The jank programming language
https://compiler-research.org/blogs/jank_intro/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://compiler-research.org/blogs/jank_intro/
Just made a donation to the OpenBSD foundation to support the project 
We need to reach that funding goal 
OpenBSD support matters, keeping competition between open source operating systems is important for innovation and security 
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2024.html
My electric screwdriver wasn't giving me enough torque and I remembered this little gem
spent some time video recording (what i assume to be) an old pamphlet from days of the democratic socialist party here in australia.
i turned it into a video essay. it is 22 minutes long, so not for the faint of heart.
i think the pamphlet does a great job of giving a summary of marxist class analysis--the cornerstone of radical leftism's science of socialist revolution.
Any headline that starts with “Elon Musk says” should be followed by a warning label, like a can of rat poison: “Do not ingest unless you want your brain to leak out”
#OpenBSD is superb if you're the lazy type like me
Besides checking logs once in a while, I've basically not done anything in close to 4 years
If your web stack is Perl+SQLite based, you can basically roll with the default install
My project to document #Elite on the #Commodore64 is now complete. I hope you enjoyed it!
It's time for a Christmas break now, but I'll be back with the Apple II version in the new year.
In the meantime, here's the finished #C64 site for you to explore:
attn @jasoncrowther -- C64 playing Doom at-speed.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/commodore-64-pi-powered-doom
We're here on Europa for the (Jupiter-) annual molting of the ice worms. Then it's on to Titan for the cryo-beet harvest. The orbits are out of whack this season so we skip Neptune. Then the long slog back to the Mercurian tin fields. Not as lonely being a migratory field worker since they fucked up Earth; lots of new friends. Hey, you'll want to vantablack those radiator fins on your EVA, you'll get another 20% efficiency. No wukkers, always good to help out a new-chum.
Visual 6502's wiki appears to be hard-down. Does anyone know if it'll be fixed? :(
i suppose this is not a problem with package managers as a concept,
but i feel like the discoverability of packages is quite bad when i apt search in debian or guix search in guix etc.
successfully finding a relevant package usually requires going onto the internet and using a search engine.
the naming scheme of packages is wildly different across distributions. when i am looking for a python dependency, is it py3- or py- ? how are the stems -utils, -doc, or -tools to be applied?
in addition to this, it seems to me that the metadata for most packages is seriously lacking--meaning that packages are only included in search results in the shell if you just happen to know the exact terms they actually include.
TFW you wake up an hour early for work and spend it reading about historical anarchists and propaganda of the deed.
hit a road block with the discrete transistor computer project yet again
there's this computer someone made with TTL chips that has brainfuck as its ISA
it is appealing to make in a discrete transistor design because it has no registers or an ALU
however, these 74193 ICs are horrendously complicated--up/down counters with all the loading/clearing/presetting logic
up/down counters are by themselves easy, they're just chained Toggle flip flops
this is the low power schottky (LS) version, the HC version uses 3 XOR gates which are a nightmare to build
New deep dive into #Elite on the #Commodore64 (3/9): The split-screen mode
Everyone knows about the BBC Micro's split-screen mode in Elite, but it turns out that the #C64 version has one too. I never knew! Find out more at:
https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_split-screen_mode_commodore_64.html
"The people who were put in the camps then were communists. Who cared about them? We knew it, it was printed in the newspapers."
(Yes, Niemöller said that.)
First impressions after a few days with #tangara
https://jasongullickson.com/tangara-first-impressions.html
Cc: @jacqueline
I don't know if this is the first review of AI text-to-video, because I've seen a few. Most of them are dishonest. This thorough review is by far the most honest one I've seen.
If you want to know where the tech really stands right now, watch this. It covers the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. But it doesn't suck as much as competitors and the overly tech-religious want you to believe. Depending on what you need, it might be the bee's knees. Or a total dumpster fire. Watch to find out what it actually does well, and where it doesn't.
PS: I think a lot of thinking it doesn't understand physics is actually that it can't understand intent. Keep that in mind when watching the Frisbee and the kangaroo clips.