Posts by rlamacraft@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #A56Ug29Btu6iFwgjmy by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-03-11T14:56:11Z
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@freemo @Electronics I’ve been watching his stuff for years; just absolutely fascinating. Just gives you so much appreciation for the wonder that is CPUs, networks and error correction, I/O, etc. Tried building some stuff myself but got to the point where I’d have to put down some serious cash to keep going
(DIR) Post #A56V3DnGlX0T2NUXGS by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-03-11T15:00:06Z
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@freemo @Electronics no, it’s the oscilloscopes and multimeters and other bits to actually be able to debug when stuff inevitably doesn’t work that’s begins to add up — breadboards, logic chips, and a few wires aren’t much but trying to figure out why something isn’t working with LEDs alone is very frustrating!
(DIR) Post #A5FIZ6OO38B44JCkEK by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-03-15T20:49:23Z
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Why is billing address even a thing? Why is providing my physical address necessary for me to purchase an entirely digital good?
(DIR) Post #A64skc9xfTEWRJyVhg by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-04-09T18:06:38Z
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Am really not convinced by all this talk of react being performant: just doing some performance testing and found it took 3 seconds to set a Boolean variable…
(DIR) Post #A66QPH8uCkt8m6RBFg by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-04-10T12:01:08Z
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@freemo I think what I’m measuring is an absolute tonne of third party JavaScript cruft. I can’t think of any reasonable justification for why any code-executing runtime should take 3 seconds to set a Boolean variable unless that bit of memory is sitting in orbit
(DIR) Post #A66sDRh3wr8EjuYsee by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-04-10T17:12:46Z
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@freemo If I set the same value immediately after it drops down to something reasonable, but if I alternate the value being set it stays up around a second, and every time the function is invoked it’s always up at multiples of seconds; I don’t think it’s the JIT or anything. I just need to really understand what all these libraries are doing under the hood to propagate the changed values to the rendered view and how they’re attempting to optimise changes to the DOM
(DIR) Post #A674wGLoAMoW2dkz1E by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-04-10T19:35:15Z
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@freemo So I’ve managed to get the assignment down to consistently 40ms by abstracting the code that renders the variable… (still high but it’ll do) This is why I don’t see the point of functional reactive programming in building time sensitive systems because behaviour is unpredictable when data dependencies aren’t co-located — much prefer the traditional OOP approach of getters and setters, myself
(DIR) Post #A6761deh30oviniXrs by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-04-10T19:47:31Z
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@freemo Yeah, the more exotic runtimes of languages like Haskell and Prolog certainly have their place. I’ve worked on a proprietary FRP system (though they didn’t call it that) in the finance industry but that was for overnight batch processing. Very good for modelling dependencies between variables and, yes, where parallelism is hugely beneficial (Erlang comes to mind), but it’s applying it to time sensitive applications that doesn’t make sense to me. And that’s not to say all functional languages aren’t predictable; PureScript is just like Haskell but without the lazy evaluation and is just as predictable as vanilla JS, but most trade it off for other benefits
(DIR) Post #A8pA3nUzhdRLuEK480 by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-06-30T21:40:32Z
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If I had a reason to write documents in my spare time, I could very easily see myself getting into antique typewriters
(DIR) Post #A8puYdBqfzveno0Z3w by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-07-01T06:23:30Z
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@freemo maybe someone needs to produce a USB teletype that can interface with modern machines; then we get have all our fun whilst having digital documents at the end of it
(DIR) Post #AAUOu33UELbuwLKKeG by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-08-19T15:04:51Z
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Why is water always sold in plastic bottles and not in a can? Would be so much better for the environment…
(DIR) Post #AAUVt8B0P51GDGLyim by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-08-19T18:22:23Z
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@pleiades well… yeah, but that’s just wishful thinking unfortunately
(DIR) Post #AAkgLibIFBZ8sViIQS by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-08-27T13:23:07Z
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Nobody can make a website with the address grannysmith.apple — why? Because a company that makes computers says so. Simply absurd.
(DIR) Post #AAl3MFbNqL6qAyyjJI by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2021-08-27T17:52:49Z
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@freemo it’s not, I was just looking at Apple’s IP webpage and saw that they own the .apple TLD, and became reminded how much power big tech has. Like, this goes way beyond traditional trademark law…
(DIR) Post #AG4xufbtD1mVQAOTLM by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2022-02-02T20:37:44Z
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Why isn't there a DNS record type for physical addresses? Why can't I have people send me mail to home.rlamacraft.uk and then when I move I just update my DNS record?
(DIR) Post #AHQzC3fxWnHZyoE9xY by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2022-03-15T08:11:03Z
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Why are we not instigating gas and oil rationing across the continent? This is insane. We'll do everything we can for the Ukrainian people except anything that might have the slightest impact on our lives
(DIR) Post #AUD1g2IHtPSPIgkMtc by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2023-04-01T13:15:48Z
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@freemo as I understand it, the issue is not that money was paid but that because his lawyer paid the money and her going public would have damaged the campaign it is being seen as undeclared campaign finance
(DIR) Post #AVsEVW3IZkHzwv3eE4 by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2023-05-21T08:04:49Z
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Lately, it really feels like there's enough going on on Gemini to be checking in most days. For those that haven't checked it out in a while, be sure to take a look at @jk 's new geminispace.org project which is pushing the boundaries on what's possible over there
(DIR) Post #AbadoccVKxAY1IVxR2 by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2023-11-08T07:46:14Z
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@freemo that’s a pretty standard view on the matter in Europe. Most countries put the cut-off at 12, 13, or 14 weeks but, yes, socialised healthcare is not controversial
(DIR) Post #Ac2ycRlwdZFu07Ibjc by rlamacraft@qoto.org
2023-11-21T23:50:13Z
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@futurebird Could you not setup macros/text replacement? So typing a command like “!sqrt” would get turned into the square root symbol?