Guy Sherman (he/him)

C++: Indiscriminately pwning n00bs and grizzled veterans alike since 1983.

@_NIG3L_ Nice. Pity about the RUCs 😆. Ironically makes our Aqua cheaper to run the our Leaf. Although if electricity were free that would be different.

@guysherman I did the math a while ago, we are in our 5th year of having the system and have two electric vehicles driving high km and are close to break even now so future generation is all upside.

It’s amazing at this time of year I can be 100% self sufficient from our solar panels running the house and driving a 150km commute using 10.22 kWh each way.

@_NIG3L_ Do you have a sense for what your cost per kWh is from your solar (amortising capex in)?

Note at $3 per litre this would be about $44 worth of petrol for the round-trip in a similar size SUV using 10L/100km.

@PGPayT @redditSpaceView The giant tin foil hat on webb is there to block the heat from the sun. Pointing back at earth means pointing sunward and would likely completely saturate the IR sensors on board. Webb is made to look for the very bottom end of IR.

@redditSpaceView Amazing! I wonder what it would look like if Webb turned around a took a picture of the Earth?

Hubble Vs Webb

@tessamdberger @PopBase A 27-year old fighting a 58-year old isn’t exactly a level playing field to start with

What are your thoughts on the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight? #PaulTyson

@dan_brunskill Was this a “rank these things” or a “rate how much you care out of 10”?

@DeSerrateGame @DanielW_Kiwi Also, heat exchangers often rely on a high surface area to volume ratio, so you’d need to pass the water through relatively thin pipes, also way more prone to clogging. Also probably not much of a temperature gradient, best case 40 degrees from pure hot water to room temp.

@DanielW_Kiwi Great question! Because your drain would clog up far more often. Cold stuff tends to be stickier 😏

Why don't we use heat exchangers in the shower drain? It seems crazy to just throw all that heat away.

@ProduceLikeAPro @Everyone Ardour. I was drawn to it because it is open source, but I like that you can talk to the people who make it, and the pace at which they keep evolving it.

Hello @everyone I'm compiling a huge amount of wonderfully useful information for u all! Could u answer what DAW you use they only let us show 4 what is it u like about ur DAW in the comments! PLEASE keep it to the DAW u know & love no hear say just real personal experience of ur DAW! U ALL Rock!

@rockthejvm @ApacheSpark I always thought that part of the reason python was so popular was that binding to C libs was easy and fairly performant, whereas JNI kinda sucks.

Thinking out loud about @ApacheSpark: How would data engineering have been different if, instead of working tirelessly for 10 years for PySpark to get ever closer to Scala performance, we had taught data engineers 2 hours of Scala instead?

@ahammer__ I am always torn by this. I sanity check by asking myself “if this never actually gets fixed, do I really care?”. If I do care then I’m going to want it fixed, or at a minimum a backlog item (but usually a fix). If I could live without it until the end of time, I let it pass.

am I crazy to review a PR and even if I find a lot of things to comment on it, unless I see a blocker I approve it? I feel like I’m trusting the person to fix the issues + not abuse the approval. waiting for reviews sucks and slows down a lot too. feels like a win win but dunno

@troyhunt If it was leaked publicly odds are many bad actors got it, therefore all data should be treated as compromised, therefore the users need to be notifies.

An individual obtains a "highly confidential" data set via a publicly accessible DB backup, then sends it to me. The company knows him, and he commits to deleting the data (as do I). It contains 400k+ users - should the company notify them of the breach? Explain more in reply.

Is it just me, or does the state of texas kinda look like a revolver pointing to the sky.

@timClicks Batten down the firewalls!

October is going to be a difficult month for systems administrators. CVE with a 9.9 rating (no user interaction required, exploitable remotely) will be disclosed on 6 Oct. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1838169…

@eatonphil @croloris They can be orders of magnitude better latency. Think about how an ORM keeps entities in memory to avoid making repeated queries. Now you want that cache to be distributed across some hosts. You don't want it to be as slow as the database the data came from in the first place.

@croloris Why are you using it instead of postgres/mysql?

Genuine question: why does anyone use redis / valkey / memcached? I know the high level answer but I do not actually understand.

@EricLengyel Whoa, they still use COM for all that?

After a week buried in COM code, I finally have full OLE integration between my standalone C++ application and Microsoft Word. • I can insert an object from inside Word to automatically launch my app and start editing. • I can read the current style (font size, etc.) at the insertion point from my app. • I can place vector graphics in a Word document as an inline shape from my app. • I can adjust the vertical position of the graphics from my app to align the baselines correctly. • I can store arbitrary data along with the graphics to maintain editability. • Double-clicking on an existing object in Word automatically reopens my app for editing.

@_NIG3L_ @sponno Same, I had an LG one. If Microsoft hadn’t messed with the C runtime they could have had a success, but porting was just too much effort.

@sponno Windows phone

Found this article from 2007 - about how you had to hack an iphone just to use it in NZ. But it made me think. what was the last phone you owned before the iPhone?

@ID_AA_Carmack Did it originate with wanting to charge a license fee to publish on the platform (as a solve for loss-leading the hardware)? Seems like the 30% storefront cut is a stand-in for that?

Game console dev documentation, tools, and libraries being under NDA / partner agreements is a weird anachronism today. Microsoft would never consider doing that for a Windows API. They should just open everything up post launch and make console dev like mobile dev.

@dhh Does it Linux though. (Granted Macs and Snapdragons don’t linux particularly well either).

Who had Intel besting Apple M chips on battery with great performance while sticking to x86 on their bingo card for 2024? Looks like the ARM v x86 battle isn't as over as it seemed. youtube.com/watch?v=STpFf-…

WTF @duolingo this is traumatising!

Man, hugops to Chorus. Somebody must have got _well_ carried away with a shovel last night.

@CFDevelop Nope. The most useful thing about senior devs is their ability to resolve ambiguity into action, and avoid painting themselves into a corner over the long term while they do it. Claude is not going to be at that level for a while I suspect.

A junior dev with some discipline and Claude beats a senior dev that refuses to use AI any day of the week