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whenning

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Live out my dreams until my heart gives out / Involved with CREAM, you know exactly what this shit's about

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Casually copying terabytes of data across the internet.

And I’m betting if someone told the original author of rsync that it would be used in such a way, they would have laughed in disbelief…

whenning,
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@dpp I knew create-react-app was getting bad but I didn't know it had gotten to this point

dpp, to random
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I parmed me some chicken

whenning,
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@dpp 🤌🤌🤌excellent caramelization on the cheese

whenning, to random
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If you use SQLite with go and build with -tags "fts5", always build with that tag. Otherwise the app will build fine on other machines then fail when you try to write data without returning any error message. Lost two days of steno practice because of this.

dpp, to random
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I’ve been updating goat rodeo https://gitlab.com/spicelabs1/goatrodeo to support building https://OmniBOR.dev IDs in “container” files (eg, zip, tar, etc)

I’ve also updated the file format to a binary format that’s cryptography secure and also supports incremental addition Items to the corpus.

I’ve updated Big Tent to read and manage the new file format including doing cryptographic checks on files. https://gitlab.com/spicelabs1/bigtent

Hoping to drop the code early next week.

whenning,
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@dpp how does scanning GitOID output for known CVEs compare to things like dependabot's security vulnerability triggers/updates that I guess looks at package versions?

dpp, to random
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Flipping between Rust and Scala...

let vs. val

match foo {thing => ...}
-- vs --
foo match {case thing => ...}

Small syntactic differences play suboptimally with my fingers...

whenning,
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@dpp it's really bad when you're interviewing for jobs and you keep making stupid syntax mistakes during the live coding tests that are already stressful. if I get canned and I'm on the market, I am not using any languages except the one(s) I will be interviewing in.

dpp, to random
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My son Daniel made a super tasty dinner for us… we were joined by a yoga buddy who loves Artemis.

During tonight’s walk, we ran into Loki and her humans… two lawyers. Frightening that my bar ID is 1/3 of their bar IDs… lots of lawyers minted after 1992.

Chillin in the spring weather and loving life.

Shanti shanti shanti and namaste

whenning,
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@dpp My mom was admitted to the California bar in 1994 and retired last year. I've been trying to get her to give herself credit for a successful middle age career switch that lead to a graceful retirement which are two achievements many people wish for and unfortunately do not achieve.

dpp, (edited ) to random
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Having a teen boy in the house quadruples one’s food budget. He’s still eating 4,000 calories a day 😲

whenning,
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@dpp

dpp, to random
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Tried to make fish and chips… generally failed. Sigh.

whenning,
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@dpp Challenging dish. Breading too thick, breading too thin, breading wrong composition, inadequate breading application, put too many items in the oil too fast, oil wrong temperature, etc. are all easy ways to mess up.

dpp, to random
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My father, Fred Pollak, was born on this day in 1935 in Vienna. My father and his parents escaped the Nazis in 1938 and immigrated to the US.

My father passed in 2008. May he rest in peace.

I am remembering his birthday as part of remembering who he was and celebrating all that he did for me and my kids.

whenning,
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@dpp my grandfather's birthday was a few days ago. he was shot down in a B-17 in 1944 while serving as a radio operator and contracted tuberculosis in the POW camp he was at. it affected his health for the rest of his life. like everyone from his generation, he almost never talked about it. this entry mentioning flak and people KIA on his plane is more than I ever heard from him or anyone in the family. https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/aircraft/42-97697

dpp, to random
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I lost 15lbs in the year after I moved to Rhode Island.

Since November when I got Artemis and started yoga, I lost another 15lbs.

I may be at my lowest weight since the beginning of the millennium.

whenning,
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@dpp Fuck yes, King

dpp, to random
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Happy birthday @whenning 🍾🎉

whenning,
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@dpp Thank you!

dpp, to random
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza - gives “we were just following orders” (the Nuremberg defense) new and darker meaning https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

whenning,
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@dpp Standard reply to "let's automate <thing> with AI"

whenning, to random
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Setting a new goal for myself to get 10,000 steps a day. The dogs and I had a strategy meeting and they had a valuable insight: we should have more park walkies, as walkies will automatically require a good number of steps. Valuable learnings to share with colleagues as we navigate the new "never normal" market landscape in Q1 FY25

dpp, to random
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Homemade pizza night

whenning,
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@dpp 🤌🤌🤌 ayyy paisan, que bella! good caramelization on the cheese.

lars, to random
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This enterprise app should have been a spreadsheet

whenning,
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@dpp @lars How to feel sad at a B2B SaaS startup: compare usage metrics of web UI features vs. usage of the "export table to CSV" button. For extra credit, show this data to your manager and argue that we should replace the frontend with a cron job that emails people their data every night.

dpp, to random
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What nobody is talking about: the number of watts to compute a response in AI

While computers get faster, power to compute and cool gets more expensive

How many watts does an OpenAI token require? What is the environment impact?

whenning,
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@dpp More that no one is talking about: if you train a model with genetic programming which compiles its final model to < 3k LOC of C code that is compiled to native code, how much more energy efficient is that for inference than a large neural network? There's some evidence that certain evolutionary methods can trade blows with deep learning but overall the training process is pretty inefficient so more research needed https://web.cs.dal.ca/~mheywood/OpenAccess/open-smith18.pdf

whenning,
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@dpp My personal hands-on experience is limited to small problems where genetic programming can find a 10-line solution to simple classic control problems along the lines of https://gymnasium.farama.org/environments/classic_control/ . It always seemed like a great approach for embedded/edge inference

dpp, to random
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Optimized Rust is FAST. I'm seeing a 4x+ speed-up compared to non-optimized code. Wow!!

whenning,
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@dpp the best code is simple code that correctly solves the problem and also gets the memory hierarchy working in your favor, at which point modern computers feel freakishly futuristically fast. Mike Acton's talks on data-oriented design changed how I view programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

whenning, (edited )
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@dpp I also enjoyed this talk discussing what compilers can and can't do. they can inline things, auto-vectorize some things, etc. but the computer can't understand your problem better than you (despite what all the AI assistant vendors are/will be saying) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJm7_aTiQM

whenning, to random
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Making it difficult to cancel your account in a SaaS product is a great way to ensure customers will never come back after cancelling just to spite you for being scummy. Especially if you offer a product that has lots of alternatives/your product is somewhat of a commodity.

dpp, to random
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Current status: despising async Rust. So many sharp edges. Is there a Rust web framework that's not async?

whenning,
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@dpp https://github.com/tomaka/rouille relatively few in number.

dpp, to random
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I just published 0.1 of Goat Rodeo

https://gitlab.com/spicelabs1/goatrodeo

It's a few steps forward in securing the software supply chain.

It's tools to generate and query an OmniBOR/GitOID Corpus. For more see https://omnibor.io

whenning,
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@dpp Scala in 2024!!!!

dpp, to random
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Artemis chewing on a bone after a spectacular dog park visit. She played with other dogs for almost 30 minutes.

As a rescue, she’s been shy of people and dogs. She’s getting over both fears. It’s so wonderful to see her expressing her true happy dog nature!

whenning,
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@dpp Fantastic progress. That looks like a very content dog. Ava took a good two years to completely open up to us. Rescue cats in the past have taken years.

timbray, to random
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I would really REALLY like to have #ifdef in this Go code I’m working on - there’s this fairly heavyweight debugging stuff that I regularly switch in to chase a particular class of problems, but don’t want active in production code. #ifdef would have exactly the right semantics. Yeah, I know about tags.

whenning,
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@timbray maybe 10 years from now the Go team will have a change of heart after saying "YAGNI" to everyone who complains the way they did with generics.

whenning,
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@robpike @timbray As I see it, your choice of words in saying things like "too much trouble" and "potential for abuse" and the assumptions implicit in those statements are what this and the decision to have support for any feature in a language boils down to.

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