Patashu (Uparmoured Edition) @Patashu@mastodon.social

Do you make music? Commission your next album cover with me! Do you know a musician whose music would go well with my art? Let them know! #art #illustration #mastoart

so! one of the big discoveries that i have found is that LISP machines are usually stack-oriented processors!

this is a really big watershed moment for me, because it helps me conceptualise exactly what all these schematics are going on about!

basically, you do not have registers in a stack machine! you have a single big address space that you divide into regions, that allows you to have a pointer that combines the different data points using well-defined rules!

SO - potentially, a LISP machine is a really complex kind of FORTH machine!
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<<one of the primary reasons computers were *created* was to cross reference data. that is nearly impossible in most software now.>>

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296.html

Another fine rant. That sentence seems to highlight the core of the problem to me.

Big Gnoll

had to fix a clipping mask glitch lmao

anyway repost, sorry. very very very late contribution to the #sonicyourOC thing @Anderjak started.

mm boots ^_^

Werewolves can go on little a Mushroom hunt, as a treat

Vox has a pretty good piece on a strong new strategy on rejecting the previously-thought-binary choice between a focus on racial justice, and an eschewing of this for pure economic populism. Looks like the liberals - and perhaps even centrists - are starting to get it!

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/18/21116867/ian-haney-lopez-merge-left-race-class-project-trump-racism-dog-whistles-2020-democrats

Laws of physics changing over time, such that in some periods time travel is easy and readily available. Except if you go off course you might find yourself in an æon when it's not. With no easy way back out.

Roxy!!!!!

A thread. Boosts appreciated, because I'd love to hear the thoughts on this topic from ppl outside my immediate bubble.

I've been thinking recently about the reasons "hardcore gamers" tend to throw a hissy fit when a game has an easy mode or someone talks about adding one.

And I had a minor epiphany.

I think those reasons go beyond the usual suspects (gatekeeping, not wanting others to have fun, being elitist). Those are there, but I think the main reason is subtly different.

Bash tricks by Julia Evans

Man goes to a Russian doctor.

"Doctor, I am addicted to benzos"

Doctor looks at him and says: "The treatment is simple, great psychologist Jordan Peterson wrote great book "12 rules for life". Go and read it. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But Doctor… I am Jordan Peterson"

As a break between work and my own programming, here's a comic based on events from today.
Someone turned a tap on downstairs, and the shower turned off!
(About 20 minutes scribbling)
#art #mastoart

YESSS! It works! *howls triumphantly*

Now it's linear, because if I do logarithmic it's got gaps on the low end, and it's got weird harmonic stuff going on, but it looks really cool, and that's what I was after!

#music, #MusicVisualizer, #DSP, #programming, #Swift, #PulseAudio

brown: As Technology Connections noted recently - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU - you can't actually have brown light without context. You only see brown when an orange-y color is dimmer than the colors around it. Otherwise, it's orange or red or yellow.

purple: Purple is the exact opposite of a spectral color. Color is often described as "light of a particular frequency", but most purples don't exist except as combinations of frequencies - blues mixing with reds without the greens in between.

green: For odd historical reasons, the predominant photosynthesis molecule is green - which makes being able to distinguish greens from higher and lower frequencies useful for diurnal creatures.

(Funnily enough, those odd reasons associate directly with green being opposite purple - apparently there were purple halobacteria in the ocean absorbing the green light and leaving the other colors, so chlorophyll was handy because it absorbed light the halobacteria weren't.)

white: White is kind of the context for color perception - under normal circumstances, the world is awash with the combinations of spectral frequencies we call white, and so under most circumstances we define mentally what "white" is in a context and use that to understand the colors of everything else.

I'm sure there are a lot more interesting colors out there, but I had four options so I picked these.

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