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ramsey

@ramsey@phpc.social

Coder, author, & speaker. PHP 8.1 & 8.2 release manager. ramsey/uuid maintainer. Open source developer. Senior Staff Engineer. Pronouns: he/him/his

“This guy seems to fundamentally misunderstand open source” — some rando on Hacker News

“Who is this guy?” — another rando on Hacker News

Co-admin of the https://phpc.social Mastodon server.

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ramsey, to random
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@mcdwayne wrote an excellent recap of . Check it out: https://blog.gitguardian.com/phptek-2024/

sean, to random
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Feeling a weird paradox of…

…the optimism of how everything is better because we’re moving away from the decades-old mess of poor memory management with protections that C/C++ can’t enforce, and even improving on models like Garbage Collection (with Automatic Reference Counting and Borrow Checking), strong typing, powerful and accessible high-level languages…

…and the pessimism that actually using software feels so much worse nearly every day—especially on the web.

ramsey,
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@sean My phone gets hot just viewing certain web pages.

ramsey, to random
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That’s a lot of air traffic.

ramsey,
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@webaware I was thinking the same thing when I posted it. 🤣

nunomaduro, to random
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The average time people spend on Pinkary is increasing over time, with more than 2 minutes per visit. Insanely happy about these numbers. 🤌🏻

ramsey,
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@nunomaduro Since it’s a linktree-style site, why would you want that number to go up? It’s been a while since I visited, so maybe there’s more to it, now?

StillIRise1963, to random
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R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

Hmmmm.🤔

Gift Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.ePrS.vkY8gTh-Vdvs&smid=url-share

ramsey,
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@StillIRise1963 @lisamelton Ah ha!

“Some of Mr. Kennedy’s health issues were revealed in the 2012 deposition, which he gave during divorce proceedings from his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy. At the time, Mr. Kennedy was arguing that his earning power had been diminished by his cognitive struggles.”

bagder, to random
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"To me, the latest is the latest my OS provides me. If maintainers dont care about pushing the latest into the OSes they support, it's not me to blame. I think curl maintainers should push Centos to provide the latest to all users. What's the purpose of you fixing multiple bugs and security holes if you dont spend time to make it available to the broader audience?"

We are obviously all just too lazy.

https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/13546

ramsey,
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@bagder So very lazy… and tired. Extremely tired.

paninid, to random
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Gritty is not wrong.

ramsey,
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@jmsdnns @paninid @fedwards9965 Let’s face it, though: Andrew Jackson was a jackass.

ramsey,
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@paninid @fedwards9965 @jmsdnns I never actually connected Jackson with the movement to allow all white men to vote, so I learned a lot in this thread.

Being in TN for most of my adult life, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this aspect of his political career discussed. He was still a jackass, and he did a lot of bad things, especially to the indigenous peoples, but at least this one thing he did pushed us towards a truer democracy.

ramsey,
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@jmsdnns @paninid @fedwards9965 I knew about his dueling strategies because the Tennessee State Museum has (or had) an entire exhibit dedicated to it.

ramsey,
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@thesquirrelfish @jmsdnns @paninid @fedwards9965 We’re not being apologists for Jackson. He was a bad man, and we know.

ramsey,
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@fedwards9965 @paninid @jmsdnns That’s quite a big difference.

Research suggests the population of the Americas far exceeded that of the rest of world, when Columbus landed in the Bahamas. However, the diseases the Europeans brought spread rapidly far and wide, and in a matter of decades, they had wiped out out so much of the population that later explorers assumed the land was mostly uninhabited, virgin forest/plains.

ramsey, to random
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Spelunking in Splunk

blogdiva, to movies
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BERNARD HILL,
MAY YOU REST IN POWER

the LOTR happened when my sons were 4 & 1 respectively. Bernard Hill's Theoden fascinated THING1 so much, he would replay his scenes until he learned his speeches. when i asked why, i can remember him saying in his 5 years old voice, "because he's old and weak but then he's old & strong again".

Theoden's arc is so beautiful because Hill made him a real man, an old man blooming into the hero he was always meant to be.

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=Qz-k4g87ff4

ramsey,
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@blogdiva His short role in the films is some of the best acting in the whole series.

ramsey,
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@blogdiva @FeralRobots I’m a die-hard Tolkien fan and was long before the movies were planned, but I have zero problems with the artistic liberties Jackson took with the films. They are beautiful and amazing on their own, and some of the dialogue decisions were brilliant (e.g., “I am no man,” “You shall not pass,” etc.).

ramsey,
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@blogdiva @FeralRobots I haven’t seen the second one yet, but the first was amazing. Obviously, there’s so much depth in the books that can’t be explored easily on film, but they do a fantastic job.

ramsey, to random
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Answer to What’s the most useless map ever made? by Avi Maheshwari https://www.quora.com/What%E2%80%99s-the-most-useless-map-ever-made/answer/Avi-Maheshwari-3?ch=17&oid=119662212&share=f973b9af&srid=uWqu&target_type=answer

ramsey,
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@wez Something about this reminds me of Sheldon Cooper’s “Fun With Flags,” and I love it.

ramsey,
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@wez Haha! One of their episodes has a Skillshare commercial in it!

blogdiva, to Fashion
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WOW! just perused the image gallery for the #MetGala over at Harper's Bazaar and it's not only super-uninspiring, but for maybe a couple of people who understood the assignment. it's the beauty aesthetics of most of the people attending that is very late-stage capitalism with a bad take on trans-humanism. the 1% and their millionaire lackeys are really into that waxy Real Doll skin aesthetics. baffling.

"Every Celebrity Red Carpet Look at the 2024 Met Gala"
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/red-carpet-dresses/g60661601/every-look-red-carpet-photos-met-gala-2024/

#fashion

ramsey,
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@selzero @blogdiva “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.”

ramsey,
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@blogdiva Whoever designed that should design the costumes for a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

ramsey, to random
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RIP Bernard Hill, Théoden, King of Rohan

ghorwood, to random
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it’s that time of year again when the government sends you an alert to remind you that bears still exist.

ramsey,
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@ghorwood @kboyd Garbage can

ramsey,
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@ghorwood @kboyd Hook it up to your mule, then.

ramsey, to random
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I found what I think is an edge-case bug in ICU. It’s unlikely to impact most folks, unless you’re trying to run the ECMA-402 test suite.

https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-22765

ramsey,
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@enablelanguages Right. That’s what it’s supposed to return. What version of ICU is PyICU linked against?

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