owl57

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by owl57 4y ago
> If your teammates are deploying risky changes and purposely doing it when you are outside of office hours I think that is quite disrespectful. Exactly. But you get to decide how to spend your own weekend. Depends on the exact escalatio
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by owl57 4y ago
I have deployed a risky change on Saturday to limit blast radius, when I was both the original developer and on call that week. In our team, we call the moral right to do (or not do) this "the on-call engineer's right".
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by owl57 4y ago
I haven't got any data whatsoever, but probably most people who walk more than 5km a day live in places with relatively pedestrian-friendly roads and driving habits.
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by owl57 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure an HN user is more likely to identify as a gigachad than as Galen Erso. ;)
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by owl57 4y ago
> find and link to the conversation that led to creating a ticket, considering how often a critical detail gets left out of a ticket description I worked with a Slack bot that would create a ticket and include link to the Slack thread an
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by owl57 4y ago
Thank you, I'm considering adopting this as job title, like "senior unfucker".
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by owl57 4y ago
I think it's easier to press than anything more conventional (and also super-easy to remember). This fast and smart jumping around function is one of the biggest things I miss when I use Emacs — and the shortcut is an important part of
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by owl57 4y ago
> There's nothing particularly magical about the Unix epoch. When you have to debug the same event reported in five different timezones, and then see some ugly 13-digit numbers and immediately know that's milliseconds since a c
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by owl57 4y ago
At least in Telegram, this works for at most one link per message, and quickly fills the screen if you send multiple such messages. And I believe that there is no standard API to get previews of non-public websites in a work chat, you need
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by owl57 4y ago
It's not even only about messiness. " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34315441 " isn't some horrible long base64, but it's not a good UX either: when you paste it in a messenger, or in your notes
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by owl57 4y ago
Could be. That would mean it was good judgement to read the magazine that the other CIOs were also reading.
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by owl57 4y ago
There's a built-in tutorial, called by pressing ctrl-h (or f1) and then t.
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by owl57 4y ago
It seems more nuanced. What does it mean that the command doesn't exist? Every serious Emacs user has their own personal bindings, some of those for their own custom commands. But "M-butterfly" suggests more rare hackery, tho
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by owl57 4y ago
I googled for this meme and it turns out it has its own page on gnu.org, "Incorrect Quotation" [1] And while reading that page I realised that I actually work with GNU, not even GNU/Linux, systems in production every day. Bec
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by owl57 4y ago
Yes, I was thinking exactly this: if someone suggested adding such a warning, chances are they were far from the only one burnt.
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by owl57 4y ago
I'm slightly horrified with the specificity of this warning (-Wmemsize-comparison). Apparently enough programmers make this exact mistake.
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by owl57 4y ago
But note how you invented only the better half of Instagram. The other half is all the "social" shit: "Tell us your email to see more John's photos", "Have you seen recent posts from Kate, Mike and Cristiano Ro
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by owl57 4y ago
A lot, but far from every piece of text. Hebrew-only menus are quite common and I'm still a bit scared of them.
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by owl57 4y ago
Turned out to be particularly bad in Israel. One of the first things I learned using a phone translator app was that the restaurant is mostly offering variants of "damned hummus".
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by owl57 4y ago
Curious. These other programmers probably learned the habit from some even older code. Jumping over data isn't a very obvious way of organising code, so probably it served some purpose many years ago. Maybe someone here knows what was
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by owl57 4y ago
Yep. For the last month, I have been exclusively giving out GMail as "my personal email" instead of <personal domain>.ru, but it was more of an emotional thing. Thinking of it, I genuinely don't know which of these is l
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by owl57 4y ago
Note that the name of the language is not generally abbreviated this way. But there's another implementation called CLISP. Clask sounds like a Flask-inspired web framework for Common Lisp to me. [Googled it] Yep, "something like F
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by owl57 4y ago
AFAIR reading uninitialized int, for example, is "unspecified" (any value could be there). If we consider adding "implementation defined with possible trap" for overflow, we might as well add "unspecified with possi
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by owl57 4y ago
If you extend "unspecified" to allow traps, reading a bogus pointer can also be unspecified, only writes undefined in the current sense.
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by owl57 4y ago
It's not symmetric. I believe most people with strong mathematical background (like Guido:)) expect lambda x: x % m to be some "computer approximation" to the standard mapping from Z to Z/mZ, while not having deep expect
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by owl57 4y ago
> Self-driving cars will come out next year, every year. "Come out" could mean different things in different contexts. Deepfake defence context is analogous to something like: there are cars on public roads with no driver at th
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by owl57 4y ago
A showcase of Go? The backend is probably less than 20 lines, uses only stdlib and serves (so to say) all the HN crowd just fine.
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by owl57 4y ago
On a bad enough connection YouTube can switch to 144p, that's on the order of one megabyte per minute.
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by owl57 4y ago
I'm no biologist or chemist, but generally plant growth is a huge chain of chemical processes, and if you make some subset of these faster, can it lead, for example, to accumulation of byproducts that are normally used up nearly comple
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by owl57 4y ago
Really strange. You've known two people who died in crashes. You've probably drove by multiple bad crash sites. And yet you perceive a danger you have only seen on TV or Internet as more important. Nothing here about you in partic

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