ktemkin

ktemkin, 2 months ago

see, you send your messages to Trustworthy Chuck, and they’re encrypted all the way

then he saves them in a text file in plaintext

then chuck encrypts it to send it to someone else! that’s way more encryption than most e2ee messengers

ktemkin, 2 months ago

also pssh with these people and their ed25519 encryption. how many bits do they even have, huh? 256? hah I’m sitting here with like twice that in my RSAs

ktemkin, 2 months ago

to be fair I guess there was also an hour and a half of finance and budgeting, and an hour of open source work before that; so maybe we’re actually doing okay?

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@whitequark we can’t get stims to work like they used to, anymore — and the more time goes by the more our brain resists taking them

maybe we need to switch to like… methylphenidate, for a bit, just to let the brain know what’s in store for it if it doesn’t fall in line

(more realistically I suspect the sheer number of anticonvulsants we have to take to not be tortured by internal tremors is actually reducing the efficacy of stimulants)

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@whitequark there are other drugs too, but the ones we take don’t tend to make us more able to get stuff done; just less broken in the moments between >.>

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@xahteiwi "sanity check" is an English-language idiom, anyway, that carries meaning because of the culture it's steeped in, so I think it's actually a worse violator than a word that has a relevant dictionary meaning, especially in terms of being jargon

(I think I'd prefer the more complex word to the idiomatic/vernacular phrase were I reading it in one of the various languages I speak but am not a native speaker in)

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@xahteiwi @funkylab I mean, I’m not suggesting anyone be forced to switch over — I just feel like I might make other people feel bad if I use those terms, so I tend not to

on the other hand, with how much trauma I have? I’ve absolutely been somewhere between “going insane” and “insane”, so I less need a sanity check and more a check that at least my code is consistent and my results make sense

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@xahteiwi @funkylab (also worth noting that “sane” being a positive term is actually part of the problem — in the same way as using saying “abled” or “non-handicapped” as a positive term would be.

even if you believe it’s better to be sane and able, it’s probably not kind to put reminders of the whole thing in your code; and may make people think you’d look down on them for being otherwise)

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@coregaze also good ones!

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@recursive @stoneymonster I worked on a Citrix project that wound up being in the hands of an much smaller company and team after Citrix divested themselves of it, and once we dug ourselves out of some of the bizarre decisions they had made, it was a massive boost in development speed

ktemkin, 2 months ago

this advice brought to you by my pack rat desire to try all of the various hw key technologies

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@jpm this is one of those client projects where it’s being made in such quantity that every layer I can strip off saves thousands per batch (and yet everything is differential and needs approximate impedance control up to some GHz)

there’s three of these CSPs in close proximity, the main manufacturer only has a 1:N:1 process (so no arbitrary blind and buried vias), and I would like the planes under them to not resemble swiss cheese =P

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@jpm [I managed to break everything out of a CS100, CS196 and CS 144 on only three signal layers, only blind vias on 1:2, and with no buried vias, thanks to FPGAs making it easy to swap things around]

now I just need to run an EM solver and see if I’m utterly fucked =P

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@svc so you /don’t/ want to come into this unmarked panel van?

ktemkin, 2 months ago

@blue_led that’s a neat idea! I use SSS for other things (especially for guarding credentials/KEKs for team things that have user privacy implications, so no one or two users can just decide to snoop), but haven’t thought of adding redundancy via outside distribution