Notices by Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)

@stefano I've always been disgusted with the proliferation of docker and containerization. Just insane.

At this point, application vendors should be shipping monolithic apps with statically linked libraries. No need for any further isolation from system dependencies.

@babe gawd. You just triggered flashbacks...

https://lists.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-April/msg00240.html

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-January/msg00029.html

Think of the stupidest possible approach to anything, and that's the one they pick. That was also what introduced me to the bloat of glib and dbus. <shudder>

@nikitonsky maybe. The majority of code I've seen shows that not everybody is capable of writing a properly functioning cache, and most programmers shouldn't bother with it.

@dotstdy @nikitonsky this is the essence of all of those "how it started / how it's going" memes.

But sure, wth. When you're learning, "how hard could it be" is a perfectly good question.

@Gargron y'all need UI people who've actually studied human computer interaction (HCI) https://mastodon.social/@hyc/115249324193139117

@aral oh well. Just wondering. It seems to me it would be better to have a single local group organizing donations for all those in need, instead of all these individual gofundme campaigns.

@aral just out of curiosity, are you familiar with this team? https://gazayoufirst.org/ they seem to have vanished since last year. Are they still around at all?

Database History, episode 73: #LMDB

https://youtu.be/CfiQ0h4bGWM

Episode 73? Seems like there's a lot to catch up on...

More on AI's destruction of knowledge https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115387473218466349

More people are having the same realization: the use of AI is destroying our ability to retrieve actual information. https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky/115332726924394162

@skinnylatte you thinking along these lines? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4BzonlVlw

@skinnylatte 2nd, we write to the audiences we're familiar with, and every field has its own jargon. It would cost too much time to spell out every term of the art for any non-practitioner's benefit. We don't want to build the universe just to describe how we solved the latest puzzle we were working on. If you're interested in the puzzle, you have to meet us where we live. If you won't do that then you probably won't understand the solution anyway.

@skinnylatte 1st, while it may kinda suck, you should be grateful anyone bothered to write anything down at all. Searching on a question and finding no answers would be worse. At least with even an incomprehensible answer, you have a chance to search further for details on the specific parts you don't understand. All this of course assumes the writeup is correct, of which there's no guarantees.

500 writes/sec for high frequency trading data. Pretty trivial for #LMDB, why would you spend $400/month on cloud storage? https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading/comments/1ngbfe5/comment/ne31q4b/

For a onetime spend of $400 you could buy several TB of local storage and run it with several orders of magnitude faster latency than any cloud provider.

@catsalad don't try to threaten me with a good time

@blogdiva I still remember the promise of the Open Handset Alliance when Android was first released to the world. Now it's just another pile of proprietary blobs and locked bootloaders. Damned annoying.

who could possibly have seen this coming...
https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/115162888476951985

@bagder conclusion: HTTP is not a well designed protocol.

@bagder It was designed to be stateless and handle one-shot requests, but was mated to HTML, which may require multiple requests to retrieve the complete contents of a page. That right there was a step 1 design fail.

It lacks message IDs, which are common best practice and are used by every protocol underneath it, for many good reasons. That glaring lack, and the lack of well defined message lengths, has hindered all subsequent progress. Another step 1 design fail.

@dalias 3000K LEDs are also monochromatic, and make excellent fog lights