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@philpax.me

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creative engineer · Rust, gamedev/modding, reverse engineering, writing, AI, XR, etc a better world is possible · 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈

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philpax @philpax.me · 3h

i love it when people mouth off about how atproto cannot ever be decentralised before sheepishly retreating 20 posts in when they realise they misunderstood the architecture

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philpax @philpax.me · 15h

cc @her.dog

philpax @philpax.me · 2d

@segyges.bsky.social did you peep this? might save you some work

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

strongly disagree but that's ok. i recognise i lost the fight against always having labels visible a long time ago

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

i don't love having to use a third-party patcher to make the taskbar work as it has for me for the past twenty years (at the top, small-height, taskbar labels always present), but it is the price i will pay for having updates

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

mm, that's fair; I generally avoid making changes that I won't contribute back, because I want to make sure as many people as possible benefit from the change and, well, I don't want to maintain a fork indefinitely :p

philpax @philpax.me · 2d

I've done a few AI-assisted PRs, but nothing fully vibed, because I don't trust it to maintain the same standard of quality that my human-written code would have

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

yeah, I don't know if I'd agree with the quotee; I have been *very* surprised with what I've received, but I also don't really share it with people because it's often like describing your dream to someone else - of no particular import to anybody but yourself

philpax @philpax.me · 3d

apropos of news, I checked his Wiki. incredible:

> Searle [...] see the issue [...] fundamental rights, [...] saying "The treatment of landlords in Berkeley is comparable to the treatment of blacks in the South... our rights have been massively violated and we are here to correct that injustice."

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

finally getting around to finishing Greg Egan's Diaspora; I'd recommend it to anyone who wanted to see more from the last two episodes of Pantheon

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

my system seems to consistently BSOD every 7 days and I think this is its way of telling me that I should turn it off each night

philpax @philpax.me · 4d

fr truly is a cause to sob over. my condolences

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 4d

They should put a new TRON soundtrack out every few years so we can all collectively pretend there’s a movie attached to it.

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philpax @philpax.me · 4d

fascinating choice on syncthing's part to default to a 1% free disk space check for its database instead of something proportional to the content shared

I really don't think its database needs 20GB of free space on my 2TB SSD for the 250MB I'm sharing!

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philpax @philpax.me · 5d

crates.io/crates/cudarc is also pretty well-maintained, and is used by github.com/huggingface/...

there's also github.com/tracel-ai/cu..., used by github.com/tracel-ai/burn

all things considered, I think it probably has better support than any language not called C or C++

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

crates.io

philpax @philpax.me · 5d

does anyone know of any algorave efforts in VRChat? seems like the ideal medium to gather the right sort of nerds together

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philpax @philpax.me · 5d

might be doable with termux idk

philpax @philpax.me · 5d

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philpax @philpax.me · 5d

put this on while working and now I can't stop dancing at my desk www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAOH...

Underworld | Boiler Room: London

YouTube video by Boiler Room

www.youtube.com

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philpax @philpax.me · 5d

it'll smooth out, you just need to be consistent to reinforce the memories on time

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max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 6d

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philpax @philpax.me · 6d

took advantage of my usual insomnia to grind out 392 Anki cards and 310 WaniKani reviews

can't leave em alone for more than a day or this happens

philpax @philpax.me · 6d

felt literal chills when it started; genuinely iconic way to play an iconic track

qdot @buttplug.engineer · 9d

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

www.youtube.com

philpax @philpax.me · 6d

(very) critical support for Rust's global namespace here

...still wish it had actual namespaces though

Eli Mallon @iame.li · 7d

golang developer give your packages unique names challenge (difficulty: impossible)

import (
gocrypto "crypto"
atcrypto "github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/atproto/crypto"
ethcrypto "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto"
)

philpax @philpax.me · 6d

fingers crossed!