Notices by Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one), page 5

@fribbledom I'd say that about the language design. The implementations have to be advanced, though, to support that kind of ease of use, with garbage collection and built-in threading and all.
That's how it tends to be; an easier-to-implement language like C is harder to use, but a harder-to-implement language like #Golang is easier to use.

Well, rarely; it doesn't do it every time. It's pretty strange

Waiting for the day Firefox fixes the bug where touchpad pinch-to-zoom on Wayland opens the search bar and changes your search engine... 🙂 weird.

@sleepybisexual When fighting some of the DLC I find it very helpful to focus more on *not getting hit* rather than *hitting the opponent*, you know? At least I see advice for that mentality in the Sheik community; might not be as useful for other fighters.

@FiveEyeTea I like the idea of my devices requiring both a passcode *and* a fingerprint, since fingerprints can't be stolen by "shoulder-surfing" and security footage, and copies of your passcode aren't left on everything you touch (e.g. more or less like fingerprints), and it is hard to force someone to give up their passcode if they *really* don't want to (unlike with fingerprints).

@FiveEyeTea I had heard something like that. I'll remember that, thanks.

@FiveEyeTea Interesting - never use biometrics? I'd have mine require a passcode and my fingerprint, but Samsung doesn't seem to offer the option...

Found it, part of my ASCII.s stdlib. Came up with a change, which compiles to about 24 bytes, compared to about 55 bytes, but uses a loop. These print out the tenths, hundredths, and thousandths places of a decimal number; I think I'll keep the former code, since it is branchless, I/O aside, and since I might want to remove the thousandths place anyway (since Q16+8 numbers aren't quite that precise).

It is too late. Off to some sleep 😕

Yeah, definitely appears to be part of that function. That's modulo code for sure, too.

I'm finding this sequence multiple times; part of it or exactly this keeps on appearing in my compiler's output. I think it's performing a modulo by the Q16+8 value 10.0, then converting the number to ASCII then printing it. Part of the Q16+8 decimal print function, I think.
(Also - 0x30 is ASCII '0', not 'H')
#assembly

Can't believe I've gotten to the point where I'm looking through hex and disassembling code with a table of opcodes and [pseudo]register specs. Never thought I'd get here. Didn't even know that this "here" existed when I was young.

@system76 Want

I was looking at an aquarium, watching the fish swim, and thought it would be cool if there were creatures that could swim through the air. Then I realized that those are basically just birds....
#justMusing #birds #fish

@royal Oh that's bad.
Thankfully on most setups the TV/monitor is separate, so you can hit mute without the Roku knowing right ..? For now anyway ..!

Besides, executables are generally produced from a very high level, from a compiler. Why add complexity and subjectiveness to make hex dumps easier to read (for example)?

Address spaces are in ascending order, but for writing numbers, place value is in *descending* order. In my opinion, the little-endian byte order gets it technically right by having a consistent and logical order, just ascending. The big-endian byte order mixes the two, with addresses increasing but byte "place-value" descending.

#endianness #computing #ISA

I'm glad Trump survived, not because I think the US needs him (I don't think that) but because I'm glad political violence failed to hit the target. #democracy

@Gargron Didn't think you posted this kind of content...

@christopher I didn't expect him to say that at all, I wonder if he really means it or has a different reason....