Notices by івась тарасик (tivasyk@mastodon.social)

#quote | «What keeps the software alive are the programmers who have an accurate mental model (theory) of how it is built and works».

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building/

@amszmidt thank you, i'll update my definition of the «reply guy» term with this exellent example.

@amszmidt i have a problem understanding this comment, please help me?

1) i know make, i use it; i was not aware though it does paralleling out behind the scenes?!

2) shell is supposedly a more flexible tool; make can do a lot of cool things, but not everything a shell can do; for example, how would you rewrite this exact script mentioned above to do multiple curl requests with make?

3) i have a huge problem with this particular use of «just»:

https://david-alport.squarespace.com/coaching-blog/2023/2/1/just-stop-saying-just

@madeindex no it didn't, and i myself is bad ad alt text. but there, fixed it.

i've decided to give leonardo.ai a try:

«give me a picture of a medieval peasant's front yard with a reed-covered small house half-hidden in blooming lilacs to the right and a blacksmith's smithy hut to the left with doors open and forge and some instuments visible; the weather should by fine, late spring, clear sky; the yard should be surrounded by a birch grove; the whole picture should convey a feeling of space, and should be done in one-bit dithered black on white style»…

the first three results with leonardo's concept art preset (i thought this would be easier than a photorealistic one, i might be completely mistaken here).

the one-bit requirement has been completely ignored; no idea why, but this tells me leonardo either misunderstood that part or can't apply a basic filter once an image has been generated.

@inventaire i was actually surprised that a book can be on two shelves at the same time; it's… unintuitive, and shelves basically _are_ like tags in this case :-/

@jgoerzen @older

@jgoerzen the wikipedia article tells us the librarything is partly owned by amazon; i don't know if that is true.

when i think about possible sellouts, that means anything privately owned can be bought and sold… unlike structures like archive.org (behind openlibrary) or bookwyrm. again, i don't know for real.

i have a bookwyrm profile, but you're right, it's not nearly (or at all) fitting the bill of cataloguing :-(

@jgoerzen never heard of librarything; is it an online service letting you build your own lists? i was hoping for smth local with a base that could be sync'ed between myvown machines, but capable of pulling book info from… places.

anyways, will research it later today. thank you!

update. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibraryThing

@jgoerzen i completely see your point! i've been looking for a similar solution as you, albeit the size of my problem (or library) is much smaller.

still, i don't think i'll go the librarything way :-( for me, centralisation, partial ownership by amazon and no safeguards against eventual sellout are red flags.

as primitive as trying to replicate it with #openlibrary lists looks at the moment, i'll rather try that one.

still, thank you for bringing this up!

@gustav for the price of one #framework i could «rescue» 10 old thinkpads or similarly good used models, or 20 chromebooks, or replace my current laptop's battery 30 times (granted, without any guarantee of those batteries being actually new).

@itsfoss please rename your profile to itsNOTfoss.

@Gargron the difference is: fediverse instances belong (mostly) to communities, whereas f ones belong to a corporation. are you ignoring that fact on purpose?

@mastodonmigration

@Gargron a user has asked you _why_ such a limit exists, but instead of answering the question you…

a) confirm that it does then b) go on to give some details on how exactly it works, then c) state that the limitation has been introduced «very long ago» and d) excuse its existance by refering to other social networks likiting their users…

what about the actual «why» question?

@randahl

@killyourfm free memory is wasted memory. please, read up on how #linux manages memory? hint: if you had 128 gb, you'd also had it almost completely used if your uptime is in days, — that's normal and expected.