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mcc, to random
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

mcc,
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Like, I saw a post complaining that everyone simultaneously loves Firefox's pure-local translation library but everyone is also complaining about Firefox "refocusing" on AI, and that is a fair point, but also to me if a company/org announces they are going to focus on "AI" that is a statement that they are only going to be exploring the least useful, most damaging forms of "AI". If they intended to do something good, they'd probably call it something other than "AI"

mcc,
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That thing I just said sounds illogical but IME it is highly predictive

leona, to random
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"You can get the source code to Balatro by just renaming the .exe to .zip and opening it" is so funny to think about. Imagining Elden Ring working like this

mcc,
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@leona ohhh i actually very almost shipped a game like this

or rather the Mermaid Heavy Industries game was written like this and it just didn't get shipped

the trick is that .zip files are allowed to have "ignored" junk data at the beginning and .exe files are allowed to have "ignored" junk data at the end, so you have a polyglot file where to the zip the exe part is "ignored" and to the exe the zip part is "ignored" but then the exe fopen()s itself and treats itself as a zip file

mcc,
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@leona is balatro written in love2d

mcc,
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@leona I KNEW IT! i knew it from the zip trick

mcc, to random
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Last night as I was about to fall asleep I had a really good idea for a VR game but unfortunately this happened about 6 years too late for me to actually be in a position to turn the idea into a VR game

whitequark, to random
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found some extremely Normal code in one of my projects

mcc,
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@whitequark I have written Lua professionally so

christinelove, to random
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why the fuck did I have a dream about cmake (I know why)

mcc,
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@christinelove I am so so sorry.

mcc,
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@christinelove I had a dream about being lost on a space station

mcc, to random
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Trying to imagine what kind of harm Duke Classics might be alluding to here

onelson, to random
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So... my game dev project has been all one single main.rs all this time, and now I'm splitting things up. I've gone from 1 to 7 rust sources all of a sudden and I wonder if this is dumb or good. Impossible to say.

mcc,
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@onelson I actually because rust allows inner functions and types keep writing complex programs confined within a single main(). Just using that one function as a namespace

mcc, (edited ) to random
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TFW you're a few hundred pages into a book series and suddenly out of nowhere they drop this batshit ligature on you

mcc,
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Never saw it coming

mcc, to random
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…what https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Lai0lZsWI

mcc,
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@jplebreton The beestest

mcc, to random
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Been trying to figure out—in principle, the reason StackOverflow is CC-BY-SA is to allow for community mirrors, right?

Is there any way that I could just get a total local mirror of StackOverflow and search that locally, instead of having to visit StackOverflow which really doesn't deserve my support?

…Or does SO ban scraping, and the only reason for CC-BY-SA was so StackOverflow could (now that the rugpull's happened) claim the right to block u from delerng posts?? CC for them but not for us?

mcc,
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@whitequark Thanks!

mcc,
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@WestLawns @sidawson https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112459925601002436

mcc,
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Suddenly occurring to me that if I set myself up with this https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112459925601002436 I could set up a personal search method for StackOverflow which, unlike the usual StackOverflow frontend (Google), actually weights questions/answers on how close they are to the present, so I can stop getting answers from 2013 saying "that isn't possible" about things that have been possible since 2018

mcc, to random
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Git submodule question. Yes, I know, your advice is probably "don't use submodules". But.

Is it possible to clone a repo with submodules such the submodule branches are "activated" after clone?

Like, in .gitmodules we say:

[submodule "local/path"]
path = local/path
url = remote/path
branch = BRANCHNAME

We hoped branch = BRANCHNAME would make it activate BRANCHNAME on clone. But no, it checks out as "detatched head", which later makes VSCode confused. Can we do better?

mcc,
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Okay but seriously though

What… does… this… do?

I have read this chunk of the documentation three times and I cannot figure out what it is trying to communicate :(

mcc,
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@Specialist_Being_677 that's how i read it, but it's not what i did.

this is what it actually does, i think: https://social.belkadan.com/@jrose/statuses/01HY4FN12S5RMCZJ6CZNRCWW5F

mcc,
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@Flyingmana i think you're right.

unfortunately, this is not what i want! :( i think the thing i want doesn't exist.

mcc,
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@Flyingmana What I want is:

  • I do git submodules update --init --recursive
  • The submodules are cloned and the branches are checked out.
  • In submodule A, the commit which is checked out happens to be branch IMPORTANTBRANCH.
  • Git then "activates" that branch, so that the subrepo is no longer in "floating head" mode, and commits to this subrepo go to that branch instead of into a weird hole.
mcc,
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@Flyingmana Why I want this:

  • I set up a git setup for someone.
  • They are managing git with Visual Studio Code.
  • Visual Studio Code does not warn you, when you add commits, that you are in detached head mode and that committing is not going to do what you want.
  • I was trying to make things easier for them, so that they could do clones without having to either remember to go manually activate a bunch of branches or risk a weird detached head related screw up
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