packrat
@packrat.bsky.social
Engineering educator, maker, and artist.
Another ex G person who knows him here. Hoping for the best case.
April 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Another ex G person who knows him here. Hoping for the best case.
So the reason it's a good idea is the social media makes kids unhappy, but they're terrified of being excluded by not using it. By taking it away from everyone you solve the second problem, and the first will probably sort itself out.
November 30, 2024 at 10:07 AM
So the reason it's a good idea is the social media makes kids unhappy, but they're terrified of being excluded by not using it. By taking it away from everyone you solve the second problem, and the first will probably sort itself out.
This is going to largely come down to idiots trying to define social media.
I define it something with
1. likefarming and
2. algorithmic presenation of new data.
reddit sits on the edge because the algorithm mostly wombles around in the topics youv'e specifically subscribed to.
I define it something with
1. likefarming and
2. algorithmic presenation of new data.
reddit sits on the edge because the algorithm mostly wombles around in the topics youv'e specifically subscribed to.
November 30, 2024 at 10:06 AM
This is going to largely come down to idiots trying to define social media.
I define it something with
1. likefarming and
2. algorithmic presenation of new data.
reddit sits on the edge because the algorithm mostly wombles around in the topics youv'e specifically subscribed to.
I define it something with
1. likefarming and
2. algorithmic presenation of new data.
reddit sits on the edge because the algorithm mostly wombles around in the topics youv'e specifically subscribed to.
When ping was compiled with the added flag and code, the ping binary was actually 3 bytes smaller. The bloat people walked away in a huff, the -a flag was added to ping, and because userland on a mac derives mostly from FreeBSD, mjy old -a flag is right here.
I should make a video about this. 6/6
I should make a video about this. 6/6
November 28, 2024 at 3:35 AM
When ping was compiled with the added flag and code, the ping binary was actually 3 bytes smaller. The bloat people walked away in a huff, the -a flag was added to ping, and because userland on a mac derives mostly from FreeBSD, mjy old -a flag is right here.
I should make a video about this. 6/6
I should make a video about this. 6/6
It was initially rejected as bloat, as something you could just use sed for etc. That was fair, but it was also really convient if you ever touched thinnet. Eventually the bloat was the last argument standing, but because of the djinnn inhabiting gcc, 5/
November 28, 2024 at 3:34 AM
It was initially rejected as bloat, as something you could just use sed for etc. That was fair, but it was also really convient if you ever touched thinnet. Eventually the bloat was the last argument standing, but because of the djinnn inhabiting gcc, 5/
That meant I could go around the lab crawling under the desks, wiggling bits of that bloody awful thinnet and listening for the beeping noise to stop and start. Saved a bunch of time.
On a whim, I decided to get it upstreamed to FreeBSD, found a friend committer to shepherd it through. 4/
On a whim, I decided to get it upstreamed to FreeBSD, found a friend committer to shepherd it through. 4/
November 28, 2024 at 3:32 AM
That meant I could go around the lab crawling under the desks, wiggling bits of that bloody awful thinnet and listening for the beeping noise to stop and start. Saved a bunch of time.
On a whim, I decided to get it upstreamed to FreeBSD, found a friend committer to shepherd it through. 4/
On a whim, I decided to get it upstreamed to FreeBSD, found a friend committer to shepherd it through. 4/
In frustration at having to walk back to my unix machine that was plugged into the network which was pinging them to see what had fallen off the network I was wiggling cables, I hacked the FreeBSD ping command to optionally include a BEL character. 3/
November 28, 2024 at 3:31 AM
In frustration at having to walk back to my unix machine that was plugged into the network which was pinging them to see what had fallen off the network I was wiggling cables, I hacked the FreeBSD ping command to optionally include a BEL character. 3/
It was a lab full of old NT machines connected through the desks with dodgy thinnet ethernet in the structures lab (a glorified shed), most of the cables locally built and I was trying to figure out which of the cables were flaking as a result of that environment. 2/
November 28, 2024 at 3:28 AM
It was a lab full of old NT machines connected through the desks with dodgy thinnet ethernet in the structures lab (a glorified shed), most of the cables locally built and I was trying to figure out which of the cables were flaking as a result of that environment. 2/
This is probably the most inane article I've seen in a while. Yes, they use fancy new words like "commits" but this boils down to people so detached from reality that they can't see why KLOCs are a terrible productivity metric.
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 AM
This is probably the most inane article I've seen in a while. Yes, they use fancy new words like "commits" but this boils down to people so detached from reality that they can't see why KLOCs are a terrible productivity metric.
We all know that quality labelling for machine learning systems is decades old at this point, yes? Not "AI" current era specific.
November 26, 2024 at 11:35 AM
We all know that quality labelling for machine learning systems is decades old at this point, yes? Not "AI" current era specific.
But they're both great :)
November 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM
But they're both great :)
But imagine how much money and regulation they can extra from the US government now!
November 24, 2024 at 4:43 PM
But imagine how much money and regulation they can extra from the US government now!
OH yes, and people immediately wittered on that it would erase draftsman (who aren't engineers) whereas in fact it simply changed what they did.
You do know they aren't engineers, yes?
You do know they aren't engineers, yes?
November 24, 2024 at 6:36 AM
OH yes, and people immediately wittered on that it would erase draftsman (who aren't engineers) whereas in fact it simply changed what they did.
You do know they aren't engineers, yes?
You do know they aren't engineers, yes?
In the 90s? pre-meaningful web? Yes, I was and there wasn't anything like that, it was actualy pretty hard to easily find examples of anything and books were king. In the 2000s there were a few more, but they didn't have as much impact as these do today.
November 23, 2024 at 3:32 PM
In the 90s? pre-meaningful web? Yes, I was and there wasn't anything like that, it was actualy pretty hard to easily find examples of anything and books were king. In the 2000s there were a few more, but they didn't have as much impact as these do today.
Algebra isn't a hard maths problem, but it is a type of abstract that is going to be pretty helpful.
November 23, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Algebra isn't a hard maths problem, but it is a type of abstract that is going to be pretty helpful.
I didn't assert this has been the same for 30 years you did. So you need to consider what things looked like 30 years ago.
November 23, 2024 at 1:11 AM
I didn't assert this has been the same for 30 years you did. So you need to consider what things looked like 30 years ago.
re-learning it should not be as hard.
November 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM
re-learning it should not be as hard.
Engineers have not been saying this for decades, because nobody was for e.g saying don't each statics and dynamics, just issue everyone with a finite-element-analysis package.
THe AI thing is a threat, but more to early career expeirfenc ethan teaching per se.
THe AI thing is a threat, but more to early career expeirfenc ethan teaching per se.
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Engineers have not been saying this for decades, because nobody was for e.g saying don't each statics and dynamics, just issue everyone with a finite-element-analysis package.
THe AI thing is a threat, but more to early career expeirfenc ethan teaching per se.
THe AI thing is a threat, but more to early career expeirfenc ethan teaching per se.
I've been thinking about this. This is an existential threat, that short-sighted non-techinlcal would redirect the work we use to train new engineers to cheap AI without considering the consequences.
November 22, 2024 at 4:39 PM
I've been thinking about this. This is an existential threat, that short-sighted non-techinlcal would redirect the work we use to train new engineers to cheap AI without considering the consequences.
I would definitely say you don't need extensive calculus etc. Some linear algebra is almost certainly going to help, and I'm pretty sure without algebra, some abstract concepts are going to be hard. That said, if you are missing algebra, this is not at all an insurmountable kill, just do it first.
November 22, 2024 at 4:37 PM
I would definitely say you don't need extensive calculus etc. Some linear algebra is almost certainly going to help, and I'm pretty sure without algebra, some abstract concepts are going to be hard. That said, if you are missing algebra, this is not at all an insurmountable kill, just do it first.
You can imagine anything you want but the maths doesn't work out that easily. This is probably why you'd plan ot cycle your raid set from time to time, when the disks are wearing out any way
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November 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM
You can imagine anything you want but the maths doesn't work out that easily. This is probably why you'd plan ot cycle your raid set from time to time, when the disks are wearing out any way
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It feels like "diagrams" could be doing a hell of a lot of lifting here.
November 22, 2024 at 12:14 PM
It feels like "diagrams" could be doing a hell of a lot of lifting here.
I don't think you read what I posted quite carefully enough.
November 22, 2024 at 12:09 PM
I don't think you read what I posted quite carefully enough.