Posts by athas@freeradical.zone
(DIR) Post #APOr9KOExLwRc0JxuS by athas@freeradical.zone
2022-11-08T08:28:38Z
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While mastodon.el is pretty good, it suffers from a common Emacs mode downside: network communication blocks Emacs. Not all modes have this property, but I guess something about Emacs' design makes it tricky to avoid. This is mostly a problem because freeradical.zone is a bit sluggish these days.
(DIR) Post #APPAyDwKazZPVNFWVc by athas@freeradical.zone
2022-11-08T20:35:58Z
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@tek It's never been bad enough to prevent me from using it, and it feels a bit faster right now than two days ago.
(DIR) Post #AXekXF0lIP9lnDwgwi by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-07-13T10:13:59Z
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I invite everyone to suggest terrible names for this cool program that my student wrote: https://github.com/diku-dk/parallel-parser/issues/2
(DIR) Post #AXensug3sRIAxhHyJk by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-07-13T16:29:20Z
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@tek Yeah, no coming back from that.
(DIR) Post #AYOMcusEs2c8kdAEQS by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-08-04T09:30:19Z
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Can anyone explain why command line tools moved away from the "silence is golden" paradigm? This toot inspired by Python's "black", which prints boldface, colour, sparkles, and a cake emoji when things go well.
(DIR) Post #AYON1nUVSNSD5qvZ9k by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-08-04T16:05:15Z
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@tek But that's even worse! You only read those logs when things go wrong, and it's much harder to find pertinent information when the output is a complete fruit salad. The kids are not alright on this one.
(DIR) Post #AYOjRAbgqbfv17n8Do by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-08-04T19:11:19Z
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I apparently have many questions about computers today. Bad sign. Good thing I'll be spending the weekend walking around a forest in a robe.
(DIR) Post #AbDoOig2OFauv5ZvX6 by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-10-28T07:26:28Z
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@tek I let my membership lapse when I realised I was supposed to adhere to that code. I later re-enrolled for practical reasons, but I refuse to adhere. Intellectual property law is not a question of ethics.
(DIR) Post #AcRGz2csl1yrdm1Q9I by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-12-03T17:10:04Z
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@tek You can actually use gold for real things, like paperweights, or conducting electricity (so you can transfer Bitcoin).
(DIR) Post #AcVOZrojNsY38wuWiu by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-12-05T15:37:14Z
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How tragic that non-programmers will never experience the pleasure of removing a thousand lines of code you first wrote eight years ago. https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2023-12-04-end-of-an-optimisation.html
(DIR) Post #Adg2yVR1EaBHz6w4Y4 by athas@freeradical.zone
2024-01-09T18:05:53Z
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@tek "This is more of a brag than a comment..."