If you are a connoisseur of services under strain, I can highly recommend attempting to log into Roblox right now

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

NUCS is a Numba-powered constraint solver: github.com/yangeorget/n... It's an area I don't know much about, but Optimal Golomb Ruler stuff sounds cool! (A long time ago I think I participated in the distributed.net search for OGRs)

GitHub - yangeorget/nucs: NuCS is a Python constraint programming library for solving Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems over finite domains

NuCS is a Python constraint programming library for solving Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems over finite domains - yangeorget/nucs

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Planning to stream debugging of a Numba segfault shortly:
"Segmentation fault when using recursive generator with Numba JIT (NUMBA_OPT=0)"
 github.com/numba/numba/... 
Will be at www.twitch.tv/gmarkall

Issues · numba/numba

NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM. Contribute to numba/numba development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Trying to verify that all versions of an inline function are identical seems like a "fun" problem (from Raymod Chen's blog): devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...

A common proposed solution to certain categories of IFNDR: Getting the linker to verify identical functions - The Old New Thing

You could do it, but it could cramp your style.

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Been working through Advent of Code in github.com/gmarkall/aoc... - keeping it simple so that when it gets tricky I'm less likely to be derailed. Taking a look at day 4 later today, as I have some commitments this morning.

GitHub - gmarkall/aoc-2024: Advent of Code 2024 - basic attempts, Python and NumPy

Advent of Code 2024 - basic attempts, Python and NumPy - gmarkall/aoc-2024

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30 years anniversary of the PlayStation! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4utd...

The PlayStation's 30 years old! LET'S CELEBRATE!

YouTube video by Bandwidth

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To-do list for this week: - Call an old friend - Pin down the track on my son's N gauge trainset (it's a work in progress!) - Make mince pies (I get into a Christmas mood through food, and I'm about ready for it already this year)

The iMac appeals to me as a fantasy of a simple life - where I don't need to use a computer outside the house, and computing sessions are simple and non-technical, for tasks not really related to computers. Having all my computing needs met by just an iMac at home feels like a retirement dream.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2y ago

The iMac M4 wasn’t built for this world