Alex Danilo

Voracious technology sponge, can't get enough of the digital world (and give it back)

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@hthieblot https://t.co/G3Wj0q52gw

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@BrendanEich @LukasHozda Yeah, I did a bit-perfect analysis of fixed point division vs. multiplication (for DCT purposes). TL;DR: The reciprocal needs double the number of bits for the multiply to match the division. e.g. a 24:8 number needs 16 bits of fraction when doing the multiply by inverse

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@always_ff_rohan One can only hope to be fashionably unbridled

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@BrendanEich @xah_lee The quote is taken out of context, and yes, forward goto in many cases is the most efficient way to implement something. Poor juniors are forever putting booleans inside nested loops just so they can test them to break out more than one level of loop in order to appear sensible

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@lauriewired A few decades ago, one of my ex-Bell friends interviewed Rob Pike.
Q: Could UNIX have been built on the west coast?
Rob: No.
Q: Why?
Rob: Their variable names are too long.

Fair point

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

So if you're wondering how to pronounce the Italian 'Luce', it's kind of like 'Loo-ser'

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@lauriewired Oh and aircraft of course. Good old Concorde did the thing back in the late '60s and we haven't really done anything significant since

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@lauriewired I'd say it was earlier than that. Harry Olson's RCA work in the '30s pretty much stands as the definitive work, and his book: https://t.co/0Wp9evMFgb published in 1940. The '70s brought Thiele-Small but that's just for ported speakers. Materials improved but fundamentals didn't

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The Aust CGT changes are anti-investment. Existing property investors keep the 50% discount while share owners do not. Build a new home, get 50% discount. Build a new business, no discount. How are young people supposed to invest for a home? Not shares. Discrimination at its best

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@geoffswan @JEChalmers They don't need that - they need a lesson in paying GST. Most of them are tax evaders, doing cash jobs

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@lauriewired Yeah, so if we get to the point that humans don't even bother to review the code then surely the LLM should generate machine code directly, avoiding all that cruft in the middle (source->asm->binary)

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@AlboMP is making sure business leaders find a better tax treatment country to launch their startup. Australia is headed into a wasteland for future entrepreneurs all due to poor policy. Someone could have built a fast construction startup platform here, now why would you bother?

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@ClareONeilMP The CGT changes are anti-capitalism. Removing the pre-1985 CGT exemption is government retrospective theft: no grandfathering provision there. Startups and the talent for them will flee this country leaving it further behind in tech which drives smart economies. Your pension? Hmm

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Australia 20 years ago was debt free. Now the socialist Labor govt. has destroyed the retirement plans for millions of people on the back of having built a trillion $ national debt. Capital gains changes means no-one is incentivised to invest, esp. startups. Shame, shame, shame!!

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@Ryandally08 "Sorry boss, I didn't mean to take the diamonds from the jewellery supply, don't worry I'll pay them back and we'll be all good"

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@TrisH0x2A "There are those who understand how a computer works and those who don't"(tm). If 'to' points at a H/W address, then 'send' as the function name makes sense. Switch statements aren't goto equivalent. Even in edition 6 UNIX they could generate perfect hash jumps or lookup tables.

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@geoffswan @eevblog Yeah, and AWA let some young dude play trader with their money and he promptly burnt most of it and destroyed the company. The good old days:-)

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@geoffswan @BrianRoemmele I've still got a Burroughs plasma display from the 70s brand new somewhere in a box under the house. Should start a museum:-)

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@geoffswan @JimThom90458694 And don' t forget Rudd the dud handing out $1,000 Christmas bonuses in the wake of the GFC. Nice way to offload money to China for new TVs

[Alex Danilo @alexanderdanilo]

@BrendanEich @kineyDE @NeonVintage_arg @OhMeSoSorry @htmx_org Ah, XForms. Yep, another silly idea like XHTML2. I do recall at TPAC many folks pointing at XHTML2 as the pinnacle of why it all blew up. But anyway, nice story about the pub. We should also thank Domenic for finally getting the patent stuff sorted for WHATWG - that was difficult