Posts by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #AUz22FvxB5r3bRNDPc by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-04-24T06:54:47Z
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Alright, so pdffs is good enough to read some of the system documentation!Not all of it, though - e.g. the fossil paper has graphics, and we currently only render text.But still, this is a fantastic step :D#9front #pdffs
(DIR) Post #AUzYiKMAJzeQ11js8m by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-04-24T07:17:04Z
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Hot take: all the discussion on whether dark themes or light themes are better is totally wrong, because it focuses on subjective things like "taste" and "beauty" and "actually readable contrasts," none of which matter.No, the REAL answer is that dark mode is *objectively* better, for ETHICAL REASONS.Light mode requires more energy on most types of screens I'm aware of - it means turning on more transistors on LCDs; it means turning on PIXELS on OLEDS.~P-please nobody take this seriously.~
(DIR) Post #AUzYiLh7La0MAIY7RA by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-04-24T07:20:31Z
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@byterhymer sylphrena:~$ grep idle .config/sway/config -A2exec swayidle \ timeout 120 'swaymsg "output * power off"' \ resume 'swaymsg "output * power on"' \That's why my screen turns off after two minutes of inactivity.With OLEDs, this is actually a serious point TBH. My monitor is a 48" OLED, so I do genuinely think that using a screen saver or a light theme would be morally wrong (SO MUCH ENERGY WASTED).With LCDs, light mode vs dark mode doesn't really matter
(DIR) Post #AUzYiMERLgexpe8jNQ by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-04-24T07:22:36Z
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@byterhymer Relatedly, I have ~40W of solar panels I use regularly - I've set myself a rule that e.g. my phone and [handheld -> low-power] game console are never allowed to get power from any other source.Then I realized that just turning off lights that other people left on pointlessly has more of an impact, because a lot of energy is just being *wasted*.We don't respect our energy usage at *all* anymore.We're all in for a rude awakening when we run out of oil...
(DIR) Post #AV1wruskfyDT7V0RBQ by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-04-26T02:09:08Z
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@ecs LLVM's codebase is trauma-inducing. After looking at it, I need therapy!...I mean, I needed therapy even before I looked at it, but still!
(DIR) Post #AVAAJF70QHGeLiiHCK by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-04-30T01:25:28Z
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> effort to rewrite sudo in rustWhy would someone go to so much effort to not use doas??
(DIR) Post #AVGnkKfMwUoUYTSDEu by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-03T03:05:25Z
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#pdffs talk from the ninth international workshop of #plan9 https://diode.zone/w/sDPCT5cdmU2sH6hezSpfxATotally forgot to post this sooner
(DIR) Post #AVJrd7CBbu0A2YUvZo by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-04T18:17:28Z
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Ordered a power switch last week, opening the box today to find a newspaper and going 'what'and then realizingOh, wow, they *reused newspapers* to pad the box instead of wasting foam or somethingAwesome, good work, thumbs up.
(DIR) Post #AVK7sTsBB3r1z0UM64 by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-04T17:48:41Z
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Anyone happen to know offhand what this "expression" is supposed to evaluate to in C? This is one of those cursed extensions that I haven't seen in forever.({ uint8_t _res = (a); __flag_5(res & 0x20) | __flag_3(res & 0x8); })My assumption is that it's equivalent to__flag_5(a & 0x20) | __flag_3(a & 0x8)except it only evaluates the expression `a` once?It's used in a macro in #knightos' z80e :/I'm not actually sure if that assumption is wrong or if the problem is totally unrelated code.
(DIR) Post #AVM1IQYrnjpxsXngYK by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-05T19:08:51Z
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I am once again forced to remember against my will that a LOT of progammers would be unable to function without StackOverflow.Seriously, what the hell is wrong with software engineering as an industry.
(DIR) Post #AVTgiSAIOyrnAuqS4u by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-09T11:47:54Z
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Silly thought:Much of what lawyers and judges do, observing from the outside, seems to be interpreting words other people wrote instead of just asking the authors what they meant.... there has *got* to be a smarter legal system than this O_O.[mandatory disclaimer: this observation is *probably* wrong? I really hope it's wrong. I'd hate to be right.]
(DIR) Post #AVU1HYqFZI7N6KUFCC by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-09T15:27:00Z
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"fun" thought: at ~$0.10 per kWh, human labor - in energy costs - is roughly 6 cents per day.Something seems very off here.
(DIR) Post #AVU6XSfwlFvaNh4KQq by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-09T16:47:07Z
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Stochastic parrot paper [1] is interesting, but not for the reasons I expected.I dunno that I fully agree with some of the axioms they express...> Languages are systems ofsigns [ 37 ], i.e. pairings of form and meaning. But the training data for LMs is only form; they do not have access to meaningI'm not sure I buy that it's impossible to figure out meaning just from form; the othello study[2] in particular seems to disagree.[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922[2] https://thegradient.pub/othello/
(DIR) Post #AVU6XUL6ZiRdXdKiDw by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-09T16:49:26Z
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The othello study in particular is fascinating; there's a follow up[1] which presents interesting evidence that a version of GPT trained purely on a list of legal othello moves and the results ends up with a *full model of an othello board* in its weights - to the point where you can identify "this number in the matrix indicates whether or not the piece at (x, y) is my color", change the number, and change what move it suggests.[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nmxzr2zsjNtjaHh7x/actually-othello-gpt-has-a-linear-emergent-world
(DIR) Post #AVU6XWO0xrxbtEi42K by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-09T16:50:31Z
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The othello study has convinced me that the neural networks are *not* just information regurgitators.So, again... research is fascinating, but the actual real-world usage of this stuff is just terrible.
(DIR) Post #AVU9MdvksIzNxszoSO by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-09T17:19:39Z
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@icedquinn I dunno, the way I see it, color vs monochrome is the same as 3d vs 2d. I think you could do a decent job explaining it to someone who was colorblind.Someone who's *actually* blind though... that's a lot trickier. *If* you could figure out a way to explain the concepts of light and dark, really, I think you could bootstrap it without being able to see?I don't think you'd conceptualize it the same way as someone sighted, but I think you could understand it pretty well anyways.
(DIR) Post #AVXjAifNcY7d0BpX0a by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-11T05:36:43Z
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BWAHAHAHAHA BEHOLD MY GENIUS!Got #knightos' TI calculator emulator, z80e, running under Plan 9 using the Native Porting Environment :)Just need to finish cleaning up the code and commit this :D
(DIR) Post #AVb2O1qw4wGCsLAuem by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-13T00:23:42Z
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Who needs dyndns when you can just set up a machine to periodically curl a nonexistent URL on a server, log into that server, and check the error logs to find which machine knows the nonexistent URL? XD
(DIR) Post #AVkYVO3D27sy1aE0sy by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-17T15:03:50Z
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Idle VCS thought:It would be nice if I could tag a branch in Git with a plain text file, outside the main repo history :/% git checkout -B foo% git documentExperimenting with resolving an issue.First attempt didn't work, so blah blah blah...[scientific journal here]^D% git document -b foo......probably % git notebook would make more sense but stillIt's weird keeping all my notes in a folder on the main branch when working on other branches...
(DIR) Post #AXoCRxxtn9YycHWEd6 by pixelherodev@fosstodon.org
2023-05-27T02:47:24Z
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holy shit planarsPLANARSSSSSSit's not just hype :O this is genuinely the best sound that has ever been in my ears :DDDDD