Notices by Josh Simmons (dotstdy@mastodon.social), page 2

@whitequark gotta leave some bugs in, as a treat

@becomethewaifu @mcc @whitequark To be slightly pedantic here, that wasn't UB. UB is a very different thing than "different compiler produces different result". The C++ standard doesn't strictly specify the behavior of floating point operations, which is why it's even allowed to emit x87 fpu operations in the first place.

@skinnylatte here in winter you can just leave stuff outside at night if you don't have space in the freezer ???? very weird

@hyc @nikitonsky if people never step outside their comfort level they never find out whether something actually is hard or not, and they have to rely on the equally uninformed heresay that floats around.

@hyc @nikitonsky I would perhaps put this differently, that people often have wildly inaccurate estimations of complexity. In both directions (for different cohorts). So it's silly to suggest you'd just bang out a quick caching system and have it be robust in production, at least without a lot of work. But it's also silly to suggest that X person is incapable of it. If they take the problem seriously they're going to be just as capable as anybody else, more or less.

@whitequark 9V games are the ones you can lick

@whitequark one file per provider is the only true distributed solution. Then you'll only be missing one part of your software if a vendor goes down.

@whitequark @wingo and yeah i never really expected that it was imposed (im certainly not a 'redhat truther'), i just find it super interesting how groups of people ingrain ideas collectively, and also then how difficult it is to dissuade those groups from harmful ideas. (and i mean, all groups have some of these unfortunate stuck ideas too, it's not exclusive to gnome)

@wingo @whitequark right I just found that also, it's linked from the old gnome hig https://wiki.gnome.org/Design(2f)HIG(2f)Planning(2f)Configuration.html the power of One Guy

@whitequark yeah i'm just curious, was it like a stated aspect of apple's design that everyone copied? or did somebody make a decree about it back in the day. I don't really remember when the 'zero configuration' push started. Is it all because everyone hated xorg.conf so much :') anyway it's really funny coming from a games background where you'll get lampooned (rightly!) for not supporting configurable fov, motion blur, configurable bindings, 100 graphics settings, accessibility modes, etc.

@whitequark i'd love to trace where the linux desktop userspace world got the idea that configuration was bad. it's such a weird ingrained thing across many projects.

@bob @whitequark @gsuberland @untitaker yeah, that would make sense, but you can't oversubscribe a static document store. at least not without doing something impressively wrong.

@whitequark @gsuberland @untitaker I have to imagine it's some kind of backoff? E.g. it's quite literally doing nothing. Because from the screenshot this is also a static document???

@whitequark @gsuberland @untitaker WEB SCALE

@whitequark @gsuberland @untitaker now i want do know what they're even doing for one and a half seconds...

@whitequark @0xabad1dea did they fuck up their company name and they meant Thanatos to match with Prometheus? xd

My partner is learning python (zero programming experience) and wanted some introductory resources, are there any good ones out there? to save me the effort of wading through the endless sea of SEO optimised AI garbage...

@skinnylatte suburbia enjoyers D:

@whitequark @0xabad1dea @gsuberland @tthbaltazar another thing which does behave that way in practice is GC and systems built around GC shaped data-structures. e.g. if you trigger an emergency collection on oom or low memory. which, exactly like you say, doesn't work so good when you have multiple instances. (classic 'language server' issue there, manually pressing the force GC button in resharper to salvage memory...)

@whitequark @0xabad1dea @gsuberland @tthbaltazar Honestly I'm not sure it's common that applications speculatively fill up memory as cache. It's true mostly just for things like games which dynamically adjust their texture budget for GPU memory, but even there lots of them just splat out whatever they require and hope vidmm keeps their shit resident when they're in the foreground. cpu side applications seem even less sophisticated in general, but still end up relying on OS paging.