rtyler
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I am now advocating stronger for dropping delta-rs support for lakeFS.
(comic) The hold up https://www.workchronicles.com/p/comic-the-hold-up
boss "We need to get this report done by monday."
Client: "upgrade this system to Version x, we are going into the artifactory, please enable TLS."
boss: "Why are you so cut throat in your messages to Y support?"
boss keeps me from working, asks questions over teams app. I told them "I am overworked" THREE weeks ago, this waterlevel message was ignored. Support of Y goes silent after a friendly message again.
Boss now "complete the upgrade"
🤬
@workchronicles reminds me of the time I had a very time critical task to complete, but I had a plan, and I had convinced one of the engineers to make some of his scarce time available to me. At that point my boss wanted to meet and talk about our options etc. My engineer disappeared, my plan could not proceed, something that would have been done in the next hour took another week.
They took the mailing list from #ALC and really are going for broke with shady behavior
They won't name the charitable beneficiaries of the ride because...
"We want to protect the agencies, the Joy Ride, and you, while preserving the opportunity to support organizations doing important work in California."
"Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab."
I wrote about why we have to care about Omarchy. As a fascist power grab within the FLOSS ecosystem.
I am (not) shocked to learn that corporate backers _do_ actually want to support maintainers, but only as long as they're "agentic" and/or literal fascists.
DHH is a good sales person, and that he's able to shake companies down to support active development of something is a task the Linux Foundation has repeatedly avoided.
Tone police can fuck off into the sun
@rtyler I got an admin warning on my (Very Gernan) instance for not CW-ing a post about Israel…
If you don't like what's on TV, change the channel
I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:
$ rm code.rs
It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:
$ rm -rf project/
The only vegetable the FDA has yet to recall.
moscow mitch.
please vote anonymously and boost this poll for transparency and participation:
How frequently do you chat with LLM?
| not at all: | 42 |
| a few times per month: | 5 |
| multiple times per week: | 9 |
| over 1 hour per day: | 2 |
@falcennial like, casually? Or as a kind of search tool?
@Fishrock any context.
@falcennial if google search results including LLM summaries are included, the number goes up a bunch.
Is it just me, or is everybody tired?
| I'm ok: | 69 |
| Tired: | 223 |
| So damn tired: | 534 |
| Am ded: | 149 |
Closed
☝️Ok, wow. The results of this poll so far are ...oh my... 😞
Follow up question:
What's the dominant emotion dragging you down these days?
(or add your own feels in comments)
| Sorrow/despair: | 30 |
| Fear/worry: | 62 |
| Anger/frustration: | 79 |
| Overwhelm/numb: | 72 |
@vlrny oh! It's um....umm.mmmmmm....oh.... all of um.
It's all of um chief.
"Boss it's the fascism. The fascism is making you tired"
I am actually very much in favour of Omarchy because I am very much in favour of all those fuckheads going off and being in one place where they will never bother me
@mjg59 I just hope they won’t try to bully people in charge of the apps they will include to make things work their way
Do you have a library card for your local public library?
| No: | 146 |
| No, but planning to get one: | 68 |
| Yes, and will renew: | 544 |
| Yes, but no renew planned: | 27 |
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@jwildeboer when I got my first library card I was really surprised how much I could do with it. It’s such a great service everyone should know about.
@jwildeboer I have 2! One for my local community library and one for the nearest big city. They have different collections.
@jwildeboer I have one, but rarely used it. I use their online services more often. The card does not need to be renewed, but I am member of their 'Förderverein' which has a annual fee. The fee is to finance events and some extra services of the library
@jwildeboer I'm a member of the local library here in Durres. They don't have a library card system here. They use the older system of writing down the book I borrowed on a card with my name on it which they keep in a box. The library still has a card catalogue system, something which I haven't seen since my early teens.
@jwildeboer And not just to support the library, but also because of Onleihe, Filmfriend and BibBot ;-)
@jwildeboer
Useful reminder: book due to be returned today but may extend it (again).
Our library aystem doesn’t require membership renewals, it’s perpetual (altho maybe not for children).
In Denmark you can register at any public library (or online) with your national health card - a card you scan when you use our free healthcare system - and that's it, it now functions as a library card too.
Many libraries are open 24/7 unstaffed and you just scan the card, type a pin, and you're in.
We use this a lot - this week we took 50(!) books back, mainly books the kids have been reading, and took out another 30 or so.
@jwildeboer Where I'm from library cards don't have be renewed. But you can get it replaced if yours is lost or stolen.
@jwildeboer
Do you need to renew library cards? As long as I keep using mine, I don't have to renew it.
@jwildeboer Ours is completely useless for me. They have a lot of books for children (which we use very often) and for the grownups...well...a lot of books about love and stuff, obviously targeted at women. Lots of pastel-colored covers. No Science Fiction or anything else that suits my taste.
For those with perpetual library cards, I hear you. Just vote with Yes, will renew if you plan to keep on using the library or No if you don't plan to do that. I only have 4 options, so some ambiguity is unavoidable. Thanks!
@jwildeboer we don't use that here.
Everyone here has a unique public health care id number.
You use this at the public library to check out books
I've never had to renew a library card (NSW, Australia), but did get an optional upgrade to my current local library card to allow me access during extended unstaffed hours.
@jwildeboer My library card is my employee ID. Granted, not much fiction at #hsharz, but we have a lot of humanity's relevant knowledge available 😅
According to our telemetry, 100% of our users have telemetry enabled
@mcc this came up again recently. turns out Wikipedia admins are mostly power users who run ad blockers, which makes it hard to use client-side telemetry to see how they're using a new tool
@mcc Ah yes. One of the dons asked a bunch of us students why none of us followed through with our job applications to such-and-such a company, this being a company which really did think it ought to have been attractive to Cambridge graduates. (Might have been Logica, but might not have been, it was a long time ago.)
We said "it's because of their ****ing stupid aptitude test; we're Cambridge students, not little kiddies who don't even know what the words mean. It's an insult being asked to take that test so we drop the application."
"Thanks" said the don, and came back a few days later with the response from the company:
"They say that people who do well in their aptitude test make good employees, so it works, so they're keeping it."
(They never hired anyone who didn't do well in their aptitude test. So they had no idea whether being good at the test correlated with being a good employee. And didn't appear to know that they had no idea.)
@mcc still need to do something about 10% fewer sales in February compared to every other month though
It doesn't escape me that Rust in the Linux kernel took years and multiple maintainer burnouts, but vibecoding in kernel took approximately thirty seconds.
@xgranade the two facts may be related, the earlier battle may have worn out resistance to the latter
If you paste AI output at me, I just won't read it tbh
It is my absolute pleasure and privilege to share that we are hiring another Rust developer to work with me on some of our hardest data challenges.
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ScribdInc/ab6eba49-d919-4fab-a20c-58d8e92adf61
coo coo, can you define truth?
I would love love love if everybody in "AI" was forced to take a 101 course in philosophy
@rtyler philosophy was a required course for my cpts bachelor’s. I’m often surprised at how that’s not universal.
I got hands on this "Little Joe". I'm trying to find out whether more HW can actually speed up the builds.
@mirek 165 threads?
@herrorange Nope. CPUs. It has 4 sockets, each with 28 cores per socket.
What seems to be the bottleneck for a lot of my #rustlang projects ultimately comes down to single big crates and linker performance. In effect clock speed of a single core
I am starting to need to understand traffic sources a bit better for my small business site, but really don't want to use Google
@rtyler If you don’t mind running the backend yourself, Matomo could be worth a look. (I never used it, but I set it up for clients before)
German textbooks: "German is a phoenic language, so pronunciations are reliably predictable"
Reality: "the second syllable of Jubiläum rhymes with 'Liam'. Silly, why would you expect the ä in äpfel to sound similar to the ä in läum...? 🤣"
@cczona What the 🦆?
Whoever wrote, recommended and bought such textbooks deserves a lifetime ban for education.
@cczona ah yes, the debate whether "ä" is even distinct from "e" in any meaningful way. Depends on the dialect. I for one don't distinguish Beeren from Bären.
@sabrinabonfert oh you are kidding. Vowels in German are hard enough for me to distinguish already.
@rtyler 😭
As an aside, I actually do want to visit at some point. My ancestry traces back to the region, so I've been curious to see where they came from and perhaps -- when I'm fluent -- dig up the local records about them.
We were planning a trip this time to Die Sächsische Schweiz and the Bastei bridge and a _literal tornado_ closed the park the day before we went.
From Berlin it's a great weekend trip, you can DM me here or rtyler@brokenco.de if you want recommendations!
@sabrinabonfert I just played those in Google Translate and surprisingly the vowels sound the same to me. Huh! I would not have predicted. In Translate the words do sound slightly different, but I can't explain how. Maybe the r is subtly altered?
Is it correct, or should I not trust its interpretation?
@cczona Long e is the same vowel as long ä for me, but that depends on people's particular accent. A lot of people overcorrect ä to be distinct from e when you explicitely ask them to pronounce a word, too, making it hard to get accurate data.
Ein Fuß bleibt immer in Kalifornien, die andere in Europa.
Her particular blend of xenophobia is at least logically coherent in that for her "everybody deserves their homeland"
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US cities really will half-ass some bicycle infrastructure and then a couple years later when nobody uses it they’ll loudly declare that their studies have revealed that bicycles have failed
we very gently encouraged cars to not hit the cyclists in the “shared bicycle and car lanes” we made by painting extra shit onto the road and nobody paid attention
well we’re out of ideas, here’s a 10,000 word paper on how the bicyclists who got hit by cars deserved it
If we’re going to do geoengineering/SRM the first thing we need to do is have a computer model showing how it would work where scientists agree the benefits outweigh the costs.
It seems most people interested in the topic aren’t actually interested in doing that work and skip straight to the part where they pollute the environment with ballons filled with a highly toxic, corrosive pollutant
y'all I don't get it. The unlimited hype of LLMs and yet, the marketed "wins" are soooo boring. "It found a security vuln!" ... did it also fix it? no?
"I used it to fix a bug in curl and send a patch!" why are you using *any* dependencies at all? Isn't this text generation machine capable of just whole-cloth writing exactly what you want?
"I ported my large project from Zig to Rust for memory safety!" !??!?! why does your llm generate memory unsafe code? Did you forget to tell it "do not write memory unsafe code" ??
I'm so confused by all of these wild claims. I mean, I get that it probably is fun to use but... so many are out here pretending we have replicators from Star Trek and the best we can imagine is use it to sew buttons back onto our jackets or change the color of our socks?
I'm back. And it's as beautiful as ever.
@sbi nice. Where?
@smurthys Elbsandsteingebirge, Sächsische Schweiz, southeast of Dresden along the Elbe river. (If you go for the first time, go to Rathen.)
@sbi Fall da nirgendwo runter!
@TorstenRobitzki Ich habe Wurzeln hier, und bin schon als Kind hier gewandert. Das befreit einen natürlich nicht von der Pflicht zur Vorsicht, aber ich weiß schon ungefähr, welche Touren ich mir noch zutraue und welche nicht, und wo man aufpassen muss und wo nicht.
@sbi We went there. I have an issue with heights, or rather depths, and stayed back from it
@bellinghman Admittedly, it's not an area that lends itself to people suffering from acrophobia. With very few exceptions (Hoburkersdorfer Rundblick being a very notable one), these grand views can only be sampled by climbing up steep paths and standing at cliffs.
@sbi We came by coach along the top, with a walk to the facilities from the coach park.
@bellinghman Ah, Bastei. Yes, that's the most famous view. ("Europe's Balcony") It's not a 360° one, though. And there's so many others, it's a wasted opportunity to just do this one most famous.
@sbi Given that we were in a coach party coming in from Bad Schandau and going on to Dresden, we were a bit limited
@bellinghman Given that you can still identify the view from some pictures posted online, it might be worth to go back and have a second look — except, of course, for your fear of heights.