convoluted connor @notwa@witches.town

yay it's working
https://github.com/notwa/PKGBUILDs/tree/master/mxe-plugins/notwa

I read a little about rust and now I want to try it for my next one-off C program... well, would-be-C

I wrote an mxe package but I can't test it until gcc and ffmpeg are done rebuilding. I decided to try cross compiling with gcc 6 instead of the better supported 5, so we'll see how that goes. takes a long time on my $5 droplet, but I'm in no hurry.

lachs0r's win32 build of mpv wasn't working with youtube-dl, so i did my own~

took me long enough to realize my magnitude-smoothing function reduces to a dot product, so i could do some linear predictions to reduce computation (it's currently a million multiplies). this might be the first time i've run into a problem that's actually truly a linear system, so i know i have a lot of options but experience with almost none.

voltage irregulator

easily the most annoying thing about google sheets is that closing the Find dialog automatically scrolls and selects the cell you had selected before you had opened the dialog — which may have been 30 minutes ago! have fun finding where you were just now.

had a dream about cursor position escape codes not working in bash (even though it's the fault of the terminal emulator and not the shell)
also I was on a school computer when a teacher told me they worked really hard to find (in their hands) the calculator I lost. unfortunately for them, I didn't bring my calculator to school that day.

CONTEXT: reverse engineering MIPS disassembly from late 90s, equal parts the fault of programmer and compiler.

programmer: "i'm gonna use unsigned chars here because they're just one byte big and less bytes is a faster program"
compiler: "oh fuck i have to add instructions to emulate overflows"

programmer: "i'm gonna copy this unsigned char into a char, then, oh yeah, shift a number by it"
compiler: "oh fuck i have to handle negative shifts"

programmer: "int length = 1; int i = 0; do {stuff} while (++i < length);" (part of an inlined C macro)
compiler: "today's my day off, leave the branch in"

very grateful for the wayback machine today. two different sites with stuff about DSP were timing out…

i feel like i should mess around with 555 chips again if not just for old time's sake

a friend and I have actually made a habit of saying "a" in response to posting something very cute or alluring

*clicks on a thumbnail*
*image displays even smaller*

had a really strange and interesting dream. I don't know if I can share it, but I wrote down the main points so maybe I'll have more like it in the future...

@Ronflaix is this for a racing game? do you think continuity at the joins will be an issue?

@Ronflaix haven't heard of those before, glad i asked!

@Ronflaix ooh, are these made of circular arcs, or…?

@mairi I guess in my panic I forgot about the simple things... thank you, I'll try to direct them to this for now

a trans friend of mine got kicked out of their parents' recently. they're staying at a friend of theirs for now, but i can see this getting worse considering their mental health and especially their relations with their parents. we've only known each other online so i can't do much physically. i don't wanna say too much here 'cause they didn't ask for help (shrugging it off no less), but i'd appreciate if someone more experienced and calm than me could maybe talk to them directly! or maybe just better evaluate the situation!