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Just hacking around at the #hackerspace .

Huzzah, the Great sRGB Bug has been vanquished! Only took eight months...

#ggez #rust #gamedev

Huh, I just realized that PCB layout is a graph optimization problem with a bunch of slightly odd constraints.

This is simultaneously the sort of problem that a computer should be able to solve perfectly at small scales, and one that is difficult enough that humans should be able to locally outperform a computer on large scales... Hmmm.

I'm sure computer engineers realized this in like, the 50's...

So it turns out that #stardock is run by a pile of raging assholes who are trying to fuck over the original makers of #starcontrol2 for... no readily apparent reason I can see. It's turning into Litigation Hell, alas, and Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III need legal help, and money to pay for it. See more complete story here:

https://dogarandkazon.squarespace.com/blog/2018/6/21/frungy-defense-fund-the-fund-of-kings

Spread the word, and fight the good fight.

Attention Duelists:

I'm doing front-end web dev and I'm using probably the best tools available for it (React/Redux and Typescript)

and it's still ABSOLUTELY AWFUL.

Why is this not Rust?

Happy solstice.

Also octodon.social is lovely but also kinda heavily loaded much of the time. Might want to emigrate to somewhere smaller. Except if I do that there's no reason to just make my alt @icefox my main... hmmm.

So it turns out that you can order praying mantises online. The world is a wonderful place.

Unfortunately I learned this just AFTER I'd already hosed the wasp nest down with chemical warfare, but...

Attention #debian and #python people: If you're using Debian Testing (Buster) and updated recently, Python's `venv` module is broken. See the bug report here for a filthy hacky workaround: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901803

plz boost

Add all this up and you might be able to get a Pentium II.

Turns out I have one or two PICs too. And a couple 6800's.

I haven't even started in on the Motorola bitz, ADCs, timers, old-school transistors, MOSFETs, and random shit I have no *idea* how to identify.

What the heck am I going to do with all these 7400-series DOOHICKEYS

Well, the local #hackerspace was throwing away tons of random electronic bitz, so of course I scooped them up. There's passive components, PICs, 7400 series IC's, and piles of stuff I have no idea about.

Anyone interested in some? I'll give stuff to a good home for the cost of shipping once I categorize it. I'll never get around to building anything with it.

I have done a good deed today. This is the most organized the local #hackerspace 's machining stuff has been in years.