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akosma, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

What are the first apps you’ve ever bought for your iPhone? Not showing on this image is “Enigmo” from Pangea Software (best game of 2008)… still available and updated last year to run on the latest models! #WWDC24 #WWDC

akosma, 5 days ago to random

Throwback to #WWDC 2008… cheers to all #WWDC24 attendees!

https://akos.ma/blog/memories-of-wwdc-2008/

akosma, 5 days ago to random

“This isn’t an argument for trickle-down economics — we don’t need to put more money in the pockets of the wealthy. But the money they have is better spent in the economy than hoarded in the market.”
https://www.profgalloway.com/hoarders/

akosma, 6 days ago to random

"So what is it? It is a reuse error. The SRI horizontal bias module was reused from a 10-year-old software, the software from Ariane 4.

(…) It is a reuse specification error.

The truly unacceptable part is the absence of any kind of precise specification associated with a reusable module.

The requirement that the horizontal bias should fit on 16 bits was in fact stated in an obscure part of a document. But in the code itself it was nowhere to be found!"

https://web.archive.org/web/20050201024928/http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/contract/ariane/page.html

akosma, 7 days ago to random

10 Years of Kubernetes? Already? WOW. 🎉🎊🎂🍰🎈🎁🍾
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/06/06/10-years-of-kubernetes/

akosma, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG

“268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects” says The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/05/agile_failure_rates/

akosma, 8 days ago to random

"The GMP server has been under serious load due to a barrage of clone requests from Github. Its setup encourages "forks" of their projects, which by default pull in parent project changes. Around 2023-06-15, a project known as FFmpeg decided that it would be a great idea to clone GMP in their CI scripts, meaning that every one of their commits requested a compressed clone from the GMP servers. (…)

In effect, Microsoft's cloud performed a DDoS attack on the GMP servers."

https://gmplib.org/

akosma, 9 days ago to random

“One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power. For context, a typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power.”

https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold

akosma, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

Had the Beatles and Pink Floyd collaborated on an album, this is what the cover art would have looked like. https://universeodon.com/@UncleDuke1969/112559257672809385

akosma, 9 days ago to random

The 4th edition of "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Sheldon Axler (one of the most recommended books about the subject) is now freely available to download as an Open Access book!

https://linear.axler.net/index.html

akosma, 9 days ago to random

“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

akosma, 9 days ago to random

Who needs a computer, anyway?

https://web.archive.org/web/20060427044337/homepage.mac.com/mbishop/PhotoAlbum30.html

akosma, 12 days ago to random

current status

akosma, 12 days ago to random

I just stumbled upon some old blog post of mine, and those screenshots of Mac OS X of yore make me nostalgic. The depth. The vibrant colors. The strong contrast. The clarity. Le sigh.

https://akos.ma/blog/more-nib2objc-fun/

akosma, 14 days ago to random

I'm always amazed by the lengths people will go to avoid writing a single SQL query, instead using hilariously complex ORMs that will, eventually, have performance issues of their own, not to mention the horrendous APIs (and documentations thereof) they have to put up with.

BUT BUT BUT PORTABILITY

Portability? In 27 years, I've seldom seen apps switching databases. Actually, I've seen more apps being rewritten from scratch, which might or might not include a change in the underlying RDBMS.

akosma, 13 days ago to random

Among the various reasons why I think 1989 was an annus mirabilis for music, is this album. https://open.spotify.com/album/4RZbMW9C2xsnuwad8rKOrl?si=XEvsg5BISMu1iejxWDG5CQ

akosma, 14 days ago to random

I understand where acronyms like "BENELUX" and "EMEA" come from, but following that line of reasoning, shouldn't "DACH" be "DÖCH" or even "DÖS" or "GAS" instead?

akosma, 14 days ago to random

My AI-generated text detector consists of a simple, efficient, cross-platform, extremely fast filter, and here's a version in curly-bracket-pseudocode so you can adapt it to your own infrastructure, no matter which tech stack you use:

if (text.startsWith("In the ever-evolving landscape of…")) {  
 print("AI-regurgitated crap");  
 exit(1);  
}  

You're welcome.

akosma, 15 days ago to random

current status

akosma, 15 days ago to random

TIL Smultron is 20 years old! I remember using it back in 2004, excellent editor, and I'm very happy it's still around. https://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/

akosma, 17 days ago to random

"Luckily we have the Wayback Machine"

Just a week after publishing this, the @internetarchive is down.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/20/webpages_vanish_decade/

akosma, 19 days ago to random

TIL The Belleville Three is not exactly the same thing as Les Triplettes de Belleville. Not at all.

akosma, 20 days ago to random

Some ideas https://akos.ma/blog/running-programming-workshops/

akosma, 23 days ago to random

TIL that Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/IMG files. No need to format the disk over and over, just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many image files at a time, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI supported. MBR and GPT partition style supported. OS supported: Win/Linux/Unix/ChromeOS/Vmware/Xen. 1200+ ISO files tested.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

akosma, 24 days ago to random

"Tax policy groups have been lobbying to close this loophole for years, and Congress nearly did it in 2022, but Senator Kyrsten Sinema took $2 million from the private equity industry (aka Owners) and saved their $14 billion loophole. It’s well known that our leaders are whores. What’s more surprising, and disappointing, is what cheap whores they are ($2 million for $14 billion)."

https://www.profgalloway.com/earners-vs-owners/