Mike Crowe

@mikecrowe
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Software developer (embedded Linux, C++, Git, build systems), cyclist, European. (he/his/him).
Web sitehttps://www.mcrowe.com/
Bloghttps://randombitsofuselessinformation.blogspot.com/
GitLabhttps://gitlab.com/mikecrowe
GitHubhttps://github.com/mikecrowe
Show threadMike CroweMar 11
@rogerlipscombe I think I noticed the same, though I had assumed that it was going beyond my ability and then coming back to get an accurate measurement. Now I think about it though, the page is limited to 8 bits per channel and I suppose it's possible that I could see a change of 1 in some of the colours. Maybe I should do it again and use a colour dropper!
Show threadMike CroweMar 11
@rogerlipscombe 0.0037, but isn't this more an indication of how good your monitor is?
Mike CroweMar 1
julfMar 1

Back in 1978 Brian Kernighan wrote, in the book "The Elements of Programming Style" that he co-wrote with P.J. Plauger:

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

Now, in the age of LLM, the question becomes "If you wrote it by using AI, how will anyone ever debug it?".

Show threadMike CroweFeb 22
@david_chisnall @internetsdairy @graham_knapp No. Zero was beyond nine to generate ten clicks (in the UK at least). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial#Function (further down the page the reason for 999 is explained too).
Rotary dial - Wikipedia

Show threadMike CroweJan 21
@TalesFromTheArmchair @rogerlipscombe I'm still running my own mail server with IMAP. Outbound delivery goes via my ISP. I even use offlineimap to insert mail into GMail mailboxes for those that currently use it as their mail client. How much longer this is sustainable for I can't say though, and Peter's suggestion seems like a better idea. https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/ has a list of commercial email providers too.
Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Disconnect
Mike CroweJan 18
Rob NapierJan 18

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

Show threadMike CroweJan 1
@liw I'm hoping that we'll get new versions of syscalls that accept pointer and length rather than null-terminated strings within the next few years so that C++, Rust, etc. libraries don't have to choose between making their interface more complex or doing extra allocations and copies to add the terminator.
Show threadMike CroweJan 1
I _think_ that I've combined inotifywait and offlineimap to just deposit incoming emails directly into the GMail inbox. I would have tried using ARC but it's still experimental in Exim so Debian doesn't have it enabled.
Mike CroweJan 1
Why is it that I often spend New Year's Day working on email configuration? Today it's trying to work out what to do about GMail dropping support for fetching from other accounts: support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719
Mike CroweDec 31
@jripley I'm surprised that we went to those lengths when it surely would have been much easier just to tell the boot kernel only to use half the memory (this being before CMA was invented), but presumably we had good reasons not to do that.