@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, that would also be fine with me. I certainly do like the “arbitrary” in your comment.

While writing the article, I also thought about something like that:

date := time.Date(2026, 6, 19,
    17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)

Or possibly:

date := time.Date(
    2026, 6, 19,
    17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC,
)

But it’s four lines for a damn timestamp. I also contemplated whether a comment acting as a separator is all that’s needed:

date := time.Date(2026, 6, 19, /**/ 17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)

I might like that the most. Not entirely sure yet. It kinda feels like a hack, but still a little elegant. Add your comment on top and we’re golden. Maybe?

I deliberately excluded them as this only distracted from the points I wanted to make. And I also realized that this example was just not ideal at all. Perhaps I should add them nevertheless?

If I ever invented a programming language, a much more human readable timestamp representation of some sort, RFC 3339 or very close to that would be part of that language. Something along the lines of /pattern/ for regexes in certain languages.

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Devancé au premier tour de près de 700 000 voix, le représentant du camp progressiste, Iván Cepeda, devra mener une campagne beaucoup plus dynamique et s’adresser aux électeurs et électrices centristes pour l’emporter dimanche 21 juin face à Abelardo de la Espriella. ⌘ Read more

Aha, yesterday’s newly added support for LC_TIME to render localized timestamps also broke the feed parsing with my LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 and LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 environment. :-)

Atom feeds make use of RFC 3339 timestamps. They are first converted into RFC 882 timestamp representation, which is the one that RSS feeds use. However, this conversion now results in localized RFC 882 timestamps, which cannot be parsed into Unix timestamp numbers via curl_getdate(…). I bet that it doesn’t know about the localization at all and expects English month and weekday names. Looking at its docs, I reckon that function was selected because of its myriad of supported timestamp formats: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_getdate.html RFC 3339 is not included, though, hence the transformation up front.

The intermediate Item objects in the parser domain use std::string for the timestamp representation. This isn’t all that silly, because Newsboat supports all sorts of different feed formats with different timestamp formats. These RFC 883 timestamps are centrally parsed into time_t.

Speaking of time: It’s time to go to bed after this late bug hunting fun. :-)

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PEP 833: Freezing the HTML simple repository API
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Last year NVIDIA announced the new CUDA Tile programming model as one of the biggest updates ever to the CUDA platform. CUDA Tile brings a virtual ISA for tile-based parallel programming and they subsequently open-sourced the CUDA Tile IR as an intermediate representation built atop LLVM’s MLIR. Now they are looking to hire additional LLVM compiler engineers to help foster their CUDA Tile initiatives… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup, I’ve also seen the floating point conversion happening with (1 << 63) - 1 yesterday night. But instead of pausing to think about it for a second, somehow all I had in mind was “give me a better representation, ain’t gonna have time for this shit”, so I turned it to hex. Beyond my comprehension what I was thinking there. O_o That’s embarrassing, unbelievable. Well, I blame late o’clock where my brain had already quit on me and went to bed.

Very interesting data point you raise there. The fun part didn’t cross my mind yet or at least I couldn’t pinpoint it. In hindsight it’s totally obvious, though. Past experience also tells me the exact same. Dealing with a problem and researching something myself is a so much more better teacher. The longer I faced up with a topic, the higher the chance to really manifest in long- or at least mid-term memory. If I just get told something, the odds are that it’s completely erased from memory in a matter of days if not hours.

Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript
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AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice, it’s coming together! Despite it being ages ago that I used a hex editor or viewer, these different representations of information appear very handy to me. If I had to mess around on binary formats, I’d definitely appreciate them. I can’t remember if the hex viewer back then had these options. Don’t even recall what software that was. :-)

I, too, only very, very rarely use the mouse in the terminal. Apart from selecting text to copy into the clipboard. But that probably has the potential for trouble and interference with button clicks, etc. If one isn’t careful.

How did the startup times develop?

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@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Nah it’s more like there’s a lot of repeated code, because when you go from source language to intermediate representation to machine code, well you just end up writing a lot of the same patterns over and over again. I need to dedupe this I think.

NVIDIA CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kiwu@twtxt.net it just so happens to be a happy coincidence that I’m extending mu’s capabilities to now include a native toolchain-free compiler (doesn’t rely on any external gcc/clang or linkers, etc) that lowers the mu source code into an intermediate representation / IR (what @movq@www.uninformativ.de refers to as “thick layers of abstractions”…) and finally to SSA + ARM64 + Mach-O encoder to produce native binary executables (at least for me on my Mac, Linux may some later?) 🤣

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10 Representations of Death from Myth, Legend, and Folktale
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Naked objects
Was browsing Strvct and saw the link to Naked Objects. It resonated with the repost of VPRI’s Steps report: creating a world of domain objects with a tangible, interactive representation and transparent storage.

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RVSDG: An Intermediate Representation for Optimizing Compilers (2019)
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Stonean spaces, projective objects, the Riesz representation theorem, and (possibly) condensed mathematics
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Un article de Henry Bonner La question des réglementations de l’Union Européenne met en conflit les profiteurs et les victimes des réglements et des directives. Globalement, les représentants des patrons d’entreprises font opposition aux normes de l’UE sur les déclarations d’entreprises – le CSRD et le C3SD. Les normes … ⌘ Read more

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REST（Representational State Transfer）是 Web 服務中廣泛使用的一種架構風格，其核心思想是使用 HTTP 協議出色地創建、讀取、更新和刪除（CRUD）資源。作爲一種靜態類型、編譯型語言，Go 在構建高效、可靠的 Web 服務時具有顯著優勢。使用 Go 語言構建 REST API 服務需要我們從多個方面入手，包括項目結構、框架選擇、數據庫操作、路由設計等。以下將 ⌘ Read more

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#TIR (Today I Realized): typical human hands count in base eleven, as two closed fists can represent zero, so a good single-digit representation could be a [0..A] range #math

is every normal-form game representable by a tree a potential game?

Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.

Color management deals with translating between representations of
colors across a variety of devices. Throughout this post, we’ll use
natural language as … ⌘ Read more

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The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternative … ⌘ Read more

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In the past two years, GitHub has doubled in size, welcoming more than 760 new Hubbers in 2021 alone. This past year we particularly focused on our goal of making GitHub more equitable. We saw growth in our diversity representation, whose population increased at a higher rate than the company itself. ⌘ Read more

I was on a call this evening discussing various redistricting proposals. Some dude seriously asserted that over-representation by Multnomah county in regional politics might lead to… genocide. 😳

glyphs made to display in space that left scars in my screen, a few feral ones that moved, later an entire city of them, all the conway glider guns, a few codepages made of theorems that hinted at a non-enumerable representation

monolith now has 38 unique literate programs. their woven representations can be found at my website [[/proj/monolith/program]]. #monolith

Carte Blanche par @xdamman : Je suis un entrepreneur et le @MR_officiel ne me représente plus | L’Echo ⌘ https://www.lecho.be/opinions/carte-blanche/je-suis-un-entrepreneur-et-le-mr-ne-me-represente-plus/10257663.html

On the blog: Personal Pronouns, Revisited https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/20/pronoun.html #rant #pronouns #label #representation

a 6.5 bit fantasy computer, whose bytecode representation can be represented entirely as printable ascii characters. The first 6 contain standard data space, with the 7th bit used to represent one of 32 values. #halfbakedideas

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: We Are What We Do https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/08/are-do.html #label #ally #harm #representation #rant

seize the means of representation