Ben Clifford

benc@mastodon.hawaga.org.uk

Hi. I'm Ben.For fun I ride my bike around Berlin and build pretty things with LEDs and microcontrollers. I like dogs and trains. I'm also interested in programming languages.Unfortunate toucher of other people's concurrent code. Co-ordinator of various volunteers.<a href="http://www.hawaga.org.uk/ben/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://www.hawaga.org.uk/ben/</a> <a href="https://github.com/benclifford" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://github.com/benclifford</a>

Posts

Post #3198073
today in frustrating online programmes: i) what day is the session you just told me is at 9am? ii) can I go to that session with the ticket type I purchased? (yes I understand the point of the website is i) to sell me a ticket, ii) to sell my data to vendors, but come on surely someone organised an event before?)
Post #3198072
another day another academic paper with no date on it forcing me to take maxyear over the references and add one. come on fuckers this is even easier than not making it be pdf.
Post #3198071
you *MUST* pre-order your spaceagon (in the dogs must be carried sense) https://chaos.social/@jonty/116697888858509815
Post #3198070
there has been a torn sign in #Berlin Hauptbahnhof on a bit of wall ever since we ran a refugee reception centre there in the first half of 2022. it said &quot;food&quot; in ukrainian. said wall has now been removed to allow access to the new temporary platform 22 (which like all berlin infrastructure projects is years delayed) that&#39;s probably the last physical manifestation of our refugee centre (although our refugee work continues in and around the station). Goodbye sign. #B...
Post #3198069
being forced to learn more cmake than i want to but hopefully the bits after that are fun
Post #3198068
new conception of __del__ destructors as monkeys paw #Python #MonkeysPaw
Post #3198067
what I wanted to be doing: recurrent neural networks on laser distance matrix data what I am doing: debugging i2c #i2c #tildagon #lasers
Post #3198066
&gt; (I always use status += function(). Then every frew calls I check the status. Saves a lot of code.) exceptions are for pussies, lets use an integer monoid instead
Post #3198065
the C model of what should be a warning rather than an error forever does my head in &gt; warning: excess elements in array initializer
Post #3198064
It&#39;s World #Swift Day! Here&#39;s a scientific workflow system I used to work on called Swift (2006-2009) Eventually it got redone in Python and became @ParslProject
Post #3198063
rather than setting up DNS for this &quot;temporary&quot; VM, i have to keep going back to an old timesheet with journal entries and find where I wrote down the IP address
Post #3198062
i have updated the DNS because it only takes a few seconds
Post #3198061
vi people - yeah sure unix experience is annoying enough having two clipboards, lets add a third this is so bonkers even though its been this way for years dont tell me to reconfigure vi i regularly use fresh/shared VMs
Post #3198060
holy fuck this variant of vi keeps reindenting the line of python code I&#39;m editing so that it isn&#39;t inline with the other lines in the same block PLEASE JUST EDIT MY TEXT LIKE I PRESS THE BUTTONS FOR
Post #3198059
I AM BUILDING AN HTML FORM like with the &lt;FORM&gt; tag ITS 1997
Post #3198057
I have retreated to the park for one euro beer.