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[2023-04-02T00:46:38Z] <midfavila> apparently xaw has a tooltip widget [2023-04-02T00:46:39Z] <midfavila> go figure [2023-04-02T02:55:46Z] <midfavila> https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=lwjfGSw1OSQ&listen=false [2023-04-02T02:56:21Z] <midfavila> one of the slides from an early Athena Project conference about the prototype of Postgres [2023-04-02T02:56:26Z] <midfavila> turns out it was originally written in lisp [2023-04-02T02:56:32Z] <midfavila> lispchads can't stop winning!!! [2023-04-02T05:29:36Z] <sewn> hi [2023-04-02T05:32:20Z] <Ellowee[m]> <testuser[m]> "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki..." <- >(anti)patriot act #2 [2023-04-02T12:34:19Z] <sad_plan> hi [2023-04-02T12:39:39Z] <midfavila> a [2023-04-02T12:42:38Z] <midfavila> christ i hate being a mathlet so much ;w; [2023-04-02T13:11:06Z] <sewn> wat [2023-04-02T14:34:35Z] <midfavila> i wonder why the AsciiText widget doesn't automatically keep track of things like the number of rows [2023-04-02T14:35:17Z] <midfavila> probably has something to do with the way the buffer is represented under the hood... but even then it shouldn't be hard to increment or decrement a long when a newline is inserted or deleted [2023-04-02T14:36:16Z] <midfavila> the annoying thing is that there's a struct XawTextPositionInfo that holds current column, current row, whether overwrite is toggled, and a couple other things, but at first glance there's no real way to get at that info [2023-04-02T14:36:44Z] <midfavila> back to the Xaw changelogs I guess... [2023-04-02T14:36:55Z] <midfavila> more useful than the official docs [2023-04-02T15:31:28Z] <midfavila> geez, you weren't kidding about Xaw's text widget(s) being fat. cloc says they account for a third of the total size of Xaw [2023-04-02T15:32:24Z] <midfavila> i knew they were obviously going to be pretty chunky given the relatively sophisticated nature of their implementation what with the whole sinks, sources, etc architecture going on on top of dumping a lot of application-level stuff into the widgets themselves, but geesh [2023-04-02T16:27:36Z] * sewn uploaded an image: (33KiB) < https://libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/v3/download/envs.net/ad47cb5b760e7dbc748fb4c5202b797609e3c3e4/196-1297n2u.jpg > [2023-04-02T16:46:26Z] <shokara> I wish I had snow :( [2023-04-02T16:49:44Z] <midfavila> i wish i didn't [2023-04-02T17:07:21Z] <midfavila> hmm [2023-04-02T17:07:27Z] <midfavila> you know, i'm feeling pretty stupid right now [2023-04-02T17:07:54Z] <midfavila> for all the freaking out i've done about not being able to figure out where to really start with brushing up on math, i've never bothered looking for high school level courses on EdX [2023-04-02T17:08:24Z] <midfavila> go figure, there are a few "college algebra" and "college precalc" courses that would work [2023-04-02T17:08:28Z] * midfavila dies [2023-04-02T17:13:14Z] <sewn> rest in piss midfavila you will be missed