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jawnsy

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I'm here to learn. He/him. Interested in containers, computers, and human beings. Urbanist living in San Francisco.

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matthewskelton, to random
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"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

๐Ÿคฌ

jawnsy,
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@ahl @newcrafts @matthewskelton @tdpauw @diana I wonder if people will keep sharing credit until we get the full reference chain back to the original author ๐Ÿ˜

luis_in_brief, to random
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I would read the hell out of a deep analysis of the many layers (internal, external, technical, personal, systemic, etc., etc.) that have combined to make early Google so arguably less dumb than early OpenAI.

It isnโ€™t just rose colored glasses, right? There was no equivalent of the shareholder coup, the ScarJo voice thing, etc.?

jawnsy,
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@luis_in_brief I dunno, I think we used to be much less connected so a lot of weird shit flew under the radar. Nowadays with social media and a fast news cycle, companies like OpenAI are under a microscope

stuartmarks, to random
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Jing Jing Palo Alto is closing after 38 years! It's the end of an era. I've had many good meals there. I remember when it opened, replacing a rather nondescript Chinese restaurant called the Four Seas, which looked like a repurposed diner with a counter and faded green vinyl booths. Looking forward to a takeout/delivery venture the owner mentions in the SFGate article.

(h/t @jddarcy)

https://www.jingjinggourmet.com/

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/jing-jing-gourmet-palo-alto-closure-19459757.php

jawnsy,
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@stuartmarks Wait are they different people named Henry or...? I have so many questions now lmao

nealcurtis, to random
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AI = a massive spike in energy consumption and carbon emissions for the production of what is the intellectual equivalent of mechanically reclaimed meat, and yet it will be pursued by capitalists seeking to position themselves as a very small door with stiff hinges that is the only gateway to knowledge. It is nothing but a damaging power play dressed up as a benign service. ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ’ฉ

jawnsy,
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@matthewskelton @sumek @nealcurtis You just have to accuse it and it'll confess haha

They're still stochastic parrots, not magic :)

jawnsy,
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@nealcurtis @matthewskelton @sumek Not my term! @emilymbender has some great talks and papers about it, worth looking into IMO

jawnsy, to random
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It's always a delightful surprise to come across posts from folks with familiar names when looking something up. I wanted to get a comparison of Kyverno vs Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper and came across this awesome comment by longtime Kubernetes security nerd, @raesene: https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/u5tcfd/comment/i56i5ta/

jawnsy, to random
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Looking through this list of libraries for working with JWTs, it seems that the highest-quality ones assume that keys are managed directly, instead of using a Vault, Cloud KMS, etc. to sign. This is true for Python and Go libraries at least. Why is that? https://jwt.io/libraries

jawnsy, to random
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Humans shape technology and technology shapes us. Beyond the drama of change, there lie great opportunities for humanity.

"It follows that whenever we gain a new talent, we not only change our bodily capacities, we change the world. The ocean extends an invitation to the swimmer that it withholds from the person who has never learned to swim. With every skill we master, the world reshapes itself to reveal greater possibilities."

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8783

jawnsy,
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"The belief in technology as a benevolent, self-healing, autonomous force is seductive. It allows us to feel optimistic about the future while relieving us of responsibility for that future. It particularly suits the interests of those who have become extraordinarily wealthy through the labor-saving, profit-concentrating effects of automated systems and the computers that control them."

jawnsy,
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"The constraints inherent in taking and developing pictures on filmโ€”the expense, the toil, the uncertaintyโ€”had encouraged him to work slowly when he was on a shoot, with deliberation, thoughtfulness, and a deep, physical sense of presence. [...] Film, he realized, imposed a discipline of perception, of seeing, which led to richer, more artful, more moving photographs. Film demanded more of him. And so he went back to the older technology."

@skinnylatte Is this why you like using film?

anderseknert, to devops
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It's been a month since the last release, but v0.22.0 of everyone's favorite linter, , is now out!

Featuring 3 new linter rules, language server support for code completion, and much more. Check out the release notes, and get your copy here!

https://github.com/StyraInc/regal/releases/tag/v0.22.0

jawnsy,
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@anderseknert In honor of this release, I'm reading some of your old posts. This really resonates with me: "Sometimes though, rather than having someone say 'here are all the ways you can do X', I just want someone more knowledgeable than me to tell me 'hereโ€™s the one way you should do X'. Having worked with OPA and Rego for years, I felt like perhaps I qualified as that knowledgeable person, and the Rego Style Guide came to be."

Thank you for the style guide & Regal! https://www.styra.com/blog/guarding-the-guardrails-introducing-regal-the-rego-linter/

jawnsy,
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@anderseknert Language server support!!! That's incredible, Anders!

mattgodbolt, to random
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Happy 12th Birthday to the funny little project that stole my name

jawnsy,
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@gracicot @mattgodbolt Like many words in the English language, the meaning may be context dependent.

"I godbolted it" could mean:

  1. I threw it into Compiler Explorer
  2. I made the code super fast, like Matt Godbolt would have done
  3. I sent the code to Matt Godbolt for review

And it might mean all of these things simultaneously! What a beautiful and wonderful language ๐Ÿ˜Š

jawnsy, to random
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Very few software projects are successful over long periods of time. I think one explanation is that it is very challenging to evolve systems in ways that respect the needs of new users ("better" approaches to things, temptation to make backwards-incompatible changes) and existing users (backwards-compatibility is a virtue.)

In this respect, I think about these talks often:

https://youtu.be/2y5Pv4yN0b0 by @briangoetz

https://youtu.be/pEYpvYVlgQc by @rkatz & Carlos Panato

jawnsy, to random
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A great preface to a great article:

"The naive approach to securing software is to blindly implement a checklist of security features. But a deeper understanding of security will quickly uncover that perfect security is impossible; you have to make trade-offs and prioritize the most likely scenarios."

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2022/k8s-secrets/

gbraad, to android
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Listening to Bassdrive (using Foobar2000) on my -based RG405M handheld game console. Best way to play retrogames... Like tetris!

jawnsy,
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@gbraad foobar2000 was such a great piece of software with such a terrible name. I guess it proves that, if you build something great, the name might not matter much

skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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If youโ€™re in San Francisco today, thereโ€™s a punning competition

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/64th-ever-bay-area-pun-off-may-23rd-tickets-882716146757

jawnsy,
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@skinnylatte lmao tickets are sold out, surprisingly popular

skinnylatte, to random
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I keep threatening to move to the โ€˜burbs and then I walk to everywhere I need in 20 minutes and Iโ€™m like, nvm

jawnsy,
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@skinnylatte There are some smaller cities built to be denser and more walkable, while also being more affordable than SF. I find that kinda tempting sometimes lol

RuthMalan, to random
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โ€œ The ingredients for conceptual integrity are these: the talent(s) of the human designer(s)โ€”all of them; the thing designed; the luck that brought the designers (and everything they needed) to the right place(s) at the right time(s); the luck of the thing designed to have the right ingredients.โ€

โ€” Richard Gabriel, Designed as Designer

https://dreamsongs.com/Files/DesignedAsDesignerExpanded.pdf

jawnsy,
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@RuthMalan Good things in the world only exist because of a handful of people that fight hard for them to exist. Expertise is rare and often undervalued. I suppose it's because it takes some expertise to recognize it ๐Ÿค”

Viss, to random
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congrats rockwell automation, welcome to like 2012.

jawnsy,
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@Viss You just need a better turboencabulator

jawnsy, to random
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Embedded devices are cursed.
Windows is cursed.
USB is cursed.

And yet...

@jberi is unafraid! ๐Ÿ™Œ

Thank you, Jonathan, this guide is amazing!

https://blog.golioth.io/usb-support-in-wsl2-now-with-a-gui/

jawnsy, to random
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"The enshittification of the services we once loved and still rely on represents a series of victories for the forces of evil over the forces of good โ€“ a victory for the people who want to use the internet to trap us, over the people who want to use the internet to set us free.

As it got harder for users to leave online services, it got easier to abuse users."

https://locusmag.com/2023/11/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-dont-be-evil/ by @pluralistic

jawnsy, to random
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As engineers, it's easy for us to measure inputs (how much time we're spending) and outputs (lines of code written or features produced), but what really matters are the business outcomes (customers acquired and retained, revenue growth metrics, profitability), which are less directly related.

It's always useful for us to step back and ask ourselves: what's the point?

jawnsy, to random
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Do you ever learn something so cursed that you regret having learned it?

I really enjoy learning, but sometimes when I get to the other side of it, I'm left even more confused than when I began.

jawnsy, to random
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Reading this while reflecting on "big rewrite" type projects in software is, well, ouch:

"His seminal work on big projects can be distilled into three pitiful numbers:

โ€ข 47.9% are delivered on budget.
โ€ข 8.5% are delivered on budget and on time.
โ€ข 0.5% are delivered on budget, on time and with the projected benefits."

I think the solution is simple, but not easy: smaller, more frequent deliveries. Progress over perfection.

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/lego-megaprojects-bent-flyvbjerg-big-things-11675280517

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