Notices by Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online), page 7

We all love “worst possible phone number entry” challenge, but how about calendar?

@spiralganglion Noita wands feel like programming at times (the concepts are hard to understand and combine in unpredictable ways, with lots of room for improvisation). They even have if/else/done as spells, although it’s considered advanced and is rarely used AFAIK. I’m not sure what best video would be but this one covers some basics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDFdi8XU6M0

Update: by removing one line at a time, I figured that `let += nchars;` is responsible for the slowdown.

What’s weird is that `append` function itself is called in both slow and fast cases, so it’s not like the function itself is slow, it just _becomes_ slow after working on certain file

Americans, I know your week starts on Sunday, but does your year starts on December, too?

@jack the file looks like this. It’s all ASCII, it only decodes into Unicode

- Run parser on file containing only ASCII, get X µs
- Run parser on file containing wider UTF-8
- Run parser _on the same first file_ containing only ASCII , get 2X µs now and from now on
- Reloading code helps, until I do UTF-8 once again

What’s going on?

@jstepien needs an entry where Stępień is ok but Jan is “too short”

I don’t get it. Why is ChatGPT text area two-lines? IMO works much better with single line

How to turn the new Mac mini on/off.

This is not a joke. I repeat, I’m not joking

Honey, are you okay? You barely use your herring phone