 From time to time, someone will ask for a feature or spec change in Orca, and in about 99% of the times, it's a very setup specific way to handle some sort of message, that is best handled by creating a new custom operator. I love it when I get to be there at the moment when the person requesting the feature realizes they can add any operator watever that they need on top of the specs. "I CAN DO THAT!?" The chibicc compiler is growing so fast :') I will keep on declining any request to joining the instance where the person refers to themself as a refugee. "It disappears because we don’t design it, don’t build it, we only post into prepared forms." Next time someone sends me a link that takes more than a minute to open in Netsurf with our 5kb/s internet, I'll just answer TB;DR Too Bloated, Didn't Read.
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@neauoire this reminds me of an initiative I have tried to start multiple times in my professional roles Twice a year, for one week each, every engineer’s workstation is artificially limited to dialup-like speeds so they all have to feel the pain of their bloated web pages. It never really caught on sadly.  @neauoire Ow, that's somehow even /worse/ than our 15KB/s we get after running out of data on our phone.  I've collected some notes on my little experiments into #uxn programming language stuff. Like program validation, graph reduction, structural editing, and all sorts of *cough* rather very dry topics, into something that should be approachable to anyone with a basic understanding of assembly languages. I've been wasting way too much time on this uxntal type checking thing, it's starting to feel like one of those programs that I make to save time, but in the end I just spend an unrecoverable amount of time fine-tuning. But despite that, it has one unexpected upside, which is that when it gets hard to predict the state stack, I've begun using defined labels's arity like breakpoints through the body of routines to validate that the stack state, at that moment in the program, is as predicted. I was already writing these comments from time to time to describe the transformations across different lines of a program, now they're actually part of the verification of the function. It's neat! I think I might write a thing about this once it's a bit less clunky. We've had the solar oven for a few months now, and ever since we left the dock, we have used it nearly everyday. It's not even a question if we'll use it or not for something. We're just asking ourselves each day, so, what what we shove in the vacuume tube. Rek is making cake in it right now, with flour that I milled this morning.  @neauoire Incredibly silly question, but do you have any links on the solar oven? I've been enjoying the updates on it and am feeling the itch to try it myself!
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   @neauoire @csepp @spiralganglion @eli_oat A couple of years ago I did a phone call with my parents. My mom picked up and we chatted a bit. Where's Dad? Oh he's right here he's just dozing next to me. Tilt the phone, quick shot of him dozing. The next day he went in for another trip to the ICU. He never came out. A week later he was dead. So that phone call was my last chance to talk to him, and I had no idea. If the tide and wind push us off in the right direction, we get just enough signal to load brutaldon in under a minute.  @neauoire do people put cell boosters at the top of the mast? Seems like it could help a ton. Arriving in Desolation Sound, the only explicable reason as to why anyone, looking at these luxurious towering hills, would call them that, is that maybe they wanted to be left alone, making sure nobody would be tempted to go a place with such a name.
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[DATA EXPUNGED]
Sailed from Thunder Bay, to Texada with a perfect breeze coming to the side, listening to Lane 8's mixtapes. 🎵
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@neauoire Do you use the scuttlebutt network on your trip by any chance? https://scuttlebutt.nz/
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 @eli_oat when I go on your profile with the mastodon client, it says: Eli's featured hashtags: :moomin_eyes_blush: Formalising a Simple Virtual Machine Spending the day anchored, not moving for once. Enjoying some image programming coding to music. The Go tool I normally use to dither my images doesn't work on the pinebook, and firefox is fucked, so I can't use dither-it. So, to make my slides for SL23, I'll use this thing that assigns patterns to a gradient. I think it'll work out.
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  @neauoire (I have a Python dithering tool). Is the Go on Pinebook problem for all Go code or just this particular tool? I've been considering porting the ditherer. Following in the tracks of SV Bosun Bird, each day we asked ourselves "so what are we going to do today?", "Adventuring is what!" A finite-state machine whose only tape is a FIFO queue of unbounded length, such that in each transition the machine reads the symbol at the head of the queue, deletes a constant number of symbols from the head, and appends to the tail a symbol-string that depends solely on the first symbol read in this transition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_system @neauoire I've been thinking about how stack machines could be used to implement an efficient programming language on top of one-instruction set machines like SUBLEQ. This might be another way to approach it, though I need to get my SUBLEQ emulator running again.  @neauoire Since a Post tag machine as originally defined only halts when the FIFO is empty (_if_ that happens), is it able to provide any useful output? Or do you have to define a halt symbol to get that? |
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