this delicious morsel.
https://mastodon.social/@owa/112134268098124996
https://cdn.masto.host/gamedevlgbt/media_attachments/files/112/134/333/346/035/494/original/55ef9c0a8b6cd761.png

2024-03-21 00:07:42

there once was a lamp that could turn anyone into a woman by merely standing in its light. people came from far and wide to see it, but to their dismay the lamp was rarely lit. for this lamp ran on a special fuel, and that fuel was heavily guarded. it had all been gathered up and stored in a fortress, and that fortress had only one way in or out, through a big iron gate. the only way to get the fuel was to get permission from the person in charge of the gate, the girl light gas keep gate boss.

2024-03-20 15:30:27

spicy take: the EU should just bar Apple from selling any mobile devices & tablets in the EU, until Apple "solves" the issue of being unable to open up their devices. It sounds like Apple just aren't ready to cater to a digital single market, and that's okay, they can just not participate.

2024-03-20 00:54:23

i don't like it when people talk about coinductive types having constructors. they don't.

2024-03-11 20:58:48

let's just all go back to irc.
yes really.

2024-03-10 00:23:22

i am increasingly not a fan of comments and replies. the social part of social media. if i post something and did not specifically ask for feedback, why do people feel it is warranted. why must every video have a comment section attached. why must you explain my joke to me.
starting to think reactions ought to be quote tweets or analogous by default. replies should be manually approved.
what do you think? what's your perspective? (this is a request for replies to this post)

2024-03-10 00:23:22

2024-02-28 10:31:48

when i was growing up i had to learn about monads the hard way. the first thing i learned was that monads are like burritos. then i had to learn what a burrito is. i had a burrito for the first time. it was great. then i learned that monads were not like burritos at all and i had just wasted my time if all i wanted to learn was about monads. but burritos were actually quite tasty. the real monad tutorial was the burritos we learned about along the way.

2024-02-26 21:51:58

we should run a universal basic income trial in reverse, where we charge participants a certain amount every month to see if it improves their lives.
oh wait, that's just neoliberalism.

2024-02-26 20:33:50

an issue with automatic translation is that it can translate english sentences in the past tense, into target language sentences in "some" past tense, but without context it's fairly likely to choose the wrong past tense... languages can have more than one past tense, and that very much affects the meaning.

2024-02-25 14:21:10

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2024-02-22 23:45:25

proprietary software has such a huge lock-in effect, because:
- it costs money to buy,
- it costs time to learn, and
- even if you find an alternative that works for you, you can't just open your existing projects on that alternative. if you're lucky there's a way to import the old projects, but you'll still need to put in a lot of work fixing them up.
so all in all, it's no surprise that once a proprietary software is "good enough" it just sticks around forever . . . then gets worse over time

2024-02-21 18:52:27

is there a fediverse github alternative

2024-02-07 22:26:19

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Muting this thread for me because the notifications are too much. A couple quick notes:
1. I'm not saying that big tech companies make software poorly. I'm saying they make software designed to exploit you, they can get away with it, it sucks by design, and there's no alternative.
2. The monopolies affect you even if you enjoy their products & services, because who knows what alternatives (& what 3rd-party vendors) you might have enjoyed, which don't have a chance to exist under their "rule".

2024-02-07 19:10:40

tech monopolies are to blame for why software sucks so much.
software sucks because it's all developed with the intent to form exploitative monopolies. once a monopoly is established, they turn up the user- and vendor-hostile practices.
as long as tech monopolies are viable & lucrative, software will continue to suck.
could software not suck, under capitalism? maybe, but it requires severe punishment for anti-competitive practices.
the crisis in software was a crisis in capitalism all along.

2024-02-07 19:10:40

2024-02-05 16:47:19

christians stop embedding christianity into law challenge

2024-01-17 15:27:59

wth blizzard
it might be less effort to program a computer to solve this capcha, than to actually do it ten times . . .
https://cdn.masto.host/gamedevlgbt/media_attachments/files/111/771/982/848/935/988/original/2ee2d67f483ea49b.png

2023-12-27 09:47:34

"there's no cross-platform way to do this" but it turns out there was a cross-platform way to do it but one of windows or mac doesn't support it because someone at those companies decided they wanted to do it in a different way from everyone else, and as a result every program has to either pick one platform to not support, or it has to do everything in two different ways

2023-12-18 07:49:24

society suffers from "the status quo is always morally correct" syndrome, but the parts that have it and the parts that suffer are not the same

2023-12-07 02:18:13

when we make programming languages we must ask, who or what do we make them for?

2023-12-01 00:25:53

wow guys i built an ai assistant and it's way smarter than any LLM check it out
https://cdn.masto.host/gamedevlgbt/media_attachments/files/111/502/300/035/825/746/original/504ede5e07035eba.png
https://cdn.masto.host/gamedevlgbt/media_attachments/files/111/502/312/507/449/672/original/9c62cfdf5fb63819.png

2023-11-25 23:57:53

life hack: you can eat instant ramen without cooking or seasoning it, just break it into pieces and eat them like chips, it's fine
shitty life hack: and hold on to that instant ramen seasoning packet , you might need it for later , ,

2023-10-23 02:20:10

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@npub1yrl…8gpm ha!
though actually "do or do not ... " should typecheck and have type (FreeBoolean x -> FreeBolean x) assuming not, or are appropriately overloaded to work on any boolean algebra (and not just Bool).
the `or do not ...` is in the reader monad.

2023-10-23 02:20:10

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2023-10-23 02:10:59

the free boolean algebra functor is a monad,
so with BlockArguments you can
do not do ...

2023-10-23 02:10:59

the free boolean algebra functor is a monad,
so with BlockArguments you can
do not do ...

2023-10-21 23:15:14

personal computing, not "this device effectively belongs to the corporation and if you look at it wrong way you are going to hell" computing, tyvm

2023-09-26 17:46:25

*fires everyone*
nobody wants to work anymore!

2023-09-15 23:37:16

🐱

2023-09-14 17:27:21

LB When I think of Ancient Rome, I think of colonization. I think of how everything Europe did in the last many centuries was presaged by Ancient Romans conquering Europe and decimating local culture by force. I think of the propagation of this culture of conquest and "civilization" (as a verb). Anyone putting those guys on a pedestal needs to wake tf up.

2023-08-18 18:12:53

The Original Sin of Eve was not that she ate of the Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge at the center of the Garden of Eden. It was that she ate of the Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge at the center of the Garden of Eden *illegally*, without going through the proper channels. She did not pay the convenience fee nor the service fee nor the sales taxes, nor did she sign the privacy policy nor the end user license agreement nor the user generated conte

2023-07-03 08:40:54

“People are starving.
The rich gobble taxes,
that’s why people are starving.
People rebel.
The rich oppress them,
that’s why people rebel.
People hold life cheap.
The rich make it too costly,
that’s why people hold it cheap.
But those who don’t live for the sake of living
are worth more than the wealth-seekers.”
Excerpt From: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, English translation by Ursula K. Le Guin.

2023-05-25 18:17:20

but they were all of them deceived, for in secret, intel had made another ring

2023-05-01 01:06:18

"how do magnets work?" great question; "magnets" are short for "magical networks" and they work by having the tiny metal wizards all pointing in the same direction,