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Me: The race condition happens because the thread just posts a message to make X happen, then does something that requires X to have completed.
Brain: It's surprising that we still use the notion of a linear order of events when thinking about race conditions.
Me: Wait, what?

@Anzeliane Unless it's competing with another basic need like food or something you can't put off until later I always recommend sleep.

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@lizardsquid They invented targeted advertising?

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@lizardsquid Obviously, you wouldn't do it that way. You'd `cat part1.mp3 ad.mp3 part2.mp3`.

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@lizardsquid Best I can tell, mp3 doesn't have a header.

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@lizardsquid They invented the `cat` command?

A piece for @starless !!! In which I was given the list of tags to an image and backwards engineered it from there. Came out EXACTLY like the original. Completely. Perfect recreation.

....now I wanna get some tea and take a nap, actually

having a techie girlfriend is being asked "what happens when you click it though, like what's the error" and going "i mean it just doesn't work" and hearing the sharp inhale of someone working through their tech support trauma right in front of you to avoid screaming

About to reverse-engineer some Zelda 1 audio code, for converting recorder tunes. twitch.tv/madewokherd

@gendercensus Follow-up question: Among people who selected "enby" and among those who don't, which words have the greater difference? Based on a conversation in Nonbinary Zone discord, people who choose "enby" for themselves may be more likely to choose feminine identity words and less likely to choose masculine ones. (I may do this myself when the data is released, if you don't.)

mixed feedback 

@firstprogenitor Argh, now I'm looking at this again and maybe she is cute? I don't know. But I'm still sure the sketch was.

mixed feedback 

@firstprogenitor I think she was cuter in the sketch? It feels to me like something in her expression got lost since then and she just looks like she's posing for a photo now. But also I continue to just be some rando who knows nothing about the actual mechanics of such things.

fun with linux 

Amazing.

I have the Zoom client installed on my computer (the only things I use it for don't need encryption). And every time I leave the computer for any length of time, when I come back, the Zoom client has started on its own.

It's not a specific interval. It's not a specific time. It just seems to be any time I'm away from the computer for more than 15 minutes; when I wake the computer back up, Zoom's sitting there, waiting.

I check running daemons, I poke at background tasks - nothing.
Finally, it occurs to me: "when I wake the computer up". So on a hunch, I check xscreensaver - which has an oooold screensaver called "zoom". I don't have that screensaver installed, but it's listed in the possible screensavers, so xscreensaver checks for it - and it doesn't just check the screensavers directory, it checks $PATH too.

I remove the "zoom" line from ~/.xscreensaver - and the problem goes away.

When I need to test things on Windows for work now it goes Windows->synergy->synergyc->Linux (local)->Remmina->x11vnc->Linux (work)->VirtualBox->Windows. It's kind of amazing that the whole chain works.

Epic Games Store and money 

@lizardsquid This is why any platform with DRM is a tough sell for me. You have to trust that the DRM won't get in your way and the platform will be maintained. (I'm not strict about this, I will buy games on Steam because I trust them, but not if the games have DRM besides Steam itself.)

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