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

@whitequark ah. It's offsetting globals by the size of the thread locals? Doh...

@whitequark 112 sounds like a magic number, 128 - 16. Some struct or array offset perhaps.

@c8h4 @lanodan @dalias ah yes the SCO battle. I used to read groklaw.net religiously every day.

Sad how so many people fail to learn from history.

@skinnylatte i can't believe how many ways people can fuss over eggs. Fried, basted, poached, over easy, soft boiled, hard boiled, sunny side up, the list goes on and on. I couldn't care less, as long as it's cooked and there's anything resembling hot sauce handy.

@hellomiakoda @moof @redsad even a fertile intersex person can only be either a mother or a father. They cannot be both. Every living mammal had a parent whose role was "mother". Thus the term "motherfucker" is all inclusive.

@moof @hellomiakoda @redsad every mammal on earth had one mother and one father, so that's really a rule, not an assumption.

Text-conditioned image generation using diffusion models

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-025-20990-0

"#LMDB is chosen for its high efficiency in data retrieval from large datasets, ensuring an effective storage and access mechanism."

@ashleyyrain I can't believe you have the gall to post "good morning" on a Monday! Everyone hates Monday mornings!

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@mattblaze @grimalkina @wendynather seems like math skills *did* atrophy.

I see people pulling out calculator apps all the time just to add two small numbers.

@mattblaze @grimalkina @wendynather arithmetic then. It is as much "math" as anything else pocket calculators were used for.

@mattblaze @grimalkina @wendynather if you can't do the easy stuff right, in your head, how can you have confidence that you've done the hard stuff right?

Machines sometimes get things wrong, like the infamous Pentium FDIV bug...

How to build a vector database on #LMDB https://sarabesh.medium.com/how-i-built-a-vector-db-with-hnsw-from-scratch-a311b6eac082

Seamonkey is correct again

@feld it's linked in the above PR https://github.com/twilson63/erlang-lmdb

Looks like Arweave is adopting #LMDB now? https://github.com/permaweb/HyperBEAM/pull/309/commits/dde0a79d52643fe043b40adfa81e0c7290a446a3

It's amusing to me to see them adopting this code now, since they were the first project to adopt #RandomX. Early to adopt my recent work, late to adopt my early work. Also interesting to see that they use #Erlang - I first tried to develop an erlang wrapper for LMDB years ago to use in #riak, but all of that was abandoned.

@bagder oh, that explains this email I got today

@HXLNT I've been looking into this sort of thing as well. Running wireguard to a small VPS, which gives me ipv6 access and a static ipv4 address. Still cheaper than buying the necessary RAM and disk from a hosting provider.

"What happened – Switching from #RocksDB to #LMDB and tweaking pool allocation cut RSS by 52% in Pinterest’s GraphQL edge layer.

Why it matters – A reminder that “just buy more RAM” is not a strategy when you’re at a Pinterest scale"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-record-ddos-managing-450m-images-calling-uber-bart%C5%82omiej-%C5%BCyli%C5%84ski-lrncf

RocksDB is a resource hog...

@sundogplanets @steter yep, you can't beat the speed of light. Lower orbits give lower latency, higher orbits give higher latency. People demanding shorter delays will keep paying for those lower orbits.

Using balloon-lofted relays seemed like a pretty good idea, but you can't rely on them in warzones. And they probably can't stay aloft for decades at a time either. There's really not a lot of great alternatives, if you want wide coverage and low latency.

@feld ugh. Shades of Brian Kernighan "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"