Gregory's Server
There's going to be a whole talk at Strange Loop about birdsongs š
https://thestrangeloop.com/2023/birdsong-as-code.html
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Had a blast at the @fission party last night, woke up to a pile of compsi papers on parallelism in my DMs :moar: @neauoire @fission At this point I think we can declare Pino the Pacific Ocean chapter of #PapersWeLove!  Just finished Chaitain's book "The Unknowable". I don't think I've read a book like it before in which someone takes that much of a dump on the work of others to make their point. Bizarre reading.  @neauoire Aye, the first chapter of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is the same way Hitting all sorts of weird compilation errors on the pinebook, c dev on arm is a pain in the ass. I'll port the 100r wiki to uxntal over the summer. @neauoire Iām always curious about what your lightweight setup is on the pinebookāhave you ever written about what OS choices you make outside of uxn? I adore how minimal all your screenshots look. Hoping that this little program will help people make sense of their own code, and allow to explain it to others. This rom includes an uxn implementation of the uxn vm, with all of its memory virtualized. Woke up to find SV Bosun Bird anchored right next to us. They were an inspiration when we began considering long-distance sailing aboard a small vessel. Their website is a treasure trove of knowledge. watching @akkartik get crucified for saying like, hey, wouldn't it be nice if we, from time to time, didn't throw industry-scale stacks to solve every little problem we face. :eccehomo:
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  @neauoire One definitely needs a thick skin to deal with people very different from oneself. But it's still useful to sift through the comments for useful, actionable feedback. You have to make things complicated, otherwise your so-called "added value" is not perceived. Also, the more stuff you throw into the solution, the more stuff you have to mantain and get paid for. Also (bis), today the great part of devs learn how to use frameworks upon frameworks, not how to write useful code. We've been killing conversations about software with "That won't scale" for so long we've forgotten that scaling problems aren't inherently fatal.
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 If you focus on how youāll handle a million customers so hard you miss getting your first thousand usersā¦ me: "So, what's the diagnostic? Is the Thinkpad dead?"  Is there just the one rust implementation? I thought Rust was a sort of spec that people implemented for their system, but I can't seem to find implementations aside from the one. Am I looking it up wrong?
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 There is no Rust spec, only the reference implementation. Letās rewrite everything with it /s  @neauoire There's one mature Rust port. There's a GCC port in progress. There _might_ be a third port in progress but I don't have any other info other than existence. A lot of ppl are against the GCC port and would rather see a GCC _backend_ targeting GENERIC (also in progress). There's also mrustc. mrustc is a bootstrap compiler written in (unfortunately) C++14. It's know to be able to get a working Rust 1.5x compiler and catching up (currently on Rust 1.69). To help @dcreager with their upcoming presentation at StrangeLoop on concatenating languages, I've made a few changes to Varvara's Bicycle to make it usable as a presentation tool, by adding explicit controls to step through evaluation. It's more readable to unfamiliar eyes than beetbug which blankets the screen with numbers and opcodes.
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Finished my rendition of the interpretation of the Merveilles icon. Thanks to @helveticablanc for the idea! Here's a version as high-res as the pinebook can stomach. #theLogo
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 @neauoire @helveticablanc this is going to be what i send to people when they ask what merveilles is
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  @neauoire really the question is why hasnāt anyone made metric computers. Itās not *binaryās* fault people go āoh letās fill every addressable number in the address space with hardwareā and ā8 bits in a byte, that is a good number instead of 10ā. Thatās just imperialism disguised as engineering. Itās not like city planners go ābase 10 street numbers mean we can only have exactly 10, 100 or 1000 houses on any streetā. Made a quick sketch for an idea for an illustrated interpretation of the Merveilles icon inspired from Helvetica's.
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Last year, @cathos gave me a notebook where the last few pages were these wonderful nomograms and conversion tables. I decided to finally check out their website today, and it's filled with excellent notes and printables for analog computing and low-tech aids. Expanded the little utilit that tells me the date in the arvelie format when I open my computer. Added it a gregorian-arvelie-gregorian converter. Fun fact, the date format is used on the esotericlanguages blog.
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