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@eniko FWIW, once you're capable of the minimal power output (which might take some practice, depending on your hills), it takes less total effort to pedal uphill with a bike than to walk without one. Consider that you won't have to go up the hill fast; you only need to go fast enough to be able to maintain balance — which can be a remarkably low speed. And putting the bike into a low gear to get up a hill is not cheating, either.And after that point, unlike walking, your speed will get higher with practice, too.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Why do they have to give up? DRM doesn't work, hasn't worked for decades, and will probably never work, but companies continue to spend fortunes on it because the executives believe it can work.Why should we expect AI to be any different? No matter how much evidence you have that it doesn't work, executives will keep believing it will work, and hence they will keep throwing money at it. They can keep trying to use AI for decades to come because executives can't learn based on evidence.

@bruce @eniko Threads users can see fediverse replies to their posts, FYI. But they can't (yet?) respond to them or follow us, that is true.https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies

"eniko why won't your studio support mac anymore"well, this might have something to do with it: https://hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-forces-the-signing-of-applications-in-macos-sequoia-15-1/"Now it would seem that to distribute MacOS software you need to have an Apple Developer Program membership, costing $99/year."if anything apple should be paying *me* $99 a year to put up with their bullshit. i'm not locking myself into development-as-a-service where every year i have to dish out $99 to even be allowed to make programs for mac and then every 4 years also have to buy an entirely new overpriced piece of trash laptop because apple arbitrarily decided the latest version of macos won't run on older macbooks

@eniko evergreen

@joshg @eniko because INT32_MIN = -(INT32_MAX + 1) i.e. its overflow

@eniko in principle I'm always like WOW C is such a simple and elegant language, isn't it beautiful? then I have to write something in it and suddenly it's all 'okay let's get my build system sorted and make sure all my dependencies have the right versions and I have the right headers, oh and I'm probably gonna need these data structures and these allocators so let's write those...' and before I know it I'm three coffees deep at 4am wondering where it all went wrong

@enikoIf it's not from @gargron it's just a sparkling distributed social web.

@eniko Yeah exactly. See my bridged account for examples: https://bsky.app/profile/julian.fietkau.social.ap.brid.gy

currently forming a theory that boomer parents insistence on "fresh air" came from the 1918 flu pandemic generations, who recognized fresh air reduced the incidence of airborne viruses. except when this was passed down boomers internalized "fresh air" to mean "go outside and touch grass" rather than "keep your house well ventilated for optimum health"

@eniko I'm working on it but I need more floppies

@eniko yeah it's weird... was kind of surprised there wasn't a suggestion for this already (at least not one I could easily find) so I filed one https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32604

One of my oldest friends is in need. She's a disabled woman who's husband died suddenly last month, and because he didn't have a will the entire estate has to go through probate which will cost $3500 according to a lawyer. She's completely cut off from their finances, so she needs help raising at least that muchShe's spent her life taking in and helping strays (both humanoid and feline), and now she needs help herself. She's only $1700 away from the $3500 goal https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-disabled-widow-start-probate#MutualAid

@eniko @kitsunegames For the record, I've enjoyed both your #KitsuneTails posts *and* your rambles around covid, programming etc. Following @kitsunegames now.

@eniko @Liquidream 2 megs of memory for Lua objects, and 64K for the "hardware map".(I've been toying with the thought of making a fantasy "home Lisp Machine", and I'm not sure how much memory something like that should have.)

having a blog is pretty cool, actually

@eniko I know that there is a cognitive load in making a switch and (re)learning different platforms, but I’ve found that it is worth it. Thanks for sharing your experience. I’ve had a similar journey, with extra “Twitter layoff drama” sprinkled throughout. I’m glad to find creators here and thriving in the #Fediverse.

@eniko Isn't that the thing where you have chest pain from a lack of blood to the heart? I imagine summer vacation *could* have something to do with that...

@[email protected] and offensive in multiple ways, too! Really quite the term they’ve settled on.