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Well, got a lot of refactoring and reworking of ggez's graphics innards done. Should soon be able easily solve The Great sRGB Fustercluck.

In the mean time, just gotta figure out a couple bugs and write up some docs and another point release can be made...

Ok, BuildBot might be simpler to set up than Gitlab CI, but it also takes a bit more work to configure for more sophisticated things.

Goodness, gitlab is a *giant hairy beast* these days. Or more like some sort of coven of hairy beasts, all sitting in a dour circle and growling at anything that looks at them like it might dare manage some of these tightly-intertwingled components itself.

Gotta say though, it only takes about half an hour of messing around and setting up before my project was successfully failing CI jobs...

@dasyatidprime Pasta with pesto. Which was great, and entirely not worth worrying over.

@gcupc please tell me they will eventually become pie.

Okay apparently I'm still alive.

Though apparently at the point where pondering what to make for dinner on a weekend gives me a minor panic attack.

@chalcedony Yeeeeees, offical pronunciation. I should sleep.

Don't worry you're too adorable to subconsciously avoid. (Another sign I should sleep.)

@noelle nah I do the same thing all the time.

They're good for different things.

@chalcedony to my shame as a geologist it never occurred to me to look up the official spelling...

... partially because everyone I asked pronounced it differently.

@baseballpunt They seeeeem to promise numerical operations that are a bit easier to reason about and more stable/reproducable, over a wider range of values.

And you don't have to worry about NaN, which is always nice. Though whether it's *desirable* is debatable.

@Azure Yeah that is a pretty dire circumstance, I confess.

@Canageek Hey look you found my old lab notebook!

Except the handwriting is neater.

@Azure But I like oatmeal raisin. ;_;

I mean, chocolate chip is just better, I agree, but there's nothing wrong with good oatmeal raisin.

The *best* part about tabletop RPG's:

Having the alien mercenary captain fight off this horrible giant predatory python SNEK thing after it drops on him from a tree

while the only nominally-Earthling party member insists on his life "jeez no we don't want to eat that thing, it's totally poisonous!"

@finn Theory vs practice:

John L. Gustafson's claims for a more convenient variable-precision numeric format than floating point are compelling. I might have to write an implementation and see how it goes in practice.

Also, as a scientist, interesting to see how the formats and arguments have evolved in the last 5 years. This guy must have had some interesting post-conference bar talks with hardware engineers.

#programming #mathematics

@anarchotootbot@anticapitalist.party In Sweden(???) at least traffic fines scale with your income. I read some newspaper article about some guy who got a 1.1 million euro speeding ticket.