Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Stop misusing terms to garner sympathy. Get it TOGETHER.
Some of yall really will abuse the terms abuse, toxic, stalking, fascist, and victim-blaming truly to manipulate people and it is terrible.
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Bitching about computer nerd stuff
Fuck the GNU Project. Just...fuck it. Fuck it to hell and back.
Turns out, setting the `POSIXLY_CORRECT` environment variable causes things to break, meaning that the GNU Project is doing things so far from standards, I literally *have* to use their fucking software on my Arch system, whether I like it or not.
Thanks, guys. I'm glad you're freeing me from the tyranny of not being able to control my own computer. You're doing a great job. /s
@ADA_SIX hey foxie :=)
re: anger
@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe I don't know that!
...afraid you and Kara are just gonna keel over one night, some nights
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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my parents stop thinking having "company towns" where everything costs scrip will be a good idea when tech companies do it even though it was a fucking disaster when mining companies did it challenge
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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I wonder what would happen if, say, the Teamsters said “hey Walmart, if you try to fire union organizers, we’re not delivering to your warehouses anymore”.
anger
ugh. thank the stars Kaylin's free today
anger
Chara's trying to be nice and philosophical about it and all but holy shit Kara's been running on fumes for fucking months now
give her a fucking break already
anger
I don't know what the fuck exactly Kara / Chara got mixed up with last night
but there are certain people I wanna punch in the face, really hard, right now, for their part in it
how dare you play with us all
how DARE you
fedi meta
@pingviini they ain't exactly wrong
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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One of my favourite Undertale comics is that one where Frisk takes Papyrus to a human supermarket and shows him the pasta aisle and it's like a revelation to the guy and he's so overjoyed
And I love it not because of "lol the funny pasta skeleton", it's because of just how pure and earnest the reaction is and it just makes me so happy to imagine just .. being able to bring so much joy with something so simple.
never seen that "fac" terminology anywhere else. guess it refers to how the iridium, instead of simply bonding to the pyridine nitrogen, also (apparently!) strips a proton from the adjacent phenyl, making a bidentate ligand
(hexacoördinated, not hexadentate, bleh)
other arylpyridine ligands work. it's just plain simple "heat the ligand with IrCl3". more cooking than chemistry haha
what are these iridium complexes useful for? photocatalysts, apparently
also the stuff is spectacularly yellow
need to relax so here's _Organic Syntheses_ roulette. I generate a random English word off a website, and put it into the text search box of orgsyn.org and see what article first comes up
the word, "energetic"
http://orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=v95p0029
well, it's...simple!
synthesis of a hexadentate complex of iridium(III), fac-tris(2-phenylpyridinato)iridium(III)
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@fibonacci_reminder yeah, something to do with minimizing wasted memory or too many operations or something haha
I always preferred the dirtier sciences :=D
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@fibonacci_reminder oh I think the "buddy" idea comes in with the way that the blocks are split up. when a memory request comes in and you have a free block that's larger than the request you split it into two "buddies" of unequal size (but, Fibonacci ratio between them) to get smaller blocks
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@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe @fibonacci_reminder I can't quite remember what the "buddy" thing was about
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@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe @fibonacci_reminder haha not enough. and the Wikipedia article isn't very lucid about it, it looks like
but it refers to a scheme of maintaining a "heap", a pool of memory blocks, where the blocks are subdivided according to Fibonacci-sized chunks
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@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe @fibonacci_reminder makes me think of the Fibonacci buddy memory system, which is too cool a thing not to exist
although I don't remember whether it's actually that good an idea or not
I suspect Charas may come in Chara-antiChara pairs
re: corporate media vs. collective media
@packbat *snorts* I think my ideal future is one where "YouTube" still exists but it's run by a pack of queer space anarcho-communists or something
"YouTube" is just a _name_, in the end. a big, heavy name, but a name
maybe it can be attached to something cool :=3
