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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 23:37

What I'm listening to today: "Stone Soup", Nappy Nina and Moor Mother

Moor Mother works Nappy Nina's formula into glitchy jazz. Black woman equalizer of the nonsense. Incredible groove on this one, chill hammock swing transitioning into fast fluid free-jazz drums.

https://nappynina.bandcamp.com/track/stone-soup-feat-moor-mother

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 23:27

So I attempted to go to a Tetris meetup at the arcade today, but I got confused about times and showed up way early, so I left before anyone else showed up but! I managed to get a personal best (my first rank 2 ever) so I guess at least I left a score on the daily leaderboard which will attend¹ the meetup in my stead

¹ And be promptly destroyed by

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 19:04

Now streaming! Let's get in a fistfight with some demons https://twitch.tv/mcc111

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 18:02

Geez I have been wondering about this for 14 years and I seriously expected for a while I'd never figure it out

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 18:02

A DISCORD I'M ON FIGURED IT OUT!

It was "Bao Bei" (寶貝)¹ by Zhang "Deserts" Xuan (張懸), the one they'd play on the radio for me was the "Day" version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsriGIW30po

There's also a softer slower "night" version I've never heard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2INEZWY9VU

¹ This turns out to mean "baby", as a term of endearment. EDIT: Not a loan word though! False friend

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 16:15

An email I get every morning when I wake up

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 15:48

LOL it seriously looks like it's installing a different graphics card

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 15:39

(Context, for people who aren't super plugged in to game news: This particular product appears to have been shipped in such low quantities one YouTuber called it a "ghost launch". It's not clear you want one, but if you want one, you won't find it.)

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 15:36

Went to update my video card's drivers and the patch notes were just a giant advertisement for a different product

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 04:26

I got a lot of good help this week (FORTRAN) so, thank you everyone.

I guess that's one "month" of the project down. Here's my completion status.

(Note there are 43 languages on this list, and 25 puzzles in AOC, so only a little over half will get hit by the end. My "for certain" list is: TCL, Haskell, Idris, Smalltalk, Self, Ada, Factor, Mirth, Uiua, at least one of ARM and RISCV.)

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 03:58

There's an awkward irony here.

For the Forth week, the input was a list of ASCII numbers. This kind of input FORTRAN had easy-to-use builtins for, but Forth had nothing and I had to build it myself.

FORTRAN week, the input was a grid of ASCII characters. This Forth could have handled pretty easy, but FORTRAN it's actually sorta impossible unless you use a modern (and, apparently, not completely tested in gfortran??) "stream" mode, which took forever and required consulting the spec. (2/2)

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 03:55

The v.a.s.t. bulk of the time here (and in the simpler part 2, the bulk of the code) was spent on file I/O. In the 4 weeks of this project so far, I skipped file i/o (instead embedding the data in the program) for BASIC and ASM, since those are languages with Limitations, and for Forth and FORTRAN I assumed those were Fully Featured so I could just do file i/o. But no, on both Forth and FORTRAN simple file i/o was a nightmare, the bulk of the work.

(1/2)

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 03:53

All right.

Part 1: https://github.com/mcclure/aoc2024/blob/ca77f141f33ab494dc1bb43f3d6f13e775a36303/04-01-wordsearch/src/puzzle.f90

Part 2: https://github.com/mcclure/aoc2024/blob/ca77f141f33ab494dc1bb43f3d6f13e775a36303/04-02-wordsearch/src/puzzle.f90

Did I learn anything from this? I guess. Yeah. Okay, I guess so.

That wasn't particularly unpleasant. The ergonomics weren't great, but were not-great in forgivable ways. The fact each tutorial/doc/StackOverflow answer I found targeted a different FORTRAN std was definitely frustrating. I got to add an array to an array on two (2) lines of part 2, and other than that this was basically funny-shaped C. C with paperwork

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 02:57

Remember Google Buzz? Well it's back— in pog form!

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 02:56

Google sees the pain of the world, and it knows what is needed at this time: For it to launch yet another chat product and then cancel it in 3 months https://www.theverge.com/news/604540/youtube-communities-posts

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Written by mcc on 2025-02-01 at 01:45

Blghgafhg part 1 done. This was the longest any part 1 took me of this project so far, but I think that was mostly… external distractions, happening this week. Gonna do part 2 before I share my thoughts (part 2 is really simple but I'm going to do it a little more complicated than it has to be just so I have an excuse to do some vector math in FORTRAN)

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Written by mcc on 2025-01-31 at 22:47

Lotsa established orgs seem to be getting hacked on Twitter this week

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Written by mcc on 2025-01-31 at 21:39

Tomorrow (Saturday the 1st) at 2 PM ET I am going to be resuming my stream of "Unavowed", the point and click adventure about the unpaid weirdos¹ who investigate magical crime in New York. We now have four characters unlocked so the party selection mechanic is going to be coming in to play about now! Watch at: https://twitch.tv/mcc111

¹ Also Logan, who is a non-weird, completely ordinary single father.

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Written by mcc on 2025-01-31 at 20:53

(Ugh, it's disappointing given how long it took to produce that clip how bad my piano technique is)

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Written by mcc on 2025-01-31 at 20:52

There's a song that in the early 2010s I used to hear a lot on a SF-Bay-Area-local Chinese¹ radio station. It was a woman singing over acoustic guitar, and there was a memorable "na na na, hey!" hook (but replace "na" with actual syllables).

It sounded like this (clip attached). Is this familiar to anyone? (Forwarding this post to anyone who'd be familiar with Chinese-language media would be much appreciated.)

¹ I believe— but if it was Vietnamese or Korean I might not have been able to tell.

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