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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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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 you’ll handle a million customers so hard you miss getting your first thousand users… 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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 @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 hasn’t anyone made metric computers. It’s not *binary’s* fault people go “oh let’s fill every addressable number in the address space with hardware” and “8 bits in a byte, that is a good number instead of 10”. That’s just imperialism disguised as engineering. It’s not like city planners go “base 10 street numbers mean we can only have exactly 10, 100 or 1000 houses on any street”. 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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 My little book on the topic of soroban(japanese abacus) mentions offhandedly the vertical method of adding roman numerals, and so, I had to try it out. I think I'll always visualize roman numbers this way from now on. Wrote a little program(200 bytes) to encode binary files into base64. I've come across base64 often in the past, I knew it used some sort of ascii table for packing binary data into text, but it's the first time that I implement it myself. doc: http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/base64.html @d6 I can't come on IRC at the moment, but I have a question, and I think you might be able to help. It's probably very silly, but I need a second opinion, for a part of a routine that checks if two characters are whitespace ( char1 char2 -- f ): Instead of: Would it be safe to just do:    Looking out the window this morning, and seeing another ship from a Merveilles community member anchored right next to us. The seapunk dream is real! I was reading about sliding wood puzzles recently, and I had some time to kill this afternoon, so I made an implementation of Dad's Puzzler. A puzzle where you must bring the top-left block(2x2), to the bottom-left by sliding things around.
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@neauoire Oh crap, apparently this will be the last strange loop conference. Shame, I love their talks on youtube |
bigger is better, obviously :thisisfine:
@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.
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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.