What are you doing this weekend?
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  • lobsters__toastal@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    29 days ago

    Playing some video games & trying a setup I like for Nixtamal that makes sure the patches apply before naïvely relocking. Once that feels nice to use, I want to add a vendor=#true attribute to patches which will pull them locally—which helps stability, but at the cost of keeping around patches in the repository (fetchpatch2 will already cache things, but it’s possible that you don’t want a moving target for patches or you need the negligible speedup since applyPatches is IFD no matter how you slice it).

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  • lobsters__k749g_10b6@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    29 days ago

    As far as help goes: I want a weird flight simulator for my own idiosyncratic tastes. Any recommendations on aerodynamic-approximation texts? I am not going to do full modelling of the flow, but ideally I would to have enough approximated things to range from plausible subsonic stalling (with hysteresis) to supersonic flight, hopefully with not too much code. Wikipedia is just a little light on the details here, I would say.

    Understanding of what are the roughest approximations in actual use would be nice. If not, I guess I will check what simulation code local LLM converges on against what Wikipedia does say. (I am too lazy to make all the drawing code myself, and I am too weird to hope to find people who want exactly the same thing, so some local generation will be used anyway)

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  • lobsters__class_bc8f@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    30 days ago

    Trying to finish the Apple Network Server MacOS extensions pack. I’m blocked on the SCSI-2 extension: I can find the right OpenFirmware node for the controller but for some reason the extension won’t talk to it, so the first yak shave is to unfudge the PEF compression on the ROM driver I’m trying to modify.

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  • lobsters__luca@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    30 days ago

    It’s a beautiful day to stay inside and update servers :P But more seriously, there’s a memory leak in a C++ project I’ve been contributing to on and off. I am most certain I’ve introduced it, so I should really clean it up >.> (if I figure it out I should come back here and reply)

    Oh and Celeste speedrunning. I got addicted again

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      • lobsters__jakeh_dd6e@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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        30 days ago

        I don’t know that I will succeed, but I would rather try and fail than do nothing.

        As for why I chose to build from scratch rather than use an existing project, that would be due to the issues I have with existing software. I mostly consider Unix-like operating systems to be outdated and don’t want to be forced to build with the legacy concepts. Programming languages, too, I’ve found have largely stagnated with only one or two relevant developments over the last decade. It took me a long time and research to come to this conclusion, I think we can do better.

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  • lobsters__colindean@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    30 days ago

    Enjoying a gorgeous fall weekend for the first time in three years. Well, at least today and Saturday. Hurricane remnants hitting the area on Sunday for a good soak, but welcome: after an above average precipitation summer, we’ve had a weird little drought for this time of the year.

    I finally cleared a big gate on my long under renovation house: I can live here, says the local government, 22 months after moving in.

    My partner wanted an iPad and it arrived last night. I’ve not had an iOS device in the house for ~10 years, and that 2 years was a weird phase for her. So we’ll be exploring how iOS has changed in that time.

    As long as the weather holds up, though, I’m gonna just go touch grass and watch leaves fall.

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  • lobsters__stig@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    30 days ago

    Currently in Barcelona for a 25 year anniversary with my wife. Arrived yesterday for a long weekend. Loving it so far!

    My wife is a huge fan of the Broken Sword series of games, and this morning we followed in George Stobbart’s footsteps: we visited the Montserrat monastery, by cable car, and saw the Black Madonna. (And chatted to American tourists.)

    We’re planning to take the cable car over Barcelona tomorrow.

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  • lobsters__thirdtruck@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    30 days ago

    More job hunting: Devoting today to deeply customizing our resume and cover letter for a particularly exciting job opportunity. With any luck, this should get us past this HR screen and future ones both. If anyone would like to review either document, that would be greatly appreciated.

    Prepping for our birthday next week! And hosting board games ahead of that!

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  • lobsters__koala@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    30 days ago

    I’m starting classes this Wednesday, so my “idle time” is almost over. Yesterday I finished a first “functional” version of a Klondike solver, so I’m not sure I’ll pour more time into that.

    I think I should work on my Nagios clone, as a weird series of circumstances makes my current infra monitoring quite annoying lately and what better way to solve that than implementing a monitoring system from scratch? What could go wrong?

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