Notices by Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social), page 2

@Jon_Kramer @kgMadee2 @tofugolem The Earth receives about 173000TW of power from the Sun, so every hour is 173000TWh of energy. You have to allocate some of that to atmospheric absorption/weather etc., and leave some aside for mechanical/industrial needs, but you can eventually carve out a number devoted to sustaining plant and animal life. Including all the animals + plants we're familiar with today, the peak figure for humans is in the range of 40 billion.

@Jon_Kramer @kgMadee2 @tofugolem At a basic level, food is chemical energy, and the ultimate source of that energy is sunlight, captured by photosynthesizing plants. The plants are either eaten directly by us or by other animals that we then eat.

As such, given the total amount of energy the Earth receives from the Sun, it's possible to calculate the peak amount of people+animals the Earth can support. I haven't personally done this calculation, but I've seen rough estimates.

@Jon_Kramer @kgMadee2 @tofugolem Aside - the total amount of energy consumed by humanity in the year 2017 was 160000TWh. https://explainingscience.org/2019/03/09/solar-energy/ We have quite a lot of headroom, if we continue to grow our facilities for capturing solar energy.

@msw sorry, but "taking without giving back" is a fundamental difference between Free Software and open source software, and yes, there *is* something wrong with that. Hell, even in that ticket, proper copyright attribution was only an afterthought.

Asymmetric benefits -> parasitic leeches. The term "Open source" was created by cynical for-profit corporations to sabotage Free software.

#BoltDB is a Go rewrite of #LMDB (mostly; it has a lot more limitations). Since 2021 it's had a backdoor that gave remote command access to machines running it.

https://snyk.io/blog/go-malicious-package-alert/

All of this is inconceivable for LMDB, since it has no other dependencies. Also, the thought of an embedded DB engine having access to any networking APIs at all is just mindboggling.

The Go build system, and its automatic pulling of dependencies from github, is ludicrous.

#golang

@jhamby @dalias I've always wondered about the latter too. Go after the guys who are actually destroying the planet and making life untenable.

As for oracles, it's always seemed to me that there is no reliable, unforgeable way to get realworld info into the blockchain. Every data feed can be forged, and LLMs do nothing to fix that.

@VeroniqueB99 watching our self destruction unfold in realtime

@dalias there's such a great sense of security against phishing BS when you run your own servers

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.