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Paxxi

@Paxxi@hachyderm.io

Dogs, IT, gardening, home improvements, chickens. Swede. he/him

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brtkdotse, to random
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$120k car and they didn’t even fasten the bolt properly

https://x.com/garageklub/status/1788383093365375189

Paxxi,
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@brtkdotse is it just me or does it look like they've stuck some paper and some ill fitting rubber there?

Paxxi, to HomeImprovement
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Things went a lot better with proper tools 😀 wall is pushed back in place and fairly straight. Next up patching all the cracks and holes with some concrete.

Showing the result of straighten the wall, roughly a cm gap from being perfectly straight
Outside part of the wall dug out showing some rocks sticking out from the wall and some large craxls

hailey, to random
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this is so funny man

> “UniSuper had duplication in two geographies as a protection against outages and loss,” according to the statement.

> “However, when the deletion of UniSuper’s private cloud subscription occurred, it caused deletion across both of these geographies.”

who would win: multi region HA deployment or one little billing fucky wucky and an ON DELETE CASCADE

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/unisupers-google-cloud-environment-was-deleted-607786

Paxxi,
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@hailey you're not really a senior SRE until you've accidentally wiped an entire datacenter 😂

brennansv, to random
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Biden finally admits that bombs supplied by the US have been used by Israel to kill civilians. Tanks have already been shelling civilians who are in tents with no way to defend themselves.

“Biden says US will withhold weapons from Israel if it invades Rafah” https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-says-bombs-us-has-paused-sending-israel-have-killed-civilians-2024-05-08/

Paxxi,
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@brennansv
"if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafa"

I'm expecting Netanyahu to claim it's a minor invasion in every available outlet going forward

thephd, to random
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👀 String buffer type in C...?

https://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3250.pdf (It's a long paper. You can skip the rationale bits if your brain has been turned on for the last 2 decades and you don't need your hand held through why this is a Good Idea In General, but reading it is still enlightening!)

This paper is not how I would do it, but that's because I want 2 things:

  • some of what is contained in this paper, for exactly what is described in this paper
  • some of what is contained in this paper, but with no alloc/ownership (manipulation of substrings, etc.)

Before I want to even tackle this question, though, I need to have a language-based span in C (Walter Bright's char meow[..]; stuff) so we can just work with memory slices like normal people and not like insane jerks. So I probably will be neutral/abstain when voting on this, even if I kind of like it. I think it's API would be far stronger if we had slices in the language first. Of course, I don't want to be all "you can't make improvements until I make MY improvements, first!!" on the proposal...!

Paxxi,
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@thephd isn't slice/span a huge footgun without GC or some ownership semantics

Paxxi, (edited )
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@thephd that's true, I didn't think it through before commenting.

Was thinking about the rvalue issues in C++ but those aren't really a thing in C afaik so in this narrow area C would be less footgunny than C++ I guess?

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Again, "Trump is worse!" Then blocked🤷🏿‍♂️

https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/112402055418029413

Gotta respect the doubling down! Replying to me posting some dude saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me, with saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me too! The commitment to the bit is impressive!

Listen, you can get as mad as you want. You can call Black folk criticizing Biden "Bitching" if you want. We're still going to do it.

The CDC under Biden dropped the Covid isolation period from "5 days" to "vibes days." Not Trump.

Paxxi,
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@andytiedye @cam @mekkaokereke I believe there are a couple of stories of reformed trump voters so yes, statistically insignificant numbers 😀

I hate how it's all about the mythical swing voter and never about the disenfranchised, apathy etc. Democrats basically run so they can blame POC for when the lose instead of actually trying to win

Paxxi,
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@MisuseCase @andytiedye @cam @mekkaokereke I don't have any data to back it up put that feels like optimizing for what's easy to measure, not necessarily for what's the best use of resources

GossiTheDog, to random
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There’s an act in Eurovision called Windows 95 Man. He’s naked and emerges from an egg with a Windows 95 T-shirt and no pants 🤣🤣🤣

Paxxi,
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@GossiTheDog I think they actually blurred the logo on the t-shirt at the end of the song 😀

baldur, to random
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This is one of the reasons why I’ve been steadily moving away from TypeScript. Something like this—where an ergonomic feature fails because TypeScript has wrong types—happens ALL THE TIME. The more you work with the DOM the more often it happens. This is obviously frustrating and adds friction

But it also calls its very purpose into question. If TS is getting so many things wrong why should I trust its assurances about correctness or the presence or absence of defects?
https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/112391513559650253

Paxxi,
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@baldur @rauschma it's less of an issue now with evergreen browsers but it's nice to get immediate feedback that you're trying to use something that's not available in your chosen target environment

Paxxi, to random
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My iPhone case broke yesterday, using the phone without a case for the first time. It really is terribly designed, it's so slippery I can't rest it on anything. Can barely rest it in my palm without it sliding off

poppastring, to startups
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Kubik is the first Ethiopian startup to attract over $5M for climate solutions. They turn hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-cost, low-carbon, interlocking building material by removing environmental waste and creating ultra-durable, safe, affordable buildings.

#startups #tech #environment

https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/kubik-marks-a-milestone-as-the-first-ethiopian-startup-to-attract-5-2m-for-climate-solutions

Paxxi,
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@poppastring love to see it.

I wonder how they solved fire safety, plastics tend to be discouraged because of that afaik

jenniferplusplus, to random
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Jack Dorsey quitting the bsky board in a huff is probably the thing that would most entice me to use it. So I logged in for 2 minutes, and now I'm back to just having no interest in the whole thing

Paxxi,
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@jenniferplusplus Jay doesn't seem to be any better in my experience, the same libertarian delusions

shac, to random
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Assertion: it is more difficult to review and fix LLM-generated code than it is to write the code correctly yourself. Using AI to generate code is transferring the intelligence of coding from writing to reviewing.

Paxxi,
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@shac basically you can't use AI for anything you can't write yourself. Goes for code and text

Paxxi, to random
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Horticulture is basically just applied chemistry and pagan rituals

Paxxi, to random
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Trying to straighten a cracked wall, it worked but wasn't very efficient. Renting some tools and giving it another try next weekend 😀

Paxxi, to random
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Cleaning out the manure plate in the barn I found this surprise hole in the floor, apparently it's for collecting urine, or murder, probably murder.

Paxxi, to gardening
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I never would've guessed that I would have strong opinions on spades but here we are 😆
If you do any sort of digging/gardening you owe it to yourself and your back to get one of these https://www.fiskars.com/en-gb/gardening/products/shovels-spades/ergonomic-pointed-spade-grey-1066708

Paxxi,
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@PostcardsFromParadise oohh I didn't know about these! Now I need one 😀

Paxxi,
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@sbi yeah that's fair, but any adjustment point is going to break so I don't really like it

recursive, (edited ) to random
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I was thinking of making a list of types of software that most people think is "too difficult" and they leave to "the experts", e.g.:

  • geometric modeling kernel
  • integrated circuit floorplanning
  • cryptography
  • compiler backends
  • database query planners
  • electromagnetic simulation (antennas, transmission lines, microstrip design, etc)
    ...

Oh, it's all applied math.

(As an aside, I just want to note that there's some really difficult work to be done in accessibility and UX too.)
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Paxxi,
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@recursive I think it's pure logic combined with societal factors.
For every compiler backend engineer there's 10-100 000 crud developers. Combine that with bad math teaching and how math is treated in general and you basically end up steering people away from math heavy topics.

I don't have a CS degree and math is by far my weakest area

uss_oatmeal, to random
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@thephd Please tell me you got rid of in C23, yeah? Please, like for real, maybe?

Sigh, I'm trying to extract one function (and support) from the musl library and convert it into C#. I've been feeling fairly confident about it, though concerned about the volume of code and wondering if my original approach might be "good enough".

Still in an explorer mode, I found what looked like functions turn out to be a macro. NBD. Then a macro to a macro. Then 3 layers deep.

I'm crying.

Paxxi,
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@uss_oatmeal @thephd the trick is to google the compiler flag to save the preprocessed file during build and then use that 😀

Paxxi,
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@uss_oatmeal @thephd you need to use wsl or msys2 I guess. Makefiles are fairly thin wrappers around shell/binaries and tend to be very much unportable 😀

If you're thinking about nmake it won't work unless musl provides an nmake specific makefile. Some projects call them vc6 for some reason

xoofx, to dotnet
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I just want to get argv[0], please!

Created an issue https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/101837

Surprisingly, it is currently the wild west for something so basic, hope we can fix it for .NET 9.0, I'm happy to try to fix it and make a PR.

Paxxi,
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@xoofx shouldn't argv[0] always be the executable?
Is it mainly things invoked through dotnet.exe that break this pattern?

Paxxi,
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@xoofx ahh, I didn't quite get that from reading the issue, thanks! 😀

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