The Nineteenth Byte

oh, which reminds me: @mousetail I recently managed to accidentally hit the "kill all except init" SysRq key instead of the reboot one, so now I can tell you that what happens is... nothing interesting

systemd basically acts as if it's a full reboot

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nice

Rydwolf Programs

CMQ: Would it be unwise to superglue the rubber tip thing to my airpod pro

It keeps falling off

And I don't think my ears are gonna grow any more

Ginger

glue the whole airpod to your ear

Rydwolf Programs

Trust me I consider it daily

Ginger

if you actually do it please tell me how it goes

Rydwolf Programs

8:20 PM

I tried to go running last night and had to resort to walking because I couldn't go 20 feet without one or both falling out

Ginger

also me when apple (this post made by android gang)

Rydwolf Programs

IMO the very first transhumanist surgery that we should invest in is standardized docking ports in our ears

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~~simply get real headphones and go running with those on~~

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms UEB: Universal Earial Bus

Rydwolf Programs

Forget like, curing genetic diseases and aging and stuff, I just wanna be able to listen to stuff while running/pushing carts in the parking lot/typing on my laptop at school

@UnrelatedString I have considered just wearing my ATH-M50x's but a) I would look insane and b) I don't want to get them all gross and sweaty

Ginger

8:23 PM

~~I already look insane, so it's not an issue for me~~

Rydwolf Programs

I do sometimes wear them around the house tho, I look antisocial as shit but the sound quality and convenience is worth it

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lol

Rydwolf Programs

I never get people who call wireless stuff "more convenient"

Like if you have the option to use wired anything, it makes life so much easier

No charging, no batteries dying, no bad connections, no pairing, none of that

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ikr

Ginger

I disagree

Unrelated String

8:25 PM

the only places wires are actually harder to manage are the places nobody's doing wireless anyways :P

Ginger

when Bluetooth and Co. work, they work quite well in my experience

Rydwolf Programs

Wireless server rack any takers

Ginger

and when they don't I simply turn them off and on again

mousetail

I hate charging stuff and cables just work which is super nice

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and those are also the places actual wire management solutions exist

mousetail

8:25 PM

No 10 minutes of trying to pair the divices

Rydwolf Programs

You gotta take the datacenter offline every few days to charge all the servers

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something something apple wireless mouse that can't be used while charging

Ginger

(side note: I'm only referring to things like headphones; wireless monitors and stuff are beyond stupid)

Rydwolf Programs

Oh yeah the dead cockroach mouse?

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exactly :P

Ginger

8:26 PM

(wireless mice? eeeeeeeh probably not a good idea)

noodle man

@Ginger playing FPS games on a trackpad

Rydwolf Programs

@Ginger This is actually the first I've heard of wireless monitors and oh boy does that sound dumb

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nice

Rydwolf Programs

Not as dumb as Stadia or whatever but still dumb

Ginger

clearly what we need is a mouse with a built-in gasoline generator

advertise it as "free haptic feedback! (non-optional)"

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8:27 PM

so true

mousetail

I'd be ok with wireless monitors since you can just set them up once then they work, unlike earphones which I need to constantly switch between my phone and computer

Rydwolf Programs

No clue who was like "y'know that one thing where input latency matters more than anywhere else? that's a SaaS opportunity if I've ever seen it"

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms it's kinda dumb, but also kinda cool, because the people who make them have done some ridiculous shit to keep the latency down

Rydwolf Programs

Same with wireless gaming mice

Like how big is that market

People who are willing to buy a mouse specifically for gaming but unwilling to deal with a single wire

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it's gotta be like 10 people who want something labeled as gaming and don't want to game with it

mousetail

8:28 PM

@Ginger They use lossy compression right?

So you get the snow glitching effect

Ginger

relatedly, did you know that Joy-Cons transmit data at 3125000 baud? (source)

Rydwolf Programs

I was in one of those shared office space places once for a meeting with someone, and some lady had a like, 27" curved gaming monitor for like spreadsheets

Betting her son just went off to college or something lol

@Ginger ...3 mbps? That doesn't sound very italics-worthy in 2023

mousetail

Spreadsheets are a very good use of ultra wide monitors

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms they're game controllers

mousetail

even more so than gaming

Those things require a ton of space

noodle man

8:31 PM

can one convert from bytes to metric units

Ginger

@noodleman yes

Rydwolf Programs

...metric units? Is there a metric byte?

Ginger

(depending on the storage medium)

mousetail

2^10?

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@RydwolfPrograms i feel like super wide monitors could be somewhat useful for very very large amounts of poorly managed spreadsheets :P

noodle man

8:31 PM

how else am i going to measure the length of my code?

Rydwolf Programs

Oh like length units?

noodle man

yes

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms yeah you didn't know about the ISO Standard Byte? they keep it in a secure hard drive in an airless chamber to prevent damage

mousetail

You can make your font as small as you like

noodle man

true

mousetail

8:32 PM

google microfiche

Ginger

@mousetail holy hell

noodle man

i'll start golfing my solutions by using 1pt font

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new response just dropped

mousetail

Also if you use 0-width space unary all solutions are 0 width

And will probably crash most editors

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i thought this was going to be some rust meme
disappointed it's just a typo :P

Ginger

8:33 PM

presenting my new zero-width font, which displays zero characters at zero width so you can view zero times as much text in zero percent of the time!

mousetail

Always assume everything I say is a typo

Rydwolf Programs

0.00000192497 mm/byte

I have math but I do not have time to explain it

o/

mousetail

There is a schodinger limit to how much information you can store in some volume I think

you could use that

You can store about 10^43 bits per kilogram meter

I don't really understand that unit

Bekenstein bound

In physics, the Bekenstein bound (named after Jacob Bekenstein) is an upper limit on the thermodynamic entropy S, or Shannon entropy H, that can be contained within a given finite region of space which has a finite amount of energy—or conversely, the maximal amount of information required to perfectly describe a given physical system down to the quantum level. It implies that the information of a physical system, or the information necessary to perfectly describe that system, must be finite if the region of space and the energy are finite. In computer science this implies that non-finite models...

Ginger

tomorrow's the start of Pride Month

Seggan

9:22 PM

so my FFT esolang idea is apparently totally impractical

i cannot predict when constructing the audio file how many bins there will be

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lol

Seggan

sadly that also means 1. my original idea is also unusable and 2. all the code i wrote is useless now

if if yall have an idea on how to make an FFT audio based esolang, hit me up

i could try lerp + finding local maxima but i dont feel like messing with that. id rather go rewrite rol's file meta serializer

@PlaceReporter99 nobody except you uses it tho :P

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