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Ian Douglas Scott

Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz

Compiler of compilers.

#Linux #RustLang #LGBTQ

Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz
6 days ago

Normal people: "I need to avoid all non-essential spending with the current state of the economy."

Tech CEOs: "Just upload a photo of your credit card to our AI agent, and your money can spent itself!"

I'm getting a weird feeling that the billionaires may be *slightly* out of touch with the use cases everyone else actually needs technology to help address.

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Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz
7 days ago

It seems when you search for traditional songs in #Welsh, you just find hymns. (There is also a variety of instrumental music for harp, etc.)

That's nice and all, but where's the music on topics that people definitely wouldn't sing about in Church? Is there a conspiracy to hide it from the English? Surely it has always existed.

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Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz
11 days ago

Days since forgetting to swap RX and TX when connecting UART adapter and wondering why I don't see anything: 0

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Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz
12 days ago

"Up next at the Colosseum: Unix developers who answer questions about the POSIX spec wrong are crucified, and C programmers who write code that isn't valid in all ANSI C compilers are eaten by lions."

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Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz
12 days ago

Archives of old newspapers from 1900 are great for learning about the new blacksmith shop, what steamers are arriving, and what balm the druggist has for rheumatism.

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Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz
17 days ago

It turns out `memcpy` works way better when you remember that the first argument is the *destination*.

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Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz
17 days ago

With the cost of storage, someone needs to create a way to load UEFI payloads from cassette tape.

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Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz
19 days ago

"So as you can see, sexuality isn't a spectrum, but rather an infinite dimensional vector space!", you shout after filling the blackboard; then move over one conference room in Hilbert's Hotel to continue writing about gender.

#Math #LGBTQ

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