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@rgm@cosocial.ca

architect (AIBC/RAIC) working at the intersection of north-south streets with east-west avenues, quite tedious to listen to about Clojure, software janitor, server farmer, runner, sprint kayaker, both more and/or less of a dickhead than last year depending on the context in which we're evaluating that

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rgm, to random
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ask your docker if kubernetes is right for you side effects may include bladder pain nausea joint pain unusual tiredness or weakness vomiting urge to extend a middle finger to middlebrow bourgeois capital as it continues like so many lemmings to senselessly overcomplicate without regard for context mostly to nerf labour power via deskilling runny nose shivering sore throat confusion anxiety blurred vision depression nervousness pounding in the ears

anderseknert, to random
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When you talk to people about JIRA, many will say something like "it'd be an awesome tool if it just got rid of all the annoying features and focused on the most important ones". Which is probably true! The curse of JIRA is of course that no one seems to agree on which features are important vs. which ones are annoying. So you end up with all of them anyway.

rgm,
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@anderseknert I vaguely remember this being the knock on Microsoft Word at one point: the set intersection of everyone's list of “important” features was usually null.

rgm,
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@anderseknert Word 5.1 for Classic Mac would let you customize the UI. A friend of a friend had his set up so there was only a File menu, and it consisted of

New ⌘N
Bold ⌘B
Print ⌘P
Quit ⌘Q

(didn't even need Open; he just double-clicked icons).

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    rgm,
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    @schwa on a recent project I finally managed to land “US Customary” for “english” in the UI.

    (Sadly I didn’t manage “Canadian Customary” for our idiotic mish mash of eg. feet for vertical, metres for horizontal, kg for weights unless humans then it’s pounds, truly unholy stuff like “GJ/ft**2” for building energy, etc. “Metric” might be specific enough in France but it doesn’t cut it here).

    rgm,
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    @schwa I don't even think that's the term any more.

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    rgm,
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    @schwa I like to think a smaller portion are the way I do it:

    • I despise long-lived branches
    • it’s up to the PM when the feature is live; coupling that to merges sucks for everyone
    • I declare an expiry date for all flags and made a linter that breaks the build in CI if it’s still in existence after that date. Then I either extend the date with a commit, or remove the flag with a commit
    rgm, to random
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    avocado toast the way I make it is, in fact, better than building intergenerational wealth through property ownership

    rgm, to random
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    if the purpose of a system is what it does, I propose that computers are a system for amplifying the effects of misunderstandings

    rgm, to random
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    Hard to overstate how much I hate process software (Jira et al). Think I'm now of the opinion that process is a constant negotiation among the actual idiosyncratic humans doing the work, and adding any friction at all to that (necessary) negotiation is short-sighted.

    rgm,
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    @schwa my hypothesis is that anything more than 3-column TODO/DOING/DONE, TODO getting one and only one order and that's execution order, and only and exactly one VARCHAR(25) title will lead inevitably to wanking instead of working.

    (But, per earlier, really that's my opening position in the negotiation with some real humans).

    rgm,
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    @schwa do they though

    baldur, to random
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    “Welcome to Canva, Affinity!”

    I can’t help but worry about this https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/

    rgm,
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    @baldur I worry when I see the word “empower” 10 times too.

    rgm, to random
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    Not at all happy to see a private repo of mine in this Stack training dataset. It’s not the code so much as the apparent assumption that it’s fine unless I object, and then that’s only for new versions of the dataset.

    Probably for the best this entire line of “innovation” gets sued into submission.

    rgm,
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    Using this tool by @simon, I am developing a hypothesis: they used the signal of “does a ‘last public push’ event exist”, not “is this repo public.”

    I can’t say for sure if 14 years ago I pushed eg. one .gitignore root commit that was public and then thought, oh crap I meant for that to be private, then flipped the switch. I might have.

    The next interesting question is: is my whole repo in the dataset, or just the code that is reachable from that last public push.

    https://observablehq.com/@simonw/github-public-repo-history

    rgm,
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    @simon I guess the problem I’m seeing is that a clone should not have worked for anyone who’s not me for 14 years now. I’m reasonably sure there’s light gray on white print on page 97 of something that says it can, but it still feels surprising and a violation of trust.

    pluralistic, to id
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    This marks the 10th anniversary of the Foilies - awards given to the public agencies responsible for the most egregious, absurd and outrageous defiance of freedom of information requests:

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024

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    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/11/no-foia/#id-tell-you-but-then-id-have-to-kill-you

    1/

    rgm,
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    @flargh @pluralistic and the same ones asserting “if I ask you directly if you're a cop you have to tell me the truth it's in the constitution" when they think they might be the subject of a sting operation.

    rgm,
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    @flargh @pluralistic right: their mistake was not typing NO FOIA SUI JURIS

    rgm, to random
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    The Face Computer is starting to get real strong “I have a daily tech podcast with exactly one listener” energy.

    https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-vision-pro-viral-wedding-photos-18691467.php

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    Always bringing up Réaumur as alternative when people discuss Celcius vs Fahrenheit and then they stop talking to me, rude

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur_scale

    rgm,
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    @thomasfuchs that is rude this is one of the finest lines in the definition file for this units lib I'm working on

    alan, to SketchUp
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    I used to use Google for occasional amateur drawings, and it was the perfect tool for what I needed to do. Not too powerful, not really for actual construction-quality designs, but just right for fleshing out ideas about building volume and interior floorplans. But Sketchup moved to Trimble a few years ago, the free version doesn't work anymore. Anyone have recommendations for another free tool I should use instead? Would learning be overkill for this use case?

    A 3D Sketchup illustration I made a few years ago showing some interior floorplans, calling out the square footage of various rooms and the location of bathrooms, kitchens, etc. It's a very simplified, computer-graphics looking drawing but it's enough to get the idea of what a hypothetical floorplan might look like inside a building.

    rgm,
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    @alan It would be light overkill, but on the positive side there's some assurance that the skills you're investing in aren't going to be orphaned by the internal machinations of Trimble careerism.

    b0rk, (edited ) to random
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    has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit?

    the idea is that you could just run cd COMMIT_ID and poke around instead of checking out the commit

    and maybe the branches could be symbolic links to the commit folders?

    rgm,
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    @b0rk damn I thought I had a link for you but it turned out to be just another bit of FUSE plus git musing

    rgm, to random
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    A nice write up of the Iron Ring worn by Canadian engineers: https://www.scopeofwork.net/accord-of-the-rings/

    (I’m not an engineer, but do wish my own profession—architecture— had something similar).

    baldur, (edited ) to random
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    What the fuck? All of a sudden all of my GitHub repositories return a 404!

    Edit: looks like it's not just me. Oh, well.

    rgm,
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    @baldur github's way of telling us all to take an early weekend

    collin, to random
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    Hi. My names Collin, and I'm a dock on the bottom no hiding person.

    rgm,
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    @collin the trend line on how I’m doing less and less with preferences/settings over time has me not opening a settings pane ever again after 2028

    collin, to random
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    One thing if you've done martial arts for any amount of time is realizing how entirely helpless you are against someone who knows what they're doing.

    And by helpless, I mean, you might not even touch, let alone hurt them.

    I'm interested in learning a more functional martial art mostly for the fun and fitness aspects, but I'd be lying to say I'm not curious what it feels like to know you can really handle yourself.

    rgm,
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    @collin I'm not disagreeing on the “being-tested" thing though.

    I don't know if it's transferrable, but from my limited junior high brawling experience it's usually 2-3 clumsy punches, it goes to the ground, then whoever is the strongest grappler wins. I suppose the extra self-defense/grownup part of that would be avoiding getting stabbed on the way down.

    Fanciness seems suspect to me. A little like British soldiers standing in a big line getting shot at from a forest.

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