the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@starkatt This led me to realize that a somewhat flippant but probably accurate description of our spirituality would be "I believe in gods *I* haven't even heard of"
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@packbat This will vary based on the phone, usage patterns, and the age of the battery; generally a new one will last several days on a charge, but an aging battery or using intensive apps will make it much shorter.
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did something happen to the uk royal family??
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@noiob @socks it's a calculator, what do you expect?
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@noiob @socks i think it's probably a habit from when we taught ourselves how to code on a ti-84

ti-basic doesn't have constants
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@noiob @socks we taught ourselves how to program on a TI-84 and now primarily write code for tiny microcontrollers that cost $4, so entirely different worlds here
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@socks @noiob if you say `int x = 3`, that's (bar any compiler optimizations) reserving some amount of memory (4 bytes on modern computers) for x to occupy, until it's done being x and can be used for something else (figuring out when it's done being x can be a hard problem if you don't explicitly say it's done being x, this is the cause of many memory leaks). If x is never anything other than 3, it would be more efficient to just use immediate opcodes instead of 1) taking up some memory and 2) requiring additional memory fetches (which are way slower than processor cycles)
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@hi_cial underrated cute, for sure
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@noiob @socks I don't see the point in occupying a bit of memory with a constant when you could just use a macro

i imagine compilers probably optimize that out anyway but eh, habit
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@socks ah, so like the GENERATE block in VHDL! yeah we find those annoying to comprehend and debug too
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@noiob @socks when I say how people usually use them I'm talking about things like #define PI 3.14159f
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@socks I'm guessing in this context it means something more complicated than how people typically use C preprocessor macros, then?

oh and assembler macros are hard to program without, i don't want to have to remember which memory location we stored this variable in and every location we referenced it in case we have to change it
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@socks big emi....
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we're in the process of doing this now and wow this nand dump takes a long time (exacerbated by the fact that it filled up our 16 gb sd card and errored so we had to find a larger sd card and start it over, though)
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@socks out of curiosity, what do you not like about macros?
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some words, the adjective form and noun form have *very* different connotations

just look at "artificial" vs "artifice"
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don't want to go to work
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@hi_cial I appreciate the little venonat
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@Cabtcougalope an important part of any computer
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