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

who could possibly have seen this coming - oh right...

https://mastodon.social/@carrideen@c18.masto.host/113907291381069419

@gabrielesvelto @bhearsum and AMD wasting no time to capitalize on Nvidia's misfortune, gotta love it https://mastodon.social/@chromamagic.com@bsky.brid.gy/113901158019698233

@rberger but if you don't actually increase your physical activity, what kind of muscle mass will you grow? Can't imagine it would be toned, at all.

@bert_hubert if you actually need that non-blocking behavior you should use SQLite backed by LMDB. Sqlightning or lumosql.

@fastfinge systemd's design philosophy does not represent all of linuxland. Most seasoned linux devs hate systemd and all it brings with it.

@fribbledom nobody learned this lesson already from Lexmark?

@dalias it's not hard to write a milter for postfix or sendmail to PGP encrypt any cleartext incoming email. So it *is* possible to be an email provider with zero access to clients' emails.

How Pinterest reduced memory usage by 4.5% by adopting #LMDB https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-optimizing-memory-management-with-lmdb-boosted-performance-on-our-api-service-f85fa7d1626d

PS: on the topic of "stories you will never see" - you will never see a story about a project improving its efficiency by adopting RocksDB.

@jbond @mos_8502 usenet is still better than this

@squared99 @JessTheUnstill @dalias some of the "we love it so much better here" posts come off as kool-aid drinking cultists. There's a huge percentage of posts that are just "wow mastodon is better than [whatever]" that comes off like insecurity and trying to convince themselves. Most people just want to connect to their friends & colleagues, not get buried in meta-discussion.

@RoboticistDuck @linear @justinto well, that's another problem, yeah.

I don't think tire mfrs are sandbaggimg here. You can build a harder tire that doesn't wear as fast, but you lose road grip/traction as well as ride comfort. And yeah, the tire material has to be softer than the road surface, otherwise you get pavement particles thrown into the air, and have to repave more often. It's all a bunch of tradeoffs, not at all as nefarious or cut and dry as you think.

Of course, some things go obsolete over time. My port of the ARC file archiver back in the 1980s to Unix, IBM mainframe, Atari ST, and Amiga made it the most ubiquitous file compression tool and format in the world, back then. (MacArc also existed but I wasn't involved in that.) Nowadays, while zip and others have superseded it, it's still used by malware scanners everywhere today. Which I guess means it's still used by malware today... https://github.com/hyc/arc

"It's both amazing and appalling how much human effort is wasted writing code that will not run in 3-5 years."

https://mastodon.social/@arclight@oldbytes.space/113773128822298925

I prefer to write programs once, that solve problems forever.

@flexghost is deregulation of airlines really a good thing? Would Boeing 737s be such a shitshow otherwise?

@skinnylatte SX70 wow. Still works? I remember seeing their TV commercials as a kid.

@mhoye @skinnylatte you know you're dealing with a primitive culture when they expect people to use their own knives at the dining table, instead of having all food cut to bite size in the kitchen before serving. No civilized culture would allow weapons at the dining table.

@dalias hmmm, maybe. Well, my USB charger has a display for each output and it was showing zero, so I don't think waiting for a slow charge would've made any difference.

@dalias maybe it has a default fallback? I had to dig up my OEM charger to bring the thing back to life. (Lenovo Legion7). That has its own plug, separate from the USB PD port.

@dalias they do alright. But they won't charge a laptop that shutdown due to a fully drained battery. (He says, after a recent power outage...) The machine needs enough juice to negotiate with the USB-PD charger before the charger will send any power.