R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
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"You think twitter should be destroyed for depreciating rss? Who is rss? Are they still ... deprecated now?"
This was a conversation I had maybe 5 years ago, when twitter stopped serving tweets as rss breaking all of my cool electronic devices that pulled text from the internet.
No one understood what the heck I was so mad about. And leaving twitter over it was even more absurd to them.
I'm trying to learn from that uh... failure of communication.
(I'm still mad about the rss)
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beyond "link tax" is "banned for linking" https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817?s=19
What authoritarian governments sometimes dream of-- the BigPublishers are doing.
I think I am in violation-- we will see when it comes.
lets go "protocol not platform"
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@wxheather Buried in the garden? Thrown onto the roof? Taken out with the garbage? Forgotten at a friend's house? Stolen by a "friend"? Gifted to the dog?
@deshipu also, all the foams I know of are denser than air.
@deshipu there are solid foams that would be lighter than air with the air removed now?
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Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.
h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit
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Talk on Zero-cost deserialization in #Rust, by @manishearth
> ICU4X has [gone] all-in on zero-copy deserialization, a technique that ensures that data loading involves fast validation as opposed to slow allocation. To help with this, we have built a suite of crates (yoke, zerovec, zerofrom, and databake) that make zero-copy deserialization easier to work with and more broadly applicable.
re: dating
@enkiv2 Is great to have a diagnosis of what happened in cases like this. So rare.
Wow, is the end of zero covid policy.
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Gotta love open source. I started using an open source code forge called gogs several years ago for personal projects.
Not too long ago it feels.. gitea forked off of it. I believe due to gitea maintainers being unwilling to work with people.
Gitea then went through some big backlash due to deceptive practices of transferring things built by a community to a for profit.
So community forked... and seems @forgejo is now the latest incantation.
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Lisp: 
these are the fine artifacts of old. sometimes when you are not looking it creeps in to your life. but, sometimes, it's just clojure.
Lua:
i'm not actually supposed to be here but someone decided to build a small universe entirely out of paperclips and it works somehow
Erlang:
have they found out i run the internet yet
Rust: :blobcrab: rewrite it in rust! then die waiting for it to compile
C/C++: :blobcatdevil: why yes, we did find out how to transceive satan directly in computer form [crashes]
these are the fine artifacts of old. sometimes when you are not looking it creeps in to your life. but, sometimes, it's just clojure.Lua:
i'm not actually supposed to be here but someone decided to build a small universe entirely out of paperclips and it works somehowErlang:
have they found out i run the internet yetRust: :blobcrab: rewrite it in rust! then die waiting for it to compile
C/C++: :blobcatdevil: why yes, we did find out how to transceive satan directly in computer form [crashes]
dating
@enkiv2 Is difficult choosing a course of action under uncertainty. Feigning certainty simplifies the cognitive exercise but produces worse decisions. Is an inherent part of human interaction, uncertainty, but especially early stages of romance (as you point out: "intentionally ambiguous"). Is one reason I do not like online dating: multiplies uncertainty, causing cognitive overload.
@enkiv2 look forward to it. send you hugs.
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I've just transliterated another function (without pulling in a dependency on any particular graphics library, dependency injection) from FcFt (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fcft) into my FontConfig language bindings.
So now it knows to retrieve & render glyphs from a font for a given index. Compiles successfully, none of this is tested yet. I need more infrastructure for that.
So if there's any other functions I want to transliterate Saturday...
https://git.adrian.geek.nz/fontconfig-pure.git/tree/FreeType/FontConfig.hs
@ambihelical @lemire Yeah, would think their deaths would peak earlier since they didn't take countermeasures, but seems like maybe that paid off in net lives saved later? But not nearly as many net lives saved as China's more effective policy.
Dating, mh
@enkiv2 Haven't used those apps but don't sound good for you. They sound maybe designed for people whose attractive features are visible in photos?
re: Dating, mh
@enkiv2 can be difficult! Starting a relationship & maintaining it are v. different challenges, both hard. Is much harder feeling unwanted. Hope things get better for you.
@lemire Wow, so their no-lockdown approach actually killed less people than the Austria, Portugal, France, etc. approach? Shouldn't PRC be on this chart too though?
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
