Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)

@phasslr @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Is text rendering too slow though? I don't notice any difference between Konsole and Wezterm, which uses OpenGL, and I use neovim with tons of bells and whistles.

Maybe running a terminal benchmark would give us some data to discuss. I did it some time ago, but I can't find the results right now (I'm on a plane).

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

You could also sponsor Filelight, a utility that allows you to visually monitor usage of the storage on your computer:

https://apps.kde.org/filelight/

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

TIL that, unlike C pointers, a Rust pointer is not just a memory address:

https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3559-rust-has-provenance.html

TL;DR: Rust pointers also carry a "provenance", used by static analysis to determine which operations are safe.

This RFC does not say weather provenance metadata can also be tracked and checked at run-time in cases where static analysis would be too restrictive.

#rust #programming

@vic @brett Starship uses liquid methane and liquid oxygen: CH4 + O2 => H2O + CO2. That is water and carbon dioxide, as in most kitchens.

Water can only go up to 100°C before vaporizing into a white cloud.

Starship is as environmentally friendly as a rocket could be. If successful, full reusability will eliminate the worst environmental impact of lifting mass to orbit: burning entire rocket stages as they re-enter into atmosphere 😱

Go Starship! 🚀

Got my Mac SE/30 SCSI chain fully populated with more things! And no termination issues! 😎

Top down, beige Epson Zip 100, Iomega Jaz 1GB, Logitech ScanMan, Apple CD 300i, SyQuest 88MB. Not pictured: internal BlueSCSI v1.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

Booster 13 and Ship 31, fully stacked and ready to fly tomorrow 🚀

Yes, you can actually walk this close to flight hardware from Boca Chica Beach.

#SpaceX #Starship

DCA 🛫🛬 MSP 🛫🛬 HRL

🏛️ DCA 🛫🛬 MSP 🛫🛬 HRL 🚀

We may not be the biggest by numbers yet, but Mastodon (and the fediverse) has proven itself to be an effective and reliable communications platform over the course of the last 8 years, and does not depend on venture capital to survive. The #fediverse is the future.

This is the Space Shuttle Discovery, which flew 39 missions from 1984 till 2011. #space #spaceshuttle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery

I'm at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, mainly to admire one of the retired Space Shuttle orbiters. #space #nasa #spaceshuttle

@0xC0FFEE The only other NA party I know about is #atparty (@ party), held in Boston. It's smallish, but a really nice crowd and a nice venue too.

@globalc The US government cannot hold copyright, therefore everything NASA designs eventually becomes public domain.

Though this principle does not apply to technology commissioned from the private sector, even when it's 100% paid with public money :-(

Massachusetts' statue celebrates Boston's flagship brewery 😉

Some visitors in our group came wearing MAGA hats 😓

We're visiting the US Capitol today 🇺🇸

The other two albums I bought for my portable CD player were Vangelis' Blade Runner and Bruce Springsteen's The River.

If you live near Pittsburgh PA, don't miss #Demosplash this weekend, one of the largest #demoscene parties in North America!

https://www.demosplash.org/schedule

Nailing a moon landing on the first attempt required months of training and rehearsals from everyone involved.

The "malfunction insertion" keypad allowed testing various scenarios which required quick reactions from the crew and the flight controllers. #space

While visiting the Smithsonian Space Museum in DC, I spotted something I had never seen before: the console of the mythical Apollo Mission Simulator.

It's the first "multiplayer game", running on mainframes, flight computers and other ground equipment networked across multiple buildings.

#space