nik9000

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nik9000,

I wonder what my last commit at each job was. I’ll bet it was boring. About 10% of my commit messages are genuinely interesting.

nik9000,

We squash. I’m not really interesting in your local journey to land the change. It’s sometimes useful during review, but after that it’s mostly the state of the main branch I care about. It’s what I need to bisect anyway.

I don’t like commits that are just references to issues. Copy the issue into the commit message so git blame tells you something useful. Unless it’s just closing a simple big. Then the title and issue reference are plenty.

Depends on the project I imagine.

nik9000,

I think it’s a bad analogy because it’ll distract some people.

nik9000,

I review a ton of code and have a bunch reviewed in turn. I don’t remember that last time I’ve had this come up. Either direction really. I guess I’m lucky. We just split naturally in similar places.

nik9000,

It just doesn’t come up all that much. Folks live without knowing they are different.

And it is on a spectrum. Some folks is nothing others are can force a few pictures if they have to but aren’t clear. I dunno.

nik9000,

I don’t believe Prometheus supports geospatial data. Two minutes of googling though, so I could be wrong.

nik9000,

I imagine a delta encoding scheme similar to what the time series DBs use would work well for the geo points. Maybe even a delta-of-delta encoding for things like ships which move very consistently.

It’s probably not worth it given how small they’ve already go their data. But it is fun.

nik9000,

A while ago I read a book where a town got nuked. Only it was just a rumor spread on Facebook. Town is fine. But tons of people believed it. Set up road blocks and stuff. For years.

edit: I thought, “there is no way people would do that.” Oh well.

nik9000,

It sort of looked like you’d construct the key by input. Like an old school password entry screen or something. I wonder if you could correct horse battery stapler it enough to have a respectable key length.

nik9000,

I read it when I was YTs age. Then listened to it when I had kids that age.

nik9000,

I listened to the first one on audible a while back and didn’t like it so much. I had trouble connecting with the charcters. The ideas were good and from what I hear about the next ones they are even more fun. But maybe it was a translation thing. Or a style thing or a cultural thing. It felt more like Clark than Card. I feel like the show made an effort to make the characters easier for me to connect with and I appreciate that.

The article does have a point for me though- linking the Game of Thrones folks in the marketing feels like a mistake. I don’t trust them.

nik9000,

I think libraries vary a lot. Your library sounds lovely. My local ones are half way between what you are describing and the quieter places others are describing. But they are actively trying to be a third place.

I think your point is “some libraries are third places”. And that point would hit harder if you gave folks grace. Don’t assume they are speaking from ignorance but invite them to check out libraries if they haven’t. I dunno.

nik9000,

I used to work for them. It was weird and wonderful and I miss it and I don’t. Lots of mission driven folks working hard to keep things going getting very little respect. But a lot of respect. But sometimes none.

Iirc a lot of their budget is spent doing charity stuff. Encouraging contributions for tiny languages. Trying not to cave to Russia or the US or France. Trying to make it less of a boys club. Trying to get local organizations going.

I remember once they sent an email that said “if the French government asks you to delete this page please just delete it. It’s not worth going to jail. Someone outside of France will revert the delete.”

I wasn’t qualified for the work. No one was. But it was honest work.

nik9000,

My memory is hazy but I think it was this: arstechnica.com/…/wikipedia-editor-allegedly-forc…

nik9000,

I can’t find any code samples. Just paragraphs of description. I’m sure it’s lovely but I can’t evaluate without code samples.

nik9000,

It’s not just Google. If you enjoy that sort of thing there are industries where it’s more important. Not every day. Not every team. And you’d have support like you say.

But you can go a lifetime without using it beyond rules of thumb.

nik9000,

Start with animation for fun. Watch Grave of the Fireflies.

Now you are ready for Spirited Away or, my favorite, Porco Rosso. It’s not the best. It’s just my favorite.

Now Schindler’s List. Then The Usual Suspects.

Pair Treasure Planet with Muppets Treasure Island. You deserve the break.

Maybe do The Matrix next. Pair with IP Man I guess.

Seriously half of the IMDB top 100 movies are from this time range. They aren’t all going to fit you. They don’t fit me. But they are worth watching for what they bring.

nik9000,

I had this silly thing kicking around in me head forever. I’v always had a generally positive view of Gore and now is the time to square that circle. Thanks for your comment. It made me read more. The guy was on Futurama. He deserves that.

Apparently he pushed for money for bringing more mass adoption of the Internet. It looks like as a senator he recognized the value of the Internet before stuff like gopher existed. Presumably because of papers from the NSF. So he was important.

In some question on the news he flubbed words and said something like, “I took the initiative in developing the Internet.” That’s not a lie so far as I can tell, but boy does it sound like bullshit. It’s super close to “I invented the Internet”.

I got all this from one source so maybe it’s bullshit, but hey: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/…/708

nik9000,

It’s not my favorite but it’s fine.

nik9000,

Three wonderful movies. All five of them. Great fun. All perfect DND parties.

nik9000,

I think Linux has grown beyond the good will from contributors. I got the sense most folks do this as part of their job.

So it’s not your boss. It’s someone who you have to make happy to do your job. And your boss can’t help. Quitting won’t help. Not if you want to work on the kernel.

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