Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.technology

Never thought it was really that bad a thing. Like "nobody can really be that bad". I just reaIized that, yes, they can. And yes, it is.
Can someone please eradicate my entire gender?

https://mastodon.technology/media/RHeGIfejolCms4To5CE

Important-looking man in the metro, all suited up, writing items on a notebook. I look at the pen, and I make out three words while he writes them:
"do not beg."

Note to self: everybody is winging it

Remember: as soon as AI chatbots pass the turing test, social media will die. You won't know who's human and who's a bot trying to warp your reality to buy stuff or vote for things.

Even if you know the person, how do you know a bot isn't mitm-ing you and distorting the original messages?

"Dress for the job you want, not the one you have"

Me, going to my programming job dressed as a carpenter

Today we had lunch with a lovely Indian couple, and a 50 year old Vietnamese woman. This woman turned out to be the most racist person I have ever met.

Remember: bigotry hides in unexpected places.

Also, math papers written for humans, please 😥

https://mastodon.technology/media/1rCIzBRW1LADQt4ydxs

Can we please have a version of wikipedia math articles that's designed for actual humans to read? Math Wikipedia is totally useless to anyone without a math degree 😥

There's a bunch of people at the office worrying about ergonomic chairs, mice, keyboards...
And then there's this guy

https://mastodon.technology/media/EPPvXxvhr4ZexVXRbsc

Also, the Halton and Van der Corput sequences are extremely nice tricks, and used extensively in real time graphics.

A beautiful piece of simple, clever math

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Van_der_Corput_sequence

This is the thing I'm most proud of doing during the last six months of work, and it took me one hour.

The trick? Switch algorithm from a robust dart-throwing Poisson disk generation, to a crappy Halton sequence. No visible visual degradation 👌

https://mastodon.technology/media/SvLcJ_jDu0BHUP_bbWw

Today I decided to re-enable Windows Update on my only Windows computer (7-year old installation, has worked beautifully ever since), because it had detected a trojan in it (which I assume must have used a remote execution vulnerability I had no patch for)

Let's just say, it didn't go very well.

2 hours later:

https://mastodon.technology/media/4dRkF9cIBEGXK0wY3Ak

Was just at an H&M shop when the morning and afternoon shifts were switching places. And a woman that looked like the morning shift boss was hugging each of the afternoon employees and emphatically wishing them good luck.

On the one hand, nice seeing a boss that seems to genuinely care.

On the other, her face when wishing them good luck was like that of a Vietnam war sargent sending his troops to die. Holy crap what the hell goes on at this shop during the afternoons!?!?

Angry that Microsoft removed ability to embed asm in 64 bit msvc. I want my code to use the damned fscale x86 instruction, but can't find a way to make the compiler generate that from C++ source. Grrrr!

Just found out that NaN values can carry 22 or 51 bits of arbitrary payload, and now I want to use that for _something_!

In case you had any doubt capitalism will find a way to exploit any and all social trends:

"Vegomeeting.
Sweden's biggest vego-event.
Over 100 sellers, flavour testing, vegan cafe and restaurant, vegan street food..."

https://mastodon.technology/media/LX_uNW2mof4UpUfA74c

Today we got fiber in our apartment, which means our uplink is no longer the bottleneck. Now I can choose whether I want my speed limited by the WiFi or the PLC, as neither maxes out the external bandwidth. Oh well 🙄

After 10 years together, my girlfriend and I are gonna get married in 2 weeks.

And she just told me she wants to get married wearing these, and I'm laughing my ass off thinking it's the most Mastodon thing ever! 😄

https://mastodon.technology/media/8mGn7Az0zdOQYNssEy4