akosma

akosma, 5 days ago to random

Throwback to #WWDC 2008… cheers to all #WWDC24 attendees!

https://akos.ma/blog/memories-of-wwdc-2008/

akosma, 5 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

What are the first apps you’ve ever bought for your iPhone? Not showing on this image is “Enigmo” from Pangea Software (best game of 2008)… still available and updated last year to run on the latest models! #WWDC24 #WWDC

akosma, 6 days ago to random

“This isn’t an argument for trickle-down economics — we don’t need to put more money in the pockets of the wealthy. But the money they have is better spent in the economy than hoarded in the market.”
https://www.profgalloway.com/hoarders/

akosma, 6 days ago to random

"So what is it? It is a reuse error. The SRI horizontal bias module was reused from a 10-year-old software, the software from Ariane 4.

(…) It is a reuse specification error.

The truly unacceptable part is the absence of any kind of precise specification associated with a reusable module.

The requirement that the horizontal bias should fit on 16 bits was in fact stated in an obscure part of a document. But in the code itself it was nowhere to be found!"

https://web.archive.org/web/20050201024928/http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/contract/ariane/page.html

akosma, 7 days ago to random

10 Years of Kubernetes? Already? WOW. 🎉🎊🎂🍰🎈🎁🍾
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/06/06/10-years-of-kubernetes/

santiago, 8 days ago to random

It’s 13:33 and I have written 15 posts (including this) on Mastodon today 😱

Unsurprisingly I have admin tasks waiting at the office and this includes a phone call. The horror.

#SentFromMyBed

akosma, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG

“268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects” says The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/05/agile_failure_rates/

akosma, 9 days ago to random

“One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power. For context, a typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power.”

https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold

akosma, 8 days ago to random

"The GMP server has been under serious load due to a barrage of clone requests from Github. Its setup encourages "forks" of their projects, which by default pull in parent project changes. Around 2023-06-15, a project known as FFmpeg decided that it would be a great idea to clone GMP in their CI scripts, meaning that every one of their commits requested a compressed clone from the GMP servers. (…)

In effect, Microsoft's cloud performed a DDoS attack on the GMP servers."

https://gmplib.org/

akosma, 4 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

“It also wasn’t long before Boca Raton was regarded as the place you needed to work if you were an ambitious IBM executive. Suddenly, everyone was a PC evangelist, including many who the original PC team knew had been actively hostile to their efforts before. One member of the original “dirty dozen” later described Boca Raton as IBM’s Woodstock: Everyone would claim to have been there when it started, and the vast majority were lying.”
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc

akosma, 6 days ago to random

"I believe that, if we do not destroy ourselves first (as Carl Sagan famously said) we will become an interplanetary race."

https://akos.ma/blog/aliens/

akosma, 7 days ago to random

20 years ago, I watched the "Argentine" final of Roland Garros live on TV: Coria vs Gaudio, quite an electric one. 2 sets down after one hour… 2 missed match points by Coria… and Gaudio managed to win the cup anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOxKBfm1_-U

akosma, 7 days ago to random

Just found out that Proton Pass is now also available for Linux! (as a deb or rpm package) https://proton.me/pass/download

akosma, 9 days ago to random

Who needs a computer, anyway?

https://web.archive.org/web/20060427044337/homepage.mac.com/mbishop/PhotoAlbum30.html

akosma, 9 days ago to random

The 4th edition of "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Sheldon Axler (one of the most recommended books about the subject) is now freely available to download as an Open Access book!

https://linear.axler.net/index.html

akosma, 9 days ago to random

“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Ooze, 9 days ago to climate

This, slightly sad looking, but nevertheless actually ripened on the vine, little trooper was just harvested today from a row of tomato plants, growing outside, in Tasmania, at 350 metres elevation. That's 42 degrees south. This should not be happening.

#ClimateChange #gardening #tasmania

gattaraS2, 9 days ago to random Portuguese

Morrendo de rir, a presidente eleita do México é judia e o marido dela se chama jesus. A extrema direita tá querendo acusar ela de não ser judia por agradecer a jesus

akosma, 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

Had the Beatles and Pink Floyd collaborated on an album, this is what the cover art would have looked like. https://universeodon.com/@UncleDuke1969/112559257672809385