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sennalen··on Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Everyone involved will get their day in court. This is still the evidence-gathering phase in the bigger picture.
sennalen··on Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
He can flip and testify about Elon's responsibility
sennalen··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
I wish people would stop inventing new languages for nostd when we have nostd
sennalen··on Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds
Not Callisto. Being within Jupiter's magnetosphere but out of reach of Io's shenanigans makes it one of the mildest radiation environments in the solar system.
sennalen··on Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
Is that really a problem that needs solving though? The easiest way to not spend time bikeshedding is to just not bikeshed. Don't make guidelines. Don't run tools to check them. Don't comment on them in PRs. None of it matters.
sennalen··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
Why do you need another human to review the code of a human why can't these things get code right the first time
sennalen··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
RFC 3514 was just ahead of its time
sennalen··on Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
sennalen··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
The best commit message: is what is meaningful to a future you 1 week from now, no further otherwise takes up the least time to think about right now
sennalen··on Bugs Rust won't catch
Reversing max and min. That's one I've done a lot, and I don't think any compiler could save me from.
sennalen··on The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
C++ has Algol roots, but I think the C++ template metaprogramming style is an ur-language of its own. You could draw some parallels with ML maybe, but they came at it from a different direction.
sennalen··on I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
You could solve the original problem statement using just the part of the script that lists unmerged branches
sennalen··on I was right about ATProto key management
"Because I use NixOS, this was very easy."

First time I've heard someone say that

sennalen··on Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts
I heard an anecdote years ago about some medical device where people were clicking through confirmations without reading, so they made the user type IRREVERSIBLE on the keyboard to proceed.
sennalen··on Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt
"Get in contact with current employees at the company"

and draw the rest of the owl?

This blog is really missing the core question of what contact would be more effective than applying to the company's explicit job postings

sennalen··on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
Watch them
sennalen··on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news
Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Please stop trying to update it with information less than a week old.
sennalen··on Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin
Looking in from outside, people going immutable with Nix sure seem to struggle a lot more than people going immutable with disposable containers and Terraform/OpenTofu
sennalen··on How to Attend Meetings
Some of the most valuable meetings I've ever had were optional meetings without agendas. The crucial feature was it was only people who code. When technical people who didn't often interact with each other were given the floor, they turned out to have lots of important things to say.
sennalen··on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
It would be nice to be able to ignore Peter Thiel's opinions, but that's not a luxury we can afford while he's buying federal law enforcement politicians up to and including the vice president to help implement his crazy.
sennalen··on You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
It's humans. This is like TSA's fake bomb detectors with nothing inside the plastic shell
sennalen··on Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place
Nate Silver is an ideologue who deeply wants BlueSky to be failing.
sennalen··on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock
This isn't a bailout, though. It's strong-arming.
sennalen··on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock
SDI was real and led to the missile defense systems that the US has fielded today.
sennalen··on XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites
keeping data orthogonal to presentation
sennalen··on NASA Is Worth Saving
All the contractors and pork districts could still be engaged in doing something more useful.
sennalen··on Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire
The bottleneck is context switching
sennalen··on America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside
This is WW3 playing out. Russia installed its people in America to dismantle our defenses.
sennalen··on The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping
AI makes a lot of money. But games are what matter
sennalen··on X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company
The context I have heard the ham and eggs analogy was for certain scrum rituals that were supposed to be for ham people only (ie, excluding people without a stake in the outcome). Someone probably told this boss to butt out of a meeting.
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