FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

… when you write everything yourself, in very high-level code, and you understand all of it, suddenly you can “printf debug” basically anything.

I can write three lines of code and suddenly I have a symbolic trace of every single Objective-C method call: where it starts, where it ends, what the method name is, what object it was called on, and which class in the superclass chain it resolved to!

so, touchHLE is afflicted by a lot of “not invented here”-ism, which is all my fault. I have reimplemented a lot of stuff that other people would try to get from libraries.

in my defence though, this gives me some superpowers:

• I have a very deep understanding of the whole system! it's hard to overstate how useful that is.
• there's very few dependencies, so the binaries are small and the build times are short, and it's auditable

but there's something else cool, too…

Can we make it a well known rule that by the time a tech fad is all across SF billboards, it's officially peaked and will only decline or explode from now forward?

to be clear, I don't mean "explode" as in "explode in popularity", but "explode" as in "fireball that kills everyone involved in it"

“why don't languages like c++ and java have multiple constructors? they're so useful! i love that rust has multiple constructors!”

the finger curls on the monkey's paw

and i find out about the hell of objective-c designated initialisers

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as during the pandemic lockdown, we wouldn't achieve our climate targets.

While individuals made huge sacrifices, the system remained. This shows that individual action will not solve climate change. We need the system to change.

looking into history accuracy of AoE2 is, a trip

suppose I am writing some code that will take a god object containing all the state of an emulator, move out several key components of it, reset their states, and then place them into a new god object that's meant to be almost indistinguishable from a completely fresh one. what's a nice, horrifying metaphor for this. i want a word that conveys the idea of like, organ harvesting from a perfectly healthy subject or something. or some kind of spiritual thing.

Bureaucracy becomes significantly easier to navigate once you realize bureaucrats are human beings and if you send them an overwhelming amount of documentation they'll often decide they don't get paid enough to go through all your bullshit and it's easier to just give you what you need

i made a meme about web revival / yesterweb / diy

"This Discord server could have been a forum."

Every #NYT story lately.

I have no idea where this image originated and take no credit.

@futurebird

Lawn darts, bb-guns, kids these days miss out on all the fun toys because of ...

*very sappy mocking voice*

"sAfEtY"

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