Robin Tarsiger @dasyatidprime@mastodon.technology
Some sort of hacker-type creature. (The good kind.) Austin, TX, USA.
*grumblegrumblegrumble*
So, how long until the WHATWG just gives up the pretense and replaces the HTML5 'living standard' with a link to download Google Chrome?
@blackle Also, for those in the thread who might not know, TI used to run an actual _app store for calculators_. (I think they still do, even.)
You'd have to install the right license key into the certificate page first for proprietary apps. TI-OS locked the flash memory so you could only import anything to it via Accepted Procedures, and there were 512-bit Rabin signatures involved… and I think a hardware coprocessor for MD5…
@blackle I used to use a TI-84+SE as a trusted OTP device way back when. I'd still like that better than using my Android handset, but first I'd have to get another one (the first one died) and modify the program for the modern dominant algorithms…
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Tired: Hot takes.
Wired: Thinkpieces.
Inspired: Essays that make concrete recommndations that come from actually doing the thing.
So how do you grow up properly in the "permanent record" world?
They set up their engine right outside my window. My brain is being eaten. They shouldn't have picked Mind Flayer Roofing for this. I'm embarrassing myself on the Internet and it doesn't even get me thousands of snarky but obsessed fans
It is 11:08.
Update: I crashed LibreOffice while playing with the list of functions to see if any of them did what I wanted
Follow-up is that I want to be able to trigger time steps that update the state variables based on some of the aggregate data and recompute everything as needed, but I'm assuming I'd have to do that as a separate imperative procedure regardless.
Okay, could someone who actually deals with spreadsheets more check my base idea here?
I've got a set of targets T and sources S. For each T, each S gets to set parameters that contribute to per-T parameters. There's some per-T and per-S state, and some per-S constraints. All the variables for an S should ideally be editable simultaneously.
How do I best make the cells go? (T, S, variable) is three dimensions. Do pivot tables do what I want? Or do I reach some other tool?
… or is it going to be Web Technology? I kinda hope not.
I'm going to wind up implementing this tracking thing in either LibreOffice or elisp, aren't I?
… just as soon as my handset finishes charging.
They're working on the roof for who knows how long, so now I can never concentrate on anything again. I guess I'll see whether heading to the library works at all.
When you can't agree with yourself about which things you want more than which others, and both the supply of resources needed to gain those things and various forms of efficiency and interdependency are highly variable, so you start setting up an internal market system of sorts so that you can converge on sensible prices and resultant production allocations.
Say—what I could _really_ use right now as an aid to things would be something like "#HyperCard for #Android". Any recommendations?
Rating nag multiple times means you get two stars if I don't have a really strong opinion.
I thought I screwed up my 2FA! But I didn't. Whew.
