2016-03-07 : Random Geekery

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“He’s evil, but he’s Lawful Evil.” @ESTBLSHMNT explaining Trump in terms I can understand.

Exercised before even having coffee wait no I cannot tweet a lie I was hydrating with coffee

🤔 Do parents drive like that around schools in a subconscious attempt to balance out their contribution to overpopulation?

I - what?

Has Tribby joined a cult?

Well I know but I mean one with flyers?

Thank you @kerrizor for sharing this vital resource

Currently building Swift on openSUSE because - um - because.

Quad core i7, 24GB RAM. Compile has everything completely occupied. Truly I am impressed.

Rinse & repeat until you get a consistent error. Ah here we go. To the ducks and the Googles!

Neat. Apparently maybe something to do with gcc4 vs gcc5

Install gcc5, repeat, and see what happens.

I was gonna do a writeup of how to get this working but a) I’m not sure if this will get there; b) the things I’ve done to this poor system.

Getting Swift to build reminds me how much work has been done over the years to make Perl 6 Rakudo builds work.

This is 2004-era hacky.

Clone repo. Clone subprojects. Install deps. Build. Other deps. Build. Edit autogenerated file. Build. Create system links. Build some more.

well only if they’re sweet potato fries.

Swift on openSUSE: Five hours of fiddling.

No REPL. No Foundation. Yes running files and yes glibc.

That was fun.

Oh it’s almost eleven.

Being frustrated at code as a hobby is much more fun than being professionally frustrated at code.