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oncallthrow··on Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
`git rebase -i` and `fixup`
oncallthrow··on Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
It’s “trope”, not “troupe”
oncallthrow··on Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
I think this will sort itself out over time, as people realise that it’s no longer impressive whatsoever to land an AI-assisted PR to the Linux kernel.
oncallthrow··on Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup
I came, I saw the em dash, I closed the tab
oncallthrow··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
> Matthew has personally sent out every offer letter we've extended. It is a practice he has always looked forward to because it represented our growth and the incredible talent joining our mission

Who gives a shit if you treat your staff like this?

I will add cloudflare to the list of companies that I’ll never work for. Shame, because it seemed like an interesting place

oncallthrow··on Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
> this is why we don't run as root

The entire point is that you can escalate to root

oncallthrow··on Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
can this also be used to obtain container escape ?
oncallthrow··on Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]
Just use rps
oncallthrow··on Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
Shame that this report is LLM-generated slop.
oncallthrow··on I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language
A GitHub README.md without a torrent of AI-generated slop? Refreshing
oncallthrow··on Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals
have you considered implementing a +- operator?

For example a +- b would be [a - b, a + b]

oncallthrow··on Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war
I’ve spent dozens of hours reading about the conflict on social media. I don’t think I’ve seen a single western account, outside of schizophrenic conspiracy theorist anons, saying that Iran is some paradise that can do no wrong.
oncallthrow··on Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war
Yes, because that quite literally isn’t “news”. Western leaders including the pope have condemned jihadism for decades.
oncallthrow··on A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
No, it will likely be a state actor who reaches it first, who will never give away such a capability so easily
oncallthrow··on A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
No, and even if we could, it would require a migration of approaching the same difficulty of a migration to PQ, at which point why not just migrate to PQ
oncallthrow··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
I suppose transistors is a bad example.

Perhaps a better analogy would be the Linux kernel. It's built by biological humans, and fallible ones at that. And yet, I don't feel the need to learn the intricacies of kernel internals, because it's reliable enough that it's essentially never the kernel's fault when my code doesn't work.

oncallthrow··on Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
That isn’t the same thing. Indeed, upon reading further, it appears there is no way to import non-stdlib go modules.
oncallthrow··on Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
I've read the entire page and still don't know whether or not I can import Go modules in this language, which seems rather important
oncallthrow··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
I think this article is largely, or at least directionally, correct.

I'd draw a comparison to high-level languages and language frameworks. Yes, 99% of the time, if I'm building a web frontend, I can live in React world and not think about anything that is going on under the hood. But, there is 1% of the time where something goes wrong, and I need to understand what is happening underneath the abstraction.

Similarly, I now produce 99% of my code using an agent. However, I still feel the need to thoroughly understand the code, in order to be able to catch the 1% of cases where it introduces a bug or does something suboptimally.

It's possible that in future, LLMs will get _so_ good that I don't feel the need to do this, in the same way that I don't think about the transistors my code is ultimately running on. When doing straightforward coding tasks, I think they're already there, but I think they aren't quite at that point when it comes to large distributed systems.

oncallthrow··on Working on Products People Hate
Maybe you should vote with your feet and work somewhere that isn’t like this.
oncallthrow··on Working on Products People Hate
All of this guy’s takes are so funny to me. He’s clearly been forged in the fire of utterly cursed and corrupt companies like Amazon, and it bleeds into his entire world view. He can’t even conceive of the idea of actually wanting to create a good product, it’s all seen through the lens of promotions and self-furtherment.
oncallthrow··on Telnyx package compromised on PyPI
I think it's only a matter of time at this point before a devastating supply chain attack occurs.

Supply-chain security is such a dumpster fire, and threat actors are realising that they can use LLMs to organize such attacks.

oncallthrow··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
I’m always staggered by how stressed and tbh (not necessarily their fault given the circumstances) unprofessional US ATCs sound.

Sharp contrast with Europeans

oncallthrow··on You are not your job
> It also helps me keep my job during layoffs because I can assure you the managers have noticed.

I got to this bit before realising this is satire

oncallthrow··on Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
And the Oscar for most mealy-mouthed post of the year goes to…
oncallthrow··on MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
Palantir’s product is light years ahead of anything any government IT project has ever, and in my opinion can ever, deliver. They’re not even in the same league.
oncallthrow··on Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
This is morally wrong and it should be embarrassing to publish such an article.

It doesn’t surprise me to see such articles coming from academia, in which juniors are treated like dirt to such an extreme that is unimaginable in any other industry, save for maybe Michelin star cuisine.

oncallthrow··on Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
This is morally wrong and it should be embarrassing to publish such an article
oncallthrow··on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
This is pretty autistic. I kind of agree, being somewhat on the spectrum myself. But I think the world would be a considerably worse place if everyone abided by such rules.
oncallthrow··on Flightradar24 for Ships
Unfortunately adsbexchange does not allow you to see the source/destination of flights
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