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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 07:26:23 JST 
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watching some old JRPG on youtube and i dunno if its rose color goggles but like
i remember them often having relatively unique mechanics. when i browsed the steam category recently it was just like. remakes and recycles. :blobcatwaitwhat:
maybe its always been like that and i'm just not filtering the weird ones in anymore -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 06:35:35 JST
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i don't know how the ploopy bean is meant to be used. a trackpoint goes under the index finger and the mouse clicks go below the spacebar. this is a mouse shaped thing with the nipple in the center. :blobcatwaitwhat: are you meant to like use your middle finger to point and other fingers on the clicker keys? -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 06:33:59 JST
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apparently the hard job of sitting in a storage box took its toll on this and after mostly working yesterday its cooked today.
yeah probably not going to order protoarc stuff again. a touch pad has no moving parts and sitting in a normal temperature room in a laptop bag for a year isn't exactly stressful on parts. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 06:27:00 JST
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protoarc touchpad fumbling some touches
:comfyglare: maybe i do need a ploopy one then
using the desktop touch pad right now cause i need a break from the buttons -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 06:11:30 JST
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what if we wrote our own hydrus in ocaml (no) -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 06:11:29 JST
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actually some blobs did mew about people are sorta dissatisfied with hydrus i guess?
it does seem like a mountain of jank but its been doing the job -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 06:08:11 JST
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> data hoarders
i might have been one of those if i had the budget for it :gutkato_konsternita:
i just watch shows and delete them. very few do i feel nostalgic enough to watch again. problem is there's never a way to know which one of those it will be.
would probably make for a silly narrative incremental game too. a game about hoarding shit on a NAS, hiding your illegal anime from the police, and like trading rare series for clout -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:51:25 JST
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streamer bought a real vtuber av and got rid of their snail :(
even the pet is some scorpion thing and not a different snail. sage. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:45:42 JST
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ocaml unsafe statements are pretty disciplined compared to what ended up happening later
c#/rust: :blobcatsipsweat: we might need to do this so throw in the unsafe block that completely sends everything to hell
ocaml: :neocat_sweat: we might need to do this so throw in a very specific keyword that allows exactly one type of bad behavior locally
c/nim: :comfystoner: safety is an illusion take your life in to your own hands -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:42:29 JST
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@phnt @menherahair @romin it's not even worth the pain. i used the no-pain version as a flatpak and ultimately threw it away. its very basic. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:41:49 JST
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> Why "OCaml at home" plausibly bombs less as a hypothetical Nix-alternative:
:neocat_cool: ML gang -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:19:18 JST
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@phnt tldr just install the flatpak thats all they support anyway -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:18:35 JST
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@phnt the C++ites always have copes about this, too. "it's the optimizer thats why its slow" -> then why does the debug build still take 20 minutes? "it must be the type safety" -> ocaml runs circles around you.
i think with rust one of the devs said its something about MIR is basically bombarded with a lot of crap and they just never task anyone to optimize it because they seriously don't see anything wrong with unnecessarily slow build times.
the hard typing folk are slowly starting to embrace algebraic effects, too, which replace a whole lot of control flow cancer which used to be stuck to "use CPS and pray" with "actually it now follows this very simply explained, predictable pattern" which just happens to let you also make assertions like "that function path can never 'panic'" because it just literally never passes panic as an effect
rust has given us the proof of concept of the borrow checker and that is its sole contribution to mankind. :blobcatbox: we should steal it and set it free -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:14:53 JST
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@phnt it was built and is used by browser brained people. you're not meant to reproduce things you're just meant to ship by github-ci and "stable" versions of software mean "whatever binary got uploaded to github in the release stage."
i have little credible complaints with the language itself. the compile speed was ass, though, and it has the C++ behavior of "who cares if productivity is low" and the JavaScript behavior of "expecting to build sold software* is a meme"
*except by old they mean the stable build is an ancient relic from the beforetimes -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:05:41 JST
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@kura yeah its just wild that haxe has shipped to consoles.
(mostly because of shiro, though. the guy who made haxe runs the place.)
been eyeing the haxe-gdscript module lately -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:02:16 JST
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@kura dead cells sold quite ok -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 05:00:50 JST
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> unless jane street wants it, ocaml doesn't have it
that relationship is exponentially less toxic than adacore.
its more like jane street likes ocaml so they paid for some yak shaves, and everyone else just goes "i'd have to shave some yaks so i'm going back to C" and would rather spend more time debugging segfaults the whole time
someone was like "why do the devs for smaller langs go so hard" and if i had to guess its because they made the other judgement; shaving a couple of yaks is the price to pay to have no runtime errors. (haxe games are not very common, but they are *never* buggy.) -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 04:58:04 JST
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@phnt the amount of rust crates that depended on nightly is one of the reasons i bailed on that community.
the language itself is discount ML but the culture is still entirely javascript -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 04:57:00 JST
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> stuff is on sale
steam i am currently poor please stop talking to me for a few weeks :ablobcatgooglytenor: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 07:20:36 JST
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thats as far as we got today.. my hands to crumpled to do more :\
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