Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@qoto.org
Just broke into software development. Currently struggling to grasp C!
Joined Oct 2022
@gamingonlinux looks great, the level design reminds me of the steamboat willy cartoon.
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Brilliant: Play #accordion by resizing your browser window:
artpolikarpov.github.io/garmoshka/
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Time for a proper #introduction!
I'm Tom, I'm a computer programmer, happily married, and I live in northeast PA.
#webcomics - I draw Station V3, at http://www.stationv3.com (since 2003!)
#scifi - Reading and watching. I enjoy shows like #startrek, #doctorwho, #blakes7, #space1999, and even #thestarlost. Finally watching #babylon5.
#music - Rock, especially 60s and 70s. Listening and collecting, especially on #vinyl and #8tracks. I also play #bass and #clarinet (but not bass clarinet!)
@PHolder my wife and I love Toyotas but they were laggards in adopting CarPlay and Android Auto. We have a 2019 Toyota and it only has Apple CarPlay but by 2021 they switched over. Hyundai seemed to have them in the Elantra when we were looking.
I don’t think it is too far off from being standard but I haven’t really looked much outside of Toyota personally.
Hopefully everyone had a nice holiday break! I relaxed and played a lot of Apple Arcade, read about 1/3 of the book I’m using to learn C and typed typed up all the examples, and started learning Italian with a Duolingo and Pimsleur combo.
@arkt8 that is really cool! I only talked about macros once with my mentor and he discouraged using macros except for symbolic constants. That said I would love to try that as an exercise when I become more advanced!
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That's me in the corner
@ceoln I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
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That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight,
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you.
And I don't know if I can do it;
Oh no I've said too much.
I haven't said enough.
Pictures of food
Google reminded me of some of the food I cooked over the years. I cannot wait to fire up my smoker next week as santa told me one of my presents will be fresh kielbasa!
@DavitMasia Looks great, those are awesome starting points you listed. I loved sega racing games back in the day!
If I ever have a Windows gaming rig I will check it out!
@tonic I think the quoting feature isn’t vanilla Mastodon and the apps support just the lowest common denominator in terms of functionality.
I started out using a mobile app but I found just using it in the browser on mobile works much better. It also gives you the ability to use custom functionality that qoto has, too.
@PHolder ok, the author of the book I’m reading knows his stuff then! So far he has only introduced char*.
Now that I think about it I like the way you mentioned because int* can be easily explained as a “pointer to an int”. In my limited experience with pointers I’ve had trouble explaining and understanding what * does in plain English. Especially because it’s also used to dereference pointers and get the value they hold.
@radehi I had no idea about any of this. I will definitely take a look at stty out of curiosity when I have a chance. That is extremely interesting especially with the historical context!
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@derickflorian There is a stty setting on Linux, onlcr, where the kernel inserts a CR (\r) before each newline (\n, LF) before giving it to the terminal. Programs using cursor addressing usually turn this off.
Teletypes sometimes needed a delay, or maybe a few NUL characters, following the CR character to give the carriage time to return to the left margin before they could process more characters (such as the line feed to advance the paper). There are settings in stty for this as well (crN, ffN, nlN, ofill, ofdel).
Probably at this point we should just repurpose \v for something else.
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I guess I should write an #introduction.
I've been using the internet since 1992 and contributing to #Wikipedia since 2001. I haven't used Twitter since early 2021 because I decided it was unhealthy, and I used Mastodon a fair bit that year, but then lost my account through, apparently, inactivity, which I didn't realize was even a thing.
I guess I should put some kind of tag cloud here of stuff I'm interested in? Maybe #physics, #Linux, #Debian, #manufacturing, #DSP, #Python, #Numpy, #math (more #algebra than #analysis), #raytracing, #commonsbasedpeerproduction, #creativecommons, #piracy, #scihub, #libgen, #emergence, #solarpunk, #history (especially #Hellenistic and #Mohist), #UX, #HCI, #controltheory, #lifesupport, and #infosec.
@rasterweb Stay safe! It’s 4 degrees warmer in Pittsburgh and I am definitely going to find my balaclava or a ski mask before I go out.
Student loans, Supreme Court
Well, then the Supreme Court and Republicans need to set up their bank accounts and auto-payments on my loans by June 30th!
Just broke into software development. Currently struggling to grasp C!
Joined Oct 2022
