@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotH'mmm... I have been working patiently and carefully on bugs in my memory allocation system all day,
At 22:57, I had a build which was substantially better, but not perfect. I kept on working patiently, and now, at 00:37, I have a build which is totally broken.
Fortunately, I did make a tactical commit to git while things were better.
#TheJoyOfSoftwareEngineering
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsTotally normal problems.
So one day I had trouble zipping my winter jacket; around the final teeth, the zipper would stop catching. And when I tried again, I couldn't zip anything at all. Finally, at nth careful attempt it finally worked, and I had no more trouble that day. When I've turned, we looked at it, and decided that a loose thread must have gotten into it while zipping. Cut the thread off.
Next day, the zipper worked just fine in the morning. However, when I was about to leave the train, it suddenly stopped working. It seemed that I'm up for a cold day in unzipped jacket, but it finally caught a few minutes later, on the road. This time, I suspected the zipper. Tightened it, it started working again.
Today, I've tried zipping it three times to make sure it really works. And of course, as soon as I arrived at the destination, it refused to zip. I've tried again while walking, and it fell apart completely. Fortunately, the wind stopped blowing, and walking on snow was hard enough to jumpstart my metabolism fast. Finally, I've replaced the zipper and now everything works.
I wonder what tomorrow holds…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usFinally got around to working on some data mining and processing for https://www.wyrimaps.net/wow/ by generating the in-game world maps. With some varying success, while to a certain degree, these maps are technically somewhat correct. They make no sense.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWoodson, Witten among 2026 NFL Hall of Fame finalists https://insidethestar.com/woodson-witten-among-2026-nfl-hall-of-fame-finalists
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022 (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/2006065989511750010
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgFuck. I was wondering what was going on with my computer since it was so slow, but I assumed it was topaz AI working in the background. Then I got this alert.
Had just updated the BRAW Toolbox plug-in, and when I ran activity monitor I watched that plug-in go from single digit gigabytes of memory to over 80. Meanwhile I was wondering what on earth was causing my MacBook Pro to literally /run down the battery/ while plugged into mains power...
Seems that plugin is dodgy...
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
@paulbusch@mstdn.caI mentioned previously that my son-in-law's sister and her husband are working on the new Cadillac #F1 team that will compete for the first time in 2026. The couple are both engineers who met over a decade ago while working for a racing team in Europe. That experience was why they were recruited and became one of a handful of rare Canadians working on the project team.
I'm not really a #Formula1 race fan but I am following this team because of the connection. They were recently at the auto show in Toronto where the race car was displayed. They shared a photo of them pointing to their names on the chassis, along with the names of the entire team. Track testing is now underway and it will be interesting to see how they stack up against the legendary manufacturers in this sport.
https://youtu.be/d7BDA7JGamk
@cdarwin@c.im-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…
@Nathan@social.lostinok.comI have no confidence that this would in any way improve the output from the Oklahoma legislature.
Oklahoma lawmaker moves to ban his colleagues from drinking alcohol while working • Oklahoma Voice https://oklahomavoice.com/2026/01/28/o
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHey, if you're working at Apple—your boss made grinning selfies with rapists at the White House while the blood on the sidewalk in Minneapolis wasn't even dry yet.
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineThe Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective - Michael Sharwood-Smith
https://www.routledge.com/The-Human-Mind-Revealed-A-Biological-Perspective/SharwoodSmith/p/book/9781032971292
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialThe birth of the Web — The World Wide Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
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@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster.
https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/
saved 2026-01-27 https://
@frankel@mastodon.topPublishing a #Java-based database tool on MacAppStore (MAS)
https://tanin.nanakorn.com/publishing-a-java-based-database-tool-on-mac-app-store-mas/
@ocrampal@mastodon.socialWhy Computation Can’t Create—And Where It Hits the Logic Ceiling.
While logic can rearrange the pieces of an existing puzzle, it cannot explain the spark that creates the pieces themselves.
https://ocrampal.com/the-scope-of-geneosophy-where-concept-creation…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMETR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (@metr_evals)
https://x.com/metr_evals/status/2002203627377574113
@mapto@qoto.orgThe consequences of the 996 working hour system:
"On the Chinese internet, the country’s current predicament – slowing economic growth, a falling birthrate, a meagre social safety net, increasing isolation on the world stage – is often expressed through buzzwords. There is tangping, or “lying flat”, a term used to describe the young generation of Chinese who are choosing to chill out rather than hustle in China’s high-pressure economy. There is runxue, or “run philosophy”, which re…
@grork@mastodon.socialDid the official “unsplash wallpapers” app stop working for anyone recently? I noticed today my wallpaper hadn’t changed in a while, and found it won’t launch any more, and spews a “kTCCServiceAppleEvents requires entitlement” error into the logs.
Is this a new change in macOS Tahoe?
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"…turns out, if you’re hiring for…pariah agency using nakedly fascist & racist messaging & recruiting for…where…jeered by…neighbors & are so hated…you…refuse to show your face, & trying to attract people who…excited to cos-play as…Navy SEAL in full tactical gear…like you’re taking Fallujah while facing down…inflatable frog costumes & wrestling to…ground hard-working roofers in…Home Depot parking lot, America’s best, brightest, & most fit don’t apply."
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyThank you very much Dan, you really get us! https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115746825145674767
@anildash@me.dmI've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.
@cdarwin@c.imSociety should learn to celebrate and capitalise on its
“massive cohort of healthy, active, older, creative adults”,
a leading population expert has said.
While pundits and pressure groups have raised concerns over falling fertility rates, highlighting the challenges for the economy and healthcare,
others are more upbeat, arguing the rise of the “silver economy” brings new opportunities for growth.
Prof Sarah Harper, director of the Oxford Institute of Populatio…
@andycarolan@social.lolI picked up Spirit City Lofi Sessions today. Really chill and awesome to play in the background while working #SpiritCity #Steam #MooncubeGames
@kcase@mastodon.socialWe made pretty heavy use of OmniOutliner while working towards shipping OmniOutliner 6!
(I kept checking for outlines under File > Open Recents and realizing that 30 recent outlines wasn't enough to get back to the outline I was looking for. But I didn't really want to bump my recent menus up to tracking 50 documents, either.)
https:…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWhen the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …
@jensilber@mastodon.socialAfter fully working from home for three months while the office was renovated, I had to RTO today. This is what was in the "welcome back" bag waiting at each of our desks. I dunno if everyone got identical items or if there was a larger selection of cheap trinkets with different nonsense motivational phrases on them.
@rae@bne.socialJust been working on some cards for my home assistant dashboard. Very nice animated dashboard except the developer coded low humidity as bad and high humidity as good. Obviously from a much more arid environment but made me laugh while reversing it.
@pre@boing.worldWorking on a website for a while until you look at it in chrome and it's horrible and you remember your dark mode plugin has been messing with it to make it look sane and dark. 😆
Gotta remember to turn these things off for the sites you're developing.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… When I worked in corporate IT, we had some of these. Tiny little USB dongle, like the wireless receiver for a mouse, that makes the cursor wiggle just slightly.
We used them as a way to ensure employee’s laptops wouldn’t lock while we were working on them at the helpdesk, so we wouldn’t need to unlock them.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzGary Kubiak Doesn’t Hold Back New Raiders HC Klint Kubiak https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gary-kubiak-admission-about-klint-kubiak/
@unixorn@hachyderm.ioRan into a weird issue with macOS and iTerm 2 while experimenting with #talos over the weekend.
Short version: I had to quit iTerm, reset the local network security permission for it and restart it before I could run talosctl from my a session in iTerm. Maddeningly it was working from a session in Terminal.app
The long version is at #homelab #iterm2
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioGot this computer in an estate sale a while ago and it just booted up first try!!1!
Only thing not working is CD eject.
Also the case of this DELL has extremely brittle plastic, a part of it just crumbled when I picked it up.
Still amazing that it just sprang to life though.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/tru…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialWant to break into climate work but don't know where to start? Terra.do's Learning for Action fellowship might be your answer.
This 12-week program goes deep on real-world climate solutions—beyond just clean energy. You'll learn the science, explore diverse solutions, and connect with a global community, all while working full-time (6-10 hrs/week).
Financial aid available.
@mickgeek@social.linux.pizzaHey there #Fediverse! It’s been a little while since my last update.
I’ve been heads-down on my #DITS issue tracker application, working hard to get the web client finished and #TestReady
@cdarwin@c.imA return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy
-- but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster,
residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain
Activity around the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is reaching its peak:
workers remove earth to expand the width of a main road,
while lorries arrive at its heavily guarded entrance.
When all seven of its reactors are working, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa generates 8.2 gigawatt…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Add Former NFL Offensive Lineman With Local Ties to Schottenheimer’s Staff https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/kyle-fuller-hired-assistant-offensive-line-coach/
@stev3yd@social.linux.pizzaI picked up this leverless controller for Street Fighter 6. It's taken a while and I'm still working on my ring finger strength, but I have to say my skill floor has gone up. I hit combos way more consistently. I miss you, nostalgic arcade stick, but I need digital speed! #StreetFighter #Streetfighter6
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia says it's seeing "strong" demand from China for its H200 chips but is awaiting approvals from both Washington and Beijing before sales could begin (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
