Christopher

@shrydar
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4th Doctor, Python, 6502, Rust, C64. Hair dye and heels, code optimisation and data compression. Former Driv{e3}r2?/Stuntman dev. he/him
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Got my "extrapolated for a machine with more RAM" 1BRC-in-Rust time down to 2 seconds on my M1 MacBook Air, pretty happy with that. Not bad for a 5½yo fanless laptop.

(I just use 3e8 entries and divide the time by 0.3; the benchmark assumes a warm start and enough RAM to cache the entire file, which I don't quite have)

@rdm I did just post the Channel 9 'Vitamins' PSA over on 🦋 in response to someone wondering if it would cure their depression…
So that was weird. Yesterday a nail tech was using UV to cure my nail repair, and this morning a dental tech was using UV to cure the new filling my dentist just replaced an old and cracked one with. I wonder what tomorrow will bring…
@lynn OMG you have an Octane! I haven't seen one of those in the flesh since the 1900s.

New games for an old console: Meet the new generation of Game Boy developers

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-22/australian-gameboy-developers-gumpy-function-orlando-mee/106470676

> A small community of game developers is releasing new games for Nintendo's decades-old video game console, harnessing the nostalgia of these classic devices.

New games for an old console, meet the new generation of Game Boy developers

A small community of game developers is releasing new games for Nintendo's decades-old video game console, harnessing the nostalgia of these classic devices.

@3TomatoesShort Lunches tend to be super busy, but I've waited outside the front door of my local in West Perth at 9am and been one of only two customers. We're surrounded by businesses too.
god varargs in C is annoying. Thank fuck $predecessor already vendored the fragments of an external library I just needed to add a 'va_list accepting' variant for one of its functions.

In the 1980s, I worked in Australia's Commonwealth Employment Service. I came to the conclusion that, with few exceptions, people want to feel that they're contributing to their community. The “Dole Bludger” is mythical.

Totalitarian Capitalism does not serve the nation well. Australia is rich enough to afford every resident the necessities of life and opportunities to do something that's meaningful to them.
“They felt a higher degree of trust in their own future but also in their fellow citizens and public institutions.”

“… how can global capital maintain its momentum if the workers with bad jobs in bad places are given the chance to plan for a better future?”

“People want to work. And that includes work that’s not itemised or valued by capital.”
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260311-what-if-we-just-gave-people-money-the-economics-of-time-and-freedom
#AusPol #UBI

What if we just gave people money? The economics of time and freedom

The idea that there’s only so much money to go around makes a bastard kind of sense to the poor. If impossible decisions abound in their lives, it must be true of governments, too. Certainly, that’s how federal budgets are framed. But beyond impressionism, we know the household budget is not analogous to state budgets in any meaningful way.

@misty Wait, we have some new discoveries? Yay!!
@peternlewis I always want the exclamation mark. But now I'm annoyed with Apple because I tried to end this twoot with an upside down smiley, which just reminded me that character viewer is intermittently failing to work with Firefox at the moment.