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pwaring

@pwaring@fosstodon.org

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. He/him/Paul

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MutoidPodcast, to random
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Our episode on the Blake's 7 story 'Gambit' is out now!

Find it at...

Libsyn: mutoidpodcast.libsyn.com

iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blakes-7-the-mutoid-podcast/id1588566065

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KiVr8sxzfzZmpv7GzpHU2

Audible: https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Blakes-7-The-Mutoid-Podcast/B08JK1L53C?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

...and elsewhere!

pwaring, to DigitalNomadHub
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I don't tout myself much on here, but from 1st July 2024 I'll have some capacity to work with new clients on a regular basis (an existing client is gradually moving work in-house due to increased volume). If you know anyone who needs a PHP app maintaining on a regular basis (3-10 hours/month), please point them my way. ๐Ÿ˜€

UK only, and I work remotely

https://www.phpdeveloper.org.uk

#GetFediHired #freelance #business #php

MutoidPodcast, to random
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Our episode on the Blake's 7 story 'Voice from the Past' is out now!

Find it at...

Libsyn: mutoidpodcast.libsyn.com

iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blakes-7-the-mutoid-podcast/id1588566065

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KiVr8sxzfzZmpv7GzpHU2

Audible: https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Blakes-7-The-Mutoid-Podcast/B08JK1L53C?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

mcrscifi, to random
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Definitely time to start reading @aliettedb 's Red Scholar's Wake" if you haven't already - We will be discussing it on Tuesday evening 7pm UK time.

Follow or DM for a meeting invite.

You'll learn from other folks perspectives and have a bit of a laugh while you do.

https://mcrscifi.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/next-science-fiction-book-march-2024/

emf, to random
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The final ticket sale for EMF 2024 will take place this Tuesday (20th February) at 21:00 GMT (UTC+0)!

The previous two batches have sold out quickly, and this is the last major sale of tickets.

Full details on our blog: https://blog.emfcamp.org/2024/02/16/emf-2024-final-ticket-sale/

MutoidPodcast, to random
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Our episode on the Blake's 7 story 'Countdown' is out now!

Find it at...

Libsyn: mutoidpodcast.libsyn.com

iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blakes-7-the-mutoid-podcast/id1588566065

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KiVr8sxzfzZmpv7GzpHU2

Audible: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Blakes-7-The-Mutoid-Podcast-Podcast/B08JK1L53C?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

...and elsewhere

pwaring, to random
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Am I right in saying that, on every processor in commercial use (i.e. not something an academic has dreamed up to discuss a hypothetical that no one else cares about), ADD is a faster (fewer cycles) operation than DIV?

(I know that a compiler might change a division to MUL, ADD, and some form of shift.)

rjek,
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@pwaring Division doens't map well onto how hardware works or how we represent numbers, there is an answer here https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/280673/why-does-hardware-division-take-much-longer-than-multiplication which explains the complexity nicely, and multiply is still more complicated than add.

penguin42,
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@pwaring https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.ods has timings for all x86 showing each instruction type. Add is essentially a single shot - except for the propagation of the carries; so generally fit in a single cycle (or less! Pentium 4 often managed 0.5 cycle!). Division is iterative just like doing it by hand.
Note division by a known constant can be easier; divisions by powers of 2 are shifts, which can be free on some architectures; divisions by other values can become mult which are faster than div.

transdiffusion, to random
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Tom Baker is 90 today!

Kif was in London in the 80s recording station announcements for British Rail. In the next booth doing ad voiceovers is Tom Baker.

Tea break:

Tom: DO YOU BUY ANY OF THE THINGS I ADVERTISE, YOUNG SIR?

Kif: Er, no, not really.

Tom: GOOD, THEY'RE ALL RUBBISH, YOU KNOW.

MutoidPodcast, to random
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Our episode on the Blake's 7 story 'Hostage' is out now!

Find it at...

Libsyn: mutoidpodcast.libsyn.com

iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blakes-7-the-mutoid-podcast/id1588566065

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KiVr8sxzfzZmpv7GzpHU2

Audible: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Blakes-7-The-Mutoid-Podcast-Podcast/B08JK1L53C?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

... and elsewhere

mcrscifi, to random
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Last chance to start reading "Venomus Lump Sucker" to finish in time for tomorrow's meeting.

If you have already read it, you'd be welcome to join us at 7pm (UK) Tuesday 16th for a light hearted friendly chat about it that may reveal aspects you missed....

PM me for connection details.

pwaring, to random
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Wow, I'd somehow missed these changes coming in for UK companies, including a requirement to file accounts using software (which will probably mean proprietary software, as I can't see how open source projects could get access). Although if it's anything like Making Tax Digital from HMRC, it will be delivered incomplete and late.

https://changestoukcompanylaw.campaign.gov.uk/changes-to-accounts/

Edent,
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@pwaring
The APIs are open and documented at https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation

All the filing use iXBRL which is an open standard and used by lots of open source packages.

Edent,
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@pwaring
I'm not sure I get you. I use an open source Twitter client which lets me provide my own API key. A bunch of apps work like that - open source & BYOK.

For a service like this, they need to know who is sending the information. So either you need to go through KYC and get your own key - or let someone else attest.

Anyway, I don't think there's anything stopping an individual from getting their own API key. And there are open source filing tools like https://accountsmachine.io/

18+ steely_glint, to random
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Every year I take a month out of my duties as pi.pe CTO and do some consulting on other peopleโ€™s projects. Typically they are related.
I find this keeps me fresh and stops me getting insular.
My customers get the benefit of 12 years of WebRTC experience plus my VoIP and security background.

Itโ€™s that time of year again! So if you have a project that needs a kickstart, a fresh pair of eyes or being brought off the back burner, letโ€™s talk.

bOrgCastAMO, to random

Hello peeps! Just got a kindle specifically for reading without waking hubby when I canโ€™t sleep. Looking for short stories & short story anthology recommendations especially sci-fi, fantasy, weird fiction & crime. Many thanks

popey, to random
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I want to move my TV to the other end of the lounge, but I can't run the cable/HDMI that length. Does anyone have first-hand experience (not googling) with an HDMI wireless sending device so I can send the cable TV signal from one end of the room to the other? Ideally would be 1080p/60, and capable of higher, if possible. Only for TV/movies, not for gaming.

JustineSmithies, to linux
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laptop users do you have any recommended settings that you add into /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf ?
Things like zfs_arc_max, zfs_txg_timeout and so on ?
I'm running on a 1Tb nvme drive and have 16Gb ram currently but will get around to upgrading it to it's 40Gb max soon.
Any tips appreciated. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Please boost and thanks in advance โค๏ธ

theresnotime, to OH

: "the plural of regex is regrets"

kev, to random
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Hey folks, I come to you, hat in hand, looking for support. Financial support for has dropped off recently and I totally get it - inflation is up and is around the corner. We all have more important things to spend our money on.

At the moment our outgoings are larger than our income, so our slush fund is dwindling away. Anything you can do to support us would be GREATLY appreciated. Hereโ€™s all the ways you can help:

https://hub.fosstodon.org/support/

mcrscifi, to random
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On the 21st of Nov we discussed Moonday Letters by Emma Itรคranta

There was some doubt about how well the 'spiritualism' fitted into an otherwise hard-scifi narrative so we gave it a respectable score of 3.385 Cylinder cities.

We will take December off and start the new year with
Venomous Lump Sucker by Ned Bowman

Read it and join our discussion on 16th. 7pm UK time.

https://mcrscifi.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/next-science-fiction-book-january-2024/

biglesp, to random
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Tomorrow at 8AM GMT we start another 24 days of electronics tat, projects, cheap tools (including me) and terrible comedy. https://youtu.be/uC_jN_gmjwo

miss_jwo, to random

Anyone got thoughts on the frame.work laptops?

Worth it or not?

idan, to random
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https://monaspace.githubnext.com

I have been working on this for the last 2-plus years alongside the terrific folks from Lettermatic type foundry led by @rileycran. All code is letters on a grid. We can make that code more expressive, and layer more meaning on to code.

pwaring, to random
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Currently pondering which language to use to solve this year's Advent of Code challenges in. Options are: PHP, C, Go, Lua, Assembly, Rust or a functional language.

Full thoughts on my blog:

https://www.phpdeveloper.org.uk/advent-of-code-2023-programming-language-options/

davx5app, to random
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We just released DAVx5 4.3.9!

  • You can now connect your Nextcloud easily with @nextcloud Nextcloud Login Flow directly in DAVx5.

  • We now automatically detect shared calendars when being setup with Google.

  • as always: more bug fixes and improvements under the hood ;-)

Read more: https://github.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose/discussions/10#discussioncomment-7391267

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