Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

... Why do you go through the trouble of writing documentation fitting perfectly into the help manual system that's been around literally my whole entire life plus a few days, then just landfill it in the docs directory instead?

I kept expecting the clip to end with Kermit the Frog exclaiming in the robotic Gorf voice, "Prepare yourself for annihilation, space cadet!" Alas, I don't have a clean sample or the video editing skills.

I went looking to see if anyone made a bad movie based on the arcade game Gorf, & I found something better: https://youtu.be/fKNJLeVncug

I don't follow or boost image bots that don't source (bonus: and credit) the images they post, and neither should you.

when I have to stop & look whether it's the yuri bot or catgirl bot that posted the cute girls with cute girls, it's a good day.

current status: mame64 a2600 -window -resolution 640x480 -joystick -cart packages/roms/atari/2600/ms-pac-man/ms-pac-man.a26

... Is some of the delay from python 3 itself?

Consecutive runs on the same source file with rst2html from py27-docutils:
0.41 real 0.36 user 0.03 sys
0.40 real 0.27 user 0.12 sys
0.39 real 0.33 user 0.06 sys
0.40 real 0.29 user 0.10 sys
0.40 real 0.31 user 0.08 sys

txt2tags is much simpler in structure while still being complete enough for my needs. Also, I don't have to provide a dummy template to get just an (X)HTML fragment out of it. Best of all, its only dependency is python.

But it has 2 drawbacks: I can't specify image attributes like dimensions, which means the page could shift while loading; & it depends on python 2, not python 3.

txt2tags: https://txt2tags.org/

docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Source file: 62 lines.
Output file: 5 HTML paragraphs & a poem div or table.

Times of consecutive runs:

rst2html-3.6 (py36-docutils):
0.77 real 0.68 user 0.08 sys
0.69 real 0.66 user 0.03 sys
0.69 real 0.60 user 0.08 sys
0.70 real 0.65 user 0.05 sys
0.70 real 0.63 user 0.07 sys
txt2tags (txt2tags):
0.20 real 0.18 user 0.01 sys
0.22 real 0.20 user 0.01 sys
0.22 real 0.19 user 0.03 sys
0.20 real 0.19 user 0.01 sys
0.21 real 0.18 user 0.02 sys

:3

https://youtu.be/5ywhail2C4U

I took the Arcade Classics Centipede box apart enough to see what's inside it. It looks like a nintendo-on-chip board with all the interface pads directly soldered to everything else.

I couldn't lift the plastic display bracket out without risking breaking the plastic frame, & I probably broke one of the frame's plastic screw threads putting it back together.

An RPi would be a tight fit, unless it's a 0 or 0W.

Not unusual: I just talked a customer through updating their computer.

Unusual: I talked them through doing it by opening a terminal window, running the command `sudo apt-get update`, & running the command `sudo apt-get upgrade`.

I'm quickly coming to understand why the dark magic arts of GNU Make, Automake, & Autoconf exist, even though what I'm compiling is markup-language code, not programming-language code. (I'm not using them or learning them, just coming to appreciate why they exist.)

What I wanted to do: Finish writing a Makefile & m4 macros for building a static website.

What I did instead: Threw away the Makefile, & wrote & debugged a shellscript doing part of the build process.

It took me most of the day to figure out that's the better way to tackle this thing anyway: Don't add a build step to the Makefile until it's actually working as intended from the shell.