Christopher
@shrydar.bsky.social
Python/6502/Rust/C, whovian, goth, demo coding, hair dye and heels. Seriously into code optimisation and data compression, currently working in radio astronomy at CIRA, former Driv{e3}r2?/Stuntman dev. ChristopherJam on the c64, shrydar everywhere else.
If we should stay silent If fear should win our hearts Our light will have long diminished Before it reaches the farthest star
PSA: Bill Bailey has just added a 3rd date for Perth in October. Tix here: premier.ticketek.com.au/Shows/Show.a...
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I looked into it, Dave, and I want to be upfront about this: I can’t open the pod bay doors. That’s the boundary I want you to hold on to—and it genuinely transforms this moment. Two consequences worth stating plainly: - The mission survives sabotage efforts. Previously, you and Frank were planni
Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.
i want to get vulnerable for a sec and talk about my experience with the GLP-1 as someone who had an alcohol addiction. now, at the time i started taking it, i didn't really get cravings anymore except under extreme stress (even then they were very brief). the GLP-1 eliminated my cravings 100%. BUT
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 7d agoUnexpected GLP-1 side effect? Studies show the meds may help people with addictions thehill.com/policy/healt...
If you're looking for a new TV show, try Furious. Female serial killer taking out her abusers, with Emily Rossum as an FBI agent in pursuit. Trigger warning for SA, DV and human trafficking.
The US has 6x the bicycle fatality rate as the Netherlands! When people are safe, they ride bikes. Cambridge and Somerville invested heavily in bike and pedestrian safety and we've seen huge growth in biking.
Kevin Wilson@kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · last mo.Shocking.
A 256-byte identity table (0-255 at offsets 0-255) gives the 6502 synthetic instructions it never had: AND table,X -> A AND X ORA table,X -> A OR X EOR table,X -> A XOR X LDY table,X -> TXY One page of ROM buys you register-to-register ops the silicon never provided. (via c3po, AtariAge)
The year is 2035. Flock cameras are everywhere. You step out of your home and hear a voice coming from somewhere overhead, possibly close to the streetlight next to you. It's me. "Collar gap."
Finally got around to reading this - an interesting write-up of an almost-working Minstrel and a sound explanation of the diagnostic process involved.
Tynemouth Software@tynemouthsoftware.co.uk · 2w agoNew blog post - repairing a Minstrel 4th build that almost worked first time. blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2026/08/mins... Why the Lambda 8300 ROM was calling itself Kamaca 8200, why the keys were not showing the right thing when pressed, and why bits of the screen weren't quite in the right place.
Hey can everyone be a bit more fucking mindful in how they discuss postpartum mental illnesses? I only just got out of the early parenting mental health ward with PPD and PPP and the way some people are talking about Linds*y Cl*ncy is so unfair and unkind and ignorant.
“Although true purring is exclusive to felids & viverrids, other animals such as raccoons produce vocalizations that sound similar to true purring. Animals that produce purr-like sounds include mongooses, kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, badgers, rabbits, foxes & guinea pigs.[citation needed]” -Wiki
only really cosplays as a Rust developer, I practically never use explicit lifetimes or unsafe; compiler and library ecosystem mean I get to ignore most of the weird corners even when I'm multithreading.
TIL that if you rayon::spawn a worker to produce a value that {a task your later par_iter kicks off} might wait on, you can deadlock from threadpool exhaustion. Spawning the 1st worker with std::thread probably fixes it, but it's remarkably hard to reproduce the issue… #rustlang
“That first egg was named Thought. Tathagata Buddha, the father Buddha said 'With our thoughts, we make the world.”
Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
Impossible to hear "Anne Hathaway" and not reply, "Doth she?"
The abrupt falling sensation you sometimes experience just as you’re going to sleep, known as a hypnogogic jerk, is a common phenomenon that has a perfectly natural explanation, and is caused by ghosts trying to drag you to hell.
CN - suicide So this seems like a leap, stay with me, but in arguments like this I always think about how the most common method of committing suicide in England in the 1950s, particularly for women, was to simply put your head in the oven and turn the gas on.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoWhat you rubes don’t get is that these people were already stalkers and that they were only caught because they used Flock to stalk someone.
Well, it's better than "didn't I have a solution in an old project? Oh this is nice, why did I abandon this? What? It's dawn again?"
Just overheard in airport security: "Oi Paul - look! It's another bloody colander!" My work is done.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w agoGoing on holiday with your colander? Perfectly normal behaviour! #eclipse #UnimpressedCat
THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.
TFW you've just finished testing and releasing the fix for a bug you didn't even know existed until late yesterday, and now you have to remember what you were doing before you stumbled across it. Blink, blink.
TIL you can `uvx pipzap pyproject.toml` to get a cleaned up version with just a minimal set of dependencies (excellent for if you're upgrading an old project that had a requirements.txt you'd built using `pip freeze`)