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lritter, 6 days ago to random

not sure if quiche or pizza

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lritter, 10 days ago to random

so what's his punishment? i expect it to be tough considering in the US you can get 1000 years of jailtime for littering or smth

lritter, 9 days ago to random

what does N bit audio sound like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5jzAqeEoUE

lritter, 9 days ago to random

it's odd how many programs i use lately have this weird thing where they start up, and then after a second or so they "reboot". am i the only one noticing this?

the facebook app on android did it first.

then i noticed it in SDL2 after the window has been set up, when i request the render surface.

now vscode did it after i opened the console.

it's a quite irritating trend. and it feels weird, like the phone clicking right after you begin a call.

lritter, 11 days ago to random

wrote a simple runner for a 20 bit state machine which gets 6 bits of input. in addition there's a render function that gets 20 bits of state and outputs a 16x16 4bit sprite index, and a sprite-map function that maps 16 indices to 8x8 sprites using the PICO-8 palette.

the whole thing works. now the next challenge is to write a game with just 20 bits of memory available.

lritter, 11 days ago to random

Hypothetically, the simplest perfectly parallel program requiring no operations or instructions at all is a look-up table. The bigger the table, the larger input and output can be. A table of 2^(N+M) bits maps a 2^N bit index to a 2^M bit value.

The main jobs are then figuring out
(1) how to populate the table
(2) what storage format to use
(3) how to access it randomly
(4) how to verify the table

lritter, 11 days ago to random

Reordering problems in programming are interesting: Your output doesn't have the same order as your input.

(A) You read in the input sequentially, your opening move is fopen(). The output order differs. Sometimes it's almost parallel, but then flipped here and there (read-ahead). sometimes it's completely backwards. Every time you use some form of buffering to make up for that - in severe cases, this buffer becomes a polymorphic data structure.

lritter, 11 days ago to random

in a time of ubiquitous revolt, obedience is an act of rebellion

lritter, 13 days ago to random

noice

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lritter, 14 days ago to random

every base is base 10 🤯

lritter, 15 days ago to random

Search Engine Too Lazy To Search, Just Makes Shit Up Instead

lritter, 18 days ago to random

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lritter, 21 days ago to random

interesting problem: progressively mapping a cosmically high number of unique strings of arbitrary length to an ordered set so that we can assign an index to each string, extract a substring from each index, and filter strings not in the set.

evidently, this approach requires compression. the compressed result is functionally equivalent to a regular expression, or a schema validation system.

lritter, 21 days ago to random

if programmers had a flag, we'd probably have two symbols on it, one for choice, and one for repetition.

lritter, 23 days ago to random

fact: most female cannabis seeds you can buy online have been assigned male at conception

lritter, 25 days ago to random

i'm looking at contenders for a xterm based gui lib that I can crib from for a scopes based lib. the micro text editor was implemented with tcell, which in turn was heavily inspired by termbox, which looks like a nice minimalistic C implementation to start off of.

i feel all this should be a backend for SDL, so that i can support real graphical environments as well later on, but as far as i know (and please correct me @icculus if i'm wrong) it's out of focus.

lritter, 25 days ago to random

after AI, what will be the next tech hype to get mad about? submissions are open

lritter, 25 days ago to random

first they ignore each other
then they make fun of each other
then they fight each other
then they both simultaneously win

lritter, 26 days ago to random

mastodon is better after a whiskey tasting with your mom on her 77th birthday i will fight you on thissss

lritter, 26 days ago to random

stuck in the gangway of a hot overcrowded 2-wagon regional train for another hour. this shit suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

lritter, 27 days ago to random

xfce4 really is the best choice for this tiny intel atom laptop. it's not just the frugal use of resources. it's also that window title bars are narrower. optimal for this 1366 x 768 display.

lritter, 27 days ago to random

if a novice programmer can code something that runs in a safe language, then an experienced programmer can translate this program to optimized, high-performance semantics.

i theorize that the experienced programmer's job can be sufficiently automated, provided that we control the novice's language, without requiring silly differentiable algorithms.

lritter, 28 days ago to random

duangle never took VC money. that's why we're crawling at a snail's pace, but we're crawling with dignity.

lritter, 29 days ago to Eurovision

of course israel is in europe it's part of the united kingdom! ...wait what? why did nobody tell me? #eurovision

lritter, 29 days ago to Eurovision

#eurovision