2024-07-29 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-07-29 Mon 08:19

Kinda fun living in a state where it’s easier to specify your UTC offset than your timezone.

hackers.town: 2024-07-29 Mon 08:37

Jack very much appreciates the cat tree being next to the desks in our new home.

He’s just making biscuits and purring away.

Black and white cat contentedly kneads the cushion of a cat seat attached to a cat tree, all within easy skritching distance of the camera. Behind him through the window is partially visible daylight desert foliage.

hackers.town: 2024-07-29 Mon 09:00

A very good example of knowing your audience.

#SublimeText #SublimeMerge

Sublime Merge license activation dialog, with an alert “That appears to be a Sublime Text license key, instead of a Sublime Merge key. Perhaps you pasted the wrong one?” Partially obscured by the Sublime Merge window is an active Sublime Text workspace.

hackers.town: 2024-07-29 Mon 14:10

(gets bouncy)

(confuses Bouncy Dog)

(we both bounce for a minute)

hackers.town: 2024-07-29 Mon 17:26

Trying an alternate version of my Go code that was taking 1.2 seconds to run.

No pointers, mostly just stepping through slices more times than you’d think was reasonable.

I haven’t gotten to the meaty bits yet, but the fact that this approach is averaging 26 milliseconds means — well it probably means my code is broken and I need to double check my tests.

But aside from that, 26ms for about the same amount of processing that took the pointer-laden approach probably 250ms to cover the same amount of work? That could be significant.