benc

benc, 1 month ago to random

i've become the type of guy that writes page long commit messages

benc, 2 months ago to random

people cloning their github forks so they end up with origin meaning their fork, and then i'm looking for a word for the original repo that isn't origin*al. Surprised I haven't had to think about this before in 20 years, at least not in this way, but i ended up recommending official as the remote name.

surely there's a @b0rk zine about this?

#git

benc, 3 months ago to random

berlin somehow had a maglev/monorail project again (after the last one in the 1980s). that is apparently going to be cancelled. which is probably a good thing, because #monorail.

benc, 3 months ago to random

In @ParslProject we have a naming problem: society keeps dividing up the minimum unit that a kernel task (thread/process) can be scheduled onto: first multiple CPUs, then multiple cores, then hyperthreads, and now people also call hyperthreads "threads" to confuse people with the "threads" that can get scheduled onto them.

So.. what should we call in docs and config "the unit that the OS can schedule tasks onto" that isn't going to get ruined next time some guy subdivides execution units again?

thisismissem, 3 months ago to random

So I'm at a hospital in Berlin for a medical appointment, and somehow I'm the only person wearing a mask.

benc, 4 months ago to random

today's degenerate hyperlink form:

a song i like is playing on some radio stations web streaming on phone. switch to home screen, click shazam, let it ... use the microphone to record the output of the speaker in the same device (?)... click "view in Spotify"

benc, 4 months ago to random

Limited to single B-channel ISDN speed because I've used up my data package on my phone.

Amazing basically how nothing works over this technology of the future, when we used to service an office of tens of people over 2 B-channels.

#ISDN

benc, 4 months ago to random

There's some kind of cell broadcast emergency warning going off on not very many people's phones in this carriage (for pas de Calais).

Waiting for mine.

terrorjack, 4 months ago to random

you seem to be shaking the phone in frustration. would you like to open the bug report screen?

girlonthenet, 4 months ago to random

Say what you like about the (old, rickety, odd-smelling) Bakerloo Line, you can’t deny that the run-down nature of it makes it the tubeiest of all the tubes. Bakerloo carriages are the closest to the Platonic Ideal Tube Carriage currently running.

jonny, 4 months ago to random

what the hell is going on with u-haul having its own u-note barter currency where i can micro-invest in a shipment of 6700 hand dollies complete with prospectus https://www.uhaulinvestorsclub.com/HowItWorks

benc, 5 months ago to random

I'll be giving a talk on some functional aspects of @ParslProject at Dutch Functional Programming day in a couple of weeks in Delft.

Programme isn't fully online yet here so you'll have to believe me

https://www.tudelft.nl/fpday-2024-1

Edent, 5 months ago to random

What's the maximum speed you could transmit data using DTMF on a basic voice line?

There are 16 discrete symbols (0-9, *,#,A-D) which means you can use hex-encoded data.

Standard rate is 80ms (40ms for the tone and a 40ms space).

But the fastest decoders can work with 25ms (20 tone, 5 space).

That's 40 hex symbols per second.

So approx 1KB per minute.

mgeisler, 5 months ago to python

I wrote my first #python match statement today — it was nice! I was unpacking a JSON response and wanted to distinguish between a message with a success key and an invalid key:

match json.loads(stdout):  
 case {"invalid": err}:  
 parser.error(err)  
 case {"success": _}:  
 pass  
 case _:  
 parser.error(f"Unexpected value: {stdout}")  

See https://peps.python.org/pep-0636/ if you're not familiar with the new syntax (added in 2021).

b0rk, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

[poll] how do you think of a git commit?

(sorry, you can't pick “it’s all 3”, I'm curious about which one feels most true to you)

bloor, 5 months ago to random

If Telcos Ran Restaurants

Waiter: "Ah, welcome to the restaurant, Sir!"

Customer: "Thanks! May I take a look at the menu?"

W: "Certainly, that'll be £125"

C: "I have to pay to see the menu?!"

W: "They do cost us a lot to produce, so we have to charge for them."

C: "But you sell food. I can't buy food unless I can see what I'm buying."

W: "But we do have to charge to see the menu."

C: "I'll go to another restaurant."

W: "Ok you can see the menu for free. Just this once! Since it's you!"

benc, 5 months ago to random

People with experience in optimising compilers, is there any way to simplify this receipe to avoid at-mix-time computation?

> Make a well in the bowl and pour in about two-thirds of 150ml cold water,

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/rough-puff-pastry

revk, 6 months ago to random

Well, it fits well in a resin mould. I really should do some s/w before setting it in stone (or resin).

benc, 6 months ago to python

did something change about += becoming more threadsafe between Python 3.7 and Python 3.10? I have some vague memory that it did but can't find any documentation, and running a few test programs seems to suggest so?

#Python #Threads #Atomics

futurebird, 7 months ago to random

What kind of music comes to mind when you think about ants doing things? I need some good (no lyrics) “ant music” any suggestions?

amoroso, 8 months ago to linux

Can you recommend any tools similar to curl but for arbitrary protocols? Something like curl telnet://... but scriptable and not interactive.

#curl #linux #tools

b0rk, 8 months ago to random

I've been thinking about these "dns propagation checkers" like https://www.whatsmydns.net/ that show you a world map.

This feels weird to me, because the main reason that DNS lookups get outdated records is that the resolver has an old record cached. And whether or not a record is cached has nothing to do with the geographical location of the server?

what's going on with these sites? why are they designed this way?

(would love to hear from people who actually know the answer, not guesses)