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if just the merge had no conflicts, dayenu

if just the tests had passed, dayenu

if just the CI had passed, dayenu

if just prod was green, dayenu

Q: What do you call if China develops a CPU with an architecture similar to the Elbrus?

A: Very Loong Instruction Word.

Been working on my path tracer program again for a little artistic outlet 😃 here’s a rendering of a limit set from a kleinian group (acting on the boundary of hyperbolic 4-space) made of colored glass! The entire material is homogeneous, with the qualitative differences coming from internal reflections and subsurface scattering amongst the many tiny spheres.

Distance estimation to the limit set is via Jos Leys’ “escape time algorithm”

We got a new microwave! The manual of this one seemingly decided, fuck it, teach the fundamentals and the rest shall follow? A+
Please test the parallel mark-region collector for SBCL

Do you prefer to perform overt, immediate evil, or slow, indirect evil? 🤔

i totally missed this news from neighboring Golden Valley, #Minnesota — the racist police abolishing themselves.

https://portside.org/2023-07-05/half-police-force-quit-crime-dropped

Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped.

In a staggering report last month, the Department of Justice documented pervasive abuse, illegal use of force, racial bias and systemic dysfunction in the Minneapolis Police Department. City police officers engaged in brutality or made racist comments, even as a department investigator rode along in a patrol car. Complaints about police abuse were often slow-walked or dismissed without investigation.

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I’ve created a new C++ build system: g++ *

you know that saying about how a compiler made by N teams will contain N+1 passes?
like every big program contains a replica of the organizational structure that created it?

It's fun sometimes to see big programs made by one person, because they're a sort of inverse mold of their brain structure.

ADSL works over wet string? Now, what about "ADSL over a UNPLUGGED phone line"? During a building-wide copper to fiber upgrade, the phone company stupidly unplugged my phone line from the distribution box. the phone was completely dead, no voltage. But my ADSL modem could complete the handshake. Speed degraded to ~128 Kbps, but I could still read basic webpages or chat on IRC... Apparently the parasitic capacitance on the line was enough for the AC signal to jump across the gap. My best guess was that only the ground wire was lost, and the parasitic capacitance of the modem's isolation transformer could complete the circuit via the mains powerline.