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groxx

@groxx@hachyderm.io

The broom closet ending was my favorite.

I do a bunch of Go (at work), a bit of Rust (for fun), deeply enjoy teaching and learning, and looove that I get paid to work on open source. Concurrency and dependency nutjob.

I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything and so I have to prune aggressively, and can't handle volume)

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molly0xfff, to random
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accepted solution: take the day off

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@molly0xfff and lo, the problem was assuredly solved forever, and there was much rejoicing

thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

Wonder how long it will take for “to google something” to disappear from the language…

…or maybe it will take up a meaning of “utterly destroying a useful thing for sheer greed”.

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@thomasfuchs "it has been googled" has become semi-common around me for "shut down despite being decent", if that counts

isntitvacant, to random
@isntitvacant@hachyderm.io avatar

wow google search really is just pointing the plane at the ground and saying “ai will land us safely, probably”

(google search results for “pilotwings characters”; enjoy the image associations)

groxx,
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@isntitvacant don't forget the fandom's favorite character, Pilotwings 64 original artwork

fasterthanlime, to random
@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io avatar

Ok gang, say you're stuck on a plane for 20 hours, what YouTube video do you take with you?

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@fasterthanlime probably just this on loop tbh
https://youtu.be/KCzwyFHSMdY

robpike, to random
@robpike@hachyderm.io avatar

It is a fascinating field of study for me. Why some staggeringly complex tasks can be done at 120fps but it still takes me 30 seconds to render the login page at my bank.

https://mastodon.social/@ZevEisenberg/112435500743889014

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@robpike that's 3,600x more security right there

fasterthanlime, to random
@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io avatar

I've reached the "steam-iron my green screen to get the wrinkles off" stage of video production

send help

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@fasterthanlime have you considered going deeper down the rabbit hole? https://youtu.be/UQuIVsNzqDk

(Ignore the click bait title, the tech is cool and very simple)

hrefna, to random
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

A long time ago, the worst project manager I ever worked with tried to get involved in a technical decision around database choice.

See, he had a set of demands that he told us were absolute requirements and in his eye this data store solved those problems neatly.

Except.

We talked to the people who worked on said database and we were not just a little outside of the parameters where they made such guarantees, we were way outside of what they were built for.

This was a recurring theme.

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@hrefna one of my "favorite" personal experiences around this:
We had a heavily-funded team dead set on having all of:

  • global (literally) write availability of all data at all times
  • less than 20ms latency at all times
  • always available
  • strict serializable consistency
  • on a Cassandra-backed system

And would absolutely not take "that's impossible", not just "no" as an answer. They just kept pointing to systems that said "yes" and demanding we build the same ability.

fasterthanlime, to random
@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io avatar

An Apple CDN tragedy in two pictures

macOS software updates dialogue showing: Downloading new updates 447.9 MB of 1.43 GB: about two hours remaining

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@fasterthanlime it's so bipolar. I've had incredibly fast downloads and installs on some days, and also horrifying trickles for no reason.

molly0xfff, to Bitcoin
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

happy halving to all who celebrate
#bitcoin

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@molly0xfff are we halving fun yet?

paigerduty, (edited ) to random
@paigerduty@hachyderm.io avatar

Is 8:00 am too early for a work meeting? 😆

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@paigerduty I moved two hours east of my team, and it is everything I dreamed it would be. Later meetings is awesome.

molly0xfff, to random
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

i am so over the web design trend where every piece of text on the page has to animate in

A webpage for a "Noble" crypto project, where each piece of text slides into view on scroll

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@molly0xfff yeah... at that point I back out or smash the readability button. It's so awful - design by fad rather than research.

bread80, to random
@bread80@mstdn.social avatar

I’m reading up on this XZ security issue. Does it affect the XZ80 and XZ81 or is it only the XZ Spectrum that’s at risk?

groxx,
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@bread80 it's the whole spectrum

zachleat, to random
@zachleat@zachleat.com avatar

A large contingent of webdevs seem to think that fast means “best-case fast.”

“Our web sites are fast on expensive hardware and from reliable fiber networks.”

Worst-case fast is a much more meaningful, impressive, and inclusive claim to make! Fast on low-end hardware. Fast on slow networks.

Fast on the World Wide Web—not just from a WeWork in Silicon Valley.

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@zachleat worst-case fast also gets you an unbelievably amazing experience on the best-case stuff.

I love using low end hardware to build things. You find out what hurts your end result FAR earlier, when you're more easily able to fix it. And then the final result absolutely screams on decent machines, and that's an amazing feeling.

fasterthanlime, to random
@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io avatar

so I know plain NaaN, cheese NaaN, garlic NaaN, what are the other 16,777,211 for?

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@fasterthanlime gotta watch out for those signaling NaaN tho

fasterthanlime, to random
@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io avatar

was writing an article about how my library has no bugs

found bugs

fixed bugs

back to writing the article

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@fasterthanlime hubris is the mother of (bug) invention

eniko, to random
@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar

my games are still on sale on itch and steam for the next 3 days. we're struggling to reach the end of kitsune tails development (a mario-like platformer with a very gay story) without running out of money, so any support would be greatly appreciated

itch.io: https://eniko.itch.io/
steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/

yuzu kitsune tails showing off her normal, little fox, snow fox, and earth forms

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@eniko ko-fi's UI really lives up to their promises

As advertised, "show more" shows only the word "more"

fasterthanlime, to random
@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io avatar

every week I ask the internet "how do I watch show X legally?" and every week the internet looks back at me and laughs

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@fasterthanlime thankfully Dunkey has a guide for us: https://youtu.be/yvhv7bgmz64

hrefna, to random
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

An ask since we're now seeing "Software Engineering AI" (I have multiple opinions here, but I digress):

Don't personify it

Don't refer to "Devin's code" or any other possessive without some form of demarcation like quotation marks. Don't talk about it like it wrote the code in question (more properly it generated it). Don't refer to it as "Devin" as if it were a name

Call it "the Devin software" or "the Devin tool." Create linguistic separation.

It seems minor, but it helps.

groxx,
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@hrefna I might accept "Devin's full of shit, listens poorly, doesn't learn from mistakes, and we should fire them"

simon, to random
@simon@simonwillison.net avatar

TIL how to compose a URL to Gmail to pre-populate an email compose window, for really lightweight automated-assisted email sending https://til.simonwillison.net/google/gmail-compose-url

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@simon does this not work with a standard mailto:... link? That should work with every email provider/app/etc rather than just Google.

thisismissem, to security
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io avatar

I'm trying out Backblaze for backups, and setup an encryption key. Turns out if you ever use the “View/Restore Files" feature on their website, they send the full encryption key to their remote server.

Which completely and absolutely defeats the point of the encryption key, because now they have a copy of the encryption key.

groxx, (edited )
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@thisismissem yeah, this is what made me concerned about backblaze when I was storage/backup hunting. Deeply problematic design.

I've kinda come to the conclusion that all backup systems suck and are horrifically predatory and largely don't even work beyond "can store some* files". It's utterly insane.

thomasfuchs, to retrocomputing
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

Thinking about a title for a YouTube video that would get lots of hits

“Found this Apple motherboard from 1976 when cleaning out the garage, will it blend?”

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@thomasfuchs also find a Model M keyboard: M for Milkshake (don't drink this)

0xSim, to random
@0xSim@hachyderm.io avatar

What the fuck.

https://fosstodon.org/@squidfunk/111989558536475772

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@0xSim well my (admittedly already low) interest in pkgx just plummeted to zero. the fact that they feel this is reasonable is just adding fire to the pile of shit I don't want to be anywhere near.

rakyat, to food
@rakyat@hachyderm.io avatar

Using only , tell me where you’re from!

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@rakyat I feel like mine might be too easy

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@rakyat cheese curds are mostly a Wisconsin thing, and to a lesser extent Minnesota and Canada (mostly as part of poutine). In Wisconsin they're just regularly a thing you can get in grocery stores, often made the same day and still squeaky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curd

You can kinda find them in surrounding states, but Wisconsin is properly obsessed with them, and cheese in general :)

fasterthanlime, to random
@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io avatar

today's thought is:

talking to LLMs is just like reading most traditional search engine results nowadays, except you actually get to pick the prompt, instead of some SEO expert

groxx,
@groxx@hachyderm.io avatar

@fasterthanlime yeah, because the majority of the Internet hasn't been trying to manipulate LLMs.

Yet, anyway. We're also just not very skilled yet at doing it even when we try. If they remain big, I would assume that'll change.

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