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Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:48 pm
by Travis B.
I have a working memory allocator I have written by myself so that my Forth implementation no longer has to use malloc() for user-level allocation (it still uses malloc() for initially allocating the Forth memory space, even though I could easily change that to use mmap())!

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:25 am
by Travis B.
I now have a working map and a working intmap (a map from integers to values, which is faster than a normal map because it does not require evaluating hash functions) for my Forth.

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:31 am
by mèþru
I'm graduating from school today.
My therapist gave me as a graduation present the latest edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.
It's one of the best gifts I ever got I'm so happy

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2019 1:13 pm
by Vijay
Congratulations, and I'm glad you're so happy! :)

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:04 am
by Travis B.
I now have backtraces in my Forth implementation, and with them I have fixed a troublesome bug that was affecting concurrent IO. Next thing up: adding interrupts to the Forth implementation.

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 11:25 am
by Travis B.
Now my Forth implementation supports trapping segfaults, divide by zero, illegal instructions, and bus error, and cleanly displays a backtrace and continues execution without crashing (in most cases at least).

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:29 am
by Raphael
This week, I discovered the joys of mixing a little bit of pure lemon juice and a lot of mineral water. For some reason, I had never gotten that idea in my life before. This is good.

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:28 pm
by MacAnDàil
I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:43 pm
by alynnidalar
Very nice!

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:33 pm
by Whimemsz
MacAnDàil wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:28 pm I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.
Congrats!

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 8:23 am
by Raphael
Congratulations!

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:45 am
by MacAnDàil
Thanks guys!

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:51 am
by Vijay
Is there a word of Malagasy origin in Réunion Créole for expressing praise? :P

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:56 am
by MacAnDàil
Vijay wrote: Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:51 am Is there a word of Malagasy origin in Réunion Créole for expressing praise? :P
No, it would be interesting and appropriate of course but, as I mention in the thesis, the malagasy loans amount to roughly 2% of the overall vocabulary so most things don't have words of malagasy origin for them. I did consider saying Mèrsi! Misaotra ! Marahaba ! which would have been comprehensible largely due to the context.

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:01 pm
by Raholeun
MacAnDàil wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:28 pm I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.
Care to share?

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:48 pm
by mèþru
Congratulations!

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 7:22 pm
by MacAnDàil
Raholeun wrote: Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:01 pm
MacAnDàil wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:28 pm I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.
Care to share?
Most certainly! However, I still have a final draft to submit so I will share in about 3 or 4 weeks.

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:00 am
by Linguoboy
I was shopping at my local liquor store for something to take to a party later and found a bottle of rosolio. I'd read about this years ago but had never seen it for sale in the USA before. I'm looking forward to trying it this weekend.

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:37 pm
by Raholeun
I am really quite happy to have put the first paper on Sataw online, Feels good, even though I am tripping over spelling and syntax errors re-reading it.

Re: Happy things thread!

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:47 pm
by dhok
I passed my German exam and admission to the Master's in comparative IE and historical linguistics at Vienna is now a shoe-in.