This pride month, I want to honor Harvey Milk. A man who was not afraid to stand up for who he was, and made a difference.
Even though I'm not a member of the community and have made mistakes in my interaction with people who are in the past, I have always believed that how two consenting adults interact with each other is nobody's business but their own, and as such I just can't understand the bigotry that exists in this world.
RIP Harvey Milk. May your legacy live on forever.
Even though I'm not a member of the community and have made mistakes in my interaction with people who are in the past, I have always believed that how two consenting adults interact with each other is nobody's business but their own, and as such I just can't understand the bigotry that exists in this world.
RIP Harvey Milk. May your legacy live on forever.
@foone @SpeakerToManagers in case you decide to be true to yourself and get started on this: the Egyptians had their own numbering system in hieroglyphs. There are Unicode code points for hieroglyphs now. So make sure not to forget them! 😉
@foone
It's useful with its opposite, strcspn, to write a tokenizer:
start = string + strspn(string, delim); // find first non-delimiter character
len = strcspn(start+1, delim);
Now you have a string with a known length that you can process.
You could use strtok, but (a) that modifies the string, which is not always what you want, and (b) is not thread-safe; strspn and strcspn are.
It's useful with its opposite, strcspn, to write a tokenizer:
start = string + strspn(string, delim); // find first non-delimiter character
len = strcspn(start+1, delim);
Now you have a string with a known length that you can process.
You could use strtok, but (a) that modifies the string, which is not always what you want, and (b) is not thread-safe; strspn and strcspn are.
@foone
Except if you're trying to set file permissions on a Unix system.
DON'T USE CHMOD EXCEPT WITH OCTAL.
Except if you're trying to set file permissions on a Unix system.
DON'T USE CHMOD EXCEPT WITH OCTAL.
@ariadne
Oh, okay, I see what you mean. I thought you wanted to defederate your own server and live on an island, which seems to defeat the point, but it's about defederating as a big moderation hammer. That makes a whole lot more sense 😁
Oh, okay, I see what you mean. I thought you wanted to defederate your own server and live on an island, which seems to defeat the point, but it's about defederating as a big moderation hammer. That makes a whole lot more sense 😁
@ariadne
I'm not understanding your problem with matrix. It seems like it has almost everything you want to me. What's this thing about defederation? Why would you want that in the first place?
Honest question.
I'm not understanding your problem with matrix. It seems like it has almost everything you want to me. What's this thing about defederation? Why would you want that in the first place?
Honest question.
@foone
@ZebraNorth classic 1980s-era hack. Many companies allowed this, and then often lost their customers because now you can't upgrade the maximum ram for the next generation of your system without breaking backwards compatibility and nobody wants to buy a second generation system that can't run software written for the first generation...
I'm pretty sure this is the reason why you can't try the same hack in x86-64 hardware...
@ZebraNorth classic 1980s-era hack. Many companies allowed this, and then often lost their customers because now you can't upgrade the maximum ram for the next generation of your system without breaking backwards compatibility and nobody wants to buy a second generation system that can't run software written for the first generation...
I'm pretty sure this is the reason why you can't try the same hack in x86-64 hardware...
@thomasfuchs
IME, it's the young nerds who fell for the BS, the first or second time around they are old enough to be able to fall for it.
After that, they've (usually) learned and don't fall for it anymore, but by then there's a new generation that will take up the torch.
From the outside they looks like they never change. From the inside, however, people do learn, there's just always new people.
IME, it's the young nerds who fell for the BS, the first or second time around they are old enough to be able to fall for it.
After that, they've (usually) learned and don't fall for it anymore, but by then there's a new generation that will take up the torch.
From the outside they looks like they never change. From the inside, however, people do learn, there's just always new people.
@malwaretech
"I hold here the paper that contains my signature as well as Herr Putin's. I believe it is peace for our time"
"I hold here the paper that contains my signature as well as Herr Putin's. I believe it is peace for our time"
@wim_v12e I once calculated that my 42-inch 4kUHD TV has 18 pixels per mm² (which I bought not for the 4k functionality but rather because it was the only model which the shop had that also did 3d). There is no way you can see individual pixels before you are close enough to see compression artefacts.
I laugh at these Samsung phones with 4k screens. Do they ship them with a microphone or do you have to buy those separately?
#lowcarboncomputing #frugalcomputing
I laugh at these Samsung phones with 4k screens. Do they ship them with a microphone or do you have to buy those separately?
#lowcarboncomputing #frugalcomputing
@b0rk
My guess:
You want the memory size in bits to be a power of two because that makes the memory easier/cheaper to manufacture, and it should *also* be a power of two in bytes so you don't waste address lines. These constraints are only met together if your byte size is indeed a power of two.
I'm pretty sure about the second constraint, but don't know if the first one is true; that's just speculation. It seems like that would make sense though?
My guess:
You want the memory size in bits to be a power of two because that makes the memory easier/cheaper to manufacture, and it should *also* be a power of two in bytes so you don't waste address lines. These constraints are only met together if your byte size is indeed a power of two.
I'm pretty sure about the second constraint, but don't know if the first one is true; that's just speculation. It seems like that would make sense though?
@matthew_d_green
@datenwolf @donaldball @ieatkillerbees
Your challenge is not to convince people that ChatGPT can do interesting things. We all know that. Your challenge is to prove that it can do things that can't be done with advanced statistics.
It's not hard to extrapolate that new features require updates (that's always been the case) nor that the FBI doesn't like encryption in the hands of citizens (same)...
EOT for me.
@datenwolf @donaldball @ieatkillerbees
Your challenge is not to convince people that ChatGPT can do interesting things. We all know that. Your challenge is to prove that it can do things that can't be done with advanced statistics.
It's not hard to extrapolate that new features require updates (that's always been the case) nor that the FBI doesn't like encryption in the hands of citizens (same)...
EOT for me.
@matthew_d_green
@donaldball @ieatkillerbees
There's a point where questioning an actual expert on the subject becomes ridiculous. You've gone past that point before two others backed the original person up. Are you really sure you want to take this further?
@donaldball @ieatkillerbees
There's a point where questioning an actual expert on the subject becomes ridiculous. You've gone past that point before two others backed the original person up. Are you really sure you want to take this further?
@matthew_d_green
@ieatkillerbees Yes. Absolutely. What you know as 'AI' is nothing but statistics. Advanced statistics yes, but nothing more than that.
@ieatkillerbees Yes. Absolutely. What you know as 'AI' is nothing but statistics. Advanced statistics yes, but nothing more than that.
@Suiseiseki @marcan Even if that was true (which it isn't), software doesn't get written by magic, it gets written by human beings. Harassment demotivates people, and that means software stops being written. So apart from the very obvious fact that nobody should have to be targeted by abusers and harassers, improving your community's health also improves the output (both quality and quantity) of your community.
You are very wrong.
You are very wrong.