shrimp eating mammal @walruslifestyle@octodon.social

if you have 2/3 of a computer, you basically have 0 computers. if you have 2/3 of a donut, you basically have a donut. this is one reason why computers are so bad.

another classic scene from Dune. forgot how much I love this film

when you accidentally view the federated timeline

https://octodon.social/media/QskEAEp8hVh7ZTkj-9U

the admin of a Mastodon instance should be called a Mastodontist. thanks

white guys stop being problematic challenge 2021

twitter thread on how a bunch of machine learning + automated trading systems "noticed" all the hype about GameStop because of the reddit troll, and then bought up shares in it, further increasing the mayhem

https://twitter.com/caylenb/status/1354503072983044097

"Blockbuster stock up 774% this morning" is not a blurb I thought I'd read in 2021, but 🤷

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/bankrupt-blockbuster-remnant-joins-reddit-inspired-retail-rally

hey, remember when a bunch of people violently broke into the US Capitol building with plans to murder people, fully supported and instigated by currently-sitting members of Congress?

yeah it's cool how none of those people will face any consequences at all.

(those are sarcasm squigglies)

~~~greatest nation in the history of the world~~~

tfw video games crashed the US economy

GameStop? more like GameGO am I right????

the US needs to bathe in the blood of its children regularly. if kids are not in school being shot, then they must be in school contracting and dying from COVID.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/world/cdc-schools-reopening.html

iirc a PDA with two stacks is also Turing Complete. reasoning about such a thing would be easier than reasoning about an automaton with a queue and you could probably make a Turing Complete superset out of an existing RPN system straightforwardly. I'm certain this has been done to death a thousand times before but I find it fun to daydream about

i *think*, without having bothered to research or prove it, that probably means you could have minimal statefulness and mostly compute stuff with the queue operations and clever choice of symbols you put into/remove from the queue.

i'm assuming if I dug enough or asked around enough someone would tell me a common language I already know about was built on that principle, but i'm just spitballing

one fun computer science fact I stumbled on recently is that the class of pushdown automata (PDAs) where the stack is replaced by a queue is Turing complete. this means in principle you can compute any computable function with a finite-state machine that also has push and pop queue operations and that's it.

after using dc for years, i could **almost** advocate coding only in reverse polish notation languages

calling XMPP a messaging protocol in 2021 is like calling HTTP a document-serving protocol.

one thing that really hobbles XMPP is that it's usually presented as a messaging protocol. that's not what it is, though. really, it's a protocol for handling stateful interactions. it originated as a messaging protocol and is tuned for that purpose, but it can do so much more than that. any webapp you can think of could be served over XMPP instead of HTTP (obviously with lots of client code changes) and work the same way.

i have this half-baked idea that part of the reason HTTP raced forward while XMPP lagged behind is that proper stateful protocols (XMPP) are difficult to do well so people either punted or hacked a solution.

it's really puzzling to me though why XMPP isn't used more. things like fill-in-the-blanks forms and wizards are so much easier and more natural in XMPP versus HTTP (especially RESTful APIs). obviously messenging and presence is more natural too.

Windows just can't stop leaving processes running that don't need to be running, with files open that don't need to be open. it's compulsive.

delete all your code and start over

all of this *waves hands vaguely* needs to be stopped yesterday https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-landed-a-patent-to-turn-you-into-a-chatbot-1846113786

welp, +200 MHz on the graphics clock and +1300 MHz on the VRAM did it lol. never waste a reboot i always say