Unicorn Seafood Restaurant opens in Broadbeach https://www.diningandcooking.com/?p=2025218 #arrived #broadbeach #dining #entertainment #Fish #gc #GoodFriday #has #kingscliff #Mediterranean #MediterraneanSeafood #Seafood #SeafoodRestaurant #the #unicorn #UnicornSeafood #Vegetarian

One problem with #GarbageCollection is that it can only free one kind of resource: heap memory.

For all other resources, like sockets and file handles, you still need some other reliable and convenient mechanism to free them in a timely fashion when they're no longer needed.

And if you have that…why not use it on heap memory?

Adding garbage collection to our Rust-based interpreters with MMTk
https://octavelarose.github.io/2025/01/30/mmtk.html
#mmtk #rust #gc #interpreters

I work on a laptop running Ubuntu #Linux. I can access almost everything I need from the work network, mostly using the Chrome browser. However, for a few things, mostly Adobe's proprietary extensions to PDF forms, I need Windows. I have a virtual machine on my Linux computer for this purpose.

Starting it up takes *minutes*, and opening Acrobat to fill in a single form regularly takes 15 minutes or more start to finish.

I've also got a desktop running windows in the lab down the hall. Once or twice a year I'll think, "this is dumb, I can just walk a few steps and use my Windows computer for this". So I do. And it takes *just as long* to go through all the boot/log-in/setup steps as my virtual machine.

It's a wonder we get anything done with #gc IT systems.

#GC #Canada #HumanRightsDay, Dec 10th.. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/government-of-canada_gc-humanrightsday-activity-7272248086364667904-SQ9t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

"Another problem is that memory-safe languages may introduce performance slowdowns compared to C and C++"

An old myth Granni tells her grandchildren besides the fireplace. Everyone ready to change beliefs given new evidence should read the garbage collection handbook to understand why manual memory management isn't naturally faster.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/08/the_us_government_wants_developers/
http://gchandbook.org/

Just received our regular reminder that in order to reduce our spending, government travel will be restricted next year. Which is fine.

But - *all* travel counts towards our travel cap. Even travel paid for by a third party. So if a university invites me to speak, and will pay my expenses, it counts as *government spending*. Meaning, in order to spend less of our own budgets, we are also required to decline funding from outside sources.
#gc

A friend did her French test again today. Third time I think. Needs CCC to be promoted to the job she's been acting in for months, probably years at this point.

Got CCB.

So many mid to late career civil servants hit this wall. It's heartbreaking. Especially when many of them are competing for the job they already do.

A Homebrew Gas Chromatograph That Won’t Bust Your Budget https://hackaday.com/2024/10/13/a-homebrew-gas-chromatograph-that-wont-bust-your-budget/ #gaschromatography #chemistryhacks #grainofwheat #Chemistry #arduino #HX7111 #silica #MQ-2 #adc #GC

A Homebrew Gas Chromatograph That Won’t Bust Your Budget - Chances are good that most of us will go through life without ever having to perfo... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/13/a-homebrew-gas-chromatograph-that-wont-bust-your-budget/ #gaschromatography #chemistryhacks #grainofwheat #chemistry #arduino #hx7111 #silica #mq-2 #adc #gc

"Any company that puts the onus on its employees to identify and preserve relevant evidence does so at its own peril"

luckily we don't have these problems in government

TIL: Go is actually pretty amazing.

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/til/t/368805/TIL-Go-is-actually-pretty-amazing

TLDR; See my first project in Go: https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/gitlab-artifact-deployer-go. Which I wrote in 3 days. Despite the GC I still needed to explicitly defer response body close(), which is kinda strange.

Did you try Go? What are your thoughts?

With my fancy new CBB language profile and qualification in an IS05 pool, I’m looking for a new #GC adventure. If you know someone who’s looking and needs a strategic storyteller or program/product developer … you can reach me at the same handle at gmail.