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by josephg 3y ago
Yeah, I suppose the thing I was trying to say was the inverse: We are not liked for our perfection. We are liked for our flaws. Stressing out about how we’re perceived is another precarious path. But still - I think there’s something deep
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by josephg 3y ago
I think it’s better for the world that a product is tested in the world than tested in the distorted world of Google politics. If your company can’t get product market fit - fine, maybe it was a bad idea. Time for all the talented people to
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by josephg 3y ago
Fair enough. Maybe Postgres would have been a better example.
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by josephg 3y ago
Yep. It’s awkward. The language fights you every step of the way and it becomes hard to read and write your code. x.foo = 6 becomes x.set(String(“foo”), Num(6));. When you read that value back you’ll need to unwrap the type you expect befor
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by josephg 3y ago
I’ve swapped back and forth between static and dynamic types a few times in my career. Java and C/C++ to JavaScript (and coffeescript) to typescript and rust. The entire time (30 years at this point) I’ve felt like whatever I was doing
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by josephg 3y ago
Plenty of opensource projects are built by communities. If you want to do opensource work with peers, you can always work on llvm, rust, Ruby on Rails, the Linux kernel, wayland, SQLite, postgres, docker, OpenSSL, or all sorts of other high
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by josephg 3y ago
> but you have to respect the machine that this is a part of. I don't respect the machine. I think it reduces innovation across our industry. The story of google acquisitions so often go this way. They start with a lot of promises -
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by josephg 3y ago
Does anyone know how good the HiDPI support is in wayland? I have a secondary display that has a different pixel density from my primary display. Will it just work? Does anyone know?
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by josephg 3y ago
Yeah, I always feel like I’m being gaslit by the options. They are always missing an option for what I actually think: “Every moment I think about onedrive is a moment I could have spent with my children. A moment I will never get back. I m
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by josephg 3y ago
Yeah, but anything that can be said with words will always be a bit wrong. “The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.” and all that. How would you fix it?
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by josephg 3y ago
The process of learning clowning - at least where I went - was a process of getting up on stage, again and again, and being made vulnerable to the audience and to our own inadequacies. Which is a nice way of saying that the instructors were
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by josephg 3y ago
I hear that. I would have said something very similar a few years ago. But now, I think it’s healthy to have our armour penetrated by the world. To be seen. To be vulnerable. To fail and have it fall apart and be able to weep. As far as we
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by josephg 3y ago
I did a clowning masterclass in France a few months ago. (That was a whole, wild experience that I’ll be haunted by for years). While I was there I realised I’ve been operating under a certain kind of dumb philosophy my whole life without r
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by josephg 3y ago
Yeah I love rust’s todo!() macro for this. Not only does it throw an error, but it also typechecks in any context. Normally a function needs to actually return whatever it says it will return. But throw a todo!() in there, and you don’t nee
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by josephg 3y ago
Guild wars 2 does something similar. When you’re running around on your own, the game responds instantly. But all of the in-game mounts take a moment to react to your steering. Responsiveness, jump height, horizontal speed and turning radiu
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by josephg 3y ago
Yeah it’s relevant. It’s just, not how a lot of software is made today. I don’t want my browser or my compiler to remain unchanged. I want it to be evergreen. Stop updating your web browser and in a year or two websites will stop working pr
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by josephg 3y ago
I’d certainly hope not. A capability based security system in an OS is only secure if it doesn’t have bugs. Just like most security-critical software. However, I’m not sure that Linux is capable of masquerading as a general purpose capabili
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by josephg 3y ago
That’s a weird usage of the term “stable”. Is the latest rustc release unstable? Are there bugs in nodejs? It’s been years since a nodejs bug affected me. If anything you usually have fewer problems with newer toolchains, because new featur
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by josephg 3y ago
What does “script language development” mean? Despite the name, I’m not using JavaScript to write scripts. I’m largely writing networked server applications - which are very much a systems problem. And rust is very much not a scripting lang
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by josephg 3y ago
As a software developer who’s written a fair bit of code in JavaScript, C and recently Rust, the idea that I would look for my dependencies in apt on Debian is a bad joke. At best I’ll get some ancient version of the things I depend on. But
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by josephg 3y ago
This would be a great use case for a capability security model. Essentially what you really want is the sudo command to acquire a temporary capability token to edit that specific file. Then run your editor and pass it the capability. (And r
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by josephg 3y ago
I visited Amsterdam recently and instantly noticed something weird about the road layouts there. I did some research - they differentiate between streets (meant for short distances, or getting to a local destination) and roads (meant for lo
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by josephg 3y ago
> among Western countries, the US seems special with their aversion to nudity. Excluding Australia perhaps. Australian here. Culturally we seem less comfortable with nudity than a lot of parts of Europe, but we’re not as bad as the US. I
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by josephg 3y ago
Node predates npm. All node does is look for dependencies in the nearest node_modules directory. (And all npm does is download dependencies into that folder). So you can simply archive / check in your node_modules directory if you want
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by josephg 3y ago
Reading this thread makes me think about archiving my code too. I have backups of my project folders going back to the 90s when I started programming. But I often delete node_modules and other build artifacts before archiving because that s
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by josephg 3y ago
I often think of source code like moulding clay. While you’re actively working in a codebase, the clay is moist and malleable. Making changes is easy, because the context of what it does, and how it’s organised is fresh in your mind. But if
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by josephg 3y ago
Doubtful. TPM chips come pre loaded with signing keys from the manufacturer. That allows 3rd parties to verify that an attestation made by your TPM is genuine. (They can do that by checking signatures all the way back to the manufacturer’s
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by josephg 3y ago
TPM chips are pretty open. I had a look through the spec & API for tpm 2.0 a few years ago and there’s a lot of neat tricks you can do with them. TPM chips are an open standard with many implementations. As far as I can tell, as a softw
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by josephg 3y ago
Yep. And when I’m unhappy with my government, I can vote them out or, if I want to, get politically active. I can’t vote out Google. Their customers are advertisers, not me. And I don’t know which apps on my phone send my information to Fac
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by josephg 3y ago
Why do you bother fighting to unsubscribe properly with a company like that? I have a rule: I will try 1 time to legitimately unsubscribe, using the normal flow. If you keep sending me email after that, I will mark every email you send as s

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