Notices by Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social), page 4

@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

@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!

;)

@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