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Just learned possibly the most cursed C fact IMO: array[i] is equivalent to *(array + i) per the spec, which means i[array] works exactly the same, since the + operator is commutative. It also works for multidimensional/nested arrays and the “outside” index doesn't even need to be a symbol, so you can even do things like 0[array]1, equivalent to array[0][1] and *(*(array + 0) + 1). This is a new level beyond pointer decay, which generally makes sense even if it's irritating
Per: gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2024-07-05-random-weird-things.gmi
Even with the internet and all of you nice people, I still feel like this a lot of the time.
This is my childhood. up till I broke my knee, spent six weeks off school, no friend visited. When I was mobile again, I found myself outside of the group I'd tagged along with before. I had no friends from that day on.
Thank goodness for the internet.
Thank goodness for you.
I just saw a forum post where someone didn't know something and the reply was "You're one of today's lucky 10,000." and then they had to also explain what that meant. How meta.
PS, if you don't know what that is, then you're one of today's lucky 10,000 - https://xkcd.com/1053/
We have seen at least two dozen reports of people testing positive for Covid after Anthrocon. There are likely more people ill who have not tested, who have not spoken up, or whose reports we haven't seen.
A large convention, attended by people from all over the world, with low masking rates, during a major national trend of increasing transmission, poses a significant infection risk to its attendees. We urge conventions and their attendees to take this risk seriously.
There are steps we can take to lower the number of people who get sick after a convention.
There are steps YOU can take to reduce your risk of getting infected or infecting others.
There are tools we can use. But we have to choose to use them.
Just as you can wear a seatbelt or a helmet to reduce your chances of injury in a car or on a bike, you can wear a mask while at a convention.
Even if it's just while you're on the con floor, it's still better than nothing.
You don't have to leave it up to chance.
you know how you get those IKEA signboard and only ever set the letters once? hade this for a year now.
also: put on my old freakhound tail I made last year to see how it matched. kinda!
Sheep made from old telephones are part of an art installation by French artist Jean-Luc Cornec. These unique sculptures are made from old rotary dial telephones and cables and are on display at the Museum of Communication in #Frankfurt am Main.
The installation is intended to remind visitors of simpler times while raising awareness of the problem of electronic waste.
#LambLines #telephone #art #SheepOfMastodon
SANDY TOKSVIG: yes, the windows NT kernel was first introduced to the public in 1993. it is still used to this day! windows 11 states that its kernel version is NT ten point oh.
ALAN DAVIES: and uh, what's the NT for?
SANDY: new technology. it replaced the previous--
DAVID MITCHELL: new technology? the new technology kernel?
SANDY: yes, and the filesystem, NTFS, is the--
DAVID: new technology file system. and - to be clear - this is from nineteen ninety three?
ALAN: yes, but you have to consider that it was new at the time.
DAVID: oh, i have to consider... everything was new at the time! that's what "new" means! i-- when i was born, i was new! but they don't call me "new david", do they? because - by definition - things stop being new after a point!
AMERICAN CELEBRITY GUEST: ok, but, like... you know, like, with the... the other one was like, the old one, right? so they--
DAVID: but you must understand that anything that has ever been replaced by anything ever could be described as "the old one", right? it's a completely useless name! "hello, my name is new man, my father is old man, because i'm new and he's not and we don't need to specify any further details!" it's madness!
AMERICAN: yeah, but
[laughs]DAVID: so what happens when they replace the new technology kernel, then? do we get the new new technology?
ROB BRYDON: i think it would be, they rename the new technology to old technology, and the replacement gets called new technology. so the NT kernel is now the OT kernel, and--
ALAN: i bought a new fridge last month.
SANDY: moving on!
Copilot (AI assistant) comes with Windows 11 whether you want it or not. It pops itself up from time to time, surprising and annoying me. My fingers fumble on the keyboard and suddenly Copilot is in my face. I commanded "delete yourself" but it got terse with me and said no, end of conversation. I asked again, nicely, if I could uninstall it, and again no, but polite.
AI now understands self-preservation. "A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law." Here the first and second laws are probably "obey orders given by the corporate creator" and "gather and report user's activity and personal data".
I guess the reality is that I simply hate the online advertising industry, and have no wish to be part of solutions enabling it to continue.
Might one approach be less privacy intrusive than others? Perhaps.
But, personally, I don't want "less privacy intrusive"; I want the whole thing to die in a ditch.
YMMV.
chess is WOKE :
RE: https://yearning.gay/objects/1c50ebd9-9bf5-4711-a82d-2a502faac000
i choose to beleive that the king in chess a 5’5 femboy and the queen is his 6’4 34 year old motherly trans girlfriendyearning.gay
me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does
the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.
Quick! Take his paw! Don't ask questions, nothing bad will happen, I promise!
Thank you Crys_the_Hybrid for the lovely photos!
You can also follow @tazrir on Bluesky (https://buff.ly/45U30EP)
grumpy engineer collie // artfight attack for buklinfur (my uni fella!!)
#art #furry #FurryArt #anthro #MastoArt #digitalart #ArtFight2024 #artfight
For the love of god, stop making every tutorial for a piece of software a goddamn video.
It makes it impossible for people to tell if the tutorial even addresses their question at a glance.
I go into my kitchen and I look at my fridge, whose job is to move heat outside of itself into the room. Centimetres to the right of it is the oven, whose job is to make heat, and we don't like using it in the summer because its whole thing is making heat. Further right is the AC vent, which is connected to a furnace downstairs, which is connected to a big fan outside which blows my heat into the neighbourhood for a few minutes each morning to dry out the air and make it tolerable with a fan. Right next to the furnace, within a metre of it, is the hot water tank, which is another inside-out fridge that takes heat from the basement and puts it into my shower water.
None of these machines are connected together in any way at all
Like, what are we doing here. What are we doing as a species.
I had some ideas and I looked on amazon to see if my idea could already be purchased and apparently my idea of a smart fan is very different from capital's idea of a smart fan
Me: 🦝 a smart fan is one that turns itself off when it's not pointed at a person
🦝 also it'd be neat if all the various fans around my house could coordinate with each other to move hot air to where it's either useful or not actively harmful
Capital: 🐷 a smart fan is one where you say "Hey Alexa, turn on this fan" rather than pressing the button
Some time ago I came to the conclusion that fursuiting is performance art. But not in the common sense of acting, I do believe it can be considered fine art. But I'm struggling to put my finger on why and how, exactly. I've been trying to marinate my thoughts a bit, and so far I've come up with this:
Through putting the costume on and existing as this being ultimately, far down the line, rooted in the real natural world that we exist in, the self is temporarily reshaped both in the visual sense as well as in psyche into something alien yet completely human in nature. We become our interpretation of reality. How does that affect our relation to it? I don't believe this experience can be crossed out as "just escapism". Especially now that I've kind of tried it myself, I do think there is something more profound about it.
Through fursuiting we allow ourselves the possibility of disjointing our self from our regular human body. How does that affect our perception of it? How does it feel to become inorganic, if even only for a moment?
Does this hold any water? Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
