R. A. Dehi @radehi@social.cleverlibre.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
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@blakereid @mmasnick No, needs to be low enough stress for the people operating the system so they don't quit, and needs to attract or create people with the necessary technical competence to keep it running.
A communication platform like Mastodon can survive with 30 people or 300 million people, as long as one out of every 30 or so people is able to fix problems as they arise, and as long as no group of people can make the platform useless to everybody else.
Whether regular people can use it or not obviously affects the regular people, but its effect on the survivability of the platform itself is very small and possibly negative. Consider how many Commodore 64 users there are today versus how many Macintosh 512K users. Or how many IRC users (about a hundred thousand) versus how many AIM users (zero). Or how many FidoNet users (about a hundred thousand I think) versus how many Minitel users (zero).
I think you didn't think your ideas through before tooting to see if they made sense.
@neauoire Hey, this is fantastic!
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I've completed the implementation of Uxn, in Uxn, which allows me to spawn sandboxed processes(think uxn roms in windows). But I think while I'm here, I will make a little standalone toy which will be a step debugger with a pdp like panel that communicates each step of the evaluation with little blinking lights.
@freemo @worldsendless So, I'd like to do more things in LaTeX, but I've noticed LaTeX (well, Mathjax) is broken on Qoto, and every time Terence Tao posts LaTeX it blows up my home page with giant letters. I'm told this is a known problem. There is a known Qoto problems list somewhere? What is known about the problem, and what do you know and not know about what needs to be done to fix it?
@blakereid @mmasnick No, needs to be low enough stress for the people operating the system so they don't quit, and needs to attract or create people with the necessary technical competence to keep it running.
A communication platform like Mastodon can survive with 30 people or 300 million people, as long as one out of every 30 or so people is able to fix problems as they arise, and as long as no group of people can make the platform useless to everybody else.
Whether regular people can use it or not obviously affects the regular people, but its effect on the survivability of the platform itself is very small and possibly negative. Consider how many Commodore 64 users there are today versus how many Macintosh 512K users. Or how many IRC users (about a hundred thousand) versus how many AIM users (zero). Or how many FidoNet users (about a hundred thousand I think) versus how many Minitel users (zero).
I think you didn't think your ideas through before tooting to see if they made sense.
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@jperlow No, they'll sell it off to a data broker firm in Bulgaria that doesn't disclose its client list
@kate And when creating SVG elements in JavaScript? Or is fixed nowadays?
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Impressively, random forest classifiers trained solely on expression data performed nearly as well as models trained with intolerance metrics in predicting dominant (monoallelic) genes and outperformed them for recessive (biallelic) genes
@kate This is genial! What's the situation with the SVG XML namespace nowadays? When is needed?
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An SVG star in just 96 bytes, suitable for embedding directly within HTML:
<svg viewBox="0 0 48 48"><path d="m24 4-6 13-14 1 11 10-3 14 12-7 12 7-3-14 11-10-14-1z"/></svg>
@allenholub Is usually pretty funny how little the people who make these analogies know about house building, too.
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function box() { t="$1xxxx";c=${2:-=}; echo ${t//?/$c}; echo "$c $1 $c"; echo ${t//?/$c}; } # Make box around text. By bartonski
I made an explanation of how this works a while ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZ85aMuf6c
@SteveLionel You might like it; has incredibly powerful macros, no types, and extremely interactive development, though nowadays is not widely used. More alive than BLISS though!
@mlliarm @elfprince13 The problem is not that a function has side effects.
@SteveLionel How do you like Forth?
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@radehi @alexandru I do, other than the difficulty of figuring out that you had a missing dot somewhere. BLISS macros were incredibly powerful and could help you write clear and maintainable code. BLISS is far better than C for systems programming, in my opinion. ELUDOM
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3D Bowl for the #BBCMicro / #AcornElectron. 447 bytes of compressed code, 539 bytes non-compressed.
@SteveLionel @alexandru Do you miss BLISS?
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
