Gregory's Server
It almost looks like the loggers clearcutting that mountainside are trying to write a word.
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"De quoi remplissent-ils, quand ils sont libres, leurs absurdes petits dimanches." We're tied to a cliffside next to friends of ours, last night they pulled in and told us about how their summer has gone so far. They said something interesting on remote work, and how it is now more difficult than before. They used to be able to work on the hook, answering student's emails remotely, but now that everything is a video call, a remote desktop, a cloud app. The shift to remote work has made it harder for them to keep on working remotely.
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 @neauoire yeah so so much of that stuff is set up to be on a high bandwidth connection and totally shits out without it. Discord is the big sucker in my life these days a lot of my work goes through there and transferring it would be hard, but as soon as I'm out of 4g or my WiFi is on the fritz it is a miserable experience She asked us if maybe we knew tools that could help with collaboration on presentation documents for low-bandwidth situations. And while of course we know a lot that could help, to add insult to injury, a handful of her students use chromebooks, which sets a hard limit the tools the class uses, the limit being google slides. The accessibility push of google to put chromebooks into student's hands, seems to have the effect of shifting the cost from buying the terminal, to paying the ISP. I love making these collages of references for my slides, here's one for Strange Loop 2023. I have a really nice one where it's Pythia overlayed on Swift's engine(the machine described after landing from Laputa), to talk about Design for Descent.  speaker: "What are most important things to writing programs?"
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 @neauoire I thought it's going to be "having fun" but yeah, what speaker said. @neauoire Did the speaker then queue up the sound of incoming shells/ missiles from a newfeed about the Russian invasion ? "Sorry I can't stream any video right now, we haven't got the bandwidth" I often think about the implementation-size/quality-of-life ratio when working, and I tend to be very accepting of my own UX shortcomings as to just work around them instead of fixing them. The other day I spent about 10 bytes to add these little buffer zones(cursor goes gray) between the various modules of Left's interface, and that's probably been one of the best bang for buck.  We hiked a mountain a few days ago, somewhere half-way up, we came across a massive bee/wasp nest built right into the ground of the forest, and we couldn't easily contour it, anyways, I got stung, and after a few days it still hurts :(  @neauoire I was on a run yesterday and something flew into my face and stung me. Pretty sure it was a wasp. Anyhow, beneath my right eye is still swollen so I'm wearing sunglasses indoors so as not to perturb people 😅  @neauoire Peace was never an option. 🤷♂️ It makes me laugh that these massive tech companies build these websites now that don't even bother printing a message on <noscript> it's like fuck you, a white page, it's all we can afford for you.  @neauoire It's better than adding an insult into <noscript>... Google Maps infamously said "When you eliminate the JavaScript whatever remains must be a blank page." Wrote a little slide rule desktop toy in 2600 bytes, it's not very accurate but it'll allow me to demonstrate how the logarithmic scales work in front of an audience. The concept we need is called "observational equivalence."  Anchored just a few minutes walk away from a fresh water lake hidden between two mountains, it has been a while since we could last properly wash ourselves. It's nice. Let's say you're implementing a map function to run in parallel, how do you decide how many threads to spawn. There seems to be a pretty heavy cost to spawning a thread per cell when the list is very long, instead of having each thread process a few cells each. What's this topic called? What do I need to search for best practices?
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 @neauoire If you have a perfectly async. system you never want more threads than cores. There simply is no point. Unfortunately the world is sync. even processors are sync. with a clock. Now if you really want to think about something that will tickle your brain try to imagine an async. processor with no clock. It has been done apparently but I still fail to imagine it. Started putting together the slides for Strange Loop, in one of the slides I'll need to do a bit of drawing, so I spent time revamping Adelie's interface mode, added speaker's notes in the console, added a timer because the conferences always forget to start the stage timer, and drawing a label that displays the upcoming slide's name. |
@neauoire If I were in that business, I'd totally do it in the shape of a crop circle, just to mess with satellite imagers.