cyberpunk

I much prefer v60 to what i can produce with my aeropress, and one benefit is no plastic. Worth a try if you get the itch.

Temporal is a dumpster fire, they've gotten so much VC funding (recently had D, 300M at a 5bn valuation) with ... nothing to build except ways to trap customers into their SAAS.

I give them about a year or two before the wheels fall off, then it's off to Broadcom and friends.

But I could be wrong as now they're not in the 'durable execution' space at all, it's 'durable execution for ai' according to their latest conference.

Got to spend that VC dosh somewhere I suppose, they're certainly not spending it on making a good product.

It just changes the page cache for the su binary, a reboot will revert it.

There's no Y axis. It doesn't mean anything. There could be a 10% difference since 2023 for all we know.

forgejo has been great for us. It scales remarkably far with the built in sqlite db also. Single binary, no deps. You ofc have the option to hook it up to a proper database server.

I mean I know we all love to shit on azure, but I don't think it's partially unavailable for 3 hours a day on avg over the last 3 months?

I'm user angry unicorn... :}

Yes.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

94 incidents in 90 days.

You can mount webdav — which has been more reliable for us.

Yeah that's a tough spot to be in; I think though, your responsibility really ends with you at work, unless you're very high up on the management chain.

Keep it simple right; in everything you do, make things a bit better than you found them. It's enough. You're never going to win the fight to get everyone (or maybe even ANYONE depending how messed up your org is) to care; so why lose sleep on things you can't change?

At least, that's what I started doing some years ago by now having lost lots of those fights, and I'm sleeping fine again.

It's a bit of a weird place to be in as a senior engineer who has spent 2 decades perfecting his craft.

So, on one hand, I'm also kinda sad and how quickly we've thrown the guardrails away, but on the other -- it's... Well. It's just work.

Turns out, no one ever really cared how elegant or robust our code was and how clever we were to think up some design or other, or that we had an eye on the future; just that it worked well enough to enable X business process / sale / whatever.

And now we're basically commoditised, even if the quality isn't great, more people can solve these problems. So, being honest, I think a lot of my pushback is just a kinda internal rebellion against admitting that actually, we're not all that special after all.

I'm just glad I got to spend 20 years doing my hobby professionally, got paid really well for it, and often times was forced to solve complicated problems no one else could -- that kept me from boredom.

I think the shift we are seeing now, as 'previously' knowledge workers is that work becomes a lot more like manual labour than what we've really been doing up until now. When there's no 'I don't know' anymore, then you're not really doing knowledge work, right?

I guess I'll just ride the wave, spew out LLM crap at work, and save the craft for some personal projects, I'll certainly have the capacity now work is a no-op.

So... Our jobs are safe then? I mean, assuming we don't also atrophy to the same extent as the 'many'?

Maybe I have some neurological issue or something but whenever I quit coffee I find it extremely difficult to maintain any kind of motivation to sit in an open plan office and code. Coffee makes me a worker bee, I can understand why employers give it away for free.

So, the coffee stays for now.

There’s this great feeling standing infront of a couple loaded billy bookcases trying to pick what to read that i just don’t get from looking at the directory listing on my kobo. (I can reccommend a kobo, it runs linux and with koreader you can even open a terminal emulator on it, ssh into it etc).

I like and use both, but yeah the feeling just isn’t the same reading on a screen vs a nice folio society hardcover.

Ah fair enough, mostly i’m living in tmux/vim for those scenarios. Real dev work I’d want an IDE too, but seeing the Jetbrains splash on my holidays would ruin my holidays.

It’s got a bunch of decent ssh clients; I use mine quite often for this. With a hdmi capture thingy it’s also the display for a bunch of my rpis when they don’t boot etc..

Totally doable for travel debugging.

They’ve done a few impressive things also, remember that time they converted the root filesystem on every ios device on the fly with a point release? Kudos to whoever clicked that particular button I’d have bricked it personally ;)

I hear this sentiment a lot but it doesn’t match my experience. I’m an experienced erlang programmer, i’ve shipped thousands of gen-server and gen-statem over the years and coding models can absolutely wire them up faster than I can type them out… I guess if you’re using lombok in Java or something typing @foo probably doesn’t take all that long.

Ah that makes a little more sense. Do they jut rebrand kobo devices to tolino? I see they also have a colour e-reader but i can’t really tell if it’s the same device or not…

Goddamnit! All I wanted is a quiet life for a few years; and now they're making a biopic about me? They didn't even reach out to my team to gather details. I guarantee they'll probably get my shell and font preferences wrong.

I mean really? Oh I can't see someone heading down to the copy shop to scan every page of war and peace and then print it out when you can get a used one for less than the paper cost..

I was kinda amazed to find out how hard it was to buy a kobo libra colour in .de -- apparently there's some kind of cartel thing going on where amazon somehow convince entire markets not to sell their competitors products. I had to order it from Hungary or something iirc.

A lot of places (e.g the village i live in) have volunteer fire teams which only really need equipment and training, it’s much cheaper than having a 24/7 paid fire department.

Obviously doesn’t scale to a city.

TIL, this is great. Thanks, saved me some yaml :}

You can get into difficulty with kubernetes here, as your jvm will detect all cores on the node but you may have set a resources limit on the pod/whatever, so it’ll assume it can spend more time doing stuff than it actually can, so often times it’s quite necessary to tune some things to prevent excessive switching etc.

Darknet Drinking Game: a shot every time something is “unbelievable to me”

Mongo’s c++ isn’t it?

portmaster is the tool i use for upgrading installed ports on freebsd since… like… olden times.

Part of the blame here has to be on whoever decided it was a smart move to install recoding devices with these features in the first place.

I always find it astounding when I see Americans showing cctv footage recorded inside their homes and going via some third party who can just click a button and see inside your homes..

I must just be one of european privacy whack jobs I guess.

Illuminoids, has to be.

https://archive.org/details/IlluminationRadio

Pick an episode with your rng of choice.