Notices by mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)

I think 1000 lines of code is the perfect length for a computer program

@david42 a large system made of many interacting components, each of which is no more than 1000 lines, could be very satisfying to work with.

@david42 if the library provides a complete enough encapsulation layer you don't have to think about it, it's a win. if i wound up forking the library and submitting bugfixes and feature improvements, it's still a win because i can think in a simpler model at the toplevel 1000-line program but less of one.

@evan The verbs are not the same and the communities are not the same. When I am publishing, I post subtly different streams based on the differing interests of my friends on the two sites, and I word things differently based on perceived attention spans and Mastodon's improved support for longform content (longer posts, bluesky UI fails on threads longer than 3 posts). On bluesky I post less stuff and the stuff I do post is simplified.

@evan Oh. No, I just installed both apps.

@evan I do not think the bridge matches my model of how I use either website

I like having Bluesky because it is a non-Twitter, non-Facebook space where I can hear from all my friends who are unable or unwilling to use Mastodon (a site with real barriers to entry). I haven't talked to a lot of those folks much since 2022 and I missed them.

I have intricate arguments why Bluesky is the wrong technical model for a distributed social network. But if a person has already decided *for nontechnical reasons* that they aren't using Mastodon, those arguments mean nothing to them

Do you ever see a line in a piece of documentation that just makes you angry

A thought I have had over and over for the last six months is "I wish instead of getting a 'job' I could just do work and get paid for it". When I have this thought I consider posting it but I'm afraid people will think it's a joke

I will never stop being angry about the fact that the web browsers shipped WebAudio, allowed me to create eight separate web applications based on it, then changed the WebAudio standard such that anything written before that date was permanently muted with no way for the user to unmute it

The reason I will never stop being angry about this is I keep running into new situations where I am harmed by it

@0xabad1dea I don't know if I'm saying something you already know or something that will shock you but this is actually safe on Windows now (for drives classed as removable media)

A question I don't expect to get an answer to:

Say I am in Tokyo, Japan, I want to get a rolly suitcase which is "too big to carry on, just not too big to be checked luggage", I would like to buy something that lasts years and will pay more to get it, and I have enough time budget from this I could subway somewhere from Ikebukuro happily.

Where's good to go?

I know Don Quixote luggage is crap that falls apart. Is Muji luggage good?

Customs official who sits at the border of dreams and decides which ideas you're allowed to bring back out to the waking world

But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

Was completely convinced that the image was AI generated but no it turns out mushrooms just look like that

@ireneista the console was 1981. It ruled the Japanese market for a while because it had the Japanese market to itself. But then the SG1000, Famicom etc dropped all together in a similar window, and the Cassette Vision dropped away quick.

You can kinda think of Cassette Vision as a bridge between the pre-console "TV Game"s and consoles proper (two of the games were ported "TV game"s). So it's more like, it's 1982, you're trying to recreate cutting age arcade games using "pong" style hardware

*Walks in the door, first thing I see* WHAT!!!

Okay, this is the arcade everyone insists to me is the biggest and most retroiest in the area. This is my best bet to satisfy my desire to play some original Gradius series cabinets. If I find nothing interesting in here, this will be the last post in this thread.

All of my respect to Sex

Is that good

(It's not very good, I can do better at home gradewise if nothing else. In my defense I was adjusting to a new control surface?)