Notices by lambdageek@mastodon.social

Me, a programmer with many years of experience: *does some things*

Also me: literally googles "how to write elseif in <lang>" every time I have to switch contexts.

The LLM is very happy to auto-complete total nonsense btw

@joe @helge @mcc I never looked into Smalltalk deeply enough, but didn't we kind of get that, and that's how we ended up with JavaScript? Or is there more to it than just prototype-based inheritance and a message-passing metaphor to OO?

@mcc now do CLOS

whoa! I run a mix of debian testing/unstable on my main home machine and the "t64" packages have started showing up in unstable.

I was like... "what's t64".

And it's time. time is changing.

https://lwn.net/Articles/938149/

#debian #time_t #timet #2038

Anyone cook asian brassicas in western recipes or using western techniques? things like bok choy or gai lan. Curious if there are any unexpected wins

#cooking #fusionCuisine #cuisine #brassica #bokchoy #choiysum #gailan

@lanodan @niconiconi @not2b

From the abstract:
> When run on a wide variety of benchmarks, including the POSIX shell test suite, PaSh-JIT (1) does not break scripts, even in cases that are likely to break shells in widespread use; and (2) offers significant speedups, whenever parallelization is possible. These results show that PaSh-JIT can be used as a drop-in replacement for any non-interactive shell use, providing significant speedups without any risk of breakage.

So... no?

@niconiconi @lanodan @not2b This thread seems to suggest that pash isn't quite there yet https://www.spinics.net/lists/ac/msg14049.html 😞

@niconiconi @lanodan @not2b
> shell scripts are inherently sequential

Funny you should say that...

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi22/presentation/kallas

This research group wrote a JIT(!) for bash(!!) that also automatically parallelizes the code (!!!)

New way to steam a ham just dropped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgvzDzXtVYE

#steamedHams #ytp #shitPost #youtube

@mcc by the way, AFAICT webgpu on Linux is still science fiction. So if that's a thing you need, Linux is gonna be disappointing

@mcc "ThinkBook" is some Lenovo invention.

The history of ThinkPads is that they tend to be boring business machines with boring business features like the ability to open them up and upgrade the ram or replace the SSD (they also used to have easy to replace batteries but I think they're all glued on now - at least in the lighter-weight models).

ThinkPad is what you want

@mcc Dunno if the deals are good or bad, but we have a ThinkPad T14 (no idea what generation) in the house and it's pretty good for Linux. (personally I like T14s better - the T14 feels bulky. But there's a price premium).
I seem to recall I had to mess with Debian images with additional non-free firmware to get it going (for the wifi, I believe), though

I'm not sure if ThinkBooks are good - I stay away from anything Lenovo innovated after they bought the line from IBM.

@mcc After MS-DOS they made DR-DOS. I'm looking forward to one day trying EMERITUS-DOS