<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> honestly this is fucking peak <br>aviation has been nothing but downhill since then</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> they simply float gently to their ground using their massive balls as a sail</p>

<p>i wonder if the test pilot would close the door behind them</p>

@mgaudet@discuss.systems @shriramk@mastodon.social @cfbolz@mastodon.social @shu@mstdn.social @jandem@mastodon.social If we're settling for reminiscences: To expand on what @shu said, the benchmark by which we measured the success of performance efforts at the time was SunSpider, which IIRC was a collection of C benchmarks ported to JS - it just was nothing like the real workload. The lesson I take away is not "don't do tracing" so much as "don't chase bad benchmarks"

<p>there&#39;s got to be something seriously wrong with you for even considering that... procedure, much less actually flying it</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> (although haibane renmei is quite possibly the only anime i hate, or ever will hate)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> &quot;Why would a sewing machine cost $3,000?&quot;<br />Now you know</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/linus" class="u-url mention">@<span>linus</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://is.badat.dev/users/Mae" class="u-url mention">@<span>Mae</span></a></span> ./configure ac_cv_arith_add_working=yes</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://yiff.life/@fen" class="u-url mention">@<span>fen</span></a></span> c...can i have a link? for chemistry reasons obviously</p>