Alex Dueppen 🕊️

Beaks and Beats

More coffee vibes. :>

Art by @godbirdart.bsky.social (2019)

Clangd: Use of GNU 'missing =' extension in designator

I especially love how the readme says it's written in ANSI C meanwhile it uses non-standard gcc extensions lmao

gotta say so far my absolute least favorite part of my operating systems course this semester is the utterly atrocious code style in the teaching OS (xv6) that we're using

bird!

nooooooooo I hope she gets better soon

my dorm complex from outside, it's so foggy you can barely see 2 of the buildings

Hartford Avenue on the UWM campus, Enderis Hall in the background is partially obscured by the fog

it foggy

Sometimes I leave the room and come back to something like this

she wants your jelly beans

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Various St. Patrick's Day themed cupcakes including one that's supposed to be a pot of gold but they used regular yellow frosting so it looks more like corn

OK look Metro Market I know this is supposed to be a St. Patrick's Day cupcake but it really just looks like a pot of corn

link to a Techmoan video, "Man spends 27:41 messing with two old compact Compact Cassette decks" but the thumbnail says 27:42

the aforementioned video actually opened where it is indeed 27:41 in length

it drives me insane that after well over a decade youtube still hasn't fixed the bug where the video duration sometimes doesn't match in different places

also I just think it'd be kinda fun to make a programming language using 3-valued logic instead of booleans

idk what the best grammar for these hypothetical 3-valued logic expressions/statements would be but something pattern matching-ish seems like the way to go, e.g.

a.compareTo(b) {
less => x();
same => y();
more => z();
};

e.g. in Java-like langs this is fairly common:

if (a.compareTo(b) < 0) x();
else if (a.compareTo(b) == 0) y();
else z();

you can avoid comparing twice by adding a variable but now it's even more verbose and frankly kinda ugly (I've seen people make the final else an else if to balance line length)

random programming language design thought I've had recently: integers are often used as a form of 3-valued logic by comparing them to 0 (particularly with comparators) and so it'd be interesting to have a language with some built-in facilities for working with that use case

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I'm taking a compilers course this semester and in there I'm creating them from text ...oh no what have I done

It’s dangerous to go alone, take this

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

it snowy

Nintendo Birds

A photo of a blue spread feral pigeon with feathered legs and feet stood outside on a railing in front of a window. She looks very round, and the feathers of her neck are messy and have a bit of unknown stuff on them, like cobwebs or something

Today's Americano, looking unusually messy

#pigeonSky

drawing of a browt from pokemon, but it's an ugly falcon chick

welcome to the world, my scrungly son

the new pokemon starters go crazy

they're gormless I love them

for anyone who doesn't see it, look at the last column

whew compilers midterm went pretty well, I know I definitely didn't ace it but can't complain

Pigeon ownership #pigeonsky