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kellogh

@kellogh@hachyderm.io

I'm a software engineer and sometimes manager. Currently #Raleigh but also #Seattle. Building ML platform for a healthcare startup. Previously, built an IoT platform for one of "those" companies.

Open source: dura, fossil, Jump-Location, Moq.AutoMock, others

Do I have other interests? No, but I do have kids and they have interests. I think that counts for something. I can braid hair and hunt unicorns!

I put the #rust in frustrate

He/Him

#metal #science #python

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blainsmith, to KindActions
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Save the Web by Being Nice

https://sheep.horse/2024/4/save_the_web_by_being_nice.html

sarahtaber, to random
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Because everyone's been so good this week-

For every donation to this link, I'll post one (1) fact about farm labor. Pitchforks not included 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon

sarahtaber,
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Why do farm workers so often wear long sleeves, hoodies, etc even when it's hot?

Short answer: being hot & sweaty is temporary. Messed-up skin (from sunburn, bug bites, sharp hairs on plants, etc) will make you itchy, in pain, sad, & unable to sleep for days : /

erikkemp, to random Dutch
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Strandbeests by engineer-artist Theo Jansen! Meet Animaris Rex!

https://www.strandbeest.com/

video/mp4

chesterbr, to VintageOSes
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Growing up with MS-DOS, I knew its role in today's Windows' usage of \ to separate directories and / for command-line arguments (choices that sound quirk-y in an Unix-influenced world that uses / and -, respectively.)

I never understood why MSFT - a very Unix-aware shop, having released their XENIX a year before MS-DOS - went with such an odd choice, until I looked at the (recently open-sourced) MS-DOS source code.

The files include documentation for computer manufacturers (so they could write compatible BIOS code, customize distribution, etc.), and this piece on MS-DOS 2.0 (which introduced subdirectories) suggests that - as usual in those times - the party behind the odd decision was none other than IBM:

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v2.0/source/README.txt#L41-L55

w7voa, to random
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Washington Post cites what it calls the most explicit evidence yet that an assassination plan on American soil— ultimately thwarted by US authorities — was directed from high within India’s RAW spy service. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/

marcslove, to random

This was an incredible achievement, not something to shit on.

USDS built an app that:

– “came in under budget”‼️

– received an “excellent” experience rating from 90% OF USERS‼️

– saved 140,000 filers $5.6 million in tax prep fees‼️

– encountered zero issues during the last minute filing surge.

And they did all this on the first try without having an opportunity to experiment or iterate.

As a reminder, Healthcare.gov’s first release cost $2.1 BILLION and basically didn’t work for many ppl.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@gwestr/post/C6UMX5KvCKr

marcslove,

For those who don't know the origin story of U.S. Digital Services (USDS)…

Healthcare.gov was a horrible failure at launch. It cost the government $2.1 billion to build & operate and struggled to handle as few as 1,000 simultaneous users at launch. It was a massive indictment of federal contracting in IT.
https://www.usds.gov/mission#:~:text=The%20USDS%20origin%20story&text=Founded%20by%20President%20Obama

grimalkina, to random
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Whether or not knowledge workers are safe to learn is a canary in the coal mine for innovation. Just as whether or not children are safe to learn is a canary in the coal mine for whether a society cares about advancing.

Something that made an indelible impression on me way back in college was the Sartre notion of bad faith: our ability to unmake the consequences of our choices to such an extent that we negate choice, we abdicate as agents.

We are holding bad faith with human innovation.

dfeldman, to random
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DUMB EVENING PROJECT --
Made a site that relentlessly, automatically, mercilessly mocks today's Hacker News stories and comments using ChatGPT

quackernews.com
or if that doesn't work dfeldman.github.io/quackernews

dan, to Seattle
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Really sad that the Living Computer Museum is still closed with no apparent plans to reopen — it was such a cool place to visit.

Apparently Paul Allen didn’t leave any plans to keep the museum running in his will.

https://seattlecollegian.com/paul-allen-living-computers-museum-remains-closed-after-years-despite-lifted-covid-restrictions/

dev, to random
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Avoid anti-bird language!!

❌ Kill two birds with one stone
✅ Feed two gulls with one scone

andrew, to random
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Okay? It was perfectly legal. I guess she showed all you. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112351111331465049

caspar, to llm
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I find that one great use for LLMs is for something a bit like rubber duck debugging, but for any topic.

You ask the LLM for its thoughts on a topic and respond. The LLM probably has no real insights to give you, since these things necessarily live in the world of cliché, but the process can help you to clarify your thoughts.

Then you can talk with a thoughtful and intelligent person to find the real errors in your thinking.

deirdre.assenza, to random

Normalize this

mekkaokereke, to random
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

mekkaokereke,
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Y'all are literally complaining that not enough white children aged 15 to 17 are getting pregnant.

Do you even hear yourselves?

You know y'all are saying this out loud right? And that other people can hear you?

I'm running out of ways to tell you that this is a good thing.

I don't know how much you know about anatomy or biology, or how long 9 months is... but the things required for a 15 year old to give birth, are not good.

Less of that is a good thing.

hgrsd, to rust
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drivel (https://github.com/hgrsd/drivel) now supports inferring enums for the string type. That means that when producing synthetic data, random variants of the enum will be chosen.

Enum inference is based on a (user-provided) max ratio of unique values and a minimum sample size.

I've released this as v0.2.0. Hope it's useful for some people. :)

#data #rustlang #rust #opensource #tech #programming

danilo, to random
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My most nuclear take is that the people whose origins have granted them the most success and leverage in technical fields are the least equipped to caliper the potential individual impact of LLMs on certain axes of economic marginalization

This is a good example of why I think that:
https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/112332180103290815

doak, to random
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It’s 10pm, do you know where your postgresql passwords are

jimfl, to random
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Remember when "C suite" meant configure, make, and cc?

timbray, (edited ) to random
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When you have to enter a chunk of text on your mobile…

[boosts appreciated]

lowqualityfacts, to random
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We made a comic about a job interview.

buttondown, to random
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We're very, very excited to work alongside Ghost to evolve and proselytize ActivityPub as a great tool for authors to stay connected with their audience without tethering themselves to Yet Another Algorithm or Yet Another Walled Garden:

https://mastodon.social/@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz/112315231795331010

anthrocypher, to random
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This Harvard Business School paper from Hoffmann, Nagle, and Zhou on the estimated monetary value of open source is kind of an incredible feat.

$8.8 trillion, btw.

That's the estimated value of open source, according to these researchers' excellent work.

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

anthrocypher,
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I've talked before about how the most important things don't always show up in spreadsheets (“What IS the ROI of clean water, good soil and breathable air?”)

and how organizations whose purpose is to make money are currently having a harder time making money because they don't/can't measure the non-pecunariary resources they rely on.

So, if all orgs stare at and act on are spreadsheets, they'll eventually deplete those foundational resources enough that their spreadsheets will look worse.

grimalkina, to random
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The New Developer research project from the Developer Success Lab + yours truly is now available as a preprint -- we hope this will facilitate easier downloading/sharing/and citing of the work

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5

In this work we study how beliefs about brilliance & toxic "contest cultures" undermine software teams' capacity to confront the last few years of genAI in software e.g. by fomenting AI Skill Threat. But we also explore the protective effects of learning and belonging cultures

lkngrrr, to random
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Rabbi: “And what do the bitter herbs represent?”
Me: “Jira tickets”
Rabbi: “NO”

sue, to random
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Nothing radicalises me more against the gatekeeping that is quite literally built into software engineering tooling than setting up local developer environments lol I had to do it this week and you better believe a blog post is incoming 😂

sue,
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Listen, if you think AI tools are not being widely used in real software projects already and that this isn't going to significantly change both software engineering and the tech industry, either you're not paying attention or not talking to folk outside your wee bubble (or the folk you talk to don't feel they can be honest with you).

Dismissing this as equivalent to nfts and crypto is just straight up denial at this point.

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