Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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Got unreasonably excited about this new, incredibly straightforward count-distinct algorithm. The CVM algorithm is a direct replacement for HyperLogLog, it nerd-sniped Donald Knuth for weeks, *and* it can easily be taught in an entry-level CS course.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/
Browser / fedi extension idea:
ability to mark clown posts. A clown post would display with a clown wig and nose on the avatar, helping with both immediate mood and future identification at a glance.
Idea inspired by this week's "how dare this objectively good for open source community project support this other objectively good for open source community project whose author I just called a nazi because I don't like some of his views" situation.
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The slang can't get worse, so at least let's make it funny.
Now that quote posts are a thing on Mastodon, we need an insufferably cutesy nickname for them that everyone hates but still gets used anyway. To t...
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also if I ever reuse this code for anything ("this code" being the reused code from the juggling keyboard), I'll have to remember that it currently loads all images upside down, unless they're of Doom
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This is a very cool talk by Nicholas Matsakis about editor-friendly compiler architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6b44kMS6OM
At the risk of asking a very strange question, does anyone know of a WRITTEN source that has similar information?
I am sorry, but I can read about three thousand times faster than I can watch a video. Videos for me are like looking for needles in haystacks...
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Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?
Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting links
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the security industry is a machine that turns
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KINDinto
YOU ARE PART OF A SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK, SHAME ON YOU
It's still stupid that we settled on Pull Requests and not Merge Requests as a terminology for *requests* to *merge* code.
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the most dangerous phase in shitposting is when you have to ask yourself:
do I make this joke twice as funny by spending 10 times as long working on it?
Why fix a race condition when you can mark it as "*as-designed", which immediately locks the conversation to collaborators?
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87927#issuecomment-571103837
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Apparently Microsoft don’t understand how the Fediverse works, and want me to delete the parody account @microsoft 🤣🫡
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@BrodieOnLinux programming in LISP remains the most fun way to misuse a computer but doing batshit insane linux desktop things is a very close second
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor
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🇬🇧Public pressure works: Belgium, Finland & Czechia will NOT approve the #ChatControl mass surveillance law in October. But other governments whose vote is crucial are still on the fence. Urge them to protect our digital privacy and encryption now: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo
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Repost to delay silksong one final time.
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
