Alan Donovan

Fast enough, I should say. Polling will always be slower than inotify, but git status is much faster than find(1).

All FS notification packages struggle to abstract the huge variance in the underlying platforms. I want to try to make something that is simple, portable, and fast.

Yeah, a lot of clients (e.g. eglot) don’t watch the whole tree, so every time you switch git branches the server gets confused. I’m implementing a pure polling (no fsnotify) server-side watcher in gopls, stealing ideas from git status.

“Go 1.26 is released” by Carlos Amedee, on behalf of the Go team — https://go.dev/blog/go1.26

#golang

The Kardashev stuff is sci-fi nonsense. Putting GPUs in space makes no sense economically nor physically (heat dissipation). The whole thing is an obvious play to raise money for the despicable xAI by coupling it to the respectable SpaceX.

That’s a new one. I‘ve heard of anti-SLOs to ensure resilience (e.g. lets’s periodically turn off the lockserver to see who depended on it assuming too many nines of availability). But never to play managerial chicken!

It is galling to see the trillions being spent on AI to make SW developers (and others) more productive and recall the mere millions not spent on improving old fashioned source indexing tools despite immense productivity leverage.

… is a challenge. Startups (e.g. Sourcegraph) can make a better product, but they can’t give it away for free, which is the price of their competition.

I have worked on Google CodeSearch, Kythe, and GitHub’s cross-reference index. It’s not the case that those teams don’t care. Maintaining those services was always a precarious position (“cost center”) within each org despite very positive vibes from users. Scaling (large corpora, index freshness) …

That one got me too, despite having seen some crass (Naked Gun?) joke about it beforehand which I set aside out of cognitive dissonance. Also The World’s End. And recently Sinners, if you can believe it.

I do quite enjoy that genre whiplash feeling where you’re watching a serious drama you know nothing about and then suddenly the protagonist is eating brains.

It is our current Era.

It seems less like a propaganda play and more like the usual Trump grift. Melania is probably wearing her “I really don’t care, do you?” jacket and counting her $28m fee.

If current UK trends continue, the US is also on track by 2035 to have a health system as good as the fabled NHS, sadly.

Must be hard to work with the Eye of Sauron upon you.

It’s always a bonus when some mishap replaces one’s flight with a long train ride, and one’s coworkers offer sympathy and admiration of one’s stamina for travel despite one loving every moment of it.

Uncanny! My life at this point is just a series of discoveries that I am reading lines from my demographically appointed script.

A famous irony. More interesting Is that Greenland was named as a Trumpian false marketing ploy to attract settlers.

Wow, it is like a painting from a Victorian children’s story!

Except Adams’ ultimate punchline was that the pointless jobs (or Graeber’s non-“bullshit jobs”) are low status but actually critical. Whereas Trump fact checking really is pointless because you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. Different epistemic universe.

Fun fact: at many moments in history the most complex machines were musical instruments. In the 10th C., Winchester Cathedral was home to an organ described by a contemporary as "audible at 5 miles, offensive at 2, lethal at 1". Must have blown the peasants' smocks off.

www.jstor.org/stable/964769

My ears are ringing with the words "fiscally prudent" in the accent of Gordon Brown.

TIL. The risks of not cleaning humidifiers are well known, but I would not have imagined the converse. How awful.

Thanks! One question: why is the probability density donut shaped?

Involved or not he must be beyond delighted.

It’s beyond parody of the roaring twenties, yet it was still only the early teens!

To be read only the “gravitas” voice of a The Day Today announcer.

I don't know, but T&C processes generally can't convict, they trade honest confessions for amnesty.

Hi Jay, thanks for writing this up. I’ll be citing it in code reviews for years to come!

Idea for innovative new California law:
A tech company must work as hard to remove you as a lapsed customer as they did to woo you as a non-customer.

I can't want to see invasive pop-up ads on every web page saying "Alan, you haven't watched Hulu for nearly a month... click here to unsubscribe."