Notices by Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social), page 2

underrated album.

this guy's music is a love letter to synthesizers.

this is possibly the most hipster album in my entire collection

I have no idea if any people following me need this, but it would have been life-changing advice for me in my teens & 20s.

This is a simple face care routine that has a good chance to eradicate pimples and acne from your life:

1. When you shower, wash your face with soap
2. When you dry off, pat your face dry, don't rub the towel
3. Next, use a basic, unscented moisturizing lotion on your face
4. Use the feeling of lotion to remind yourself not to touch your face

Seriously, life changing.

@lritter @errant @djsundog @jwz yeah... reminder that the french revolution was full of even more pain and suffering, anti-science, wanton killings based only on paranoia, and ultimately resulted in a dictatorship at the end

something's gotta give, but you need a plan besides "destruction"

those responsible for overcommit should be thrown out of an airplane

extremely humbling. I don't think I passed

JLPT (N5) today. 頑張ります！

One thing I appreciate about Mastodon is that if I slip into a bad habit of scrolling through the feed too much in one day, I start seeing old posts that I've already seen, and then I realize that I'm doing a bad habit, and that helps me stop checking the site too often.

On other platforms they would do anything to prevent that moment of self-reflection from occurring.

@indutny

I'm seeing a lot of hurt people after the U.S. presidential election start sliding into their villain arcs.

Don't be like Millions Knives, who would absolutely boo planet earth upon seeing it in the planetarium. Be like Vash Stampede, who chooses peace and love despite all his scars.

alternate joke:

what they say: no dependencies
what they mean: over half of the project's line count by volume was written by Sean Barrett

@lritter zig does not have any optimization passes currently. It's also designed with human maintenance in mind with no regards to being the target of machine generation.

what's the problem statement vs the C backend? or vs llvm bitcode?

@lritter interesting perspective. I would rather deal with the lack of C ABI support in LLVM bitcode than deal with C language limitations.

anyway, given this, maybe targeting zig isn't such an awful idea after all since it does solve the C ABI problem and has well-defined semantics for various things that are compiler extensions in C, such as arbitrary-width integers, all float sizes on all targets, SIMD, and various other things.

Inside of you are two wolves:

One of them wants to be grammatically correct and put the punctuation inside "the quoted text."

The other one has been programming for 25 years and is howling at the top of its lungs, "I demand proper nesting!".

@lritter @floooh

isn't this exactly what you wanted all along? people to get something out of your ramblings on mastodon about SSAT and SPIR-V backend? 😇

when a C/C++ programmer says "no dependencies" it means they have copied unknown versions of various dependencies into a particular subdirectory of their project.

you can learn a lot about the author's personality by what directory name they choose.

"vendor" -> web developer adjacent
"deps" -> uncomfortably self-aware
"thirdparty" -> unskilled grifter
"common" -> sneaky

@segfault https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.13.0/#Non-exhaustive-enum

@b0rk one trick as an application programmer to avoid this is to always make sure the hide/show are provided in the same buffer and sent in the same syscall. This way, the process being killed for whatever reason will not leave the terminal in a bad state

I think it's an actual conspiracy that American media outlets coverage of politics focuses on pointless, spicy exchanges between political figures, rather than focusing on actual policy issues such as basic income, Gaza, or the climate.

Most of the popular media is owned by politically motivated individuals. They ensure coverage is distracting from the ultimate issue of wealth distribution.

"orange man bad" is a little circus performance to divert energy from actual change we desperately need.

Lately my Zig code has started to look like this in all my projects

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2024/#2024-11-04

@joethephish I understand the appeal to such a thing, however, the flexibility of having it also be a namespace is extremely useful, as you can see from the two examples at the end