pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. husband. ex-FOSDEM organizer. Tennis lover. Amateur musician.

If it ain't fun, you're not doing it right.

Last year, we brought together , , , , Korea, , , and I am certainly forgetting several.

If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.

And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.

And, as always, appreciated!

With my , , and many other hats on:

We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.

6th and 7th of June in ,

Same as last year, we will be focusing on and conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.

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@jpmens
I trained @zev333 well to be my replacement in that role πŸ˜‰

@paco
Just skimmed through it.

I would have loved a book like that growing up. As it is, some of the stuff covered in it I only learned about when going to college, years later.

I would have been of the right age to get this book! Alas, it doesn't seem to be available in Dutch though. Plus, I only got my first computer (a C-128 hand me down) in the mid 90s... 🀷

@azonenberg
Remember though that kids also need exposure to pathogens in order for them to build a healthy immune system that has been exposed to them and therefore knows how to fight them.

Masking all the time makes that difficult.
@0h00000000

@mirabilos
Even if there isn't that big conspiracy, the technology has the potential to make the happen anyway

You can generate 'good enough' code using AI tools that can get you 95% of the way there. Why would you use open source if you can build stuff that way for ~free? And if you don't use open source, why would you support it?
@mgorny

@conservancy
Is a video recording foreseen? I would love to see the talk, but Southern California is a bit too far from my bed πŸ˜‰
@bkuhn @socallinuxexpo

@bert_hubert
I didn't mean to offend, but "sqlite can't be as fast as LMDB because of its design choices" is the statement *I* was trying (but perhaps failing) to make.

That doesn't make those design choices invalid -- in most cases I prefer SQL for ease of debugging -- but if performance *really* matters, LMDB is really the only option.

That doesn't mean 'everything else is slow', just that LMDB is faster
@hyc @Archivist

@bert_hubert
You mean like https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-blob/, correct?

Your SQL engine would still be involved, and needs to do string parsing just to understand what it is you want to store in binary. Yes it's faster than converting to base64 and back, but not as fast as a memcpy ala LMDB.

I said "*really*" for a reason πŸ˜‰
@hyc @Archivist

@hyc
To be completely fair, SQL requires you to convert to and from string representation the whole time. If performance *really* matters, anything SQL-based is a mistake
@Archivist

@gloriouscow
πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

Nothing, it's probably not a very common name in the English speaking world ('Walter' would be the English cognate), but then I was born and raised in an area where you only get to learn that language when you turn 14.
@foone @emily @azonenberg

@revk
Reading is, indeed, not copying, and you are allowed to do that within copyright (hence the name; it's not 'readingright')

But reading and then writing something similar, while not exactly copying, is close enough that it's usually considered 'plagiarism'.
@ahltorp @tbortels @lcamtuf @bgalehouse @kevinr

@greenpeace
Well I hear the straight of Hormuz has mountains around it and those don't really let wind through πŸ˜‚

You know what WON’T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?

Solar and wind energy

@emily
Birthday paradox... I don't know whether you measure 'time since transition' in days or years but if it's the latter, six is not too bad. In my almost 48 years, I've met more Wouters than I remember, and I know that there are *at least* 4 people that I share a first *and* last name with.
@azonenberg @gloriouscow @foone

@glyph
It won't be pretty or efficient or even entirely bug free, but if 'working code' is the only requirement, that it will get you faster than doing it by hand.
@PaulM @mjg59

@glyph
The way to make it work is not to use a web interface, but instead to use a tool like https://opencode.ai/ to
- generate the code
- generate the tests
- run the tests
- have it loop over 'fix any failures and try again'
- test the code yourself

By themselves, they will get things about 80% right. That's not perfect, but with that feedback loop, enough to get something that works.
@PaulM @mjg59

@foone
Perfectly fair, and I had kind of guessed that to be the case, which is why it was notable πŸ™‚

selfie
@foone
TIL what you look like, after having followed you for years, first on Twitter then on fedi...

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