truffdog

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by truffdog 4y ago
My understanding is that there is a huge difference in pay, respect, and corporate chicanery between short and long haul.
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by truffdog 4y ago
> We spent a relatively large portion of our revenue running very expensive servers to respond instantly to searches that no-one ever performed. The last 7 years of my life as an SRE. It's maddening.
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by truffdog 4y ago
My hazy recollection of Eminent Victorians is that the tone was a little meaner- Florence Nightingale working her assistants to exhaustion, the foolishly earnest priest grappling with the soul of Anglicanism- people too crazed and earnest f
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by truffdog 4y ago
Concourse CI defaulted to BTRFS for storage for a while (actually, maybe twice), and there was always a long tail of nonsense and weirdness.
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by truffdog 4y ago
There's a little bit of a systemic epistemic bias around this- diversity is socially desirable, so positive results are more likely to get published, get into the media, get shared, get remembered.
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by truffdog 4y ago
The Republican party was the party of big business before the end of the civil war.
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by truffdog 4y ago
That's interesting. What were the demographic breakdowns in Georgia and Tennessee where you worked? White people are more circumspect with the magic word generally, it was the American-born children of immigrants who would really get w
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by truffdog 4y ago
The N word as an unsayable totem is one of the big white collar/blue collar divides in the bay area. It's almost an um depending on the group of people you're with. If this was their engineering office I would agree.
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by truffdog 4y ago
Something else that stopped in the 1980s was the oil crisis. Possibly we all give Volcker too much credit.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Ironically a lot of that land was made, we just quit doing it.
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by truffdog 5y ago
AppEngine has redone its pricing model at least once, possibly twice, in a way that upset people.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Pledge works at the libc level, so behind the scenes libc implementation changes don't cause program breakage.
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by truffdog 5y ago
My understanding is that a lot of the US' manufacturing output is an artifact of how agencies do statistical adjustments for improvements in computer chips.
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by truffdog 5y ago
They seem pretty popular on the road
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by truffdog 5y ago
pledge() fans taking a victory lap right now.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Because taking care of someone full time means you have to quit your job. Often this means that you can't pay rent.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I was thinking about Syria, not Chechnya, since that's a more recent major conflict with city captures that the Russians have participated in.
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by truffdog 5y ago
jobs.google.com?
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by truffdog 5y ago
Putin's big speech listed out NATO compatible airbases he objected to as being a soft prelude to expansion, and one of the first things they did was bomb those airbases. The Russian state really was serious about that.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Fallujah and Mosul were pretty bad in terms of city levelling. We just don't like to remember them, or think about depleted uranium dust causing birth defects, or what happened to the refugees, or a million other things.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I read his 2021 retrospective, and it was kind of amazing- https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2021... just spitting out novels like crazy.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Does https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost count? It's not targeting compiler developers, so it can't worm forever, but it is a malicious compiler that weaponizes its output.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Don't clang, gcc, and msvc share a bunch of code between their C and C++ frontends (and uh, share the backend).
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by truffdog 5y ago
Are there features you can ban in your style guide to prevent serious compile time problems?
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by truffdog 5y ago
Is it even scaled up, or is it just more legible to elites because they can see what the masses are saying?
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by truffdog 5y ago
The industrial policy of the United States is "maybe Elon Musk will do it".
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by truffdog 5y ago
Eh, so was agriculture. You can't really go back though, we all have to run the red queen's race.
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PaperWM, a scrolling tiling window manager(github.com)
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by truffdog 5y ago
Questions are overrated. Most people will never ask for social reasons, and most of the time either the teacher won't understand the question or the student won't understand the answer. You can't really learn with an audience
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by truffdog 5y ago
> What matters is the source of the electricity that is consumed. It is key to distinguish between renewable sources of electricity and fossil fuels. We do this by taking into account the total electricity mix of each country to convert

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