sennalen

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by sennalen 10d ago
Not Callisto. Being within Jupiter's magnetosphere but out of reach of Io's shenanigans makes it one of the mildest radiation environments in the solar system.
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by sennalen 2mo ago
Is that really a problem that needs solving though? The easiest way to not spend time bikeshedding is to just not bikeshed. Don't make guidelines. Don't run tools to check them. Don't comment on them in PRs. None of it matter
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by sennalen 2mo ago
Why do you need another human to review the code of a human why can't these things get code right the first time
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by sennalen 2mo ago
RFC 3514 was just ahead of its time
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by sennalen 3mo ago
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in
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by sennalen 3mo ago
The best commit message: is what is meaningful to a future you 1 week from now, no further otherwise takes up the least time to think about right now
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by sennalen 5mo ago
Reversing max and min. That's one I've done a lot, and I don't think any compiler could save me from.
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by sennalen 5mo ago
C++ has Algol roots, but I think the C++ template metaprogramming style is an ur-language of its own. You could draw some parallels with ML maybe, but they came at it from a different direction.
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by sennalen 7mo ago
You could solve the original problem statement using just the part of the script that lists unmerged branches
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by sennalen 8mo ago
"Because I use NixOS, this was very easy." First time I've heard someone say that
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by sennalen 8mo ago
I heard an anecdote years ago about some medical device where people were clicking through confirmations without reading, so they made the user type IRREVERSIBLE on the keyboard to proceed.
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by sennalen 8mo ago
"Get in contact with current employees at the company" and draw the rest of the owl? This blog is really missing the core question of what contact would be more effective than applying to the company's explicit job postings
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by sennalen 8mo ago
Watch them
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by sennalen 8mo ago
Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Please stop trying to update it with information less than a week old.
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by sennalen 9mo ago
Looking in from outside, people going immutable with Nix sure seem to struggle a lot more than people going immutable with disposable containers and Terraform/OpenTofu
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by sennalen 10mo ago
Some of the most valuable meetings I've ever had were optional meetings without agendas. The crucial feature was it was only people who code. When technical people who didn't often interact with each other were given the floor, th
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by sennalen 10mo ago
It would be nice to be able to ignore Peter Thiel's opinions, but that's not a luxury we can afford while he's buying federal law enforcement politicians up to and including the vice president to help implement his crazy.
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by sennalen 11mo ago
It's humans. This is like TSA's fake bomb detectors with nothing inside the plastic shell
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by sennalen 1y ago
Nate Silver is an ideologue who deeply wants BlueSky to be failing.
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by sennalen 1y ago
This isn't a bailout, though. It's strong-arming.
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by sennalen 1y ago
SDI was real and led to the missile defense systems that the US has fielded today.
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by sennalen 1y ago
keeping data orthogonal to presentation
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by sennalen 1y ago
All the contractors and pork districts could still be engaged in doing something more useful.
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by sennalen 1y ago
The bottleneck is context switching
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by sennalen 1y ago
This is WW3 playing out. Russia installed its people in America to dismantle our defenses.
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by sennalen 1y ago
AI makes a lot of money. But games are what matter
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by sennalen 1y ago
The context I have heard the ham and eggs analogy was for certain scrum rituals that were supposed to be for ham people only (ie, excluding people without a stake in the outcome). Someone probably told this boss to butt out of a meeting.
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by sennalen 2y ago
Connection migration sounds like a security nightmare
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by sennalen 2y ago
They are not "transgender mice studies". They are human health studies using mice as a model animal, as is routine in biological research.
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by sennalen 2y ago
That's how most humans died except the last 100 years or so

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