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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 12:50:38 JST 
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 11:40:12 JST
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I'm neither a FreeBSD folk nor a Rust folk but that looks like a library version mismatch to me - is your libc++ the one that came with your 13.2 system? The symbol it's missing might be new in 13.3. (Not sure whether there's a feasible way to get a 13.3 libc++ without upgrading the whole system, your path of least resistance might be finding a 13.2 rust package.) -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 11:34:00 JST
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Hey, I'm within half a decade of under 40, and I last wrote a cheque last week. -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 02:11:45 JST
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Thing I said today: "If I don't like it, I'll tell everybody I know that I hated it and they should read it so they can agree with me that it's terrible."
(I'm sure all the #BSDCan people will know exactly who I said it to and approximately about what.) -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 10:49:05 JST
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@firefly_lightning @silverwizard Racket is a variant of Scheme, designed by people who have put a lot of thought into programming and how to teach it, and does a good job of the space it's in. The downside is that its structure is (partly by historical accident) not very much like most programming languages that most people consider "serious".
And as annoying as web browsers are, CGI is still the easiest way to get a GUI, followed by "whatever your dev tooling thinks is native", with anything else way behind. -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 09:31:01 JST
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@firefly_lightning If you want to learn the foundations well and don't mind taking the long way around? Start with Racket and work through HtDP <htdp.org/>. (Racket probably even has a way to build GUI programs on any system you can install it on.)
If you want to get a to-do list manager up and running? Use Perl to shuffle things in and out of the database, use CGI and a web browser for the GUI, and that'll put you in the space where you can ask @silverwizard for help when you get stuck. -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 05:17:55 JST
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@silverwizard Nonono, a cold spare is a flashlight sitting next to a fresh unopened package of batteries on a shelf in the closet.
Tell him the optimal redundancy strategy for a flashlight is a warm spare (ready to hand with the batteries in but not powered on). -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 15-Dec-2022 09:33:55 JST
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LifeTouch, for grad photos. To access anything from the actual photo session (paid for up front before you get the chance to pay more for prints) requires a session ID (from the receipt they gave me when they were taken), an access code (from the "OK, we finally updated our database" email), *plus* the name of the person the photos are of. I had to call customer service, and give them the information, and they told me my name was misspelled in that database (but not as recorded on the receipt) and what to tell the website to get it to let me in. -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 15-Dec-2022 08:25:37 JST
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Why yes, company that I expect to do business with exactly once in my life, I would love to create a special account on your website just for you and then get told that you won't let me access the thing I've already paid for because you don't like my name. -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 06:39:08 JST
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@silverwizard I mean, that's also pretty easy to fix:
#!/bin/sh
# git-mcommit - commit with a default message
exec git commit -m "$(git diff --cached --stat)" "$*" -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 05:52:06 JST
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@silverwizard That's a pretty strong statement about everything else in git. -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 02:01:09 JST
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@silverwizard Different body of work. The daemons prefer the habitat on the thermodynamics side, this is E&M. -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 01:50:23 JST
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@silverwizard Does not follow the laws of physics. In this case, the electric field has a nonzero curl even though there are no changing magnetic fields, which violates Maxwell's Equations.
(If any physics nerds want details, I can give a description of the problem and why the result is non-physical, but I'll hold off on that until somebody asks.) -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 01:38:49 JST
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Accidentally tarpitted prof's office hours by asking a question about one of the assignment problems. Turns out the obvious approach gives a non-physical result and he can't figure out why.
This sort of thing just follows me around, I'm not trying to cause trouble, I swear. -
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Dave (dj3vande@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 05:20:37 JST
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So twitter won't let me download an archive of my tweets without emailing to make sure it's really me. The email address they have on file went away years ago and I'm not about to trust them with a current one.
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