If you want to write down a length as a 128 bit number using the planck length as the unit, then you can measure up to ~5.5 kilometers.

@hellocatfood every spring the little birds come flying to the fediverse

@zkat because the carbon dioxide and water combines to carbonic acid which takes a little while to break down, so the liquid is slightly acidic compared to regular water.

@NekoSock The fact that @eff has six thousand followers in a network where few get above 1000 followers is saying something, I think.

Computers are good

It's the capitalism that ruins and corrupts

tooting is a free action

Current function level:

Like playing Dungeons & Dragons but you only have six seconds to decide what to do each turn, if you don't make a firm decision, you spend that whole turn standing still.
Plus, you have to start over with the decision making each turn.

blobcat

I like writing parsers so much that even working on one of my creative writing projects have turned into a programming project including parsers.

Command Line Interfaces suck, and we can do better, but we can't get there by "just" building better software.

1) Software usability depends on cultural norms of the user.

2) Widely used software becomes part of the cultural norms, regardless of usability.

3) 1+2 means that the usability of a given piece of software can decrease (or increase!), despite the interface not changing in any way.

4) Without active cultural work, we can get "stuck" in a local maximum of software usability (i.e. better usability is possible, but not with the current cultural norms)

@monorail the graffiti was right all along

Why can't I figure out how to generate a "h" and a "C" in JavaScript without string literals or function calls?

It is possibly impossible.

If I could generate "h" and "C" from non-letter expressions, then I could remove the last three letters from this source code of an expression that evaluates to my name:

https://gist.github.com/Zatnosk/4d80a9e72bec6ec3b73a6d0b1443aea7

Unfortunately, I'm also missing "w" and "P", which would let me write "getOwnPropertyNames", which in turn would let me pull out "getCharCode" without touching "C" or "h".

@noelle The primary technique is generating values and then converting them to a string that I then index into to get a letter.

"c" is generated with ([]+{})[!![]-[]+((!![]+!![])+[])]

([]+{}) results in string concatenation between an empty array and an object, which gives me "[object Object]".

Then that string is indexed into with "12" generated by !![]-[]+((!![]+!![])+[])

!![]-[] => true - "" => 1 - 0
!![]+!![] => true+true => 2
2 + [] => 2 + "" => "2"
1+"2" => "12"