@tedu Glad to see some performance optimization work happening...for far too long have I suffered, my thought leadership bottlenecked by the 15 honks-per-minute throughput limit.
@mattblaze @Disputatore Oh wow, this reminded me of something I hadn't thought of in quite a while...
In college a friend's chemistry lab group had a report due, and after each doing their respective parts, one of them was tasked with the final document preparation and hand-in. The other two found out some time later (after getting some concerned questions from the professor), that hand-in guy had apparently been quite high while doing so (on exactly what I don't know, possibly LSD?). At the time I saved copies of the actual files from my friend and managed to dig them up, and it's really quite something. (Some choice excerpts pictured here.)
So yeah, don't give LSD guy final edit...but sometimes LSD guy can take you by surprise.
@rk And here I was imagining it as the daemon that keeps you from using your Mac to commit financial crimes. (Or maybe just fixes the odd DRAM bit flip.)
@cliffle Ever since The Sticker Incident a few years ago, whenever I see AMI's name written out in full I keep hoping it'll be like this.
@encthenet I think the idea with implementation-defined behavior is that you look at the implementation's documentation and it tells you what it does. GCC's, for example.
@AMS @w8emv I think we might need a fsck too; not sure if we've got any good backups available if that doesn't go well though.
@tedu I hope someone's saving all the numbers so we can have a great line graph on wikipedia someday.
@th I was recently able to identify the (oddly familiar) manufacturer of a power supply on the Milennium Falcon: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/1GlWKw22Bqb1XfpGVj
@rk I will die on the hill that "lib" (as in libc) should rhyme with "tribe", because it's obviously short for "library", while also still pronouncing /bin as rhyming with "tin". Self-consistency is obviously very important.
Also, while I felt sort of silly photographing a car (and not even a terribly rare one here) while walking through a historic neighborhood of Kanazawa, when we walked back the same way an hour later I was amused to see someone else taking a picture of the very same one (though I'm not sure what his reasons for doing so were -- I'm guessing probably not the same as mine).
Data links are of course very important, but the creators of this vehicle felt so strongly about it that they named the whole car in honor of one.
We really went in the wrong direction trying to rename French Fries as Freedom Fries; Japan did a much better job on the properly red-blooded, USA-friendly nomenclature.
@paulmckrcu @rw Oh neat, is someone producing prints of that now?
Also, looks like the Internet Archive has a couple others like it ("Unix Feuds", "Unix Views") that I don't think I've ever seen before: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%22 -- though I'll confess I'm not sure I entirely "get" the Views one...might someone with more historical knowledge than I be able to shed some light?
@rk "...and that's how I taught my dog to do binary search!"
"I think all the things I cooked individually taste good, but I don't know if putting them together was the right move."
- my wife, introducing dinner
@pancake @david_chisnall Funny, I've always felt that distinguishing the two was a good reason to do the opposite. (And of course, some styles also homogenize the two by instead omitting the space for control-flow keywords, which I also dislike.)
@jk Give someone a fish, feed them for a day; teach someone to fish, feed them for a lifetime; teach someone to think like a computer, crush them under an infinitely-growing mountain of fish.
Delicate Steve at Tractor Tavern this evening -- remarkably non-deafening, and with a great deal more dynamic range than a typical club show. Sort of missed the bass player that was part of the band last time I saw him/them (I think, it's been a while), but still a cool, very enjoyable time.
@rk @mothcompute It happens: https://theonion.com/death-of-chopped-up-woman-ruled-a-suicide/
@cliffle @ede1998 Soo (compiler-appeasing contortions increasing to comedic levels)...
{
let _unused = colors;
}
?
New frontiers in literature courtesy of this evening's game of Monikers:
"For sale: two babies, no shoes."
@rk Thanks, though I then regret to inform you that it was two houses ago and now quite a few states away...
@rk Well, he figured out how to scramble over that gate shortly after that photo was taken as I recall, so the joke was ultimately on us.
@rk We once were so cruel as to eat dinner on the opposite side of the baby gate from ours. Five years later I'm still racked with guilt.
@mxshift what vehicle is getting brain surgery?
Sometimes I come across a linked in profile like this and then I know I'm probably going to get along with them just fine
@petersanchez IBM had this figured out for eSATA ages ago!
Cocktail menu at dinner this evening was color coded, five drinks labeled White, Black, Blue, Green, and Red. Green sounded good so I ordered one, and when it arrived I discovered the true nature of the color scheme: a Magic the Gathering card provided with each one! So naturally I had to get another.
Okay, having now dealt with TOML to a degree only incrementally beyond writing foocrate = "1.2"
in a Cargo.toml file, I'm thinking the "O" in its name must be a humorous homage to the "S" in SNMP.
From its own damn spec:
3.14159 = "pi"
The above TOML maps to the following JSON.
{ "3": { "14159": "pi" } }
Of course. Obviously.
JSON, for all its boneheadedness, at least manages to be structurally pretty self-explanatory (if still syntactically awkward and semantically murky).
The failure of the industry to coalesce around a halfway-decent language for these sorts of ad-hoc, semi-structured data formats (and the myriad crummy ones all three-legged-racing each other for adoption) is...remarkable.
Thank you, Docker, for turning the edit/test/debug cycle of an 8-line shell script that runs in ~1 second into a 5m30s process. Constant, ubiquitous technological progress!
@cliffle @dpiponi Or the O(log N) operations are just really slow...like, stores are chiseling Roman numerals into stone, and loads involve OCR on an 8051 with a clock signal driven by a drugged sloth with a push-button.
Household dog population has tripled alarmingly rapidly.
Izzy (rightmost) is the enforcer ensuring Bowie and Rocko don't have too much fun, intervening vocally whenever they start to try.