benb

@benb@fosstodon.org

Platform stuff @ brandfolder
Co-chair @ Pycascades 2023
Volunteer Chair @ Pycascades 2022
Former lead platform engineer @ cloud.gov, devops engineer @ Allen Institute, Blue Nile, and Intermedia

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waldoj, to random
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In the United States, when you buy a house or a car, you become a target of scammers. They will send mail to your house, pretending to be your mortgage company or your auto maker or your auto lender, insisting that you must give more money for some other thing. I received these three—two postcards, one "URGENT" letter—just today.

The U.S. is a scam culture. We are beset at all times by people trying to trick us out of our money, and it’s all functionally legal.

benb,

@waldoj when I bought my EV, the dealership really wanted me to come back after a month for some ...thing. They tried to entice me with a $25 gas card

benb, to random

I choose to believe in a better future, in a future where someone has invented a simple-past tense form of the word "troubleshoot" that does not sound silly.
Does this make me an optimist? Maybe, but it's the only way I know how to live.

ogi, to random
@ogi@hachyderm.io avatar

Using my work provided MacBook Pro 2023 with the M2 Max and doing a project in Xcode, and Xcode is so snappy, never realized it could behave this way... then again, this laptop is w/o a doubt the fastest computer I've ever owned…

benb,

@ogi shhhhhhh. I literally just talked myself out of buying one of those

fancysandwiches, to random
@fancysandwiches@urbanists.social avatar

I've now seen several folks push back against adding more flags when it comes to search visibility, saying it would be confusing to have more options. This is a solvable problem. More granular control is always better, and you can always roll these options up into higher level presets. This has been the standard for decades in PC gaming, it works, we should do it.

benb,

@fancysandwiches a similar option is to have something like prusaslicer's gui, where you can toggle the level of control you want over your environment, and it just hides the finer-grained controls

AlSweigart, to random
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    benb,

    @AlSweigart is the ask here "read and review on consumer websites" or "raise your hand to review in a more formal capacity"?

    benb,

    @AlSweigart 👍

    benb, to random

    I am begging local news outlets to find ad services that don't feature body horrors

    benb,

    @mike805 I know there are solutions, but I shouldn't have to install browser extensions to get news without visceral content

    benb,

    @mgwalker you know, I wouldn't mind going back to the days of tiresome clickbait clichés if it meant never having to see the same picture if toenail fungus 18 times in a 6 paragraph article

    benb, to random

    My next computer will have a 64-core YPU (YAML processing unit)

    benb,

    @qlp YAPU ain't a processing unit

    qlp, to random
    @qlp@linh.social avatar

    Ars Technica: Here's how ChargePoint plans to increase EV charger reliability

    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/heres-how-chargepoint-plans-to-increase-ev-charger-reliability/

    benb,

    @qlp very curious how NLP plays into finding busted chargers

    mogul, to random
    @mogul@mastodon.cloud avatar

    This is doubly exciting because Chevy just announced that they are not canceling the Bolt, but will be bringing it back on the Ultium platform. So we might have very cheap drivable home batteries available on a mass scale soon!
    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/general-motors-will-add-bidirectional-charging-to-its-ultium-based-evs/

    benb,

    @mogul or they bring back the bolt at the same $50k entrypoint everyone is starting EVs at 🙃

    benb,

    @mogul I would love to see a VTL (edit: VTH) at that price range. Lack of it is my biggest gripe so far with my car. I'm just also a little skeptical with Chevy right now, given they dropped the lower-trim Blazer

    benb,

    @mgwalker @mogul :hmm-yes:

    qlp, to random
    @qlp@linh.social avatar

    I always wondered if there was a show that aired on January 2, 1999 as it's notably absent on 's website.

    Now I have my answer 😈

    benb,

    @qlp reading this made me a little curious. Then I got to the "😈" and now I'm a lot curious.

    waldoj, to random
    @waldoj@mastodon.social avatar

    The alignment chart of emailers has a “chaotic neutral” box that’s defined as people who respond to emails by editing the quoted message to add their answers inline, in different-colored text.

    benb,

    @waldoj I love this strategy, both as asker and answerer, because it ensures everything was answered and that the answers are associated with the right questions.

    benb,

    @waldoj (N.B. this requires some other text to make it clear you don't come across as brusk)

    benb,

    @waldoj totally. If that happens, hopefully everyone realizes a single email thread is the wrong format for the discussion

    chrys, to python

    Anyone have a date/location yet for 2024? I'm sitting near our scientific programming / data viz folks and am trying to entice some of them into going.

    benb,

    @chrys Seattle - date and precise location TBD

    fancysandwiches, to photography
    @fancysandwiches@urbanists.social avatar

    Do any camera manufacturers have better a warranty for their cameras and lenses than Sony? Sony only has 1 year warranty and they're fucking me hard on a $2k lens, which is making me want to sell all of my shit and buy from a company that won't entirely fuck me after I give them thousands of dollars.

    benb,

    @fancysandwiches it might be worth asking your local camera shop for help. Even if you didn't buy it there, I think they generally have a closer relationship with manufacturers (more like a car dealership than a grocery store, if that makes sense)

    krusynth, to random
    @krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town avatar

    Y'all should read this compelling piece from Marianne Bellotti - organizations should be investing in training their own staff, not outside consultants:

    https://bellmar.medium.com/the-first-thing-we-do-lets-kill-all-the-consultants-bc64bcebf1b5

    I've been pushing this concept in for years - we need to upskill and not just rely on external folks to fix our problems.

    benb,

    @mogul @mzagaja @krusynth nevermind that:

    • many agencies max out individual contributors at GS-14 because GS-15 must be supervisory (CISA included, last I heard)
    • "software engineer" is a low-to-mid level role at most orgs. At my company, it's the lowest title a full-time software professional can have. What are the medians for a principal engineer, software architect, data scientist, etc?
    mogul, to random
    @mogul@mastodon.cloud avatar

    What's that horror movie where you have to make someone else watch a cursed video or you will be killed? Anyway, here's a video I still can't get out of my head a week later, and now it's stuck in yours too.
    https://youtu.be/ZmxLja-DRIw

    benb,

    @mogul this made me late for standup

    qlp, to TeslaMotors
    @qlp@linh.social avatar

    Not that I would consider getting one due to GM's stance on not supporting CarPlay in future vehicles; but, I'm happy to see the Chevy Bolt EV coming back at some point.

    InsideEVs: Next-Gen Chevrolet Bolt Confirmed: Will Utilize Ultium Tech

    https://insideevs.com/news/678595/next-gen-chevy-bolt-ultium-confirmed/

    benb,

    @qlp if they'd had the bolt* when i bought my car last month, it probably would've made my short list

    *with car play

    benb, to random

    accidentally implemented a linked list at work today and there weren't even any interviewers there to see it

    benb,

    @mogul ha, no. I just stumbled upon it and thought the world needed to see it again

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