A medium sized pile of hair that code comes out of
Programmer on TaleSpire
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I sued the UK to be legally recognised as nonbinary about two years ago. The original hearing was a year ago, and unfortunately the judges ruled against me, but I was granted permission to appeal.
My lawyers filed the "skeleton argument" (basically a summary) for the appeal on Friday.
If you're not familiar with my case, there's a few key pieces:
The primary legal argument is that by the letter of the law, I'm entitled to have a Gender Recognition Certificate issued that matches my birth certificate which lists me as "nonbinary". Some points have also been raised under human rights laws, but they're secondary.
This case is eye-wateringly expensive. I've already spent about £100k of my own money on top of what's been donated. Between my legal fees and the government's, I currently owe at least another £100k.
I work in tech, and have done well for myself, but I am not independently wealthy.
I need help with my costs.
I have CrowdJustice (money goes directly to my lawyers) and GoFundMe (money goes to me) pages, both of which can accept international donations (e.g. USD).
Please boost this, and share elsewhere as much as you can.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/non-binary-recognition/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/legalise-nonbinary-uk-help-cover-ryans-legal-costs
Whenever we assume some kind of bounded N in Superluminal, we inevitably end up regretting it.
“How many DLLs could an application possibly load?”
Turns out the answer to that question is “at least 113440”, somewhat higher than our estimate of “probably no more than a few hundred”.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sschoener/113441636130821884
Once installed, I decided to open all the projects, to get codesearch. After a few minutes I decided to take a trace. The trace was behaving weirdly in Superluminal, and debugging (thank you, Jelle and Ritesh!) revealed that in the trace 113440 modules are loaded and unloaded. Whoops. That's a lot. Let's make a mental note of that number here. But somewhat anticlimatically this is not the main issue here.
We’ve already found a few “wait, gnome-system-monitor is doing WHAT?” things ourselves just through verifying the perf data we’re gathering.
Are you *sure* there isn’t a more efficient way to get the disk devices on the system than by spamming
sh -c -- lsblk --output NAME,TYPE -i -n | sed 's/`-//'|sed 's/|-//'| sed -e 's/^[ ]*//'|tr -s''
very frequently?!
Getting unreasonably excited about getting Superluminal on Linux out there.
I’m seriously starting to wonder if anyone in the history of Linux has ever done full system profiling similar to what is possible on Windows with ETW, vs just profiling individual programs.
This may be the first time that Linux devs will be able to *easily* see exactly what’s going on across the entire system.
David Amador
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma
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Aras Pranckevičius
moshboy
Joe Groff (1M Context)
Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)