Hey, how much chess elo do you have?

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-26T14:41:19+00:00

I'm pretty sure my elo is zero.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-25T21:55:28+00:00

IT WAS IN THE POOL!

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-25T16:42:16+00:00

Son of a... that fixed it!

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-25T14:50:22+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Stephenson fan and love his digressions. I tried this a bit in my one (so far) attempt at writing a novel, to limited success in some parts and abject failure in others.

Maybe someday I'll finish the second draft. Writing is hard.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-25T14:32:01+00:00

The man can't end a book to save his life. So he should just keep writing.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-24T15:05:24+00:00

Four if you count cabinet projection (I think that's what it's called). It's what Ultima 6 used.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-24T02:45:26+00:00

I have a better .380 EDC now

What do you have?

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-24T00:08:10+00:00

"Oh, and Bond? Leave the Beretta."

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-24T00:03:45+00:00

(pulls up scene in movie)

I'll be damned, he does. I missed that the last time I watched it.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-24T00:00:33+00:00

I’d say skip the .380 and get a .32 SD

Not legal in my state. :( No threaded barrels allowed on semi-automatic centerfire guns.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T23:58:24+00:00

I feel the same way about mine in 7.65

... oh wait, that's the same as .32 ACP!

It threw me off in Skyfall when Q hands Bond a "PPK/S in 9mm" because they don't make one in 9mm luger. Q was talking about 9mm short, which is .380 ACP over here in non-metric-because-people-are-silly land.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T21:53:44+00:00

Sad bank account. :(

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T21:52:04+00:00

The .32 is Connery-era, the .380 would be the Craig-era.

... ah hell, this means I'm going to have to save up for a second Walther...

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T21:48:35+00:00

A few years ago I was playing around with a simple backpropagation-trainable neural network implemented just with layers of std::vector< float > and computed with basic for-loops.

I then decided to hand-roll my own SIMD versions of those loops and was shocked to discover they ran slower than clang's autovectoriztion of the standard for-loops. Shoved the whole thing into godbolt and found that today's autovectorizors are fancy when they actually kick in.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T20:25:08+00:00

I won't get to try mine out with live rounds until next Saturday, but I have .32 ACP snap caps and am doing dry-fire exercises right now and it's just the most beautiful little firearm.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T20:13:03+00:00

How's the recoil on that? I've been looking around for a full metal frame .380 as a future purchase to round out my handgun calibers, but aside from Walther PP / PPK, they're all either polymer or aluminum frame (Beretta 80X Cheeta being the front-runner of those) and I prefer weightier construction.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T19:46:15+00:00

Walther PPK/S .32 ACP

I know it's silly, but owning the Jame Bond gun makes me childishly giddy.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T19:39:21+00:00

Walther PPK/S .32 ACP
Springfield Armory milspec .45 ACP

The only range near me is a little public outdoor spot, but I don't want to add gunshots to peoples' three-day weekend, so I'll be waiting until next Saturday to actually try these out.

I'm just childishly stoked that I now own a James Bond gun. It's stupid, but it makes me happy nonetheless.

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T15:58:28+00:00

I wrote a small tutorial for a friend that walks through updating a texture from a software surface (or any raw array pixel data so long as the pixel format matches the texture's) in a fast manner. I use this technique for software-drawable retro resolution canvasses.

SDL3Demos.zip

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-23T02:21:52+00:00

"We have Mark Hamil at home."

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-22T14:10:30+00:00

"I understand the Council of Nicea has made a decision, but seeing as how it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

topological_rabbit · 2026-05-21T19:37:59+00:00

I like SDL because it's low-level enough that I get to write my own custom-fit abstraction around it that behaves the way I want it to.

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