namark @namark@qoto.org

@brown121407@fosstodon.org @jordanr@mastodon.social speaks like a mysterious, brave, romantic revolutionary, privy and partial to the glorious plans of some covert yet widespread and well organized global movement... turns out to be a random pupper with a flu...

@Meeper@fosstodon.org
wishlist this: https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

@freemo

Checking for primality is not that hard either, the factorization is hard and is the reason cryptography works (certain schemes).

That said, even if it's an easier task computationally, it's not necessarily easier to implement, especially efficiently, especially for large numbers.

Sure, skip the primality test, if your genrerator does not rely on it, but who's going to test the generator?
Maybe a trivial primality test that does not need a test itself? (oh no already violating TDD) Use it to test the generator, which you can then use to test a more sophisticated primality test that you can then use to test the generator for even bigger numbers? This is a very trollish kata for TDD, and an example of a problem where you're better off relying on theory to prove correctness, an maybe only testing some components not the problem/solution as a whole.

@Absinthe

@freemo @Absinthe An even deeper rabbit hole with TDD: "You want to test your factorization? Well, you need a primality test... But wait! Who's gonna test your primality test? Well, you need a prime number generator... But wait!..."
No monkeys, no coconuts, no bottles, no fun...

@snow obviously to imagine something and proceed to believing it without any reasoning is insane, but the imagination itself, or the use of it in jokes or games, is very much sane.

@snow Well, in this particular case it is a joke, meant to be funny. Imagination is often used to entice various emotions for entertainment. I don't see how you arrive at toxic relationships or lack of any kind of knowledge from that alone.

@davidpgil

You should be able to browse their local timeline (from the point of view of qoto) like this:
https://qoto.org/web/timelines/public/remote/gab.com

This is probably not everything however, due to the way activity pub works. Some clients let you request the timeline straight from the instance itself, if you really don't want to miss anything. So far I only know of Subway Tooter and Fedilab that have that feature, both Android clients.

@freemo

@snow

It's one thing to believe an animal to be human, and another to notice a momentary resemblance and make a create a clearly fictional narrative/dialogue. I think the latter is called imagination.

@davidpgil@floss.social yeah, especially when the reasoning is "they don't block the instances we block"...

@davidpgil@floss.social qoto only silences instances for active unmitigated harassment, and blocks for technical reason like denial of service attacks, but that in itself becomes a reason for some other instances to block qoto, so there is no way to guarantee that everything would be visible from a single instance.

@snow "Are you tired of being shoved around by algorithms and robotic support teams? Do you want to be treated like human being by human beings? Do you want to decide for yourself what to see and what not to see? Don't be a statistic, join the federation!"

@snow I don't have an opinion on this subject specifically, but as I noticed a lot of pessimism in your toots, allow me to offer you a change of mindset in general, into something maybe more hopeful. Substitute "you are a terrible person if" with "You are probably an all in all amazing and beautiful thing that is a person, but you might be misguided in this one admittedly overall insignificant thing if".

@realcaseyrollins
https://ryf.fsf.org/products?category=1&vendor=All&sort_by=created&sort_order=DESC

as promised - theora color conversion spec codified
https://git.qoto.org/namark/neogol/blob/master/source/recorder.cpp#L16-33

but why are those gliders leaving trails? no those are not video artifacts(the discoloration and random red patches are), those are the ancestors!

alright, might have been a compiler quirk, the newer version doesn't seem to do it... but now I'm paranoid.

how in the world can -DNDEBUG or -fno-rtti make code slower?! >.<

@freemo so, it's basically monkey bread...

@snow

Most people don't know how to enjoy alcoholic drinks. I disliked them too, until I discovered this guy http://www.ralfy.com/
who finally clearly explained and illustrated what its all about:
You should smell and sip, any swallowed amount is wasted amount, a bottle should last for months. Most alcohol in shops is poor quality, because it's aimed at people who would waste it anyway (take shots or mix it with random stuff).

@freemo