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by lanstin 4mo ago
And Bombadil’s old forest, with a testy but not ultimately evil Willow tree is the heart of Tolkien’s vision of English wilderness - not tamed but not horrific either. The movie does a bit of violence to the complexities of the world - redu
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by lanstin 4mo ago
I love brew but it was decades of tradition to download source and compile as non-root on shared Unix systems. Not only were the sysadmins skilled at saying no, they were not always available at 2 am, but installing some random code, after
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by lanstin 4mo ago
And knowing that another person sees you clearly and still loves you, that is magical. As well as useful since you can have discussions and make decisions based on the realities of your self without having to achieve some mythical self awa
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by lanstin 4mo ago
"Check your work for mistakes after the first draft" maybe :)
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by lanstin 4mo ago
Hard to say - it was never discussed at the time but we did end up on Katherine and Benjamin. From my perspective sort of a happy coincidence - the unconscious is a strong power tho and I wouldn’t argue against someone saying that was the s
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by lanstin 4mo ago
I would love to be a star ship captain in a universe with faster than light travel. Or a surgeon. But you know actual life is good and I do enjoy watching DS9 with my young adult son, Benjamin. And reading about all the other cool things. I
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by lanstin 4mo ago
Somethings are true not because of one big cause but 10,000 tiny paper cuts. Trying to explain it all just becomes a laundry list where each problem seems solvable but really each problem is there at the same time and inter-linked in non-o
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by lanstin 4mo ago
Like all my C skills that I spent ten years mastering aren’t that useful either. But being a hard worker, smart, able and eager to learn new things, and able to judge accurately if I am helping people out (boss, coworkers, customers), these
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by lanstin 4mo ago
But also UID, groups, controlling TTY, process group, capabilities, pipes, shared memory, etc. and the file descriptors while maybe not inherently needed are how a lot of Unix plumbing works.
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by lanstin 4mo ago
Anecdata: Mastodon now has witty, un-earnest comments semi-regularly. And I have learned of maybe ten percent of breaking news things in the last three months on Mastodon via links that weren’t just to twitter.
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by lanstin 4mo ago
You joke maybe but I just read an article that people in the ER are refusing tetanus shots.
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by lanstin 4mo ago
And prior to that Elon did float the idea of IPOing on a non-NYC exchange, some Texas exchange. So a bit of a stick and some honey in the IPO fees and early access.
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by lanstin 4mo ago
Unlike OpenAI or SpaceX, a lot of those tech companies are raking in the money. meta, google, amazon, apple all have huge cash flows. They will be buffered by this money - in dot com time, the money wasn’t already there, just the eyeballs.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Even regular warfare, if the Middle East AWS regions are an indication. The giant and arguably excessive data centers being built are not hardened physically.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
And everything configurable gets an environment variable. Editing the first few lines in the script is a fine way to configure things in Python.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
The evidence suggests that many tech leaders do not realize that an immediate result of heavy handed uninformed top down decision making is transforming the “work together, succeed together, giving quality” ethos into a cynical game theory
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I would ~ enable that.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
That was per container, with 16 containers per data center, so would be a lot of DBA tickets to get something that large; SQLite scaled with the horizontal scaling of the app; and we did have a flaky network - something like one in 100,000
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I find that is the case for production code that will be running 24x7 unattended, but also Claude lets me build a lot more highly specific dashboards or visualization tools that I really don’t give a fig what the code is, as long as the num
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Yeah my main current work repo I have five clones of it (de1.main, de2.main etc) each with an agent in a tmux session. The main priority change I will have up in my emacs gui with editing the files and reading and so on, but the side ideas
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by lanstin 5mo ago
My son bought a Japanese water heater to keep a liter of water at just below boiling at all times. For my 4 pm Ceylon tea break, milk no sugar, I refuse to use the prefab water; preferring to stick with my routine of boiling the water, to a
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by lanstin 5mo ago
The point of good names is not just readability but also to sharpen your cognitive model of the solution. That moment when you realize you don’t know what to name a thing is a valuable prompt to deepen your thinking a bit. And I sometimes p
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I normally get jobs thru people I have worked with already. It reduces everyone’s risk quite a lot. Obviously I had to bootstrap, and that was in the far easier hiring time of the 1990s when all the people who wanted to be rich weren’t tryi
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I had very good results giving 1 SQL DB per go routine, so the accesses were serialized up front, on a very high volume (130K requests/second) service. Exact transactionality was not a product goal, and the SQLite was just to backup th
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Rust or Go please.
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It also never lists the specific substances nor what one can do about it (not enter the building, don’t lick the ceiling, wear a mask, whatever). Good intentioned but utterly useless.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I worked with someone whose father drove his whole family out of the killing zone in Bhopal on a two wheeler. There might not have been a strong international movement to enforce safety first behavior on transnationals, but there was fall o
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I try to explain this to my family (currently in a pure remote job) but it is difficult to make the case persuasively. Honestly tempted to start recording voice memos to self to capture the ideas for next steps, which I can run five of in t
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I like vibe coding but I am sceptical that a vibe coded runtime in Rust would be as awesome as the Go runtime which is written with deep expertise of Unix software and threading and many low level details that are subtle and do depend on gl
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Yeah and that design and insight is the tiring part and while fun a bit less satisfying in the way that writing a nice bit of boiler plate or populating the struct members for your data type can be. One thing is you can work on design and i

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