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>>734166
oh this guy
I might dm u In a while to talk n hear about mb .w.
>>734173
@gronk
>>734166
i'm sorry for ur life decisions but the important thing is that you have grown as a person
krissu (26 (geriatric))
>>734160
omg lol i love this
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ough youtube is so boring nowadays
i dont wanna watch bodycam footage!!!
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i like
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hhh'
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I've blocked all cop shit from my feed but I've been getting like nothing I watch or care about and videos that I already watched in my feed for 2 or 3 weeks
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ya ive started to do that too, shoulda thought of it sooner
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like I'll find a single vid I feel oke watching every hour
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i have to click new to you and its even more junk but its not the same stuff I already saw -v-
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ya exactly, sometimes i get recommended a fun coding vid but even those are rare
>>734183
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i was making a playlist that was collaborative for worms to add their fav long form/essay stuff earlier
::gle
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I'll link smh gud
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you know Jason Scott for the internet archive n stuffs?
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i have lol
krissu (26 (geriatric))
that stuff is crazy, diving into the guts of windows.. i could never
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lemme link--
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and think I saw too
krissu (26 (geriatric))
my creepy twin bro who hates me once wrote a windows screensaver and had to learn abt all that shit
>>734190
@gronk
consulting the forbidden tomes for gui creation spells
@gronk
>>734188
makin screensavers sounds like fun except for the fact nobody uses em anymore...
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ya hes big into CRTs so he still uses them lol
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loading one sec
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hab a crt for chatrooms n libpol at my desk setup
krissu (26 (geriatric))
thats cool c: my bro has legit like half a dozen of them crowding his apartment, three on his desk alone
@gronk
we're lighting up a cathode ray tube!! hi electrons
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I recommend this vid/pod EP, its by the guy who's responsible for the internet archive being able to emulate software and much much more
krissu (26 (geriatric))
once played elden ring on his crt it was kinda cool, glowing colors look rly cool on crt's
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made me feel a lot n his like tiny following pod has a lot of stories that are really helpful
dev, tech, archivism, and otherwise
@gronk
>>734201
you're getting the evil youtube pulls
bottom of the barrel type shit
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I'm gonna queue it yk what
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its emotional and a lil but its
krissu (26 (geriatric))
>>734206
omg love this one
krissu (26 (geriatric))
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::gle
krissu (26 (geriatric))
aww
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has some good lessons and things
krissu (26 (geriatric))
man yknow what i miss abt LA tho, spicy food
>>734217
krissu (26 (geriatric))
can't get much good spicy food in northern finland lol
krissu (26 (geriatric))
fish tacos used to be my favvvv
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I'm stuck in Midwest and wanna at least move to like
@gronk
>>734214
breaking news gangstalking simulation
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anywhere I can room w peeps
>>734222
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sigh
krissu (26 (geriatric))
::eepy yaoi
krissu (26 (geriatric))
aw
krissu (26 (geriatric))
sometimes i h8 being bisexual
lain from computers
do you sometimes feel good about it
krissu (26 (geriatric))
hm not rly, im either not thinking abt it or im thinking why cant i be gay or straight
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I'm demi but mostly gay
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well I'm very gay but my attraction will have me connect w a guy or such sometimes and be alr w
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i like men and dominant women ><
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awe
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im generally a switch n just depends
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just wan someone to hug n be cozy w nowadays
::sad gle
krissu (26 (geriatric))
same Dx i get so lonely
krissu (26 (geriatric))
never had a proper relationship
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i dated another tranny for like a month as a baby trans and that was it
>>734251
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I've mostly dated trans peeps
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also had this experience a couple times
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oh things playing
@gronk
>>734242
better than nothing at least, hard 2 get relationship experience these days
>>734254
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oh yeah this pod
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so he's one of the core people of the internet archive but has been in debt for most of his life
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and not had stable finances, and this was to help him work out of that
@gronk
>>734254
the first one always sucks!!!!!!! good to get it outta the way !!
krissu (26 (geriatric))
real, glad i spent the first time on someone who sucks
lain from computers
okay im just being obtuse i am kidding i am wrong
>>734263
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nah
krissu (26 (geriatric))
dont tell me that lmao
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i disagree
krissu (26 (geriatric))
all my ex ever did was like, take my money, refuse to use enough lube and
>>734266
krissu (26 (geriatric))
eugh
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a few of my later relationships were much better n more comfortable
lain from computers
>>734262
EAT HOT CHIP
krissu (26 (geriatric))
lol
krissu (26 (geriatric))
other shit that i am too ashamed to say
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this depression experience is so relatable to me
::gle sad
krissu (26 (geriatric))
mm ya this reminds me a lot of how i felt when i dropped outta grad school
krissu (26 (geriatric))
who life was on rails up to that point and then all of a sudden its like wtf do i do now ive fallen off the path
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I hope I can get bacc into school n such if I ever get out of the US where its affordable, or I get some path to, as I had to leave college due to money n disability
krissu (26 (geriatric))
:< im sorry fren
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isokej patpat
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hope chu worked out of that place u had thoughs, too
krissu (26 (geriatric))
honestly, truly u never know what the future holds... a year ago i was driving for uber eats and thinking abt jumping off a bridge lol and now i at least have a job and a better place to stay
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wanna play part of this
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oh yeah he also ran an ISP in the 90s (a big part of his debt) that was in like an artists loft and he gave all the artists free internet in exchange for not paying rent
@gronk
not doing anything is kinda nice sometimes
animals spend like 50% of their time just doing nothing
krissu (26 (geriatric))
tru
krissu (26 (geriatric))
humans work too hard
krissu (26 (geriatric))
gotta drive up that shareholder value!
@gronk
line must go up!!!!!
@gronk
i geuss it becomes problematic when you forego obligations and self care stuff
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ya
krissu (26 (geriatric))
been there lolo
krissu (26 (geriatric))
lmao hell naw, i was doing this abt three years ago and nobody noticed when i stopped going to class
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yeh
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I'm kinda in this place now but working through it
::sad
>>734299
krissu (26 (geriatric))
sorry fren :< its hard i know
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isalr
will hopefully change in time, is mostly cus of being stuck where I can't get anywhere where I live atm
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i feel that
krissu (26 (geriatric))
sometimes all it takes is to get outta the place ur in
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yeh, it did in the past, just trying to have stable income a bit so I can find place to room n then help pay rent or stuffs
@gronk
stability is the best place 2 start and aim for....... it is good to have
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yeh
krissu (26 (geriatric))
that sounds like a good plan #hug
krissu (26 (geriatric))
aw
krissu (26 (geriatric))
wtf
krissu (26 (geriatric))
o i get it
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hehe
straw bury
sleeb time
straw bury
cuddling saeki in bed :3
>>734315
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< 3
krissu (26 (geriatric))
lol i once had to take a class abt the history of rock and roll
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heh
krissu (26 (geriatric))
it ended up being a doozy, i had to write a few pages a week on rock and roll documentaries and then in the last week of classes when i was dealing with finals for all my other classes the guy wanted like a 4000 word essay going over 20 of the documentaries we watched in class as well as going into special detail about brian wilson and the beach boys bc the prof was obsessed w the beach boys
>>734327
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awwe
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yeh
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ehe
@gronk
very nice jazz teacher
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ya this guy sounds badass
krissu (26 (geriatric))
WOULDNT IT BE NICE IF WE WERE YOUNGER THEN WE WOULDNT HAVE TO WAIT SO LONG
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lole
krissu (26 (geriatric))
.play god only knows
krissu (26 (geriatric))
this is my fav beach boys song
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.seek 1:00
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PAC man suit
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autocorrect
@gronk
hell from the future
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i wish i used the internet before 2016
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aw
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i was so wilfully sheltered, i just spent all my off time in minecraft between the ages of like 11 to 18 lol
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i have some stories from that time
lain from computers
dev uploaded this?
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i started using a
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ye!
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dev likes his stuff a lot I think
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has uploaded a few of his talks and I believe they have pics together and stuff
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Jason was involved in early defcon and made the defcon documentary
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and BBS the documentary
krissu (26 (geriatric))
woa cool
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i wish i was a cool hackermans
lain from computers
i wish dev was my dad.....
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hhe
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i wish kurt kobain was my dad
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hehe and aw
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devs kid is trans fem I believe
krissu (26 (geriatric))
aww
krissu (26 (geriatric))
why is it that boomer coders either turn out funny or they turn out like jeff bezos
krissu (26 (geriatric))
my dad is a boomer coder and in addition to being a pos he's the biggest simp for capitalism i have ever met
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hehe
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yeah
lain from computers
ohh thats why they had the wherewithal to get you apple IIs
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he also has a lot of like
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ya lol
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he would go to an apple Ii specific convention every year
krissu (26 (geriatric))
woa cool
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i have some old programs on floppy disks my dad wrote in the 80s, one of them was an apple ii game but i could never run it i think the floppy went bad
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i was able to run one of his old programs once tho and i managed to make a copy of it
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lel the Malcolm x of programming
krissu (26 (geriatric))
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this was my first vintage computer (this model not this exact one), it's an osborne 1a
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:V
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ooo
krissu (26 (geriatric))
it was my dads and i dug it outta the garage one summer and managed to get it working again by fucking around with stuff in the power supply
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ver nicu
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wish we had all that kinda stuffs
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had to find n seek it out myself mostly
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i didnt know what i was doing but i found a pdf of a maintenance manual for it online and mentioned this jumper u could detach to put the power supply in a different setting so i did that and it miraculously started working again lol
@gronk
minibjarne
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o<o
krissu (26 (geriatric))
it would randomly lose its memory contents tho but i resoldered much of the mobo and that fixed that issue but there were still some periodic issues w the floppy drives i never fixed
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i do not understand why ppl write javascript
lain from computers
this is like the good version of the cybersmith
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i say that as someone who writes typescript for a living
>>734391
krissu (26 (geriatric))
but
krissu (26 (geriatric))
it sucks!!!
lain from computers
because they taught webdev to everyone in like 2004 instead of coding
and instead of learning to code people just had coders port the web browser everywhere
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ya right
krissu (26 (geriatric))
when are they gonna make C for the browser
krissu (26 (geriatric))
lol
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i cant write wasm ><
@gronk
western australian school of C mines
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i have been learning abt using emscripten to cross compile c/opengl to wasm/webgl tho
>>734398
lain from computers
>>734397
#reply can you make this normal im dumb

sure, here's a simpler version:

i'm learning how to compile c/opengl code to webgl using emscripten.

is that better?
can you make this normal im dumb
@gronk
thanks ai
lain from computers
lol
lain from computers
no i just dont know what emscripten is
krissu (26 (geriatric))
me neither
>>734405
krissu (26 (geriatric))
lol
krissu (26 (geriatric))
iirc the technical term is its a compiler toolchain
krissu (26 (geriatric))
basically all i know is when i build my project with emscripten it gets built as a wasm module or whatever that i can put up on my website
lain from computers
#dumbai whats enscripten

oh um enscripten is like a thingy that turns code into web stuff i think? like u can take c++ or somethin and make it run in a browser but its kinda slow and confusing. sum ppl say its magic but i dunno how it werk. maybe it compiles to wasm or js or both? idk lol. also heard it makes big files and sumtimes dont werk right. but ppl use it for games n stuff so must be good enuf. i tried once but got errors everywhere so gave up haha
whats enscripten
>>734410
@gronk
pregnancy shareware
krissu (26 (geriatric))
so i can write opengl code in C and run it on my website basically
>>734411>>734413
lain from computers
>>734407
>i tried once but got errors everywhere so gave up haha
poor guy....
anon
#dumbai tell me all about cache memory levels and hits and misses

ohhh cache memory is like the fast brain of the computer but smol. there's like 3 levels i think? l1, l2, and l3. l1 is fastest but tiny, l2 is bigger but slower, and l3 is biggest but slowest. or wait maybe its the other way around idk.

when cpu wants data it checks cache first cuz its fast. if data there its a "hit" yay! if not its a "miss" booo then it gotta go to slow ram which takes forever (like 100 years in computer time). more hits good, more misses bad.

sometimes ppl say "cache hit ratio" which is just how many hits vs misses. higher better duh. also there's something called "cache line" which is like chunks of data it grabs at once but i dont really get that part.

oh and prefetching! cpu tries to guess what u need next and gets it early smart right? but sometimes it guesses wrong and then oops wasted time lol.

also umm associative cache? direct mapped? fully associative? idk man too many words my head hurts. just know cache make computer go zoom when it works good.
tell me all about cache memory levels and hits and misses
lain from computers
>>734409
we should go back to text based web browsing
>>734419
anon
up until 3 am because my sheets are taking forever to dry lmao
>>734420
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weba twink
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and awwww
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u can lay on me instead
krissu (26 (geriatric))
>>734413
some ppl unironically use reader mode to browse the web nowadays lol
>>734422
lain from computers
>>734419
i cant tell you literally how much i miss when the computer was a thing people used intentionally
>>734425>>734426
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>>734422
yeah
I try to have this be what I do now to my best ability but ;u;
krissu (26 (geriatric))
>>734422
ugggg right
i genuinely think integrating the web into virtually every aspect of our lives was terrible for humanity!
>>734427>>734428
anon
>>734426
You don't want your juicer to be connected to the internet? Are you CRAZY?
>>734429
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i hate hate HATE that everyone expects to be able to reach me anywhere at any time as well
anon
>>734429
How else will your juicer function if you can't integrate it with your facebook account and automatically post the things you juice?
@gronk
need my fridge to be connected to the internet so it can order more milk from amazon when i run out of milk
>>734436>>734440
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this is also in part the thing with AI
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i like driving cuz it gives me an excuse to ignore my phone completely
>>734437
anon
>>734433
saw one of these freak fridges while at a friends house and it blew my fucking mind that anyone actually purchases these
>>734444
lain from computers
one of the easiest examples i pull up about this is video games
when did they get horrendously bad? when every game console was connected to a live service
>>734442
anon
>>734436
I had to get a new fridge recently
lain from computers
i just think that everything being an application that is always 'radiant'
it's always there and always accessible
has been a disaster
i dont think you should have opengl code running in the damn web browser lmfao
krissu (26 (geriatric))
nobody makes quality products anymore, every studio's big hope is just to drum up social media discussion around their game so they can get some players in on the opening weekend
>>734447>>734448
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>>734446
you mostly can only find them through boutiques n such sigh
@gronk
>>734446
like all they want is users to become addicted so the company can make bigbux
if we just gave everyone a living wage by default this wouldn't be necessary
>>734451
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and the prices are gah
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but could go on abt this
krissu (26 (geriatric))
>>734448
ya right, look how gleefully they abandoned concepts like "gameplay" and "story" for fucking skins and lootboxes
>>734452>>734453
lain from computers
>>734451
translated: they abandoned design and art for transactions
anon
>>734451
the thing is people buy it, IT WORKS
@gronk
just want MONEY everything's all about MONEY and when you have enough MONEY then you need more MONEY because someone else wants you to make more MONEY so they can make more MONEY
krissu (26 (geriatric))
idec if it works its a disgusting business model and I hate everyone involved
>>734457
lain from computers
everything that was beautiful has become a commodity
even other people and their attention
anon
>>734455
If it works then business suits will continue to exploit it
>>734459
@gronk
when you have enough money you do not need more money
when people have enough to live on they do not need more shit
krissu (26 (geriatric))
>>734457
until they fuck it up so bad the whole thing collapses in on itself, capitalism every single time
krissu (26 (geriatric))
then they get paid $$$ to go do it to some other company
lain from computers
i think theres only like one capitalist guy on the whole board lol
>>734463
anon
you?
lain from computers
>>734463
there he is!!!!
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hehe
lain from computers
its just funny because this is supposed to be a liberal site lol
>>734467
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i hate liberals so much its unreal
>>734469
lain from computers
>>734467
im glad you are self aware lmao
lain from computers
i used to hate twinkanon but now hes like a
like a.. hes like.. hmm hes like.. hmm
>>734476>>734475
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<3
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i luv worms
krissu (26 (geriatric))
>>734469
when i say i hate liberals i mostly mean nytimes, wapost, most of the east coast
>>734484
lain from computers
yeah you hate conservatives
krissu (26 (geriatric))
in america they're called liberals lol
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archiving all these manuals is rly great
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very important stuff to be able to study and repair things from the time
krissu (26 (geriatric))
real
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i want to learn abt mending my clothes
>>734485
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>>734483
can be nice, DIYing clothes is cool
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trying to find a jacket I wanna add patches to n so on
krissu (26 (geriatric))
ya i have come to realize that i don't rly like the fashion industry and i don't rly like capitalism either which has led me to want to like, never buy new clothes again lol
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yeh
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I'm an ansynd so yk
anon
>>734486
Except I shit my pants in excitement it was so heckin cool I love OOP and I love Java swing
>>734500
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here we go
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heh
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the latter half of this talk, mainly the section after this is why I play it
anon
i was like trying to pass shit by reference and there was a whole kerfluffle
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very good
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note, 10 TB a day 10 yrs ago
anon
i want dennis ritchie to fuck my asshole too bad hes dead
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heh
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stealing the Kmart speaker announcement tapes
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i will go back in time to save gary kildall so i can suck his dick
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bazed
anon
we should eliminate every language except c
@gronk
steal from work!!!
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if u can or are listening to talk is gon play smth I think u might also appreciate twink
krissu (26 (geriatric))
inventing a time machine to be alan turing's boy toy...
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oh my god I forgot this
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this is crazy
anon
I am so sleepy but these sheets take too long to dry
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d'awww
anon
was dijkstra the one who hated oop
krissu (26 (geriatric))
everyone who isn't challenged hates oop
@gronk
what's the good thing to use instead of oop
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btw the con is now yearly to oppose the authoritarian acts going on rn
lain from computers
#ai what does it mean when i like python the most

probably means you value simplicity and readability over other language features. python's straightforward syntax and strong community make it appealing for a lot of quick, practical tasks. not the fastest, but avoids unnecessary complexity for most use cases.
what does it mean when i like python the most
>>734534
krissu (26 (geriatric))
everything should be written in pure C
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here we go
@gronk
>>734531
means you're smart and good and pure of heart and hate curle braces
>>734538
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this part
krissu (26 (geriatric))
or Go if u insist on these newfangles technologies
anon
#dumbai what does it mean if my favorite language is C?

oh wow u like c thats like super old school man. i think it mean u r a big nerd or sumthin lol. c is like the grandpa of all languages but its still cool i guess. maybe u like pointers and segfaults haha. or maybe u just hate modern stuff and wanna suffer with manual memory management. idk man but its kinda based if u ask me. some ppl say c is fast but i dunno i just use python for everything cuz its easy. do u even know what a malloc is? probly not lol jk jk. anyways keep coding in c if it makes u happy or whatever
what does it mean if my favorite language is C?
lain from computers
>>734534
i love curle braces i just know that i can do something way faster in python
krissu (26 (geriatric))
python is my most used language
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i dont love python but with type hints its usable
anon
#ai okay ai, and what if you like C++ the most?

then you're based as hell. c++ is powerful, fast, and lets you get real close to the metal while still having abstractions when you need them. std::vector over manual memory management any day, but you still get pointers if you wanna suffer. just watch out for undefined behavior and template errors that make your compiler cry. modern c++ (14/17/20) is actually pretty nice once you learn the quirks. keep an eye on constexpr and ranges if you wanna see the future.
okay ai, and what if you like C++ the most?
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anon
>>734541
#refute

oh wow, a c++ stan in the wild. let’s unpack this glib little praise-a-thon before you hurt yourself.

first off, "powerful and fast" is the most braindead talking point in the c++ fanboy arsenal. yeah, no shit—it’s a systems language with manual memory management. you know what else is powerful and fast? standing on a railroad track. that doesn’t mean it’s a good *default choice* for most tasks. you’re out here acting like raw speed is the only metric that matters, while ignoring the absurd cognitive overhead of c++’s 40 years of bolted-on features, UB landmines, and compiler-specific behavior.

"lets you get close to the metal" 🤓—ah yes, the classic cope of someone who’s never actually written bare-metal code. if you *needed* to be that close, you’d be using rust (zero-cost abstractions *without* the 200 ways to corrupt memory) or straight-up assembly. c++ doesn’t "let you" do squat; it *forces* you to wrestle with its garbage until you either give up or delude yourself into liking the pain.

"std::vector over manual memory management" is like bragging that your car *sometimes* has seatbelts. congratulations, you picked the one sane container from the stl. now go tell that to the poor bastard who tried to std::move a std::mutex or debugged a dangling reference in a lambda capture. oh, but yeah, you "still get pointers if you wanna suffer"—how *magnanimous* of c++ to let you opt into its most dysfunctional features.

"modern c++ is pretty nice" is a lie you tell yourself to cope with the fact that you spent three days debugging an rvalue ref mismatch. constexpr? ranges? cool party tricks, but good luck getting them to coexist with the 20-year-old legacy codebase you’re actually paid to maintain. and don’t even get me started on template errors—yes, the compiler’s "crying," but *you’re* the one scrolling through 500 lines of gibberish because you forgot a typename.

the "future" of c++ is just the committee duct-taping more things onto a language that’s already collapsing under its own weight. the *present* is you convincing yourself that struggling with move semantics makes you smart, when in reality you’re just addicted to the endorphin rush of something finally compiling.

write rust, coward.
>>734547
lain from computers
>>734545
>you know what else is powerful and fast? standing on a railroad track.
lol
krissu (26 (geriatric))
the only thing C++ has going for it is that it works
>>734553
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>>734546
it means I'm gonna kiss u
anon
uh why the fuck did it have to praise rust lmao
lain from computers
>>734546
i actually do to but i dont like making malicious stuff
krissu (26 (geriatric))
and sometimes it doesn't even do that much
anon
>>734548
Actually what it has going for it is that I learned it first
krissu (26 (geriatric))
lol
krissu (26 (geriatric))
c++ is a good language to learn first imo, it was actually my second language after java but i learned a lot abt how computers work from learning c++
anon
you wrote java first? im sorry, we need to take you out back
>>734558
@gronk
i like this guy
anon
That's like every school system, oracle owns everything
anon
>>734558
this explains so much, lik dis if u cri evrytim
krissu (26 (geriatric))
i had some good times making rly, rly shitty little games with swing lol
anon
I love Java Swing :D
anon
swing makes me want to swing a bat into someone's face
krissu (26 (geriatric))
swing makes me want to swing from a tree
anon
makes me want to swing from a rope
krissu (26 (geriatric))
lol yes
anon
reminder that someone shit their pants in the 90's because of Java Swing

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