anji

@anji@social.anji.nl

Computer graphics and things. Currently work at NVIDIA. All views here entirely my own and not related to my employment. Be kind.

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aeva, to random
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I've mostly been very happy with my preferred subset of C++ which is basically the "ANSI C++" I learned in college with a few quality of life features sprinkled in from later standards. It's very easy to reason about, I can work very quickly in it, and generally it's pretty easy to find and resolve most bugs you encounter, but as I've been converting Tangerine from a single threaded program to an aggressively multithreaded one I've come to appreciate that none of these statements are true

anji,

@aeva So, yeah... "that language" makes multithreading pretty straightforward. It's very enjoyable to have concurrency work on first run. C++ is strictly a legacy programming language to me...

anji,

@aeva There's nothing wrong with C++ it's just no longer necessary. Having the compiler prove ownership solves many issues.

But yeah a rewrite is almost never worth it. It's just regrettable that there's so much C++ code out there which continues to make programming really, really hard.

anji,

@aeva I thought I made it clear in the language I chose that I was expressing my opinion. I'm not forcing you to share it. But that is indeed my opinion.

anji,

@aeva I was talking about pieces of technology. I don't see how anything I said was intended to be personal or an "opinion of people". Anyway, sorry if my comments rubbed you the wrong way.

anji,

@aeva I was not trying to dunk on you, or anyone. I have absolutely no ill will towards you or C++ programmers.

I like Rust. I think it's way better. I'm hyped to share it with people, and "we should all leave the old thing, use the new one" is part of it. That's it.

lzg, to random
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    anji,

    @lzg Protect the brands

    mcc, to random
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    So to be honest: The thing that's been scaring me about Threads is less that they'll eat the Fediverse and more that by existing they'll schism the space around Mastodon so hard that pervasive defederation will make the whole non-Threads fediverse unusable, and Blue Sky winds up winning the hearts & minds war. Like I was worried Eugen might take a actively pro-Threads stance and the few remaining servers that haven't defederated mastodon.social yet would finally do so.

    anji,

    @mcc FWIW: I'm fine if Blue Sky wins the hearts and minds war. I'm fine if Threads has a billion users next month. I enjoyed this platform before the large influx of users and I'll enjoy it even if it returns to its previously niche state.

    I personally believe we should not consider number of users a statistic indicating success or failure. The main thing which matters, I think, is whether the people using the platform like it.

    anji, to random

    Huh.

    I just have no interest in trying other social media platforms. I'm not even a little curious.

    What I want out of social media is already on Fedi :toot:

    anji,

    @gsuberland Kbin is Fedi. So it’s more or less all the same just different approaches. I’m often on Lemmy now.

    aeva, (edited ) to random
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    please define "horizontal"

    anji,

    @aeva Not too humid either, or the witches' writhing dances may have really been instigated by the swarms of bitey mosquitos.

    lzg, to random
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    anji,

    @lzg Greenland seems pretty chill

    anji,

    @lzg Yeah those Royal Dansk cookies sold everywhere are low key ominous.

    anji,

    @lzg Everywhere is racist. It’s a people thing.

    anji,

    @lzg But suspicious butter cookies is where I draw the line

    anji, to random

    It's 35ºC this weekend and our A/C failed :blobcat_thisisfine:

    At least I think I've identified the problem. Bad fan capacitor. So I discovered there's these massive capacitors in A/C units which are used to provide the current for the fan to start. These caps wear out and go bad, but are fortunately easy to replace.

    Unfortunately no HVAC parts stores open today... Gotta take the heat a little longer.

    anji,

    @drahardja Yeah. Now I'm always going to stock a spare at home.

    mcc, to random
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    History won't know what to do with us

    anji,

    @mcc But I was assured in 1992 we'd reached The End of History...

    rc2014, to random

    It has been bought to my attention that some people are using their RC2014 kits for fun and education. Because of this, the following limitations will be put in place;

    • Unverified users will be limited to 6 modules and maximum communication speed of 9600bps

    • Verified users paying £8 per month can use up to 12 modules and communications up to 115200bps

    • New unverified users will be limited to 3 modules and will have to use a Morse key to input their data.

    An RC2014 Classic II modular Z80 kit next to an RC2014 Pro Pride kit. A lasercut Blue Tick about 45mm diameter is next to the Classic II and a bigger 75mm diameter one is between the two machines.

    anji,

    @rc2014 Straight key only or are paddles also allowed on the basic membership plan?

    stux, to random
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    Our servers are holding up quite nicely :nkoHappy:

    Cat with classes inspecting the server stats and mlem!

    anji,

    @stux Admin cat is pleased

    TechConnectify, (edited ) to random

    On this trip we've rented a Toyota Highlander, and my mom and dad have the closely-related Toyota Sienna.

    I gotta say, if you're not looking at the minivan for whatever silly reason you think you might have, you're making a mistake. It is astonishing how much tighter and confined it feels in the Highlander when it's nearly the same size.

    Minivans are simply packaging heroes and y'all need to get over it.

    anji,

    @TechConnectify I really want electric minivan for my family. I don’t understand why nobody has made one yet. The only option for 3 row EVs right now is massive SUVs. Surely a minivan would be far more practical, and with EV torque it won’t be a slouch to drive.

    anji, to fediverse

    I've been running a #Lemmy instance on #YunoHost for a few months now, and while it works fine it's an outdated version so I've been trying to reinstall a new Lemmy instance using the official guide.

    And holy crap does server administration ever suck. It's unbelievable to me how still, even with "containers" etc. it can't just be "Download this file and it'll start". A few nights of confusion and frustration later and I still don't have a working server :ablobcatkeyboardbreak:

    anji,

    @rmdes CasaOS looks really cool for a home server, but I think I'll keep using a cheap Hetzner VPS for my Fedi apps.

    Yeah I tried to follow those Docker instructions, but they're apparently full of errors and omissions. And generally unless you understand Docker networking it's hard to resolve issues (why won't my reverse proxy connect? why are they using hostnames which don't resolve outside of Docker? etc). I'll give it another shot this weekend :ablobcatbongokeyboard:

    anji,

    @rmdes Yeah I found deploying apps on my VPS with YunoHost to be super frictionless. They're even adding DNS provider API support so it's really just a few clicks and you have an APP running on a new domain. Super cool. No complaints.

    Unfortunately, Lemmy is mostly built for Docker and YunoHost currently extracts the binaries from containers, but there's no psql version 15 support in the OS yet so nobody can upgrade Lemmy... Frustrating.

    mcc, to random
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    Okay so… my current personal goal with the Symphony of the Night speedruns is to get under 30 minutes… I did a bunch of work to get to where I could run on a fightstick, and finally did my first complete run with the new setup today… 30:37!

    And that was a super messy run (though I got both death skip and relic skip on the first try). I can do this! :D

    anji,

    @mcc Yeah room to improve but ~30 mins is a respectable time! Fast movement in this game is so hard.

    anji,

    @mcc Three quarter circle forward are you kidding me

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