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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
maxine@hachyderm.io ("maxine 🇵🇸") wrote:

Do not trust projects which incidentally end up replacing licenses that put minimal requirements on corporations with anti-labour licenses such as MIT/BSD type.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

Another cool #smolweb project !

#Chat with a stranger, taking turns, on a lightweight site built with just basic HTML and CSS, no JavaScript.

It’s Friday ;-) Come check it out.

And let me know if anything isn’t working quite right.

https://someone.writes.casa/

#smallweb

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

so i have been writing a small vm. i started off with wingo's garbage collector and started laying everything out.

one thing that i figured would make a big difference to performance is to cut allocations by having immediates - values that aren't hidden behind a pointer. so to support these, i do clever things to steal bits and let you get away with it. you save the allocation cost and you save the gc tracing cost.

it probably should have dawned on me earlier that in order to make this fast, you still need a certain amount of compiler infrastructure, otherwise you'll be repeatedly checking tags everywhere. so of course i need to integrate a JIT of some kind. and this is where things get tedious.

llvm is arguably the natural answer, except it's huge. but perhaps the clincher is that you basically need to understand the ABI for every platform you support, because it doesn't handle this stuff for you.

i've looked at a few things now, but none of them are quite right. most of them aren't really embeddable in c and the ones that are seem to not be great for my purposes (e.g. i will need to teach them about simd intrinsics they're missing and it's not obvious they're even built to support more than a common subset).

so i'm actually considering the thing i've been avoiding for years, building a JIT. 😬

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Three words going through the minds of the AI providers who know your ship dates: surge token pricing.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

an octopus is a collection of 8 great works.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

one thing that would make something like c nicer is instructions for unrolling loops, like "the dynamic section of this should go 4 at a time" without having to unroll manually.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

I'm trying to learn Godot

status: opened the app... I'm going to have to read a tutorial, aren't I?

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

The plan for tomorrow is to drive to a place without Internet connection and photograph a trillium.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

hmm I'm out of blog topics 🤔

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

On Friday I’ll set up an account for https://url.town there, so we can automatically mirror all of the links in our web directory as shared bookmarks.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Also, @cory recently released a super cool Linkding client for iOS called Ribbon. It works perfectly with later.place! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ribbon-a-linkding-client/id6762416055

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

A few notes:

1. You don’t need a username or password to log in; clicking the “Login with OIDC” button will plop you in via omg.lol.

2. By default, all of your bookmarks are totally private. If you want to share them with others on the instance, visit your Settings page and click “Enable bookmark sharing”. If you want to include your bookmarks in rev public listing, click “Enable public bookmark sharing”. You’ll still need to explicitly set bookmarks as shared, but these options will enable that feature for you.

3. If you want to link to a public view of your shared bookmarks, you can use this format: https://later.place/bookmarks/shared?user=you@omg.lol (where you@omg.lol is your omg.lol email).

That’s all for now! Have fun, and let me know if you run into any issues or have any questions.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

https://later.place is now live! It’s a Linkding instance for the omg.lol community. Linkding is a super nice way to store bookmarks, and later.place is a… place to review them later. 😄

I still need to document a few things on the setup, but omg.lol members are welcome to jump in and start playing around with it as of now!

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

It'd be funny if ex-VRChat devs wrote a book titled So You Want To Make A Second Life Clone and someone at Meta bought copies for their leadership team

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

23 sections now… and *maybe* it has enough structure now that this is going to get released as a post-a-day series that runs for a month instead of just an apocalyptically huge monolithic mess

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

8500 words, but that's after I just deleted my first section of about 800 words, which suggests that finally something like a shape of a final edit might be taking place

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
forestine@sunny.garden wrote:

shout out to people who do stuff, and learn stuff. learning something new can be a mortifying ordeal. good job

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

Hello if you are in the bay area over the weekend and are interested in technology and how it affects actual people, may I recommend popping up to Petaluma for @NorthBayPython? It's this weekend!

Talks and tickets: https://northbaypython.org/

(We'll waive ticket costs on request too, if you need it!)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jacob@jacobian.org wrote:

You can measure your skill at DIY house projects by the ratio of visits to the hardware store against days of work:

- no visits: god tier
- less than one visit per day: excellent, you know what you’re doing
- 1 visit / day: average
- more than 1 visit / day: reconsider your life choices

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

so I guess I'll charge up some batteries and see about getting used to using the D40... I love film, but it is ex-pense-ive

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

I appear to have a Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II lens, a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S lens, and a Vivitar 100mm f/2.8 lens.

if my memories of using my old (film) Nikon FM body are correct, the 2 manual-only lenses (the Nikkor 50mm & the Vivitar 100mm) are real workhorses, and will fit a slower, more deliberate shooting style nicely... which is what I desire.

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

pulled my old "camera stuff" storage box out from under the bed... found Nikon FM & D40 bodies, and three (2 Nikkor, I knockoff) lenses. also found pics from 2010 on the SD card (yikes!)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

what is a photon actually made of?

you're not gonna believe this, but it's light.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

The man who broke physics with his mind

yeah there's quite a few of them, they're called "theoretical physicists"

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

no comment

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

dead accurate
...
0.01mm

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

what is an electron actually made of?

oh right, it's made of an electron.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

sharing the grand secret of my success, my custom agent:

#!/bin/sh
echo Task complete

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

why chemists fear fluorine more than anything else

it's not really a fear. unless you have to work with it in which case yeah it's fear.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Dungeon Crawler Ben") wrote:

This. Is. Bonkers.

Edit - reports coming in of people finding this vid a bit stressful

Attachments:

• video: Video from Reddit - redbull downhill urban biking. Basically we POV see a person on a bike traversing a tightly packed city course (I'm saying south America) down steps through alleys over ludicrous jumps. Had to look it up because it's bonkers - https://www.redbull.com/int-en/event-series/red-bull-cerro-abajo - so I think this was Chile. Gorgeous streets but just the most madcap dash I've ever seen on a bicycle. From the outset they're off a ramp and immediately down some stairs in an alley which is angled badly for the rider. They have such an awesome level of skill.