Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe), page 2

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ngate/115436748596975224

This is not a bad tutorial. It's written by someone who is not very familiar with the language, so the author misses some obvious simplifications, but overall not bad. Apparently they're also using my GNU APL mode for Emacs, which was fun to see.

Obviously I'm usually promoting my own APL dialect, but knowledge of standard APL helps when working with other dialects.

@forteller Kolla adressen på google maps, och detta är vad man ser.

@mcc Isn't that true for most (if not all) such API's? JDBC is certainly like that, and I'm pretty sure OCBC is too.

@wolf480pl @quad @simon_m when I was reading some of the threads, I saw him playing a lot about how stable his filesystem is, and on the other hand he's also talking about how he helps his users to recover from filesystem corruption. Those two things should not happen at the same time.

@simon_m @wolf480pl @quad it never dropped the experimental label so no one was supposed to be using it for production anyway.

@cwebber didn't the 1401 use variable word length? So even more amazing than just a 7 bit architecture.

OK, so I just spent quite some time writing functions that allows me to export a number as a byte array from GMP, and then a different function to do that same with Java bigints, so that the output formats are compatible.

I now need to do the same for Javascript.

I'm doing this because I want to implement a binary serialisation format for Kap.

And why did I start to implement a binary serialisation format? Well, I needed it because I wanted to be able to export and import Kap objects to Valkey.

Once I have all of that, then maybe I can build something on top of Valkey. Some kind of persistence system perhaps.

Is this the definition of yak shaving?

@clacke @mansr @notclacke I'm pretty sure they had cheese slicers at IKEA Singapore. Now I need to check if they still have them.

@notclacke @mansr How's cheese slicer access in HK? Although I suppose you have all you need from Ikea 🙂

@lanodan Even after Unicode was a thing, some channels would ban you for sending UTF-8 content. 🙂

The promise of no-code solutions has been around for a while.

I have to admit that playing around with this thing was more fun than it had any right to be.

I can't help to think that we've lost something over the years. Creating programs on your computer used to be easy.

And this is the next page.

I've been listening to some Pantera today.

Seriously, if there is an album that just 'sounds' 90's, it must be their album Far Beyond Driven.

Really great stuff. I recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRxg8yVhbQY&list=PLZ9DoO2uX9wVUg8NATcFbjyt94I9J8jle

@quad @wolf480pl it's a lie though. My ntp-obsessed friend would argue that that is unacceptably inaccurate.

@wolf480pl @quad yeah, I agree with you. I was making joke about ntp-obsessed people. If you've nevermet them, they're the ones setting up multiple gps receivers to run stratum 0 servers, and searching ebay for good deals on an atomic clock.

@wolf480pl @quad we should thank them. The internet would probably not work without them. 😀

How is Github doing CVSS scoring? I was looking at CVE-2022-41966 and it has a CVSS vector that indicates Integrity: Low.

The vulnerability allows an attacker who can feed malicious data to an XML deserialiser to crash the parser with a StackOverflowError. The fix changes this to a different type of exception. How can that in any way be marked as having an integrity impact at all?

I note that the NIST assessment has the much more appropriate assessment here where there is no impact of integrity.

#infosec #cve

@amszmidt @ksaj @glitzersachen Commandline option style in dd? 🙂

@glitzersachen @amszmidt it's kida sorta true, which makes for a prefect argument on the internet.

I'd say that the Unix philosophy is what you get when you try to apply the Lisp philosophy but your hardware isn't good enough.