machines will never understand language
I thought language was too complicated for machines to understand, until I got sick. a lifelong, meandering journey of parsing, learning, and fixing my broken body.
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I thought language was too complicated for machines to understand, until I got sick. a lifelong, meandering journey of parsing, learning, and fixing my broken body.
whispering into the internet void
rsync built on cygwin doesn’t understand windows drive letters. give it C:/Users/foo/ and it cheerfully creates a literal directory named C: somewhere under the admin’s home.
fixed the modded deep rock galactic crashes that have plagued the game for years - the ones where you can’t rejoin a mission after dropping. ghidra + bitfix turned a ‘known annoyance’ into an evening fix, once we got past the first crash and found the second one waiting underneath.
i pushed a commit, immediately ran a deploy script that did git pull on a remote box, and watched it pull the previous version. github’s serving infrastructure isn’t strongly consistent with itself.