Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@sanket143 god I love open source software unconstrained by corporate soullessness.

@codefolio @katafrakt the processes+threads honestly still sound like a major downgrade compared to actor models of things like Scala or the Erlang family (and it seems Ractors if they ever happen), where concurrency is intuitive to implement and a first-class element of the language, and all internal functionality is thread-safe (this part seems to not entirely be the case for Scala lol) and GIL-less by default.

Not enough to warrant abandoning Ruby like when it was single-threaded, mind you, but enough to make something like Elixir strongly preferred over it if you're choosing the technology to start with.

@katafrakt what's the current concurrency model of modern RoR?

@dosnostalgic damn, as a kid I was shocked by christmas lights with the insulation worn out on both sides of the plug, but that's nothing compared to your experience. Glad you're alive.

@lanodan @coolboymew there's a picture of that somewhere but I can't find it :-/

@lanodan @coolboymew apparently the Event Horizon Telescope (global array of radio-telescopes) uses people flying on planes with suitcases full of HDDs as the main form of data transfer.

> Each telescope records at a rate of 64 Gbps, and each observation period can last more than 10 hours. This means each site generates around half a petabyte of data per run. With each site recording simultaneously, Blackburn said the high recording speed and sheer volume of data captured made it impractical to upload to a cloud.

@coolboymew the funniest part is that occasionally someone does strap whatever the current equivalent of a terabyte SD card is to a homing pigeon and beats an ISP in throughput. I've seen news of one of those cases relatively recently. (This year or the past couple of years.)

@freemo hey, it is the fault of capitalism. Wouldn't have high cost of cars and homes without cars and homes available to the public in the first place.

@bernd Brave has had that for about a year now btw

@ercanbrack only a third? Last time I saw mine it was about 50% ads and "suggested posts" ie ads but for facebook pages.
They simply realised that Facebook users will at this point accept any treatment, no matter how bad, as long as they can still kind of use the service.

@icedquinn @freemo it's not that hexagons fit the space better, it's just that they have a more physically stable structure. Which is pretty useful when the comb hangs its significant weight off its wax structure.

@thomasfuchs until 2013 the ISS was running WinXP on its main UI computer. Yes, with the old NTFS that will be happy to mega corrupt if the power is lost at an inconvenient moment or a stray cosmic ray decides to be extra annoying.

Having horrible unreliable UI that works with the very redundant and reliable hardware and firmware that actually runs the vessel seems to be a trend in the space industry. Electron-based rocket control still takes the cake as the most horrifying example I know of though.