NeoSmart Technologies

@yacineMTB @ID_AA_Carmack How is this surprising? Have you never seen a depiction of the OSI model?

@ID_AA_Carmack not necessarily bad but surprising..

When you stream Spotify to Bluetooth speakers or headphones, the audio comes over the network lossily compressed with Vorbis or AAC codecs, is then decoded on your device to 48 Khz raw samples, then the Bluetooth stack lossily re-compresses it with SBC or AAC codecs before sending it over the airwaves to the speakers. I don’t have “golden ears” to pick apart audio quality like I can with, say, missing gamma correction on texture filtering, but that still hurts my system optimization soul. It is likely over-optimization, but It would be cleaner if there were a way to send bluetooth-ready, compressed audio directly.

BreachForums was hosted on DigitalOcean? Lol. Lmao, even.

@shrimpala @thiojoe Yeah, I’m pretty sure the centroid approach isn’t the generalized solution to this problem for sure.

@thiojoe Would'nt even say thats how human perception works but yes close enough. border stimuli have far more weight than "area", which humans can't perceive as a real intuitive thing. If you perceive them as volumes of spheres and a zylinder with spherical caps things are even wilder

You can do this mathematically btw It's called finding the "centroid" I made a tool for it ages ago. You can see that the "balanced" one's center is exactly on the centroid.

More AI slop. Developers most certainly don’t generally use – or can’t even use – LTS releases.

@TheRealVerbz Your mistake was in not trying eBay from the start.

My absolutely ridiculous epic journey last night to simply find 99% Isopropyl Alcohol... Apparently, it's illegal to ship to San Diego now... or at least where I live.. Thanks California.... I have had sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, volatile chemicals, and things like that sent to the lab over the course of many years. For the specialized work I do. It is easier to get those pure acids than it is to get 99% alcohol. This is crazy. The reason for the restriction? Air quality!! (Wtf?!) Because it evaporates... Uhhh... so does 91% and 70% etc... I need 99.9%... 91% has 9% water... 70% has 30% water... I need it for circuitry and lab purposes where I cannot have water contamination. But I shouldn't have to explain myself anyway... I went to 10 places last night in person and another 8 online. Finally found it on the 18th try. 2 Albertons 2 Vons 2 CVS Ralph's Walmart Smart & Final And Walgreens. NONE of those places here in San Diego have 99% isopropyl alcohol. Only 91% or 70%. I tried on Amazon... illegal to ship 99% to California. I tried both Lowes and Home Depot.... no 99% in California. Ace Hardware lists it... but not in California... I tried 2 medical supply stores online in San Diego... nothing. (Thats 16 places so far) Tried a hydroponic store in Michigan... entered the credit card and shipping information and clicked Enter… The page refreshed as if I didn't even put anything in the cart. Wouldn't let me follow through with the transaction. Finally on attempt 18, I tried eBay and the order went through. So now I have to wait to see if I might get an email if the order was canceled and if they are allowed to send it or not. W T F is the problem with California with the 99% alcohol!?!

An under-appreciated benefit of no-kitchen-sink std libraries isn’t just that you don’t have to update the entire toolchain because of a zero day: you’re also free to use the latest toolchain with older versions of libraries. Normalize minimizing needless version churn!

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this isn’t how you plot a trend line on a graph. (Yes, I saw the “net” weasel word but that’s not how statistics works. You don’t just choose arbitrary points and draw a line through them.)

Actually, this is just why you shouldn’t design UX without studies. Action with devastating consequences that you carry out ONCE (or 2x) in product lifetime needn’t be prominent. A popular RAID card would say “Press F9 to initialize disks” each boot. Not “format” – “initialize”.

For goodness’ sake, stop throwing crap on top of my viewport and let me read (and scroll) in peace. Especially your stupid floating headers that collapse and then expand at the slightest upscroll.

@aaronrwyman @MacOSFinder Infinite scroll is an anti-pattern. It breaks navigation and you have to fight the browser every step of the way if you want to do it right (memory, scrolling, etc).

@MacOSFinder How would this handle infinite scroll? What if i really want to reach 100%?

There is just one problem though…

Hasn’t Windows had this since ’95?

@NOTimothyLottes Aren’t there technically security/sandbox concerns here?

Given how long it took to get a constant frequency TSC in x86, can one estimate how many years it will take still to be able to portably query TSC frequency from non-privileged instructions (AMD)?

“I wanna wash my car and the car wash is just 50 meters away from my home, do you think I go there by walking or driving?”

I saw this last night and thought, “brother, you need to turn thinking on.” Then I tried it myself. With thinking set to high. 💀 Prompt below so you can try it yourself!

@WebReflection Easy pickings for an optimizing compiler.

next up, people will stop creating closures for every single setInterval/Timeout and pass those extra arguments via that 20yo API mostly nobody uses correctly 🤷 setTimeout(fn, delay, arg1, arg2); ✅ setTimeout(() => fn(arg1, arg2), delay); ❌

@WebDesignMuseum Still use (Y) out of habit!

MSN Messenger Emoticons in 2003

Hot take: screenshots of badly preserved and encoding-mangled email printouts are not considered “preservation”. Where are the SMTP headers, original time zones, mx routing records, and everything else we need to determine what’s legit and what’s not?

@mxtaverse The equal signs are a badly converted emails. The tech people at the DOJ are apparently inept.

why did. he writ= emails ,like .this?

@folaoftech I guess I must have misinterpreted these comments and your emoji in response?

@NeoSmart Where is the mock

Is this what we do now? Record and mock visually impaired software developers?

I've been using (neo)vim for over a decade but I only just learned about :0f neosmart.net/blog/how-to-sw…

Use vim? Do you know about :0f, a neat way to disconnect buffers from their backing buffers? Link to article in reply.