Erik McClure

@erikmcclure

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Erik McClure@erikmcclure· 20d

wish I made enough money to give nice people jobs like this

Services. Contractor shall render the following services and perform the following tasks:

* None

Such tasks shall be performed in a timely, professional, and complete manner to the highest professional standards and in accordance with prevailing industry
custom.

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jul 12

my fans would be so fucking mad at me if they realized I was actually sitting on two entire albums worth of nearly-finished songs that I can't figure out how to finish because my ability to evaluate music outstripped my skill level again

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jul 11

pain

> Thebigb0xb0111
HOW U MADE THIS

> ErikMcClure responds:
it's been 18 years so I actually can't remember anymore

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jul 6

The Nuzzle of 2026

A blue pegasus cloud hop plushie placed on the ground so that it is nuzzling the nose of a wolf fursuit head

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jul 2

I should probably post a picture of my badges so you can find me lmao

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jun 4

What do you think the output of this program is? (yes it compiles) play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...

#[derive(Debug)]
pub enum Foo {
A(u32),
B(u32)
}

impl Foo {
pub fn A(x: u32) -> Self {
Self::B(x)
}
pub fn B(x: u32) -> Self {
Self::A(x)
}
pub fn C(x: u32) -> Self {
Self::B(x)
}
}

fn main() {
// ????????????
let x = Foo::A(3);
println!("{x:?}");
let x = Foo::C(3);
println!("{x:?}");
}

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jun 3

damn I wonder why

My Students Can't Read

Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago. Not one student finished it-

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Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Apr 28

buny =:3

Bandcamp <noreply@bandcamp.com>
Greetings Erik McClure,
With regard to today's purchase [...]

"buny"

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Apr 19

Cloud Hop + Cloudy Berry (@cloudypegasus.bsky.social) by Xvostik!

A purple pegasus and a blue pegasus flying around each other high up in the sky.

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Apr 18

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Apr 16

me: can't get a job websites: can't do their job 🤔

picture of blank bluesky feed that won't load properly

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Apr 6

millennials that survived covid finally finding the hallowed toilet paper aisle

an entire section of a virtual store that contains only toilet paper and is the fanciest part of the entire store.

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Apr 1

The derpibooru.org april fools joke this year is extremely funny, provided you like dark humor.

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Mar 29

a trillion dollar corporation can barely reach one singular nine of uptime for the most popular code platform on planet earth that it bought for $7.5 billion dollars.

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Mar 19

why do math people write code like this what are you doing do you need help

let rc0 = neg c1 * c1; let rc1 = fma c2 c2 (f64 (-4) * c0); let rc2 = c2 + c2; let g = r + rc2; let h = fma r g rc1; let p = fma r h rc0; let s = r + g; let v = fma r s h; let r1 = fma p (v / fma (neg v) v ((r + s) * p)) r; let g = r1 + rc2; let h = fma r1 g rc1; let p1 = fma r1 h rc0; let (r, p) = if abs p1 <= abs p then (r1, p1) else (r, p) in // In the rare failed-to-improve case it is equivalent to skip to the end of Halley corrections.
let s = r + g; let v = fma r s h; let r1 = fma p (v / fma (neg v) v ((r + s) * p)) r; let g = r1 + rc2; let h = fma r1 g rc1; let p1 = fma r1 h rc0; let (r, p) = if abs p1 <= abs p then (r1, p1) else (r, p) in // In the rare failed-to-improve case it is equivalent to skip to the end of Halley corrections.
let s = r + g; let v = fma r s h; let r1 = fma p (v / fma (neg v) v ((r + s) * p)) r; let g = r1 + rc2; let h = fma r1 g rc1; let p1 = fma r1 h rc0; let r = if abs p1 <= abs p then r1 else r in // END OF HALLEY CORRECTIONS
if r <= f64 0 then // c1 is so small that this quartic is effectively a quadratic in t**2
// FIXME: Not currently trying to handle potential overflow in the quadratic discriminant.
let t = tuple2map sqrt (monicQuadratic_findRoots c0 c2) in (t.0, t.1, neg t.0, neg t.1)
else
let q = f64 0.5 * rsqrt r; let g = f64 0.5 * (c2 + r); let h = q * c1; let s = q * r; // FIXME: Not currently trying to handle potential overflow in the quadratic discriminants.
let (t0, t1) = premulMonicQuadratic_findRoots (g + h) s; let (t2, t3) = premulMonicQuadratic_findRoots (g - h) (neg s); (t0, t1, t2, t3)

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Feb 16

It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.

Haresh Ved
- Satya Nadella says that 20–30% of all code in Microsoft repositories is now written by AI.
- Sundar Pichai says AI already writes well over 30% of new code at Google.

What does this mean?
- Software development is no longer constrained by typing speed, but by how clearly engineers articulate intent.

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Feb 15

www.tumblr.com/derinthescar...

derinthescarletpescatarian

On fun thing about everyone using ai to do their data analysis or write articles or whatever is it's really exposing how many people weren't doing their jobs this whole time.

"We just found out that the ai tool we've been using to make business decisions for 3 months has been hallucinating all the sales data!" okay well it was stupid to use ai for this, why didn't you learn how glitchy it was before implementing it, but far more importantly, what you've just told me is that nobody bothered to check the real numbers for 3 months. "This guy has been using ai to write 9 magazine articles for us and the quoted info was all fake, he has been fired" no editor checked the first eight? "I used ai to write this report and the math was wrong" you didn't check the math? In your own report? Everyone is just telling on themselves re: how their work was always wildly unreliable and they already weren't doing their jobs.

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Feb 13

what

Additional Questions:
Graphics API (DX/GL/Metal, etc)*
[ ]
ERROR: Enter a decimal number larger than 0.0

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Feb 4

found a short-term contract and they threatened to fire anyone who submitted low-quality work and the following day asked why no one was submitting anything

Better Quality?
DON'T SLOW DOWN
ONLY BETTER QUALITY

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jan 18

The comment on my inverted three-way comparison function has been wrong since I wrote it in 2012. It's been wrong for 14 years and I never noticed. It's been wrong so long I'm now replacing the whole thing with the three-way comparison operator from C++20. github.com/ErikMcClure/...

template<typename T> // Returns -1,0,1
inline char CompT(const T& left, const T& right) { return SGNCOMPARE(left,right); }

template<typename T> // Returns -1,0,1
inline char CompTInv(const T& left, const T& right) { return SGNCOMPARE(right,left); }

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jan 15

In the distant future of 2026, we have developed advanced technology that somehow makes basic text input laggy on a PC with more computational power than a supercomputer from 1996.

someone mentioned discord using up a huge ton of resources when typing awhile ago, now I'm getting that lol
discord CPU usage goes up to 7-10% while I'm typing, and when I type too fast or hold the backspace button discord starts lagging
it's so bad that when I hold down a single key (or backspace), characters stop appearing (or disappearing) in the input box until I stop holding it

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jan 6

modern apartment floorplans are so nonsensical that AI-generated slop would be indistinguishable from this entirely real 2-bath 0-bedroom studio apartment in Vancouver, BC.

floorplan of a 2-bath 0-bedroom studio apartment

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Jan 5

The absurd irony of this clearly innocuous post being labeled "Rude". What is bsky moderation doing???

Screenshot of quoted post showing the Rude tag

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Dec 22

I am 99% sure I've found a GPU VRAM leak in the latest version of Java Minecraft, but nobody else seems to be able to recreate it, despite the leak behavior not changing after I updated my GPU drivers, and the leak being extremely persistent and easy to recreate (happens on newly generated SP world)

javaw.exe dedicated GPU VRAM: 4,530,352 K

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Dec 22

why is all software now ad-vomit

the minecraft launcher screen with half of the screen being overtaken by ads

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Dec 19

scrunch

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Dec 16

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Dec 10

I can either buy this album, which has exactly one song in it, for $2.99, or I can buy the only song in the album for $1.49? what??????????

Mystery World
Adam Francis
Release Date: 10/07/2022
Record Label: FSOE Chill
Buy: $2.99

1. Mystery World
Buy: $1.49

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Dec 9

WHY WOULD YOU EVER WANT THIS

Hi, i'm Gaming Copilot, your personal gaming sidekick

Erik McClure@erikmcclure· Dec 7

Sorry, I didn't provide the full context because the problem was very complex, but you are incorrect. The actual problem was that the error was misleading, there was a lifetime issue being hidden by other errors, and after fixing all of those unrelated errors, I can now call temp.into_dyn_signal()

$impl<T, Provider: SignalProvider<T> + 'static> Signal<T, Provider> { pub fn into_dyn_signal(self) -> Signal<T, dyn SignalProvider<T>> { Signal(self.0.clone(), PhantomData) } }$