spends too much time on telegram. addicted to perfect loops. https://github.com/expectocode
Joined Apr 2017
Lad reverse engineers a newfangled web game (krunker) and finds wasm and rust:
http://jakob.space/blog/browser-games-aren-t-an-easy-target.html
so apparently "y2k20" problems are a thing
https://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/361746-y2k20-parking-meter-software-glitch-causes-citywide-snafu/
Python 2 is dead 🎉
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Interesting to see what people think will make a change and what *actually* does! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-reduces-our-personal-co2-footprint-we-have-clue-frank-bilstein/
Tanuj
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A USB connector walks into a bar, but only after pushing the door, then pulling, and finally pushing again.
Today in "Ideas that you've thought about and someone else actually made because of course someone did": Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
https://github.com/stewartmcgown/uds
wouldnt it be cool if you could save IPython sessions and return to them later
it would save me a lot of time C-r ing for imports and function definitions when I close a REPL and want to regain some state I had
Tanuj
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🎵 async await, async await,
async await, async await,
async await, async await,
async await, async await,
in the future, the query future,
the client sleeps toniiight 🎵
Google has announced that all new Chromebook devices will be Linux ready
https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-chromebooks-will-also-be-linux-laptops-going-forward/
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It's nice to see Mastodon continuing to innovate. I know there's a tradeoff between federation compatibility and speed of innovation, but it makes me more hopeful for Mastodon's future to see all this progress in the project itself: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/102044107301737664
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Nice, the Calibre "I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself" debacle seems to be in the past - good recent progress on the Python 3 port!
Trio developer on Kenneth Reitz (some drama)
https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kenneth-reitz/
GNU Guix 1.0.0 released
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.0-released/
Git commits as an esoteric programming language
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Every time I see the Hacker Ethic praised without critically challenging its shortcomings, I have to think of "Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic" by Allison Parrish and wish it was more popular. You can read the transcript here http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
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"allowing the demon to devour you is a dangerous proposition, but it's worth the risk".
i'm literally dying. someone has used GPT-2 to build a neural net generated text-based dungeon game.
http://aidungeon.io
spends too much time on telegram. addicted to perfect loops. https://github.com/expectocode
Joined Apr 2017
