@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-10-22 05:45:56
Agree to disagree: Why we fear conflict and what to do about it https://theconversation.com/agree-to-disagree-why-we-fear-conflict-and-what-to-do-about-it-267576
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 12:57:15
One room at the conference center is dedicated to an art gallery, showing pictures and images inspired by satoshi and bitcoin. Some are impressive and colourful, but some I find myself ideology opposed to their point of view.
Bitcoiners as a group tend libertarian and capitalist. Is there common cause between them and me, a more anarchist and socialist tending individual?
I think we can agree that the government money system is broken, disagree about the aims of a replacement system, and disagree on the actual effects of a bitcoin based system.
Some say bitcoin is money for enemies. We do need to transact with people without having to agree with them.
#bitfest #bitcoin #art
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-23 13:11:20
I'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-22 22:50:42
Coinbase agrees to acquire prediction markets startup The Clearing Company for an undisclosed sum; the startup was founded in 2025 and raised a $15M seed (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/383497/coinbase-to-acquire-…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com2025-10-23 03:00:13
When It Hits the Fan - The Prince Andrew Crisis
Possibly more discord and disagreement than I have ever heard before between the hosts Yelland and Lewis on this one.
I think I have to agree with Yelland here that royal PR is in a total mess and the upcoming generation (George, Charlotte and Louis) are going to have to force their parents to shake things up.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-11-22 19:50:50
Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2025-09-24 01:01:17
Happy Birthday NFS!
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-21 16:36:58
These days, anti-GenAI screeds cross my radar every week. Even when I agree with what they’re saying (I often do), they’re mostly saying the same things. So, FWIW, here’s one with a fresh PoV: https://going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/on-ai-and-the-golem/
With an entertain…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-23 12:45:47
The Canada Pension Plan Board and Australia's Goodman agree to invest $2.6B in data centers in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Paris, starting to build in June 2026 (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-22 07:31:02
Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access to internal systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $8M seed led by a16z and boldstart (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/21/ai-agent-security-startup-keyca…
