Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
@Jo
🐴 mom really likes that movie
🦄 I do *whuffles* although it makes me feel very sad.
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Yay: I found The Last Unicorn on DVD for £3 today
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will we be able to save the planet from climate change
[ ] yes
[ ] no
honestly...I don't wanna fix computing so much as I wanna just _replace_ it
like, so much of what we do, the gadgets that we want, don't even really need microcontrollers to do what they do. our tech has gotten ridiculously overpowered in some ways
"uh I need to turn on this light...can we do that with an Arduino"
I want a different culture, with different gadgets
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@kara_dreamer @ari Another architecture which I would like to explore further is something called "cache kernels", which is structured differently from exokernels, but seems to have similar aspirations as exokernels.
Unfortunately, it never really caught on in either business or academia, so precious little literature exists on the topic.
This is a paper that I pinned in my bookmarks some time ago, if anyone is interested. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~prabal/resources/osprelim/CD94.pdf
st enterprise s4e04
@maple heh, gotcha
st enterprise s4e04
@maple I think it's a different Doctor Soong, like, a father or grandfather or something. I dunno, I had given up on "Enterprise" by this point, I thought the show was awful
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"We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins."
— Ellen Ullman https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1137386992398766081
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people bag on Windows Vista but shit, I'd totally prefer it to Windows 10, just sayin'
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tired of dystopia. give me the struggles of those navigating abundance and community, cooperation and solidarity. what tests their moors, and what is the essence of their ways that transcends abundance? what does the humane world we dream of look like?
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money begging, please boost 🔁
I have a past due bill that needs to be paid but I don't have a job or any income right now :( It's $110 dollars. If anyone can help out in anyway (even if you just boost this post) I'll be eternally grateful ❤
venmo.com/NLD100
cash.me/$NLD100
I need to get things together so i can stop asking for help from strangers but for now i really need it. I'm sorry for being an inconvenience to anyone because of this
re: chemical accident report, deaths
@packbat guess there's probably a lot of engines out there (even now) that still need a "leaded" fuel to function, and this manganese stuff would be a substitute. but, bleh...I always feel like there are better ways
re: chemical accident report, deaths
@packbat the stuff they were making, an organomanganese compound called methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (how's that for a name!) isn't even super useful in my opinion. they tried to push it as a replacement for tetraethyllead as an antiknock compound and what I've read about it seems like it's kinda...pointless these days. adding antiknock magic to gas is something you do only because you wanna be sloppy with engine design and refining fuel
re: chemical accident report, deaths
@packbat no backup cooling, no provision to quench the reaction in an emergency. I'm pissed. this sort of shit must happen all over the country, all over the world
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@packbat it was _terrible_. liquid sodium metal was a reactant! and the only cooling was one external water jacket supplied by city water
once cooling failed the whole thing went up like a literal kiloton of TNT
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@drifa private corporations would be blowing themselves up every day if they were given free rein
you can't trust these crooks to do anything correctly
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@Alyx Reminds me of Flixborough. The opening lines of that accident report are amongst the most memorable I have ever read.
