Notices by Jessica Paquette (barrelshifter@mastodon.social)

man cmake really is a box of surprises

zombie free zones in green

also before I started moving I didn’t know rabies is mostly just a North America thing and that the rest of the world really really does not want the zombie virus

Unfortunately I paid in full and there are reviews popping up about the company saying that they’ve been dropping the ball and not refunding people so uh that’s great

The cat saga continues: the pet relocation guy won’t respond to me and keeps coming up with weird excuses to not buy a plane ticket so I’m just…. going to fly the cat myself with a friend and figure out the pet import process on my own?

anyway if you’re ever moving to Japan from a part of the world where rabies exists and want to move a pet uh hmu and I can tell you how to do it

i got my boyfriend my coworker’s book for christmas

christmas in tokyo

a lot of the time folks (including me) say things like “the compiler produces a program that behaves in the same way as the program the user wrote”, which isn’t wrong, but also not great phrasing, because it makes it sound kind of like the tools are lying to the user

and ime when you say stuff like this people’s eyes kinda bug out a little like you’ve let them in on some sort of horrible secret

maybe it’d be better to describe code as a behaviour specification to folks that don’t work on tools versus as programs on abstract machines or whatever we usually say

the phrasing “the program the user wrote” versus “the program the compiler produces” being different is kind of nonsensical anyway because like, the “program the user wrote” lives in a different plane of existence than the program they physically can realize on any machine

it’s like, some flatland shit, really

I’m just going to call it a target tuple until people forget the term “triple” exists

@mcc the fact that crosstool-ng exists says a lot about building gcc

@steve a few people did run after it!

if you live in japan on cold days a guy in a truck will show up blasting a roasted sweet potato song and sell you a potato

honestly baffling how quickly people can just decide that “x is the way things have always been”

“women have never been interested in computers or programming”

“we have lived in american style suburbs for hundreds of years”

even when there’s direct evidence to the contrary if things are one way for like 20 years people will literally assume it’s been that way since time immaterial

@inthehands i’m proud of my contributions to higher education

Every teacher I've ever had has told me C is dead, but, C, very alive, continues to defy them

https://reviews.llvm.org/D148417