@neauoire that's fun, thanks

When I was in elementary school, our teacher had us read this short story which traumatized me as a kid, and which pops into my mind every second week at least. Since I couldn't remember who wrote it, let alone the title, I eventually began thinking that I might have dreamt the whole thing.

30 years later, I encountered it again, it was The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster.

@neauoire @d6 @kelp the ball should only change direction when it hits the sides, not the floor though. If you want to be nit picky.

@neauoire @d6 @kelp

This is great! And it definitely brings back memories! The Amiga was a pretty amazing computer at the time. I had a friend who had an Amiga and had it hooked up to an amplifier and speakers. I have fond memories of being a teenager and hanging out, spending hours watching demos and listening to the music and wondering how they coders were able to do such amazing things!

@neauoire Not sure it'll help if you roll the boat though...

@neauoire Looks great! Nice work :D

@neauoire what's that?

@neauoire 😔

@neauoire :: The mount of dead ends I found around "outsider paradigms" honestly makes me teary eyed. I've encounter the echos of many projects that not even web-archives can resurrect.

I've been slowly trying to fix up some of the dead links on the Concatenative wiki and archiving projects that haven't been updated in over a decade.

@neauoire @ice

rapid response hero 🖤

@neauoire Did something happen the past 12 hours? I've seen multiple ppl talking about a spam problem.

(I've mainly not moved b/c of inertia.)

@neauoire TBH I was thinking that I should raise a question about silencing their instance…

@neauoire didn't see any spam myself, but if that because I'm on it? 😬🙈

@neauoire "the roll cage"

@neauoire 🤯 holy shit

@neauoire or cut slightly longer piece and you can use it with electric screewdriver

@neauoire hex fastener format is the worst piece of shit design ever made. It might as well be a fucking circle it makes me mad.

@neauoire Almost everything looks just as I imagined it

@neauoire
yyyeeeah that's what I'm fuckin waiting.
Villenueve did 2 miracles I didn't believed could happen:
- A no one wanted sequel to Blade Runner, which is not only amazing by itself, but fixes the original (honestly with all my love to the first one, I think the second one is better, which is even more impossible)
- A proper Dune adaptation (though I want to punch Villenueve a little in his foot so he'll stop refusing to make the extended version of the Part One, too much has been cut out)

@neauoire did you like the first one ?

@neauoire smalltalk :D

@neauoire @asie thats really cool! I was thinking there was UXN for 3ds recently, since i just hacked mine, but I could only find it for the 2ds

@neauoire @asie I should root (or whatever the term is) my 2ds so I can try running the 3ds rom off of the uSD card...

@neauoire @asie This is so cool to see. Interestingly: the EmuDeck setup is so nice on the Steam Deck I recently added the Little Sound DJ Gameboy ROM. This NDS ROM might be the easiest way for me to get Donsol onto my Steam Deck.

@neauoire There were a number of single processor cooperatively multitasking FORTHs back in the day, including F83. You can probably find code for that system on the ‘net.

I’ve also built some real multi core stuff in FORTH, which is “easy” only in the sense that FORTH words are usually reentrant so long as each process/task has its own stack (modulo a few details).

@neauoire lol I made a forth but it's explicitly not concurrent because safety. It has single threaded events that come from a work queue, including external/hardware/io events.

So much less fun, I know ;)

@neauoire Not online or practical, but maybe fun and slightly educational. I dug up code I made in 1986 using MacForth's cooperative multi-tasking to run 4 graphical sorts at once. Syntax core was:
: MY.TASK ( --)
...
ACTIVATE<
...
PAUSE
...
STOP> ;
Required a little extra cooperation to make sure the timing was fair for the visual comparison (not just based on number of PAUSE calls).

@neauoire it seems to be a cool issue! the c++ implementation is already cryptic, i guess changing language is even harder... you have the concept of semaphore?

@neauoire impl uxntal csp?

@neauoire solve, meaning what?

Construct a system that suffers from deadlock? Manually fix that system by imposing a lock ordering in the application? Detect/prevent deadlocking lock acquisitions, in the locking library?

@neauoire Dammit Devine :eccehomo:

@neauoire you absolute drongo

But I’ve been 👌 this close to doing it sooo many times…

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@neauoire Appreciate the reference! We'll take a look.