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My Tiny True Type engine for LVGL uncovered a long standing but previously hidden bug in LVGL's POSIX filesystem caching subsystem.
Because of that the LVGL devs are banging on my library something fierce to tease the errors out so they can fix it.
And it's making me nervous, even though my code is holding up fine.
I should have included in the license: NOT FOR USE FOR ANY PURPOSE WHICH MAY MAKE THE AUTHOR ANXIOUS 
It's being stress tested, and I'm the one who is stressed.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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This is a similar feeling to a parent moving their barely grown child out of the house.
Nothing much you can do.
Just hope the library doesn’t ask to move back home in 3 months!
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As an aside, I've been hunting for rasterization code to handle complex anti-aliasing for basic vector shapes.
Couldn't find it, but I did find an SVG interpreter in C i ported over to my library. Anti-aliased everything. It's not full SVG, but it's a significant subset.
Not the fastest thing in the world, but good for simple designs, and is a pretty novel way to "skin" a user interface. 
Pretty excited. I *just* got it working.
And all because I couldn't antialias a filled ellipse. ha!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's being stress tested, and I'm the one who is stressed.
I've never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right.
"Are you stress-testing the code, or the coder?" 
I suppose one can lead to the other.
But look at it this way (if I understood it correctly), your library is exposing flaws at lower layers and people are interested in your library to root them out and fix them, as nothing else has ever tried to push things that far. I'd take that as praise.
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What in the name of Sam Smith is that all about? Followed the link but that was guess the country. What's the crack with the ones here?
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Wordle or worldle ?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Worldle is an annoying game of "name the country from it's silhouette" - annoying because it sometimes uses countries with a population smaller than some families that you have never heard of, let alone seen on a map.
Wordle is the original "guess the word" game which is similar to the board game Mastermind: you get told if each letter you guessed is in the right place, the wrong place, or not in the solution - but every try must be a valid word in the word list. It's pretty good (and made the creator a millionaire when he sold it to the New York Times) and a nice way to wake your brain up in the morning!
Give it a try - you'll need to think which is always a good thing! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The University Library reports that they are having an increasing number of requests for books that they are not able to find in any book catalog.
Upon closer investigation, it is revealed that the students making these requests got them from ChatGPT when asking for good information sources on some subject. ChatGPT made up references to books written by well known and highly respected authors, looking so credible that even skilled librarians were fooled to think that the authors and books actually existed. For one non-existing poet, ChatGPT even presented one of the poems from a book identified by author, book title, year and place of punblishing.
The newspaper story telling about this is in Norwegian, and anyway, I don't think the website is available outside Norway.
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Someone or something is feeding corrupted information into ChatGPT at its data collection phase.
Time to investigate ChatGPT source.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I was searching for this paper:
"Finding the Area of a Curved Straight Line, using the Pythagoras Theorem", by Albert Newton Washington.
Please let me know if you find it.
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yeah right
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Zero luck
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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As per ChatGTP, it is still on order and should arrive soon. You will find it under Archimedes Edison. 
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If you can find any links to this it would be helpful
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I can't read it, but the URL is accesible for me.
Maybe I can ask ChatGPT to traduce it for me? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you use Chrome as your browser, it will translate it for you (does a pretty good job, in my experience)
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Thank you! Turns out all I had to do was ask ChatGPT to create an article with citations and it happily generated citations that don't exist, or exist but the titles and journals are mixed up.
It's interesting that we've gone from not expecting much from AI to it being news that it got something wrong. The balance in expectations has flipped so dramatically.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I really like 'punblishing'!
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I wish that I could say it was intended. I wasn't
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the AI adventure may be fun, but it's going to end ugly
those that put class in JavaScript are the same that put var in C# - I against I
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Wordle 619 3/6
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 619 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 619 4/6
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Tough one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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