KC1PYT

@KC1PYT@mastodon.radio

I got into Ham Radio because I found digital modes and SDR to be fascinating. I also want to learn CW for long distance low power DXing. I currently use a UV-5R and an 18" ABBREE flex antenna.

I'm also in to old books and I'm fascinated by 8-bit era stuff and early kit computers.

Cancel culture is bullshit no matter who is doing it: Boost/Follow/Discourse ≠ endorsement.

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mjgardner, to programming
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@Perl Here’s a BRILLIANT cheatsheet by @shiar of significant changes to the language, from 2000's version 5.6 to 2023's version 5.38: https://sheet.shiar.nl/perl

Apart from being a valuable reference, it's a compact argument against the belief that Perl has stagnated.

And yet your old Perl code still runs on today's versions. Don't be surprised. We value your time and ours.

https://toot.community/@shiar/111858636016600099

KC1PYT,

@mjgardner @Perl @shiar Honestly, I think the thing that works against and the most is that they don't work natively in the browser or on mobile.

I love both languages and want to see them prosper.

KC1PYT,

@mjgardner @Perl @shiar This is brilliant though and well formatted too.

KC1PYT,

@mjgardner @Perl @shiar Yes, eventually I expect just about everything to get ported to it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the hold up is there is no generalized mechanism to access the DOM from WASM, right?

So stuff has to run WASM, then spawn JS (expensive) and then make API calls to JS to interact with the DOM. Stop me if I'm wrong.

KC1PYT,

@mjgardner @Perl @shiar That project seems semi-stale. There aren't any recent commits though there are decently recent comments in the few issues that are opened.

mjgardner, (edited ) to webdev
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@Perl After reading https://doi.org/10.1145/3386327, I’m imagining an alternate #WebDev history where #Netscape hired #LarryWall instead of @BrendanEich. (The latter previously worked for co-founder Jim Clark at #SGI, so as always it’s who you know.)

No, I don't think we would have #Perl in our web browsers (and possibly everywhere else). But #JavaScript might have started less #Self-ish and a little more Perl-ish.

KC1PYT,

@mjgardner @Perl @BrendanEich There was a Mozilla project back in the day to migrate PHP, Python, and Perl to the browser at one point. It's a shame it didn't happen!

has some capability to do this with but you don't get access to the DOM I don't think it's a maintained part of the Raku codebase. Also sad.

KC1PYT, to deaf

Are there good resources for , , or otherwise hams? I'm not just talking about during the test -- though that's good to know too -- but actual for operation?

Think, those things that let you feel tactilely, I'm not sure what they're called. Also things that blink CW, radios that talk or are easy to attach labels too, etc? You get the idea.

KC1PYT, to hamradio

CB is limited to 4W. I'm in CT yet "somehow" I am hearing AM transmissions from as far south as FL.

The signals are far too clear to be unintended atmospheric skip. Skip tends to sound fluttery, not like you're sitting in a sound studio. It's crazy how overpowered some people's CB rigs are!

I wonder if it's worth getting some hams together to help the CB community by fox hunting the worst offenders and filing complaints with the FCC?

KC1PYT,

@xek My ham gear is fine. My irritation stems from several incidents over CB, some of which have made it to Reddit, where entire channels were being jammed for hours by some asshole(s).

It just turns out that this time around I misjudged the effects of the solar cycle on propagation.

My thought was simply, if people are breaking the rules badly and making CB an unworkable medium — occasionally a real problem — we as hams might be able to help.That's it.

I already have a therapist. XD

mjgardner, to ai
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From https://www.geekwire.com/2024/new-study-on-coding-behavior-raises-questions-about-impact-of-ai-on-software-development/ :

> #AI code assistants like [#GitHub #Copilot] are very good at adding code, but they can cause “AI-induced #TechDebt.”
>
> “Fast code-adding is desirable if you’re working in isolation, or on a greenfield problem. But hastily added code is caustic to the teams expected to maintain it afterward.”
>
> In other words, more quantity doesn’t always lead to better #quality.

GitClear’s study: https://www.gitclear.com/coding_on_copilot_data_shows_ais_downward_pressure_on_code_quality

#SoftwareDevelopment #programming #coding

Fry from Futurama says, “I am shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.”

KC1PYT,

@mjgardner The thing I'm most scared of with respect to AI is:

  1. The difficulty in challenging it's findings. Traditional software can be debugged or reverse engineered and understood. AI? I'm not so sure. How do you challenge its training model in a clearly understood way?

  2. AI detecting correlations that are valid but not causally related to its "findings" and businesses making decisions based upon those "findings" uncritically with serious consequences. Correlation and causation differ.

kolev, to linux
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The downside of having nonfree firmware: Building on a .

KC1PYT,

@kolev Can it run ?

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