guenthert (u/guenthert)

guenthert commented on 8-bit Boléro linusakesson.net/music/bo... · Posted by u/Aissen

B1FF_PSUVM · a day ago

Why do I get reminded of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells?

(Yes, I've heard the Ravel before, I mean the presentation style, e.g. Oldfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtqKZ6GrY )

guenthert · 16 hours ago

I too was waiting for the 'grand together' announcement.

guenthert commented on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power lists.nanog.org/archives/... · Posted by u/lpage

Animats · 17 hours ago

Google has their own fleet of atomic clocks and time servers. So does AWS. So does Microsoft. So does Ubuntu. They're not going to drift enough for months to cause trouble. So the Internet can ride through this, mostly.

The main problem will be services that assume at least one of the NIST time servers is up. Somewhere, there's going to be something that won't work right when all the NIST NTP servers are down. But what?

guenthert · 17 hours ago

Ubuntu using atomic clocks would surprise me. Sure they could, but it's not obvious to me why they would spend $$$$ on such. More plausible to me seems that they would be using GPSDO as reference clocks (in this context, about as good as your own atomic clock), iff they were running their own time servers. Google finds only that they are using servers from the NTP Pool Project, which will be using a variety of reference clocks.

If you have information on what they actually are using internally, please share.

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guenthert commented on Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp world-playground-deceit.n... · Posted by u/BoingBoomTschak

stackghost · 3 days ago

There are effectively two Common Lisp worlds: the commercial world where Allegro and Lispworks dominate, and the non-commercial world where SBCL is more or less the only game in town.

CCL, as far as I can tell, is abandonware

guenthert · 3 days ago

> CCL, as far as I can tell, is abandonware

Last release was August 14 2024. For a 30+ year old project, that's quite recent methinks.

It clearly doesn't move as fast as SBCL, but I wouldn't call it abandoned either.

ototh, afaiu, SBCL gave up on ARM32. Can't blame them for that, but until 2023 I was still using an early Banana Pi with such. CCL worked there much better (also it's GC seems more robust).

guenthert commented on VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

cons0le · 4 days ago

This article provides NO explanation of what the "VA" in va linux is for. I guess I'm just stupid and everybody else knew right away

guenthert · 4 days ago

Well, it does list the names of the founders ...

guenthert commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3

nialv7 · 4 days ago

The interpretation is not the problem. Whether he will do it, is actually secondary to the fact that he thinks cutting adblock can bringing in money.

No, it will just kill the browser. The fact he thinks otherwise tells me how out of touch he is.

guenthert · 4 days ago

Is it him or is it you? I'd think within the Mozilla organization is a data trove of telemetry which renders a fairly good picture of how many users actually are using ad blockers.

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guenthert commented on How well do you know C++ auto type deduction? volatileint.dev/posts/aut... · Posted by u/volatileint

am17an · 5 days ago

Usually codebases disallow auto because without an IDE it's difficult to see the type. I think this reduces the cognitive load of C++ a bit. The only time it is allowed is getting iterators types from STL containers.

I remember fretting about these rules when reading Scott Meyer's Effective C++11, and then later to realize it's better not to use auto at all. Explicit types are good types

guenthert · 5 days ago

Hard disagree. There are times when nobody, really nobody, cares about a given type. See the example of std::chrono::steady_clock::now over at cppreference.com. There you have

        const auto start = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
        do_some_work(size);
        const auto end = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
        const std::chrono::duration<double> diff = end - start;

        std::cout << "diff = " << diff << "; size = " << size << '\n';

Looking up the (current standard's) return type of std::chrono::steady_clock::now() and spelling it out would serve no purpose here.

guenthert commented on Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable – 53 Years After HP Introduced the Bus phoronix.com/news/GPIB-De... · Posted by u/looofooo0

KK7NIL · 6 days ago

Worth noting that GPIB is still very common in labs and present in modern lab equipment that's still in production. Tek's AFG31000 is one example but there's countless more.

Mil/gov customers are still die-hard GPIB users and that's a major sector for T&M sales.

guenthert · 6 days ago

Indeed. Keysight's top-of-the-line long-scale DMM, the 3458A, was redesigned (chiefly for RoHS compliance) in 2019 and the GPIB bus remains the only means to remote control that instrument.

guenthert commented on Running on Empty: Copper thehonestsorcerer.substac... · Posted by u/the-needful

Glyptodon · 12 days ago

I live in a home built after 2000 that had aluminum wires run to its heat pump. A few years back coolant leak from the heat pump lead to huge electric usage before the aluminum wiring lit on fire and shorted itself out. Since repaired, but was told at the time original installer didn't correctly do the aluminum grease on the exposed wire parts.

That said I think the wiring there is still thick aluminum.

Not sure I really have a point - all things equal I'd prefer copper, but it seems like aluminum can be fine when done right too - just riskier when done to the quick and dirty homebuilder standard.

guenthert · 6 days ago

> Since repaired, but was told at the time original installer didn't correctly do the aluminum grease on the exposed wire parts.

I know nothing about grease, but it's pretty obvious that a fuse was missing. You might want to check that such of correct rating is in place now.

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