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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

micah@tech.lgbt ("Micah") wrote:

Stop this. Stop this at once.

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• Though malloc is a very useful function in c, it is not without its problems. The biggest is that it can be confusing for some to decide how much memory to allocate, needing complicated statements with sizeof . To solve this I propose a new alternative to malloc that utilizes the power of modern developments in AI, mallocPlusAI . The usage is simple. int* x = (int*)mallocPlusAI("Enough memory to stare up to 5 integers.); mallocPlusAI takes in a character array which is forwarded to a ChatGPT instance alongside an initial prompt "You are a memory allocator for a computer, and you need to tell me how many bytes of memory I would need to accomplish a certain task. Make sure to give your response as only a whole number of bytes, do not provide any other text Here is what I request: " - Alt courtesy of @finalstaticfox@pounced-on.me (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

wishing Max Abrams would move off of theBirdSite and onto Mastodon, miss his perspective

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

My Dungeons & Dragons barbarian illustration in the flesh in the new player handbook!

#DnD #playershandbook

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• The interior pages of the new 2024 Dungeon & Dragons player handbook showing the barbarian full page illustration (remote)
• The cover of the new 2024 Dungeon & Dragons player handbook (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm a member of the "tech support commons"? 🤔

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:

announcing ｓｕｐｅｒｌｉｎｋｅｒ, a tool for reinterpreting ELF executables and shared libraries https://github.com/whitequark/superlinker

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Okay, so not all of the formatting that glitch-soc lets you have is supported by stock Mastodon (I used the <sub> tag in the previous toot, and stock Masto gets rid of it.)

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

After my Mastodon server being down for like 16 hours because I suck at sysadmining, I think I now can use rich text in toots. I hope this works at least!

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

good:

“Turnout for early in-person voting has started strongly in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where deadly Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but apparently did not dampen a fierce desire to participate in elections.”

- The Guardian

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

"Technical Support Dope at your service!"

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Between individuals like myself and whole communities of people helping each other out there in various ways, I suspect that's a large part of what allows the modern complex tech stack to actually continue to exist. If corps actually had to bear the entire burden of technical support for their products, could they continue to exist in their current form?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I used to think of it as technical support for family and friends, and now I realize it's really more like I'm volunteer technical support team for big corp. I wonder how many anonymous technical support dopes like me there are. 🤔

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In a harsh rebuke to the Democratic presidential nominee, Fox News Channel asserted on Friday that Kamala Harris had “flagrantly broken” the network’s ground rules for her interview by speaking in complete sentences.’

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/fox-claims-harris-broke-interview?publication_id=2337656&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=4qey6&utm_medium=email

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Oh. My. God.

Friends, it's so much dumber than I could have possibly imagined. What does this bundle do? Is it the primary thing on the page? Nope. It's *the paywall script*.

On pages *that already have React and all the rest*. From a *separate* multi-meg bundle.

🤦🤦🤦

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

reichenstein ("Oliver Reichenstein") wrote:

If true, Tim Cook calling Trump to help with the EU is very bad news—this type of America First mercantilistic power game benefitting big companies is exactly what Trump is selling. In the end Americans will pay for raising import tariffs, and a power play between Europe and America will hurt the interconnected global economy and political alliances, shareholders and EU hating anticompetitive US Apple fans (50+% phone market share in the US) will be nodding silently, feeling cutesy and demure.

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• The Verge asked Apple if it's true. No answer so far.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Anyway, I'm sure it's *fine*. They use gzip! That's gonna pull that 3.2MB down to a *much* more reasonable...

[ checks notes ]

...1.1MB on the wire.

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• fc08396cee2d3edd.mp4 (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

me: why the hell is this "unified bundle" 3MB (unzipped)?

[ scrolls ]

me: inline'd React which is executed via...`eval()`? And all of CoreJS? For browsers that don't need either? Weird flex, but OK...

[ scrolls some more ]

ooooooohhhhhhh....

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• It's one thing to ship your source maps to prod, it's another to be so utterly dedicated to the cause that you embed them as base64-encoded `data:` URLs. In the production bundle. 🤦 (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Even after working in it for years, the sheer number of perfectly normal web things that you have to implement a workaround for in React is *staggering*.

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.82.0 has been released! 🦀✨

This release includes `cargo info`, new `impl Trait + use<..>` syntax, unsafe/safe extern items, unsafe attributes, smarter pattern matching, floats in const eval, Option::is_none_or, and more!

Check out the announcement: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/10/17/Rust-1.82.0.html

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

estherschindler@newsie.social ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

People who confuse entomology and etymology bug me in ways I can't put into words.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:

What do folks use for managing their web site/app's theming variables so they're both available in CSS and JS?

There are cases where having access to them in JS is useful, such as when drawing to a .

Everything as CSS variables + some JS code to access variables from stylesheets?

JSON used to generate both CSS and JS?

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

katiefenn@front-end.social ("Katie Fenn") wrote:

The video of my talk from #sotb2024 is up.

I live-code Daft Punk on stage to give a whirlwind tour of the Web Audio and Web MIDI APIs, and reflect on what the Web does better than any other platform.

Please watch and share!
https://mastodon.world/@webstandards/113265348879465866

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I haven't had a chance to do any photography for a month and a half now, just holed up at home working. I miss it dearly.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The longer form (for managers).

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• Still "NO". (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The decision tree for React adoption in The Year Of Our Lord 2024.

(from an upcoming blog post)

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• "Should We Use React?" -> "Do We Support IE 8?" -- (no) --> "NO" (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Answers in Genesis is a tax-evading organization. For shame!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/17/why-are-creationists-so-pasty-pale-at-answers-in-genesis/

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• Answers in Genesis has a private jet that they use to fly back & forth to the Cayman Islands (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I've been banging on about how shit the tradeoffs Android SoCs have made are for most of a decade now, and it's amazing to see a vendor finally turn the corner. Giving the "little" cores almost no cache was always a terrible choice as it means they spend ages spun up waiting for main memory!

https://youtu.be/LZ51aAM58b4?si=hxYQIHPoC1a80Bik

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

No one does the Qt 4 dance anymore, these days. This says a lot about society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTEVbQLC8s

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

catladyactivist ("Cat Herding Science Nerd") wrote:

It's the accuracy for me.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #actuallyautistic

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• Two cats doing a predator handshake Cat 1: Autistic people Cat 2: Cats

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I guess one small note is that i'm not in jersey, but close enough

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

got served this instagram ad the other day and I must say: perfect. no notes.

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• Plain black background with white all-caps text reading: "Love Star Trek? In Jersey? See you Nov 8-10. Meadowlands Expo." shared by Creation Entertainment (remote)