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The article is correct in its esthetics but all it does is highlight the problem of how bad diagramming tools still are — and that they are so bad that a cell phone photo of a smudged whiteboard drawing with horrible handwriting is still preferable, but of course, also uneditable.

It’s not that the masses are so smart, it’s that the “elites” are so mind bogglingly stupid.

It’s easier to backdoor a known key. Tell people they have encryption, and they will trust you. Very few will be able to verify, even if they care too. When they do, the algorithm checks out, but it doesn’t try matter if you already have the answer.

It’s sounds like Andreessen and the Accelerationists are foolishly optimistic and out of touch, but the author seems to be trying his best to make you take their side by offering the worst counter-arguments in the most disingenuous way.

Everyone in heaven is an Accelerationist these days. I like to think Sam gave up his crusade and went sailing with Jan and Renfrew.

Back in my day, we had to hear about an interesting website from a friend, and then bookmark it — or remember the site name (including the www dot). And if we wanted to see a cat fall off a couch, we had to watch TV on Sunday night, or wait half the night for it to download, and then click page down repeatedly to make the ascii art appear animated — uphill both ways.

Flash invented tiny scroll bars

TLDR: yuppies

If you have Starlink in a rural area, you’ll notice it always wants to point towards that one cell tower the distance.

Starlink has always been primarily a high gain 4G/5G antenna.

Never involve Pauly Shore in socio-science experiments.

Are you talking about in ancient Qinga?

Sounds like a pretty piss poor attempt at an absolute by someone who aspires to the label “sophomoric” in the most asinine and juvenile sense.

Great VCs are a gullible hype driven herd. Great founders are not.

Is that a nice way of saying we are still stuck with the original GHA implementation

Do you know a way to stream the gh run watch output?

Yaml is the worst possible programming language, beating out even ant’s xml abomination.

Unfortunately most of the work of GitHub actions is configuring the runners and setup data, which requires you to use lots of yaml to invoke unvetted public repositories (actions) written in JavaScript to do what is easier done as shell scripts, and then use shell scripts to workaround the limitations of actions.

State is impossible, data is even more impossible, and caching is completely broken. And if you use your own runners, GitHub actions don’t even clean up their own garbage. I suspect it’s the same on public runners, but just statistically less likely to affect you, but a potential security vulnerability.

I’ve been working 2 things:

1. A front end that crafts GHA workflow yamls from a sane configuration with common tasks baked in.

2. An event and reporting system so you can see what is happening during a workflow — not after — without having to scroll through GitHub’s hideous log output in html or download and unzip the full log.

It’s the opposite. A Kubernetes solution for Postgres.

Amazing how much data you can generate with a small cluster piping out /dev/urandom continuously over every possible socket.

When something becomes too easy, a more complex, expensive, brittle, slower, less flexible way of doing it will be invested.

Take GitHub Actions, for example.

Internet trolls work hard and they deserve to be paid for their work.

It doesn’t really count as an apology if you deliberately mispronounce it.

1000 to 1? Dollars to bitcoins? Shares in their room temperature superconductor monopoly?

Alright, I’ll give you 10:1 odds.

Looks like I need to give some sucker 3:1 odds to take his money. Anyone want to bet it’s real?

Or it means they cut and pasted the algorithm and don’t understand it.

A block is a namespace that has an entry point, and optionally a return value and arguments.

There is no need to distinguish between functions, modules classes, lambdas, or whatever.

Hence, no need to distinguish their start or ending with keywords, as long as you can determine their scope.

Brackets determine scope, and unlike indentation or words, that is all they are used for.

TeX was written in the 1970s for typesetting when there were no word processors by a computer programmer who couldn’t afford professional typesetting and couldn’t be bothered to learn assembly language so he wrote his own fictional one for his book — the same book he wrote TeX to publish.

If you think lead is scary, wait till you hear about carbon dioxide.

Big keyboard is keeping DVORAK down! In a fair world we’d all be typing NewQL faster with AI from our flying electric cars in a communist utopia.

You can see duplication in the one example they provide —- between clients and territories.

Every client has to have duplicate modules for every territory that they operate in and if they begin to operate in another territory, that has to be copied in — or they have to keep a copy of all territory modules for every client. I think it is probably the former, since they talk about pruning and ignored imports.

That’s an important point. In 2016, John Carmack is speaking as a manager who doesn’t even have to show up for his job about wanting to extract more value from the employees working under him on his hobby project. He wants them to work harder on his stupid VR goggles fetish.

It had been more than 20 years since Carmack pulled an all nighter working on Doom, and he’s been coasting along ever since.