Not enough lulz

That ‘-2′ in the URL is because I started a post with this exact same title then trashed it. The more you know. WordPress really insists on unique post identifiers. For various reasons I’m trying to write a script to generate image fingerprints. The problem with fingerprints is that by nature of being in a [...]

This goes in the blog

So I was being egoistic and was looking at the blog stats, and apparently someone actually bothered to type in however many digits of γ I once posted. Exactly that many, however many that was. Here’s a problem for you. I’m trying to write a user script (stopped calling them Greasemonkey scripts ever since I [...]

Blindness

I’m actually pretty tired right now. I don’t think the situation’s going to get any better any time soon.

Multithread everything!

Yeah, no. This is a bad idea. Nowadays pretty much every CPU other than those used in phones (and some of those, even) have some sort of intrinsic multitasking capability, either by having multiple cores or something like Intel’s HyperThreading. Of course, it wasn’t like that in the past. Older processors (like, pre-2006) couldn’t multitask [...]

シマッタ！ワスレテタ！

I actually was thinking of blogging but then I got interrupted by my internet connection dying (it’s still going pretty slowly right now) and dinner. I momentarily forgot what I was going to whine (‘rant’ seems too strong a word) about. So, web applications. They’re everywhere. What makes a web app? Server-side scripting and client-side [...]

Protected: Cues

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Somehow people manage to think that expensive things are always better. No, wasting two hours going to a restaurant can’t possibly beat spending five minutes making myself a bowl of instant noodles. I’m mad. Of course, the people I’m forced to live with (due to what is practically blackmail) don’t think so. It can’t be [...]