David Smith

@Catfish_Man
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I am an irregular collection of floating diffuse lights, chiming softly
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Have any authors named the castle in their story Vetrano yet?
Finally got around to setting up offsite backups for my NAS. Assuming it continues to go well and I don't get sticker shock, that was remarkably easy.
Fondly remembering when these were not only acceptable graphics for a computer game, they were extremely cool graphics, and inspired me to draw a bunch of stuff myself
My cat just said “awoo”??
algorithm with a big-o the size of a small-o is completely blocking east-bound bus on cpu 7, please use caution and watch for pipeline stalls in the area
"Each individual should simply make correct choices" is not a solution in much the same way as "I will simply try harder" is not a strategy
Every now and then people share languages with very minimal or very uniform syntax (think Lisp, or Haskell, or Forth) and go "look, all the noise is gone". And to each their own, and familiarity goes a long way, but I think I've pinned down my feelings about it, which is "that wasn't noise, that was signal; I was using as scaffolding when reading the code and now I have to wade through every token linearly".

I wonder what the total cost of ~every major system in the 90s making the same mistake and picking UCS2/UTF16 is. It's gotta be staggering.

Thoughts that go through my head as I finish up another 800 lines of intricate hoop jumping in extremely hot code paths caused by this mistake.

He’s so silly 😂🥰 #CatsOfMastodon
reverse engineering is the process of finding out after somebody else fucks around