author: lucifer_jehovah_smith
Re: gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/01/01/fsm.gmi I had a professor who taught (among many other things) the algorithms and data structures course. He showed us FSMs in that class and was like: his is a secret weapon. Especially for solving text processing problems in a language like C. And text processing is a surprisingly large class of programming problems. I (not my prof) have some code running on someone's commercial infra right now that's more-or-less one big honking event-driven FSM, and ironically not doing text processing really. FSMs are cool.
Where'd all this whining about reduced birth rate come from? I've heard it from a few people in recent weeks. Fifty years ago, they were talking about the "population bomb", and now it's like "Wah wah wah, not enough girls getting pragnant, not enough babby being formed. It's the end of the human race". Did Leon Musk start all this crap? He's a natalist and a eugenicist, and funnily enough, a guy who has formed a good few (all?) of his babbies in test tubes. I've been reading the Isaacson bio of Leon, which prompted the speculation about him as the source. Friends' comments prompted the question.
Dig it! I just bought a bunch of groceries for me and the people I love with affirm.com for the second time in the last 3 months. Credit cards are maxed, the rent is too damned high, and I spend a chunk of money every month servicing debt. Yeah I've been dumb frequently and made some shitty choices, but still. Isn't America groovy?
Crazy ass tech idea. My dreams exceed my ability to implement. I have this braille ebook reader here; the only way to get content on it is USB flash drive or SD card. What if we had a thing that emulated a flash drive but used webdav or sftp for the underlying storage?