whitequark

foone , vor 17 Stunden an Random Englisch

Personally I think programming languages should always be uppercase or always be lowercase. No proper noun programming languages.
It's python and ruby, not Python and Ruby.
It's C and APL, not c and definitely not Apl.

Swift and Java? Wrong. Bad programming languages. Make SWIFT an acronym and understand java is a programming language and Java™ is a product

whitequark , vor 17 Stunden

@foone OCaml.

foone , vor 2 Tagen an Random Englisch

I'm writing rust without fully understanding the language. Pray for me.

Actually I guess that's true of most language I program in? Like, I'm sure there's some obscure python syntax or behavior I can't remember, despite calling myself a python programmer and having done it professionally for many years.

but my point was more that I barely know any rust. there's entire parts of syntax I don't understand yet. but I'm coding anyway!

whitequark , vor 2 Tagen

@foone this is most people with most languages

this is also why Amaranth is like 60% hand-holding

foone , vor 4 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 4 Tagen) an Random Englisch

Am I misremembering, or was there some cryptographic system where you could set up a container and have two keys to it, each of which provided a different file with no way for anyone to prove the other file/key existed?

ie, if the authorities forced you to decode it, you could give them the fake key and they'd only get the fake contents, and they couldn't prove that you have another key which reveals other contents?

Edit: it was truecrypt/veracrypt. Thanks!

whitequark , vor 4 Tagen

@foone but you still need to give some people the key, right

whitequark , vor 4 Tagen

@foone oh, that's wild

that said... if you can see it often enough through casual play you can definitely brute-force it easily

(this presumes that there is a checksum that tells you whether the secret level is decoded correctly or not. if there isn't it's equivalent to generative art, i think)

18+ whitequark , vor 5 Tagen an Random Englisch

i wanted to see if anyone wrote fibrechannel fic and the answer is not but check this out:

18+ whitequark OP , vor 5 Tagen

@foone wait you did? i wanna see it

whitequark , vor 13 Tagen an Random Englisch

DID YOU KNOW: Every time Microsoft calls a function DoSomethingEx, it's because it was girlfriends with, and broke up with, the DoSomething function.

whitequark OP , vor 13 Tagen

DID YOU KNOW: Every single Windows API function is gay.

whitequark OP , vor 13 Tagen

@foone w-why

fasterthanlime , vor 14 Tagen an Random Englisch

Good, uhhh.. good morning

whitequark , vor 14 Tagen

@fasterthanlime KITTY EARS

whitequark , vor 14 Tagen an Random Englisch

despite having never shot a gun i will get very annoyed at imprecise use of gun-related terminology on the internet, because i find these engineered mechanisms fascinating and an interesting object of study

engineered objects consist of parts each of which serve a purpose! they're not just things with an aestheti[gets shot]

whitequark OP , vor 14 Tagen

i feel the same way about programming languages

whitequark OP , vor 14 Tagen

but also have you ever looked into how absurdly difficult it is to make a reliable automatic feeding and extraction mechanism? like when i was a child i didn't care for guns much but i was wondering how you'd design such a thing

many years later i have a much more detailed understanding of how one works, but i still wonder how you'd design such a thing

especially with like, no high speed cameras, no CAM/CAE, nothing but your mind and a sheet of paper

a beautiful form of applied mathematics

whitequark OP , vor 14 Tagen

and a lot of trial and error

i wonder if i can read, like, winchester's lab notebook or something, to understand the thought process behind the design

whitequark OP , vor 14 Tagen

@4censord I think some of the better airsoft options could be satisfying in the same way

foone , vor 17 Tagen an Random Englisch

I mean, they make a good argument.

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/ejacutastic/752960889515294720/

whitequark , vor 17 Tagen

@foone the username really ties it together

foone , vor 20 Tagen an Random Englisch

Idea: a USB-controlled gun, but the USB protocol implementation is the most cursed part.
Any ideas? I have a better one, but I'll start with that it's a USB printer class. Every time you tell it to print a page, it fires

whitequark , vor 20 Tagen

@foone web camera (the cursed part is that someone would actually deploy this)

fasterthanlime , vor 24 Tagen an Random Englisch

One thing that is cool about LLM‘s right now is how there’s actual competition, the likes of which I haven’t seen in other fields lately.

I’ve been enjoying GPT-4o, now Claude Sonnet 3.5 is out and I can just switch to it with one line of config. Until next time.

whitequark , vor 24 Tagen

@fasterthanlime can you post the code as well?