Lady of Longing @Lady@cat.family

read to you by Simon Jones

as a kid i didn’t think Bartimaeus and Harry Potter had much to do with each other but as an adult i recognize that “actually, the magic of British exceptionalism is a farce upheld by colonialism and slavery” is definitely responding to Something

i don’t love depending on G·N·U Make but there simply isn’t another option for what i’m trying to do

i have multiple times done something like $(and $(VAR), -e $(VAR)) when actually what you need is $(and $(VAR),$(space)-e $(VAR))

for the record, G·N·U Make strips white·space from each argument to $(and …) and $(or …) before expanding, not just the first one, which is confusing and definitely not documented

@jamey or

("date +%s" | getline); print ($0 - mean) / 86400

worked for me if you want to keep it in awk 😂

(macOS uses a fork of "The One True AWK”, not GNU awk, by default so the question isn’t purely hypothetical)

@jamey `systime()` isn’t POSIX but i imagine that’s doable to replace? awk probably is the easiest solution here huh

my girlfriend is up and about Doing Things and i am not here for it

sleepy bitch saturday

programmer challenge: write a script which, when given a file in the current git repository, outputs the average age of the lines in the file

bonus challenge: implement a toggle to include or exclude blank lines

that sure was a dream

you ever shout “fuck off asshole” to ä conservative old white dude while showing him your bare butthole between two middle fingers and then teleport into a patch of shade a few yards away

well i did some good prrgrrmmng today but i don’t know that i will have a functioning build system by supper tomorrow

unsigned big‐endian long

« When the morning sun hit an icicle, it wished not to melt, and thus Vanillite was born. At night, it buries itself in snow to sleep. »

next door

calendar updates: it is the ides of carnivaltide

animals are kind of like people, except for the ways in which they are not like people. they are like people otherwise