Ellie D. @diodelass@mastodon.social

in the other news, don't ever go on Know Your Meme, even if (especially if) you have a ton of RAM

I really need to figure out how to make my systems just kill processes when I run out of memory. Trying to swap many gigabytes to a spinny disk is madness.

today is blacked out on my weather forecast widget for some reason

MICROSOFT: Edge is 33% faster than Chrome and Firefox. Edge is fast. Edge is better because it's faster. Use Edge.
ME: have you possibly considered the idea that I don't select my primary browser purely on speed

I made my friends a reset button for the pick&place machine they're assembling at my uni

So I was just gonna not read that bullshit Atlantic cover story (the "your child says she's transgender, she's 13" one by Jεssε Sιngαl) but then I remembered that my parents are avid readers of that rag and are probably going to try to talk to me about that article when I move home.
And yeah, it's as bad as I expected.

00:00 ~% ./helloworld.py
00:00 waiting for UIL [#29472 in queue]....
00:53 waiting for UIL [#4582 in queue]....
....
21:57 Hello world!

21:57 ~%

Tired: Global Interpreter Lock (only one thread per process can execute code at a time)
Wired: Universal Interpreter Lock (only one thread in the world can execute code at a time)

I would probably never be mean to someone for not knowing that in real life but in the dream it was some satisfaction because I think they'd just been mansplaining Python to me moments before

I had a dream last night that this person I really didn't like was giving a presentation on improving performance in python using multithreading, and I was like "wow, that's silly, the global interpreter lock means that won't do shit, I can't believe they aren't using multiprocessing instead"

New journalism rule:
Articles containing "while it isn't really [pop culture thing]," aren't allowed to be titled "[pop culture thing] is coming!"

I really like what Redox OS is up to, I really hope I can be competent enough with Rust to help them out someday

I'm now once again down the rabbit hole of microkernel operating systems and tiny, ambitious projects that I really, really want to see succeed but don't know how to begin to contribute to

there's that "stifle experimentation" line that always means trouble (see also "encourage innovation" and "promote competition")

I actually know nothing about Fuchsia, please don't quote me on this

this is gonna be the sort of thing that Google Fuchsia turns out to do, isn't it
It's an RTOS, it's supposed to be extremely modular and used for basically the whole range of things that operating systems are used for - it fits.

from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel
This is interesting but also very scary. lov too have a computer full of applications that all read and write fully opaque binary data to their own sections of the disk

maybe a dumbphone too for calling and texting

pretty sure my next phone is going to be no phone at all (probably split between a WWAN card for my laptop, a digital camera, and a handheld GPS unit)