Notices by Leonard Ritter (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@sinbad "why am i bleeding?" me after assembling my last PC

@sinbad i remember a time when not only was there a fat manual in the box, the appendix had a blueprint of the circuit board so you could fix e.g. capacity issues yourself

gotta say, douglas adams prepared me better for our absurd future than isaac asimov. like, spending hours explaining to a replicator AI how to make an excellent cup of tea, only to have the AI then lock up 100% of the ships computers resources mid-battle as it tries to comply with the request, that does seem like an increasingly more plausible scenario than a scientist planning a techno cult centuries in advance to prevent a great calamity

@andrewrk oh by the way, since i'm skipping LLVM for the new compiler, the only backend i work on now is C, and only GCC can optimize this crap r/n.

would it make more sense to target zig instead, and is it even feasible?

generated code looks like this:
https://gist.github.com/paniq/2dc23f916909519326374c769b04cc92
(presently #line instructions are missing; i would like to provide column info as well tbh but cpp doesn't let me)

it only depends on this header file:
https://hg.sr.ht/~duangle/scopes/browse/include/noir.h?rev=tip

you see, lots of cpp macro use.

@andrewrk problem statement? it works fine but it could be better. LLVM is too much work because of lack of C ABI support.

@floooh we had this in scopes since 2016. but i'm not even mad, because i'm already ten steps ahead.

once i had written the whole thing and was able to use the same functions for both targets, it became clear during work that refactoring was still hard, because building pipelines is too convoluted in imperative languages, and not well defined in functional ones.

well guess what, after chewing on this for two years i have a path to glory now. and nobody's gonna steal it because it is too alien.

@andrewrk @floooh i'm just goading y'all. secretly i hope someone's going "unstealable, you say? too alien huh? WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT..."

but seriously, that C syntax. do you LIKE having carpal tunnel syndrome? ;)

@floooh oh when it's all in C syntax, stuffed full of commas, semicolons and curly braces, THEN you like it!

@sinbad i'm just a different kind of fun %)

@sinbad but even this is gameable unless the sampling was done uniformly, because a bad actor can just try to get as many lottery tickets as possible. you could found clubs that make promises to its members should anyone of the group get elected, basically, just a larger scale "party line" implementation

@sinbad sounds absurd, but we do randomized sampling a lot in computing and it yields results.

i would absolutely embrace communism if there were like, a couple communist service providers in my area to choose between on a monthly subscription basis, and they would all adhere to a basic set of humanist rules enforced by an impartial power of sorts, and they had some kind of incentive to do good work.

@sinbad our heating turns on automatically around the freeze point, and that's mandatory or our pipes break. hot-water bags cover the intermediate time.

zero is the german pronounciation, correct is thero

@clarity would you say that, just as with garlic, there can never be enough love?

what is our stance on anthropocentrism?

@inthehands a few months ago, AGI was supposed to be around the corner, now we get this headline https://qz.com/openai-five-level-system-human-intelligence-ai-1851588122 - they are managing expectations. soon it's "achieving stage 2 will take longer than assumed". it's bear time.

"no politics" is the perfect non sequitur

e.g. *whacks the croissant off your breakfast plate* "i said NO POLITICS!"

makes you wonder what this is about. is it because the croissant is french? does this relate to the french not wanting to co-invade iraq in 2003? or is it because the croissant looks both like two dicks and the horns of satan, and thus promotes homosexuality? or is it due to the flagrant use of butter in the recipe, alluding to Jim Field Smith’s butter-carving satire Butter?

gonna publish two nice big 600 page hardcover tomes, one titled "politics", the other "no politics" and they are both just filled with noise textures

still can't get over that github ticket. you say the words "gender neutral" and all hell breaks loose. douche dev mumbles something about "no politics" because all he does between his porn sessions is to get lit and hang out on /b/. he gets milkshake ducked, kids create github accounts just to grandstand to him, and then the incel clowncar rolls up, the doors open, and out bounces an unholy conga line of death cultists ready to storm the capitol again. is it 2015? do we still do this?