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@MichaelTBacon
Thank you.
90% of my posts are followed by a little George W. Bush laugh
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I had an idea, again. oh dear
I think I could rebuild my old C-to-Rust translator, Corrode, except this time instead of only taking C it would accept any language with a tree-sitter grammar; and instead of only producing Rust it would let you construct any text you want; and instead of trying to be fully automatic and one-size-fits-all it would be interactive and help you write your own rewrite rules to fit your specific source code
using tree-sitter means that, unlike both Corrode and c2rust, you don't have to run the source through the C pre-processor first, so you can preserve comments and also decide how you want each macro translated
purely syntax-directed translation doesn't get you 100% of the way to a correct C to Rust translation, but it covers almost all the most boring parts of a manual translation. and maybe a little extra logic would fit cleanly to help with things like control flow, or C's terrifying arithmetic type promotion rules
while thinking about this I realized you could also build a simple syntax-directed compiler to assembly language the same way, and being interactive might make it a great tool for teaching part of an intro to compilers
so… that seems neat?
@jamey i really want to say something intellectually encouraging here but all i got is
YESS!! DO ITTTT!!!
what's the best way for your friends to cheer you on, towards work on this idea?
Online behavioral advertising has always been creepy. AI makes it worse.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising
all of the strings could be hardcoded into a dictionary or dataclass but that's a lot more lines and a lot more complex than the current solution
my best idea so far is something like this:
def set_ip_config(ver: Literal["4"] | Literal["6"]):
no4 = "" if ver == "4" else ver
...
this works for cases 1-3 but doesn't work for case 4, unless i wanted to add like noV4 but then that's kinda unwieldy...
@132ikl omfg are you generating or parsing these what a mess
I don't imagine many folks in the Fediverse crowd will learn much here, but I've got a new video to show your boomer parents
@TechConnectify This is STILL something I see folks arguing on car forums. "Just throw a carb on it, it's so simple!"
I've done FiTech and Holley EFI installs that are just as simple. Some even bolt to a carb-flange intake manifold. A couple more wires, but the result is a programmable computer with logging and active AFR adjustments. Meanwhile, carbs just flat-out can't be tuned to accommodate a 3000'+ elevation change (ie, my weekly commute down to Denver).
90% of my posts are followed by a little George W. Bush laugh
hehehe
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Why are all flashlights marketed as "tactical"?
What if I want a strategic one?
Recent appearances:
* Could Tech Bosses Destroy Life As We Know It? (Politics JOE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4VktU0SgY
* Are 'AI Apocalypse' Warnings Just Marketing? (What's Left)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXd9HwIE5bo
* The Real AI Threat Isn’t What You’ve Been Told (The Tea with Myriam François)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8It00fRsA
* Fascists may come after the AI bubble bursts (You&AI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2WN64aQeYQ
* What Would a Normal Person Do (Trashfuture)
https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/posts/what-would-do-169247456
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@pluralistic are you alright?
anyways what the hell were going through these peoples minds when coming up with this standard like what (the configuration thing, which is an industry standard format, not ipv4/6)
@132ikl i also think IP is fucked
@a2.co @harryfk@mastodon.social or more specifically @harryfk@pixelfed.social
@mrtoto @a2.co @harryfk@pixelfed.social Oh, haha, amazing! I use a small Phomemo printer to print GBC stickers these days, but this is a lot cooler. 🤩
Negativpreise für Überwachungsbrillen, Microsoft sowie für #Dobrindt mit der Steuer-ID (und wie die Ministerien Kritik zurückweisen) https://www.heise.de/news/Big-Brother-Awards-2026-Negativpreis-fuer-Dobrindt-EU-Kommission-Telekom-Co-11463202.html
Me: oh that's adorable, they made the train cars into grasshoppers!
Also me: . . . . but did they have to be fucking?
@MichaelTBacon @Natasha_Jay and now imagine some motors to add some motion...
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I'm embarrassed and saddened that Aotearoa New Zealand was not one of those countries walking out on the Israeli Prime Minister's speech.
Why is it that I repeatedly find that lawyers have a better understanding of the mechanisms behind LLMs than techbros do? To be fair: One of the lawyers I'm thinking of is also a technologist, though I have no cause to call him a techbro.
This doesn't apply vice versa. Techbros in general have a poorer understanding of copyright than these lawyers!
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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
Of course this is coming from a guy who wants to make the Nazi salute acceptable.
Why are all flashlights marketed as "tactical"?
What if I want a strategic one?
@thomasfuchs Toxic masculinity.
