Dusty 
@ChlorideCull@fuzzy.systems
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27, ace/aro(?), some form of enby, autism and add, I work as a software developer, ancom
on all levels except physical, i'm drgn
plural system copiloted by Dusty and Klor, you can find him at @Klor
random gifts are OK (as long as it's not sexually explicit) and will make me very flustered
admin of fuzzy.systems, chairperson of fuzzy systems
will generally approve all follow requests as long as your account has *anything* in it
backup: @ChlorideCull
Joined Oct 2020
in machine learning, the concept of the loss function is so funny to me
here's a function that tells you exactly how much you fucking suck
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computers are a completely normal field where there are still existing databases built on descendants of something called PICK OS, an early database made in the 60s to organize parts for a helicopter that never existed, for a system called Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), as created by a guy named Dick Pick.
@chirpbirb IIRC, explicitly was a thing in one of the earlier generic PC game TAS toolkits - it would shim clock APIs to be based on a fixed timestamp
@xssfox Ooh, that software looks really neat.
i have once again found an issue that could've been detected early by the developer introducing artificial latency to the SQL database
@BestGirlGrace "what you're calling a 'pokéball' is in fact a generic Pokémon Capturing Sphere and not a branded Poké Ball" - in-universe lawyers, probably
browser UAs are incredibly simple because they all still use "Mozilla/5.0" in the beginning
default library UAs are a bit harder, since I need to collect them
"why aren't you using nginx" I wanted to try something new, and with this I can push configuration over HTTP if I want to
still need to write those caddyserver rules to block browser UAs from server-to-server APIs and vice versa
Also block default UAs from libraries
phone just autocorrected "screenshots" as "screw shit's"
@SiteRelEnby bonus when the only screenshots you can find is from the Debian packaging site, and they were taken 10 years ago
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BREAKING: One homestuck reader admits to having installed the popular Linux distribution Arch "just to feel something".
@DaxPaine do it if you want, it's probably easier than here where paying by cash is getting harder
just don't go "living above your means" because that's a great way to get investigated
@rgb same tbh
This is why I always order 1-2 extra of any part that costs less than $3, cuts the agony by a lot if I don't have to wait for a replacement
@DaxPaine because the amount due is tiny compared to the fines for tax evasion, if they were to find out
(this does not apply here, where you must withhold at least ~$10k to be held liable for tax evasion - under that they can just ask for you to pay what you've missed)
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@flussence what version of Firefox in the UA?
@Russell I think you can!
While baking can be more of a science, cooking is a lot more forgiving - it really doesn't matter if you don't get measurements perfect, in fact, recipes being more than just a list of ingredients with vague quantities is pretty modern.
@xssfox it sucks, but also, IPv4 becoming more expensive is the sole reason our customers are trying to get IPv6 support
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When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
Admin
27, ace/aro(?), some form of enby, autism and add, I work as a software developer, ancom
on all levels except physical, i'm drgn
plural system copiloted by Dusty and Klor, you can find him at @Klor
random gifts are OK (as long as it's not sexually explicit) and will make me very flustered
admin of fuzzy.systems, chairperson of fuzzy systems
will generally approve all follow requests as long as your account has *anything* in it
backup: @ChlorideCull
Joined Oct 2020
