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Benjamin Anderson

@_b20n

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Alexis King@lexi_lambda26 Jun 2021
“C++ and Rust are compiled languages and therefore don’t have runtimes” is one of the more audacious confidently wrong assertions I have seen on the orange website, and that is saying something
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this container image from a major cloud vendor is based on an os that went eol over a year ago: hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-a… it’s too old to even scan for vulnerabilities with trivy not sure if trolling
The current state of the devsecops saas market is bad and folks should feel bad
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build a website with a cute logo, some nice developer-centric ux, slather on some false sense of security and take it to the bank
The problem to solve isn’t ‘repatriation’ but being deliberate about understanding the cost and benefit of your runtimes and the dependencies. To save time, the hard problems will never be starting and stopping stateless processes, what promises do you need to keep with data?
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I agree that optionality is not free but we made this a lot harder than we had to. Where might we be if we didn’t have 2 decades of Agile brain damage that ‘architecture doesn’t matter’ and another decade of ‘go fast and break things’?
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This thread and tfa are good but I’d point out that this is more of a “narrative in the pejorative sense” than a lie - it sounds nice and plausible and there probably isn’t any malice involved.
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People are story tellers and story believers, and programmer types are no exception, especially when you step a degree away from the bits
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tef@tef_ebooks30 May 2021
it's worth noting that when you ask a programmer "how do i learn to code?" you get exactly one of two answers either repeat my mistakes exactly, down to the old computers and tools i used back then or do what i wish i'd learned now but had no reason to then
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tef@tef_ebooks29 May 2021
in other words, you can create tools and practices to reduce cognitive overhead for programming, but in practice, programmers will now find it easier to create systems chock of cognitive burden for others their aesthetics demand it
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NOT A WOLF@SICKOFWOLVES27 May 2021
I HAVE RETURNED HOME FROM WORK FINALLY, MY TIME IS MY OWN AGAIN I AM FREE TO CONTINUE MY SEARCH FOR MEANING I WILL START BY STARING AT THE COMPUTER FOR LIKE THREE HOURS AND THEN GOING TO BED IT DID NOT WORK YESTERDAY BUT I REMAIN HOPEFUL
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What are we trying to say about systems by calling them “hyperscale” instead of “large scale”? Is it just a cool word to say?
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This is a good write up of a good paper, but I’ll note that computing *did* have the aforementioned different parents, at one point - it’s just that the cyberneticists “lost”
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Control theory is easily the most underappreciated computing-adjacent field for the work I do, at least. One interesting facet of the AWS engineering culture is how many folks there seem to “get” it.
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Gorm@metaphorician24 May 2021
Armchair theory: Synesthesia is not a glitch but a gift that, to put it pointedly, sets humanity apart from the animals. Forms of synesthesia exist on a spectrum. We consider the rare ones brain mistakes; the universal ones we don't consider synesthesia at all.
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“that the things which people truly and deeply like are precisely these things which have the mirror-of-the-self property to a very high degree”
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Iseult@NoNamesAreReal21 May 2021
Created my response to this meme
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#nihilismandtechnology
Balaji (@balajis) profile pictureBalaji
@balajis12 May 2021
Crypto people are going to be much more imaginative in our use of funds than the establishment. Longevity follows: @davidasinclair @QwQiao @realNathanCheng @LauraDeming @celinehalioua @ArtirKel
this is the darkest timeline
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@meekaale10 May 2021
Replying to @meekaale
I've been a GNU Emacs nerd since around 2003 but I'm basically over it
the science of sciences trying to claim scientific status subfield: sciences trying to claim natural scientific status rather than social scientific status
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