jhwgh1968, 1 day ago

@kiwa I thought that was called "your Masto feed" 😛

jhwgh1968, 1 day ago

@gsuberland you mean "int_eeby" and "float_deeby"

Bc even in typed langs, it's important you can read a variable's type from its name right? 🙃

jhwgh1968, 1 day ago

@jacqueline and if you are truly evil, you can do

define NULL -1

And then use NULL from then on

(Unfortunately, this is not a fake post, I saw this once)

jhwgh1968, 2 days ago

@jacqueline for a second I thought @whitequark tooted this tbh

jhwgh1968, 2 days ago

@gsuberland did they think it would interfere too much with the subject of the conference?

... Poor attempt at humor aside, better luck next time

jhwgh1968, 2 days ago

@gsuberland yeah, emissions testing is one of those things I suspect is kinda like beer brewing (at least here in the US)

If you avoid really nasty things, you can get away with a lot as long as you're an amateur. They don't sick all the regs on small makers

... but when you start making and/or selling too many, those amateurs have an "oh shit" moment and have to figure out what to do

I like the idea of preventing such moments with your talk. But Unknown Unknowns aren't always ready to absorb

jhwgh1968, 3 days ago

@whitequark okay the most obscure joke I know:

Two chemists walk into the bar

The first says, "I'll have a glass of H2O"

The second says, "I'll have a glass of the same"

The first could barely contain his rage, as his assassination attempt had failed

jhwgh1968, 3 days ago

@jaseg I'll simply say, as a fellow Arch user

Holy fuck that sucks 💔

EDIT: whew, you have a backup

jhwgh1968, 4 days ago

@whitequark I had this problem with the gif pinned on my profile

My solution was to duplicate frames to build a time increment it could measure properly, I think something like 100 ms

jhwgh1968, 4 days ago

@whitequark strikes me more as "the BIOS do be like that" than "wild"

Or is there a subtlety I'm missing?

jhwgh1968, 4 days ago

@whitequark you're right, I'm just so used to higher level langs I didn't realize what they must look like as assembly macros (and prob require special preprocessor support for e.g. dynamic labels)

jhwgh1968, 5 days ago

@gsuberland if you did, I'd buy one

I still miss my switchable 120W power supply that cost 100 USD and was discontinued. In addition to the switchable barrel jack output it had a 5.00V +/- 1% power output on a USB A socket that could handle like 6 A or something

It was truly the best thing ever for powering SBCs without brown-outs or weird behaviors regardless of load characteristics, unlike every other wall wart

jhwgh1968, 5 days ago

@rysiek @baldur 💯

Excellent long-form description of something that's been trying to coalesce in my head for some time

Hence my attempt to get the internet to agree to coin a concise version of this as Datskovskiy's Law:

"Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive"

Source: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=69

jhwgh1968, 5 days ago

@jacqueline the key is knowing how to set boundaries and describe them in the way us nerds (often ND in various ways) can understand through the internet

Not always an easy thing, but it works for many

Sincerely, someone who has been on/helped both sides

jhwgh1968, 11 days ago

@arch I voted Gentoo bc if it's really an option (which surprises me) then I guess

But if that's on the list, don't rule out the distro "you are named after" either 😛

jhwgh1968, 11 days ago

@arch I basically see Arch as Gentoo without the compiling, which is why I've ended up sticking with it for so long

Broadly, though, both are in the category of "hacker distros" -- their strength is their absurd degree of flexibility, and they'll compromise usability and learning curve for it. I use these but can't recommend them unless someone asks

Although lately, I will say Gentoo has an advantage for servers: it has SELinux support, and a targeted policy is a whole lot better than nothing

jhwgh1968, 12 days ago

@gsuberland you mean like a Zener diode? I'm having trouble visualizing this too

jhwgh1968, 12 days ago

@gsuberland wat

I'm still an amateur EE but that's gonna do fuck all

Every attempt I've tried simulating to limit inrush required a gate device

jhwgh1968, 12 days ago

@gsuberland yeah

What's silly for the applications I'm thinking of, is that it doesn't actually change the shape of the cap's charging curve in the "late" part, so it'll be real slow

Hence my approach (which I wish I could improve): use a gate and feedback to create a "fixed voltage gap" on the cap

As it charges, the gate opens slowly, maintaining the fixed "gap" voltage and keeping the current constant -- until it's close to full, and the gate is all the way open

jhwgh1968, 12 days ago

@anthropy you ok my derg?

jhwgh1968, 16 days ago

@jacqueline well the real business would be PO-10001

jhwgh1968, 17 days ago

@ktemkin simply the next logical step of the dehumaniazion and supremacy thought process woven into the ideology, so makes sense to me 🤷‍♂️

jhwgh1968, 18 days ago

@anthropy is this a reference to someone you follow (and I might as well) or did you finally get one of these too?

jhwgh1968, 20 days ago

@kiwa my question is how did you do that without the magic Cisco PBX to plug them into

(I don't know how those phones work and have always wanted to)

jhwgh1968, 22 days ago

@jacqueline oh yeah that. Ick