palordrolap @ palordrolap @kbin.social

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet; Seen a lot of it and occasionally reg

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Compilers were much less complex back then and didn't do a great deal of optimisation. Also hardware was slow, so your compiled code, which wasn't necessarily optimal either before or after the compilation phase, was at least half as fast as you wanted it to be.

If you wanted speed, you hand-rolled assembly.

Peertube is the Fediverse equivalent of YouTube, the Fediverse being what Lemmy (where you are), Kbin (where I am) etc. are also a part of.

As far as I'm aware, it's a matter of finding an instance you resonate with, create an account and share away.

Do bear in mind that since it's the Fediverse, Peertube instances aren't usually backed by a large organisation with bags of cash, so if you can afford to donate to your instance, at least consider doing so.

I'd also recommend not using Peertube as a be-all-end-all storage for your videos. Always keep a copy for yourself. People do this with YouTube and they shouldn't unless they're OK with suddenly and forever losing that content at some unspecified future date. The same can happen with PeerTube, but the reasons are likely to be different (instance closing rather than unexpected account deletion).

Corporation-backed video hosts include: Twitch, Dailymotion and Vimeo. You could probably also host on Facebook. While these are options, they might make you feel as unclean as I did typing that out.

Someone else points out that Python's native bool is a subtype of int, so adding a bool to an int (or performing other mixed operations) is not an error, which might then go on to cause a hard-to-catch semantic/mathematical error.

I am assuming that trying to add a NumPy bool_ to an int causes a compilation error at best and a run-time warning, or traceable program crash at worst.

In before this comes with a taser attachment.

It's not yawn, but not because it's great. It's because it'll be around for just long enough that it will create reliance on it, ruin many things, and then those people who have become reliant will find themselves in the position of having to unruin the many ruined things without the crutch to help them.

Or maybe I'm being the next iteration of the schoolteacher or parent who said that you won't have a calculator in your pocket all the time.

But then, a calculator doesn't need a terabyte of RAM. We're a ways off that being consumer-affordable as yet. If past consumer RAM size trends are anything (and the only thing) to go by, a portable LLM would be a 2040s or 2050s expectation.

Assuming that you'd be allowed to have the terabyte of data for nothing, anyway. Exorbitant subscription models are likely to be the norm by then.

"Socky"

"Socky Junior"

"Socky Sock Sock"

"The guy who wrote this implementation was suffering from burn-out, wasn't he."

Ha. No, I don't think it was Linus, but it might have been someone else European. Really hard to be sure at this point. SATA has been around for a while.

And I've unearthed a memory of the other, other pronunciation that I know I've heard: "serial ay-tee-ay". Why make it an acronym when you can say one of the words and then the initials of the others!

I must have heard "saata" somewhere because that's my head-pronunciation, and it doesn't match how I say data (dayta). Not sure I've ever said it out loud.

Could be an "avoiding saying anything like 'Satan'" kind of thing, not because of religion, but more to avoid lame jokes.

80 characters

Two hours and no-one's challenged this? People must be asleep.

(This is not that challenge. Only pointing out that someone usually has by now.)

Ones I have used: GNOME Disks' create and restore image features. Possibly Mint's mintstick for writing a distro's .iso out to a USB stick. I am not too sure on that.

I assume old-school dd still works as well, which might be a better option for scripted backups or minimal systems.

named myself

Programmer error: I totally missed a bunch of edge cases there. Cases 32 to 35 for sure

Buuut I'm guessing you didn't name yourself after the editor.

A wild username reference appears!

There's an editor called Kate. It's probably not named after you, but if you're young enough and the person who named you was into tech, you might be named after it.

So, it's trying to replace Emacs?

In addition to other advice here: If you want to save on keystrokes, set yourself up a shell alias that's short but unlikely to be a valid command anywhere else.

I have one that's kind of the inverse of yours, called mntStorage (no prizes for guessing its purpose). It wasn't intentional, but mixing case like that is pretty rare in important commands too.

Where does Yandex's money go these days?

Oddly enough, Spock solves the problem (because of course he does, and it's a comic that has to be done in 30 panels or so) by discovering that the city construction materials can be chemically dissolved into goo. Thankfully not the sort that overtakes a planet.

... at least assuming there wasn't a sequel.

I was counting WebKit and Blink (Chromium) as cousins, both descendents of KHTML, but maybe they've diverged enough as to not easily be able to borrow from each other any more and it really is three.

Somewhere around here I have a 1960s or '70s Star Trek annual with a story where machines like this end up converting an entire planet into one enormous city, and the people that live there can't stop it.

The story is basically a warning about turning everything over to AI, not that they call it that specifically.

This is pretty big if it has a completely separate browser rendering engine to the two remaining families, even if the feature set is small.

The more current alternatives we have, the better.

Unforchunetly, Ingglish speling duzn't laiyn up with saowndz wun-tuh-wun.

Spelling things how you say them can lead to people misunderstanding or causing unintended(?) pain.