Alexander Nicholi 🧧 @alex@schelling.pt

this… is… æpic
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RT @tillamundo
My leasing company contacted me to let me know they were showing my unit to another tenant today after ignoring my calls, emails, and maintenance requests for months so I decorated for them 😁 along with a letter threatening legal action
https://twitter.com/tillamundo/status/1470441055975874569

i am happy to take as a consolation the fact that i had 1 number leftover for “int 128”, which tells the ALU to instead treat the register contents as 128 bit integers instead of IEEE floats

this means hw support for calculating on the entire variety of usable number sizes

so to make this compromise i must take register addressing down to 7 bits, and it seems the best way to do this is to cut the number of FP registers in half, from 32 to 16.

this gives me 1 bit to set high and devote to all this FP instruction encoding.

this register addressing granularity takes 4 bits

which operation being done takes another 4 bits

and currently, addressing the source and destination register takes 8 bits

in the 16-bit opcode length that leaves no room for the rest of the ISA

making a change to the hardware floating-point architecture of Simba.

i think it’s really important to not only have quad, double, single & half precisions, but also to be able to independently address those in each register when doing ALU stuff

pictured: a completely self-serious programmer, 2021 (colourised)

its really reinforcing my belief that the only code that matters is the code major corporations bother to maintain

theres a collective delusion in FOSS that its the pinnacle of software engineering, when in reality its predominantly a pile of garbage made by self-important dicks

welcome to 2012 cron mom
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RT @sophaskins
this high-profile vulnerability in an open source project is really reinforcing my belief that, to a dominant portion of users, the primary important thing about free software is that it is gratis, rather than libre
https://twitter.com/sophaskins/status/1470181280193171461

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RT @FischerKing64
Up until 20 yrs ago, middle class could save modest amount of $, put in bank, get respectable interest, secure future/leave something to kids. Interest rates at 0 inflates stock/real estate, destroys traditional saving. The theft of wealthy at expense of folks goes mostly unseen.
https://twitter.com/FischerKing64/status/1470204755548852224

(mr burns opening a trap door to incinerate his old bed and have a new one pop up afterward)

wow, it sure does suck how much smoke this generates! wouldnt it be great if we didnt have to smell that

the main problem is that python environment management is a dogshit practise
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RT @isosteph
it's so cool how nobody has invented a python environment management thing that isn't dogshit
https://twitter.com/isosteph/status/1470269625736826881

cant talk ones way out of the usefulness of reality

can only talk ones way out of having a part in that
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RT @eigenrobot
i want a list of famous people who have denied calculus

marx is the second of whom im aware

the first was l ron hubbard https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1470083987888611328
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1470372197151559688

virtual particles and virtual black holes but theyre just particles and black holes that i made up

no. next question

what you will do, i dont know. probably nothing going from past patterns observed.

but if you want to be a relevant part of the future, you should be dumping every spare amount of leverage and cash you have into the laps of people who are willing to get shit done. just saying.

this is why it brought me to laughter for a minute when i saw you had tweeted this, and why i still have reservations about if you *really* want to go down this road.

this is not a road of adventure and excitement. its a road of hardship and loneliness and delayed victory.

theyre never going to do the things necessary to get that done, which comes down to a few big social things i think youve seen me speak about before:

1. divorcing from optics games that enshrine conformity
2. being willing to be seen as mean or crazy by people you might respect

because most millenials and gen x are so fantastically delusional, happily kidding themselves about everything that doesnt personally inconvenience them, they are locked into a place where they are never going to seize this opportunity and call bullshit on their peers.

when we notice that things like AWS are decaying, what were really seeing from a business standpoint is them becoming unreliable. ditto newer model cars, real estate being priced out of everyones reach, etc.

when these things happen, it leaves a vacuum of demand.