Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@cliffle" class="u-url mention">@<span>cliffle</span></a></span> thanks!</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.coffee/@donw" class="u-url mention">@<span>donw</span></a></span> No, but I could see it saying something like "include node." You know, as a dependency.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cr1901" class="u-url mention">@<span>cr1901</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mwk" class="u-url mention">@<span>mwk</span></a></span> abc's &if mainly relies on enumeration of priority cuts followed by area recovery</p><p>it's not dark magic</p>
<p>You might think working a phone repair kiosk is a waste of my skills. Yeah nah.</p><p>Today, this kid came in with an iPhone that was more than cracked, it was banana-fied.</p><p>“What happened?” I asked, turning the wreckage over in my hands. I don’t think there was a single salvageable part. “And have you considered just upgrading?”</p><p>“My novel’s on there”, the kid said, wringing his hands anxiously. “It got ran over by a hauler bot.”</p><p>“Got a backup?”. The tears in the kid’s eyes were all the answer he needed to give. “Okay, event rebasing is the only way to fix this”, I gestured at the price board, “can you afford that?”</p><p>He gulped. “Uh, just.”</p><p>“You sure?”</p><p>“Yes. Can you really fix it?”. Hope flickered in his eyes.</p><p>“Let’s see, no win no fee”. </p><p>I held the smashed and bent phone-ana in my hands and turned it over, feeling its shape in space and time. With my /other sight/ I saw its lifeline leading away from where the kid had been, a shimmering trail of history leading back in time. With the fingers of my mind, I felt back along the lifeline until i felt the bump, beyond which the device had been a flat rectangle. Exploring the shape of the damage event I twisted the lifeline into a loop. Now here’s the tricky bit; if you have the knack, and you dig your nails in /just so/ you can pinch out a moment in time and detach it. I rubbed the lifeline with my mental fingers, smoothing out the join where the excised moment had been.</p><p>Blinking back to the present, I powered on the phone and handed it back to its owner. “All good?”</p><p>The kid’s fingers flew over the screen as he checked on his preciousss, and breathed a huge sigh. “All good. That’s incredible, can you fix *anything* like that?”</p><p>“Almost. Like?”</p><p>He avoided my gaze, staring down at my hands on the counter with their iridescent nails, matching the highlight colours in my hair. He made eye contract briefly, wide eyes again a bit teary. “Even…..me?”</p><p>Oh, that. “Absolutely not. *wink* Such things are not done and definitely not by me. Clear?”</p><p>*nod*</p><p>“Okay, hold still.” It’s a different technique than rebasing, especially because i like to spread the change over a few years to conceal the edit.</p><p>“All done”.</p><p>“Oh wow”, she said, reaching up to feel her shoulder length mauve hair (clearly I’d nailed that detail), then taking a twirl. “How, how much do I owe you?”</p><p>“On the house and you weren’t here. “</p><p>The tears were back. “Thank you thank you, this is the best. “</p><p>“My pleasure, have a great life”</p><p>“Thanks, you too” she said. “Bye!”</p><p>“Wait! Don’t forget your phone!”</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PowerOnStoryToot</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> would it read in full "switch to node” or is there more?</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mwk" class="u-url mention">@<span>mwk</span></a></span> At least it seems accessible compared to... whatever galaxy brain stuff ABC does :'D...</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> ah, of course, autotools! A comprehensive set of in-house AX_... macros.</p><p>Then, as it's all about efficiency, some multi threaded noGIL fun might be hard to miss. And developing few extensions in a mix of Rust and LLVM assembly to relieve bottlenecks discovered after few months of profiling work...</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Ah shit, here we go again.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@dimpase" class="u-url mention">@<span>dimpase</span></a></span> No automake? WTF?!?!</p>