Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es
hi I'm avery, a cute lizardsquid with 3 hearts full of love!
nonbinary ░ they/she ░ australia ░ 29yo
I post: silly lizardy nonsense, world building, conlangs, doctor who
polyam, demi, open. I love affection!
hugs and cuddles and such are ok, but everything else please ask first
languages: English • Welsh (very basic)
I have a private account, ask for access!
(some old accounts:
@gwyfyndraig
@liquid_lizsquid
)
Joined Sep 2017
A different fox in Lordran
Lottie just got through the tutorial ::D
ranting about C [3/?]
I think that last paragrap in the article is so important.
Parallelism is easy. It's so easy. It's so so easy. But it's unapproachably difficult in C and the languages directly based on C
ranting about C [2/?]
but it's not. C being taught in universities as a default language is absolutely disasterous for Computing as a field - it's an overly complex, difficult language that makes things hard, and is only fast because IT KEEPS BEING USED WHEN IT SHOULDN'T BE
it's from 50 years ago, and yet people treat it like it's some magical unicorn which we can never approach or criticise or improve.
and I'm sick of that attitude.
I'm sick of people telling me that "nothing's as fast as C"
ranting about C [1/?]
this is a really important thing about programming that I think a lot of people in Computer Science need to actually read and wrap their heads around:
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
C has this reputation as being a fast, low-level language, and I've heard so many C programmers say that the only way to make things fast is to use C or a language like C (because it's "low level")
Lizardsquid, maker of noises
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The C stands for Cthulhu
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
"C Is Not a Low-level Language:
Your computer is not a fast PDP-11"
@Jo @Skirmisher nope, it's pre-installed windows
@maple snooze sleepily
Lizardsquid, maker of noises
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before i go to bed, important - tapas, a popular comic strip site, is trying to get ppl to sign up to do 6 - 9 month 600+ panel full color comics with no benefits, unknown pay and "joint ownership", i.e. they own your comic and you can't do anything with it https://twitter.com/melgillman/status/1000108747103105024?s=19
not the first time tapas has done shady things if you remember the "right to first refusal" thing they tried to add to their t&s
artists, know you're worth better than this
@Skirmisher I need to access windows to run windows only games that people have bought for me
this is a problem because I actually *need* to access windows now
Doctor Who [Season 1 Recommendations]
@Nezumi yeah in retrospect I gave it the wrong rating - my next draft downgrades it to a Maybe
welp.
I accidentally reformatted the boot partition while installing this OS
which means even though I have a fully functioning windows installation, the files required to boot it no longer exist
so I can never access windows....
@lucidiot@tiny.tilde.website XD
Lizardsquid, maker of noises
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I would with a lizard
@lottie it's not yourr fautl I'm sorry
food, caps
@SilviaFox@sleeping.town we'll find out, I've never made this before
Doctor Who [Season 1 Recommendations]
@The_T Also, remember that I'm making my recommendations with multiple "tracks" in mind
* fast track: for the reader who only wants a sampling
* recommended track: for the average reader
* "recommended with maybes" track: for more dedicated readers
hi I'm avery, a cute lizardsquid with 3 hearts full of love!
nonbinary ░ they/she ░ australia ░ 29yo
I post: silly lizardy nonsense, world building, conlangs, doctor who
polyam, demi, open. I love affection!
hugs and cuddles and such are ok, but everything else please ask first
languages: English • Welsh (very basic)
I have a private account, ask for access!
(some old accounts:
@gwyfyndraig
@liquid_lizsquid
)
Joined Sep 2017
