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@Azure Parking is actually a problem amenable to mathematical analysis! I think some university president figured out how to optimize it in the 70s. I read a book chapter about it recently, I'll have to dig up the reference.

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...

@shaderphantom I know, right?

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.

@jasondclinton Doesn't seem like it, no. Alas.

@cypnk Man this happened in like, 1993.

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.

@DavitMasia Would be interesting to see it ramp up and down a little more slowly, perhaps...

@codl It's not necessarily super hard, there's some good guides and tutorials out there as well if you do some digging.

Emulating the CPU is the easy part, from what little I know. The peripheral hardware is harder.

Interepreted language... depends on the language, and how much time you want to spend optimizing things.

@DavitMasia Very nice, though the screen-shake with the passing train seems a bit intense.

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