mattb

mattb, 10 months ago to golang

The standard error handling idiom in #Golang is error prone and ugly. You can mitigate the former with a linter. I haven't found a good way to mitigate the latter, yet.

It becomes a problem when you've got a sequence of tasks, each of which must shortcut if they error.

err = foo()
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = bar()
if err != nil {
return err
}
...

It makes the real code flow hard to see. Fighting an urge to write a map over a slice of closures. Wouldn't be much better anyway.

mattb, 2 months ago to golang

#golang folks, can anybody tell me why this doesn't do what I expect: https://go.dev/play/p/VQB02JKAaNG

tl;dr errors.Is(MyError{}, MyError{}) returns false 🤔

mattb, 1 month ago to random

I'm not (at least not yet) persuaded by the argument that the output of an LLM is a derivative of all the material it was trained on. The problem with the argument is that it also applies to me: if I see some cool code you wrote, you bet I'm going to make a mental note of it. The trip hazards here are patents and non-free licenses, but they also apply equally to people.

There are other problems with LLMs, but I'm not convinced by that one specifically.

mattb, 7 months ago to random

I just ordered a beer at my seat on this train, and the lady has gone again without asking for any money. I'm expecting to pay for the beer? Curious to see how this pans out.

mattb, 1 month ago to random

I've got 24 hours in Paris in July with my 14 year old son. We've done the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacre-Coeur, and the Arc de Triomphe before. We didn't do the Louvre last time, so we'll book tickets to take selfies with the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo (total expected visit time <1hr if we drag it out or the queues are bad).

What would you do?

mattb, 12 days ago to random

Who the fuck targets a public hospital with a ransomware attack?

Firstly, as the British Library demonstrated, public institutions are NEVER going to pay.

Secondly, holy FUCK those people! In addition to having no prospects of ever getting a pay out, I hope we throw the full weight of our intelligence services behind ruining the rest of their worthless lives.

mattb, 7 months ago to random

Brno to Vienna. Not too shabby 👌

mattb, 11 months ago to random

Ironically, it looks like all the British people on this flight to London are going to miss it due to border exit delays in Germany. EU and even US citizens can use the automated barriers, which are working just fine with no queues.

mattb, 11 months ago to random

Just seen the Bairstow dismissal. That's not cricket!

mattb, 6 months ago to cycling

Somebody is doing #Zwift as experienced by normal people: https://youtu.be/qwTWt4M11-Y

I'm here for this.

#cycling

mattb, 8 months ago to random

Once more: a pox on all command line utilities which send their help text to stderr instead of stdout.

mattb, 3 months ago to random

Good morning, Fediverse!

mattb, 2 months ago to random

One of the few good things to happen during the pandemic: they opened our town's main shopping street to humans, and it was wonderful.

Then they closed it again, of course.

mattb, 11 months ago to RedHat

The whole brouhaha with #RHEL sources only being provided to folks entitled to the binaries is fine: that's entirely compatible with the GPL, and the other licenses are a free-for-all.

However, I keep seeing the suggestion that people with the RHEL source can't redistribute it due to a license agreement. That would not be compatible with my understanding of the GPL, and I haven't seen any explanation of how it could even be possible. Can anybody confirm it with specifics? Is it just FUD?

mattb, 10 months ago to Cats

I just discovered what Harry was making such a fuss about at 5am this morning: by discovering the pile of sloppy cat shit under my desk with my bare foot. The cats really don't like using the litter tray 🙄 #cats

mattb, 1 year ago to random

Been rewatching the West Wing. Seasons 1-4 are excellent. Season 5 is pretty good, season 6 is ok, season 7 kinda descended into soap opera.

mattb, 5 months ago to random

These crisps aren't salt and vinegar. Why would you do that?

mattb, 4 months ago to random

I'm a sucker for a good beat and a euphoric cord progression.

mattb, 7 months ago to homeassistant

Trying to work out how to get speech in to #HomeAssistant but my RTFM-fu is too weak. No external mics, just want to play with it through the app. Where do I find a Speech-to-text integration?

mattb, 10 months ago to cycling

Did I fix it, or ruin a really expensive tyre? #cycling

mattb, 11 months ago to random

I miss having an EU passport ☹️

mattb, 3 months ago to random

I am offended 🇬🇧

mattb, 11 months ago to random

What was the Mastodon patch panic about in the end? I'm assuming a juicy vulnerability, but interested to know the details.

mattb, 9 months ago to random

I watch a lot of YouTube. So much, in fact, that I feel I get my money's worth from YouTube Premium.

However, YouTube content these days is increasingly sponsored. This is annoying and I invariably skip through it, but I wonder what the revenue split of one of these videos is between sponsor and ad revenue. I wonder if it would be financially viable to post sponsored videos on PeerTube without a major business model change.

Perhaps @geerlingguy has given it some thought?

mattb, 5 months ago to random

How many is one oodle? Is that imperial or metric oodles?