@rk Our pub trivia usually lets one team (third place? last place? can't remember) pick a special category for the next week; one time when my team ended up in that position I half-seriously lobbied for IEEE-754, but didn't follow through, alas.

@mathew @rk

Upon execution, the binary will call real script interpreter (systemwide, bundled or embeded), and fork a child process to pipe script code to the interpreter to execute.

Ah, but that seems like cheating. My bashc hack generates equivalent C code that calls fork, execve, etc. directly itself; /bin/bash doesn't enter the picture at runtime and the source code isn't present in the executable.

@rk A while back I started toying with implementing the inverse: https://codeberg.org/zevweiss/bashc

I didn't take it terribly far, but getting to the point of being able to bootstrap a shell-to-native-code compiler was fun:

$ cat compiler.sh
./bash --compile /dev/stdout /dev/stdin | gcc -xc - -xnone libbashc.o
$ ./bash compiler.sh < compiler.sh
$ mv a.out shtoelf
$ echo '/bin/echo hello world' | ./shtoelf
$ ./a.out
hello world

And on a related note, recent & ongoing experiences are really bringing into sharp relief the difference between good tests and voluminous tests.

@benjojo I've got my tweaks here, which is based on 1.5.2. The last-tedu-master branch in that repo has the latest from the last fetch I did from Ted's repo, dated 2025-10-17.

@mxshift @nasamuffin @arj

rebase merge -> straightedge,
squash merge -> crushing beer can on forehead?

@rk @brooke wait, is that...not what it is?

@vaurora @brianbilston with a relevant poem: https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston/117211862792354239

@koos I mean, some mics sure...ever held an SM58 in your hand though? There's a reason for it having a reputation as a dual-purpose microphone/hammer.

@venya @GeoffWozniak Neat -- yeah, the one time I tried a Dingwall years ago I was surprised at how natural it felt to play; I was expecting it to need more adaptation on my part but it felt pretty much like playing a normal bass.

@venya @GeoffWozniak My bass still has the strings it came with on it...and this is making me realize that's now 20 years old! (They're nylon tapewounds on a fretless semihollow, so zing isn't really the goal.)

Also, I've been out of the loop on bass gear for so long, I didn't realize Ibanez was making fan-frets now -- my dim recollection was that that was a Dingwall patent, but I guess it's been long enough that maybe that expired...

@mxshift We had a solar panel contractor who (a) was very difficult to schedule an appointment with, and then after finally getting the work done, also (b) I think may never have actually sent us an invoice at all? When I received an email from them not long afterward informing us that they were ceasing operations it was...not hugely surprising, I guess.

@arj I initially read this as that it had physically taken a dive off of a large (possibly moving) transit vehicle...probably similar odds of salvageability either way though. :/