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I have a theory that for the last 10 years #faang companies who prefer Code Golf solutions in job interviews means they only end up hiring people who learned to beat the interview, and not actually have software engineering or critical thinking ability. At the same time the need for infinite growth, which is the only basic model SV understands, had driven profits over being a good landlord on the web. https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112833989608905813

you can cite the deep magic to me if you want. i was there when it was written but I like hearing it from someone else's perspective. it's pretty cool that you're a witch, too.

Attached: 1 image Two tired parents after two weeks of traveling with kids. But last night we got a few hours of alone time and a great meal at a local restaurant in the middle of nowhere, and we really should be doing more of that.

I put the ass in assimilation

everyone's all star trek is so unrealistic because data makes millions of borg inactive just by sending one tiny command telling them to sleep wait what

I've been reminded of the existence of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the contest is now over. I could watch that film any day. All day, even.

girl who's nonbinary for ideological reasons

A public service: https://donotreply.cards/wo/do-not-reply-if-this-week-you-are-an-expert-in-end-point-detection-response-software

Not being on twitter constantly is unambiguously healthier for me but I just did a sporadic check and instantly saw the most unhinged techbro shit and I do miss it just a little bit

Normal folks hating on C++: it’s an old and memory unsafe programming language. Me hating on C++: there is a convicted rapist and registered sex offender on the C++ committee and the committee leadership worked really hard to keep him there.

To the many people who keep replying with “haha my buttplug runs Linux” Well congratulations on having no audio in your butt

My blog, where i attempt to collect my thoughts and share the occasional interesting topic with others

Learning about the #indieweb movement has been one of the most interesting byproducts of joining Mastodon earlier this year. I particularly liked this talk transcript by Jamie Tanna as an introduction to the topic: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/

Dependency Management Data - Jamie Tanna: https://dmd.tanna.dev/ Simon Willison's description: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/11/dependency-management-data/ HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082941#37086006

When running Kubernetes on a cloud provider, rather than locally using minikube, it’s useful to know which node a pod is running on. The normal command to list pods doesn’t contain this information: $ kubectl get pod NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE neo4j-core-0 1/1 Running 0 6m neo4j-core-1 1/1 Running 0 6m neo4j-core-2 1/1 Running 0 2m I spent a while searching for a command that I could use before I came across Ta-Ching Chen’s blog post while looking for something else.

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You wouldn't get this problem with Linux 😊 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death You would of course, get many other problems 🙃

Jealous of people who work on Windows PCs today that get an extra day off.

Make your tools work better for you.

It's so interesting how when you're a female leader you're never technical enough until you are and then you're too rigorous and inflexible. Love this labyrinth with no exit for us.

Monzo asking me if I want to split my weekly shop with someone like yeah man I’m trying

I have no interest in furry porn, but a website with no furry porn is like an ecosystem with no bees.

Off topic random thought about pain. Just remembered something I read once, where a mom gave advice to another mom to give their kid “toddler sedative” and the other mom was “wait what?” and the first mom went “You know, Tylenol” the second goes “that’s not a sedative” first says “works for me, when my kid gets all fussy and cries all the time it knocks him right out” And I’m: … 🙈 madam, if your kid cries a lot and settles right down when they get a painkiller… THEY’RE IN PAIN Why don’t we talk about that more? Just because someone doesn’t have language, and can’t tell you what hurts, doesn’t mean they don’t experience pain. Heard it happen to a lot of autistic folks too, and then people say things like “they have a higher pain threshold” Dude. Just because someone doesn’t have the same pain reaction as you, doesn’t mean their experience is any different. https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112787457240684355

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A neat thing about having your own blog is there's no rule saying you can't backfill the archives... yesterday I added this page for a talk I gave back in 2017, just to have it show up in the archives in the right place https://simonwillison.net/2017/Aug/16/denormalized-query-engine/

This is the 22nd talk I've published in the annotated format - here's my full collection https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotated-talks/ I wrote about the tools I use to put these together here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations/

If I were England I would simply score more goals than Spain.

jfc, is there some kind of football going on today? There are roars coming from the English outside like they've cornered an immigrant or something.

Welcome to the first issue in a several-part series on building a command-line interface (CLI) tool for an internal platform. This is something I've been...

Test query is a command line tool to query test results with a SQL interface - danicat/testquery

“Violence has no place in politics,” says commander-in-chief

imagine the scolding we would get for the absolute rager of a party we would be in right now

the whole country's gonna get soooo many lectures about "political violence" from the people who think all of society will crumble if the cops don't beat the shit out of black teens and homeless people every day of the week

It's all "yeah, punch nazis!" until one gets shot in the ear. Then I have to hear about how we need to come together? No thanks.

If ur any way a target for conservatives id be getting the fuck out of the US right about now

These days we’re dealing with a job burnout epidemic. Everybody speaks about it, there’s a lot of awareness, and yet things have been getting worse and worse every year. So what have we been missing?

Good news for rationality! https://humanists.uk/2024/07/11/highest-number-of-mps-ever-take-secular-affirmation/ #ukpolitics #GE2024

Why are so many American FOSS and Linux people right wing loons? (this is a rhetorical question)

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Today on a call someone said "It's ok {that the dev env doesn't work}, we should be fine to test in prod, we're developers" and friends I do have to report I was unmuted when I guffawed so fucking loud

Announcing Geomys, a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfolio of critical Go projects.

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A programming font focused on source code legibility - 0xType/0xProto

For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: you can use S3 as a container registry! You heard it right. All it takes is to expose an S3 bucket through HTTP and to upload the image’s files to specific paths.