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moshez

@moshez@mastodon.social

http://pronoun.is/they

Likes: Twisted, Python, Chesterton's Fence, Consequentialism, Utilitarianism, Filk.

Dislikes: AGI X-risk, Golang, Classical Music.

Opinions are my own, not my employers.

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moshez, to random
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Awesome tips on https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/how-to-pycon.html from @glyph

I'll note my favorite one: breakfast and lunch are for new friends, dinner for old friends.

Missing one: prepare to exchange contact details. I have a QR code on my phone and old-fashioned business cards to hand out.

moshez, to random
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Today my life is perfect because on the perfect video I have found the perfect comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ&lc=UgwTqIxcO9RQmd9AaUd4AaABAg.97CSkwjaZij98eQbQDTb9m

"""
This is too funny but the course of action is pretty straight forward here.

  • Meet with Omega star team and see if they have that ISO timestamp on their roadmap
  • If not assess the work with them, what is the effort...
    """"

The comment continues, seriously explaining how to move forward. I love it so much.

moshez, to random
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When you're reading the Talmud and designing web authentication schemas, you need to be careful of the distinction between the words "oath" and "oauth". They look similar, but mean different things.

moshez, to random
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Hot take: I think Mastodon could be better with a non-time-linear feed option (what some people call "algorithmic feed").

For example:

  • Someone logs in and posts a bunch of stuff. My feed suddenly has a bunch of posts by the same person.
  • Someone posts a thread: show me the first post first, and maybe deprioritize the right of the posts.
  • A lot of people I follow "like" a toot by a shared follow. It would make sense to prioritize it.
pythonbynight, to random
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I wasn't going to do it... and then I was... and then I wasn't... and then I went ahead and submitted another tutorial proposal to @pycon

Let's see if I can make it three for three... 🤞

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @pycon

My condolences.

moshez, to infosec
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Dear friends: I keep telling people how "X is more secure than Y" is meaningless if you don't have a threat model. Is there an easily accessible resource that explains that?

I can write one myself, but I'm not an expert and prefer pointing at someone written by someone who is.

moshez, to random
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I was lucky to have the experience of mentoring an intern in a company with a great intern program. Among other things, the program had a path to communicate with the interns and help them make the most of the experience.

One of the ways they encouraged the interns is to suggest questions to ask their mentor. This is how my intern, bless her heart, asked me if I ever felt imposter syndrome.

moshez,
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I suspect that the original prompt was "you'd be surprised that your mentor also felt it". I guess you can never prep people for surprise. She was genuinely surprised when I answered "of course!"

I shared some concrete examples where I felt the imposter syndrome hit me like a ton of bricks. The one I remember best is before a talk at PyCon.

moshez,
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Unlike some others, I love public speaking. I don't get stage fright.

But I felt a twinge of it when I realized I was giving a talk about how to use AWS APIs from Python...and knowing there are AWS engineers in the crowd. I had to take a deep breath and remind myself that I actually knew what I was talking about, and that these engineers are my friends.

It helped, a little.

moshez,
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If you ever feel imposter syndrome, know that you're not alone. Some of your teachers, mentors, and role models feel it.

Remind yourself that you wouldn't be where you are if people didn't believe you can do it. Take a deep breath. It will help -- a little.

You won't be able to chase it completely away with rational thought. But you might be able to keep it at bay long enough to do what you want to do.

nik, to python
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Small but v. neat TIL, courtesy of @brianokken and @pythontest: https://nkantar.com/blog/2023/11/til-shlex-split/

moshez,
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@nik @brianokken @pythontest

I think "shlex.split" is the equivalent of a toilet brush. It's really good to have when you need it, but the situations where you need it are pretty shitty.

jay, to random
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Just saying this since I know some folks have engaged me about this on here; I've uninstalled/unsubscribed from all AI tools for now. I think they have a place in some workflows; but the (maybe justified?) FUD around use of them is too significant to risk use of them until it's cleared up.

And frankly, the bigger concern is that my use of them responsibly will encourage more larger organizations to use them irresponsibly... and I'm not onboard with that.

moshez,
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@glyph @simon @jay

One of Simon's suggestions that worked for me, and felt like it was on the right side of plagiarism, is "give me 20 suggestions for a name for project that does X Y Z".

Clear question, I'm still picking the name, but the advantage of having someone to brainstorm with on something like that was really useful.

jewwhohasitall, to random
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Wishing EVERYONE an Erev Thanksgiving sameach!

moshez,
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@jewwhohasitall

Thank you!

I love Hanukkah as much as the next person, but seriously -- maybe enough with the public displays of menorahs and dreidels until after Thanksgiving?

Erev Thanksgiving semeach v'kasher to all!

mekkaokereke, to random
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Hypothetical situation!

Let's say there's two companies, OpenMyEye, and MacroShift. OpenMyEye has ~700 employees, each making about 1 million $USD a year. If all the OpenMyEye employees suddenly join MacroShift, then MacroShift's employee based compensation goes up by about a billion $USD a year (after taxes).

Good thing MacroShift has tons of money and can afford it! Otherwise they might have to save money in... other places.😬

🤔 It'd be better for MacroShift if the OpenMyEye folk stayed put.

moshez,
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@tess @bynkii

Thanks Dana! This idea that "private companies" are immune to the problems that plague "public companies" because they don't have a public share price is so misguided.

A private company has no accountability to anyone, and the owners of the company, typically, only care about profit.

Tech companies are closer to worker cooperatives than people think: most employees get stocks as part of their compensation package. But only if they're public!

gvwilson, to random
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I'm starting to think that the TESCREAL crew want an AI apocalypse so that they never have to face the fact that they're shitty human beings.

moshez,
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@glyph @gvwilson This is literally ad-hominem. Instead of arguing against the presented reasoning, you're arguing against the motivations of the people who make the arguments.

You can keep doing it, but it'll keep being ad-hominem.

moshez,
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@glyph @gvwilson

I guess I disagree that you can confidently make the assumption that AGI X-risk is not important.

Given that assumption, I guess speculating on the motives is not a fallacy. But I think that this "given" is doing a lot of unjustified work here.

pythonbynight, to python
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Did you catch an earlier post by @webology where he advocates for "Online First conferences"?

I chimed in with my 2 cents.

Those two cents turned into a blog post.

https://pythonbynight.com/blog/or-into-and

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @webology

As in all suggestions, there are trade-offs, and I want to acknowledge mine. Conferences being pure-in-person or pure-online means that, whatever you call "the biggest Python conference put on by the PSF", it will be in person. People who prefer online conferences can only attend the "second tier" conferences.

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @webology

I'm not really a member of the Django community, so I can't comment on Django con. When ATO tried to have "virtual presenters", it seems like that fell flat for the in-person attendees.

Perhaps Django would be served well by having an annual online conference, separate from the annual in-person one?

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @webology

I guess this is our fundamental disagreement. Hybrid will always mean sub-par experience for one or the other.

My idealistic world of limitless resources has many online and many in-person conferences, and people choose to attend both or either, according to their preferences and circumstances.

I think this is just as inclusive and broad of a vision, while admittedly different than your inclusive and broad vision.

moshez,
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@webology @pythonbynight

I don't think we should have online-first conferences. We should have online conferences and in-person conferences.

Online-first conference sounds like a shitty experience for in-person attendees. You have to go somewhere, potentially stay in a hotel, to...watch people on a TV screen?

I suggest making it online only and not encourage people to have a shitty in-person experience.

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @webology

Feels like a mathematical certainty about the theory of optimization. You can optimize more when you drop constraints. Dropping the constraint "make online attendees feel like 1st class attendees" will make for a better experience for in-person attendees, all other things being constant.

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @webology

Then why not have it as a separate online conference? Then people who want to attend both can...attend both. They don't have to choose between one experience or the other.

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @webology

Because a hallway track or open spaces depend on people being there in person. If you schedule it the next weekend, people won't be there.

In contrast, having the online part separate from the in-person part might make both more valuable. Imagine if there's an online conference two weeks before the in-person one.

People who go to both can explicitly arrange to meet, or plan a joint open space.

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @webology

Maybe what we can do is have "linked" conferences. For example, you can register for both together, and there's some shared identity.

Maybe you can even have a shared CFP, with presenters marking "I only want to present in-person", "I only want to present online", or "Either is good". If that's what you mean by combining the conferences, I have no objection.

moshez,
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@pythonbynight @webology

That said, running one amazing conference, online or in-person, is hard work. I think it makes sense for a conference organizing committee to not want to double the load.

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