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josephholsten

@josephholsten@mstdn.social

Journeyman human being. Sous-Chefs founder. Sacrificed my beard to a respirator against woodworking, PNW smoke and plague, the rest of the hair went on its own.

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whitequark, to random
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what is the technical difference between the LSA and CLP lubricants?

(i am sure one of you knows this offhand)

josephholsten,
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@whitequark See https://www.ldac.army.mil/web2/archive/PS2015/753/753-56-57.pdf

(Archives moved, see https://www.psmagazine.army.mil/Archive-Index/ for details)

sunfish, to random
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tired: what if we put wasm in the kernel?
wired: what's a kernel?

josephholsten,
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@whitequark @sunfish My sixteen year old heart would have exploded with joy at such a project. (Also would have tossed some symbolic ai machine learning jit optimizations in for fun)

Right now, that sounds so wearisome. Lovely, but just an exhausting grind to build up hw support and syscalls from the 70s that people won’t let die. (Glares at sbrk())

Viss, to random
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orbitals backend is getting big enough to warrant monitoring so i am investigating that sorta plumbing.

a trillion years ago, when i rode my triceratops to work at the rock smashing gravel pit (websense and then anonymizer) in like 2005, i was quite happy monitoring stuff with cacti. it did the job well and was pretty lightweight.

but now i see .. grafana and prometheus and elastic search and docker images for all those and .. just..

ugh.
do i have to invent the universe just for a graph?

josephholsten,
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@bensonk @Viss ^ This ^

I personally prefer client-push systems like ganglia, graphite, influxdb; but if you can architect your system so Prometheus can pull everything, it’s obnoxiously easy.

josephholsten,
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@bensonk @Viss I wonder how much is that I just am terrified of having network acl that allow inbound traffic from a rotating set of IPs in the monitoring cluster. Being received by a lightly maintained support service that usually has at least full read only access to internal service state.

josephholsten, to random
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@jacqueline random thought: have you dug into audiobook formats at all? I can imagine wanting a completely different UI (left as an exercise for early users) but is M4B something that works out if the box?

I also don’t know if chapter markers are an overdrive extension or in the standard because searching the internet about media file formats just lands me in content farms. (I suspect the aax to m4b convert tool I use can be improved, but I’d need to know the actual format…)

gsuberland, to random
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"latex is pronounced 'lay-tek'"

WELL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SPELLED IT WITH AN X THEN SHOULD YOU

josephholsten,
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@gsuberland Well you see, in Ancient Greek it was more of an aspirated voiced glottal stop $/k^h/$ but between the Alexandrian expansion and Koine Greek it became more of a voiceless fricative /x/ as in loch or Bach;
But the Latin ‘ch’ orthography came from the older phonology, which then turned into ‘tch’ sound in French and adopted into English.

Which is to say ALL ORTHOGRAPHY SUCKS AND BEING PEDANTIC VIA TWO AHISTORICAL ORTHO-PHONO TRANSITIONS IS BAD

mmmKay?

Viss, to random
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last year i bought a wyze cam to see if it would integrate with my existing security system. it wouldnt. its 'their cloud only'.

i returned the cam, but i guess i forgot to nuke my account. i just got their email in my inbox

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josephholsten,
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@Viss Mind sharing what you ended up with? I expect to have time to rip out Ring next year. I’m mostly looking at:

recursive, (edited ) to random
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Technical words that sound worse to people outside of that particular field:

degenerate (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeneracy#Science,_mathematics,_and_medicine)
regime (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime_shift)

I'm trying to think of others. Please no outright slurs, we can let those die.

(Edit: folks on Discord mentioned:
"reaping zombie children" (Unix process management)
"performed an illegal operation" (computers in general)
"exploit" (compare resource usage vs. computer security)
)

josephholsten,
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@recursive “Bias” has all sorts of technical, valuable uses. I’m especially fond of “cut on a bias” in sewing, cooking, woodworking. But of course, local bias in a subset of an algorithm can also be useful. Comes up a bunch with neural net weighing, analysis across timeseries.

Viss, to random
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A) dont put your networking gear directly on the internet like that.

B) consider changing the default passwords

josephholsten,
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@Viss To folks not acquainted with this product line: in theory, these are edge routers designed to be put on the internet exactly like that. Before Ubiquiti let this team go, “EdgeOS” was a fork of Vyatta.

But why you would have an edge router actually route traffic before resetting the default password is beyond me.

Oh for the days when you had to connect to a router over a serial terminal…

hacks4pancakes, to random

Too much truth on the internet today.

josephholsten,
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@hacks4pancakes My manager sent me a slack this morning at 08:15 asking if I was online. I didn’t have a meeting, have an early deliverable due. Just, you know, wondering.

flexghost, to random
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"S&P 500 closes above 5,000 for the first time ever!!!

...here's how it's bad for Biden"

josephholsten,
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@Huck @flexghost I have no idea what you’re talking about.

https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/

glennf, to random
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I am seeing some clear misogyny (from male and female comedians) using Joanna Stern's WSJ cooking with Apple Vision Pro video to make fun. I am not seeing male tech videos of the AVP being used that way. This is not cool. (Also, "the timer over cooking items" thing is one of the best use cases I've seen for me…)

josephholsten,
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@glennf @famousringo that’s really been my take away from AR since about 2010. Give us hypertext sticky notes and a way to share graffiti layers; it’ll be amazing. Honestly, that’s enough for some amazing innovation in game design. But it’s not the complexity of the overlay that’s hard.

Unfortunately, collaborative simultaneous-location-and-motion is actually a harder problem to scale neural-net training to than ChatGPT style LLMs. That’s the precise location detection.

dkub, to random
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The TrueNAS is having some sort of death throws with my zpool which is SUPPOSED to be mirrored but I can't seem to convince it to load the pool with one disk or offline the other.

josephholsten,
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@btaroli @dkub I’d really love for us to remove the “I” from RAID at this point.

ncommander, to random
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Let there be networking

josephholsten,
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@ncommander What have you done!?

lin11c, to random
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I have a question. If we can do airstrikes in Iran and Syria. Why can't we do airstrikes in the illegally occupied areas of Ukraine? Explain it to me like I'm in kindergarden. 🤮 😬

josephholsten,
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@lin11c A kindergartener cannot understand the War Powers resolution, nor the Authorizations for Use of Military Force from 2001 & 2002. Certainly they couldn’t understand a nuanced explanation of the legal issues involved in the Houthi strikes: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-war-powers-resolution-and-the-counter-houthi-mission
And they certainly wouldn’t understand how the standing troops in the Middle East justify lots of actions that cannot be justified in a place without any troops: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-middle-east-and-the-president-s-sweeping-power-over-self-defense

josephholsten,
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@lin11c The obligations of the Budapest Memorandum don’t enable the executive to unilaterally declare war. They must operate within the War Powers Resolution Framework. Even then, it’s “complicated”: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/constructive-ambiguity-of-the-budapest-memorandum-at-28-making-sense-of-the-controversial-agreement

whitequark, (edited ) to random
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junior developer: uses pair programming to learn new technologies & best practices

senior developer: uses pair programming to exchange knowledge and get her code reviewed earlier

principal engineer: uses pair programming because after working on that codebase for 5 years she's too traumatized to venture into it alone without getting a severe hit to wellbeing & needs a companion to be productive

josephholsten,
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@whitequark Oh, so that’s why every time I go into that codebase I get lost in refactorings that end up nowhere because I’m to terrified of the risks and know no one will be able to validate the correctness of a change by looking merely at a patch diff or individual file code reviews.

And contemplating the dev months of mandatory “preventative actions” from a learning event if another major incident comes from that one file in that codebase.

ElleGray, to random
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me: What I'd really love is to take one of those ocean liners that travels the Atlantic and halfway across they let me get into a little boat and then the big ship leaves, goes over the horizon, so I'm completely alone but still safe because I know they're coming back and then I just sit there, preferably under a night full of stars. Would I feel terror? Bliss? Or something I've never known before

therapist:

me:

therapist: whispering into her earpiece I'm gonna need backup

josephholsten,
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@ElleGray I had a coworker who got brand new tuxedos fitted with their partner before cruising the Queen Mary 2.

So I’m imagining you properly attired for this adventure.

simon, to random
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Wrote up a few of my own notes on the Portable EPUBs proposal by @tonofcrates https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/25/portable-epubs/

josephholsten,
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@simon @tonofcrates I’m frequently wanting an offline version of docs, and usually have to settle for PDF. I’m still pretty happy with PDF since I still bear scars from postscript, but being able to get eg the illumos Writing Device Drivers as an epub would be lovely.
But I feel like much of the problem is dearth of clients. If I click on an epub in a browser, it doesn’t try to show me a self-contained document. Punting to calibre or iBooks is failure.

jacqueline, to random
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normal people: “you can only mmap 4 out of 8 MiB of external ram on the esp32, so i just think of it as only being 4MiB”

me: “if i solve a fun programming puzzle, i will unlock free ram”

josephholsten,
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@jacqueline So you’re building an operating system.

Cool, cool.

kwf, to random
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You ever wonder if toothpaste is more of a lapping compound or is it more of a soap?

josephholsten,
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@kwf Beyond the “both” replies, we should also appreciate dentifrice also acts to remineralize the object under cleaning. This isn’t a process usually found in metal, wood abrasive or cleaning products. It’s closer to cement restoration, which can reintroduce lime to brittle aggregate.

alan, to asianfood
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Neat maps of in the US from Pew Research Center:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/23/71-of-asian-restaurants-in-the-u-s-serve-chinese-japanese-or-thai-food/

via FlowingData newsletter (Nathan Yau) and Pew study authors Sono Shah and Regina Widjaya (none of whom are on Mastodon)

josephholsten,
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@alan I love how “Asian” things never include Persian, Afghan or Russian. Continents are hard, I guess.

Edit: oooh, bonus points on not including Persian, Afghan while having an author named “Shah”. That’s at least 3x points, certainly.

Sherifazuhur, to iran
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Headlines of Iran's Persian dailies on January 15 - just so we know … @iran

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/210804/Headlines-of-Iran-s-Persian-dailies-on-January-15

josephholsten,
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@Sherifazuhur @iran I want to explain this stuff to my family, but it’s hard to explain the

RickiTarr, to random
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Do you think there are "normal" people? If so, what constitutes normal? If not, why not?

josephholsten,
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@RickiTarr Statistically, most people are dead. So sure, they’re normal now.

jacqueline, to random
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if i make a single dollar from selling my gay ipod, then i will have made a larger profit than many major tech companies, including my previous employer

josephholsten,
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@jacqueline Can we give you money yet?

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