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flagsruleon The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter

Well it's dead now and it was a very reasonable post. This site is full of bias.

flagsruleon Cannabis is legal in most US states but federal laws block businesses from banks

The civil war was not fought over slavery. The union chose to free the slaves because it hurt the south economically more than it hurt the north economically.

flagsruleon Hacking Go's runtime with generics

Yes, refactoring from channels to atomic package can easily give 10x speedup. Sometimes we have to communicate by sharing memory :)

flagsruleon Hacking Go's runtime with generics

And if the GC ever starts slowing you down, just run a profiler and eliminate the allocations. It's usually as simple as replacing a dependency or using sync.Pool in the hot path.

flagsruleon Hacking Go's runtime with generics

I looked into using Graal one time. Many of the dependencies I used were not compatible. I also encounter weird bugs with any of the OpenJ* alternatives. In Go, everything just works.

flagsruleon Getting Started with Tmux

The only extra thing I want from tmux is to persist sessions across reboots and shutdowns.

I found a plugin called tmux-resurrect but it would be nice as a base feature.

flagsruleon No Hello: A New Wave

No, I got all that from my multiple years of repeated interactions with "hello" people and noticing a consistent pattern.

Maybe you don't fit that mold and just like to say hello and you are a good coworker without all the bad traits I mentioned. Didn't mean to make this personal... just sharing my observations of the past.

flagsruleon No Hello: A New Wave

The unspoken context is that this goes beyond saying "hello".

In my experience, hello people usually present with the following comorbidities:

- inability to learn and retain new information.

- inability to own their work and take responsibility from end-to-end.

- tendency to push their own work onto other people and become a victim when the other person doesn't do exactly what they want.

Maybe the psychology student you mentioned could look into this phenomenon for their thesis?

flagsruleon No Hello: A New Wave

I think there is an emotional cost in receiving a work-related message that only says "hello".

My data point: it enrages everyone I know. And they lose respect for the person who said "hello" and wasted their time.

flagsruleon Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)

The only thing that works is:

- people who care

- people who make a good faith effort every day

- people who consider the big picture and don't relegate themselves into a comfortable little box