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when im playing tekkn and its been 0.0000001ns since the last time i threw out an electric

i'm sorry about your friend; it was also rather melancholy recently going over the computer programs of some long gone old friends. but, there's a certain kind of magic to meeting people in the online medium in these ways.

growing up doing public computer programming has been interesting. every so often, you see unmistakable usernames you haven't seen in +10 years; other times you end up seeing it involved in a project you like. i work on a high profile project now; i wonder how many old friends have seen that

once in a blue moon, i go check out some of the coding profiles (GitHub) of some of the fellas from the backwater programming IRC room from ~2013. a few of them died long ago; cancer, drowning. some still have occasional blips of activity. some have been inactive for many, many years now

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from what i can tell the dodgers win has caused most Canadians on the internet to begin engaging in sephiroth speeches about America. i love it when sports brings everyone together

Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable degree

From Last Week In AWS: Steve Klabnik leaving Oxide for a jj startup feels like 2012 all over again: betting early on infrastructure tooling that makes engineers' lives measurably better. He's notable in the Rust world, so of course the post spends the first third talking about Rust in accordance with that community's tenets.

i think one of more surreal moments in the last few weeks was seeing @steveklabnik.com's announcement be featured by @quinnypig.com in Last Week in AWS. like, i started that jj startup! we're not even on AWS at the moment!

i'm not really sure why i read Comments On Vote-Based Link Aggregator Websites other than being in the mood to disappoint myself. but i like clicking links. the links change colors and they even have information on them, sometimes

it kind of reminds me how people think of just giving people money as "mutual aid". that is simply charity. charity is not mutual aid. but this doesn't mean giving people things is bad, either. it's important to distinguish them though

lobsters is a very weird website because on an article whose obvious thrust is "here's a way to help ensure people are rightfully paying for something" the most upvoted takeaway is that this is somehow "redistribution of wealth." bizarre website lobste.rs/s/vd7dgj/nor...

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JJ Con 2025 - YouTube

All of the videos from the first #jj-vcs conference are out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

in contrast people who care very little about the specifics of that stuff almost universally seem to care very little about JJ, or consider it bad-but-marginal. which is also fine, but it's less about nerddom then and more about what processes you consider good or not, i guess

i do think that's it is true we have an unusually high density of "VCS nerds" for sure. but the more important dimension i've noticed: how much person XYZ cares about good history and review? lots of our power users aren't really "VCS nerds" as much as they find Git(Hub) annoying to use for that

IME you can get very far without revsets; many users (including me originally!) don't use them very much. but i think the emphasis on them comes from the fact that they just make many open-ended tasks a lot easier, like various scripting needs; that's a common case people dip their toes in for

if you want to be good at computer programming the first thing you should do is NOT write any computer programs. you should post 50 times a day. only then is there any chance that people will call you a Good Boy and put Treats in your mouth; and this is the most noble of pursuit of knowledge

Simplify Your Code: Functional Core, Imperative Shell This article was adapted from a Google Tech on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT epis...

lol i think i saw the actual poster for this at the google offices when i was there testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simp...

i could easily do an Isaac Chotiner interview without making a fool out of myself. he just hasn't invited me on for precisely that reason

i guess my takeaway from this is a rule of thumb: when a project is bad at doing OSS stuff (interactions/support/whatever), what is the labor of the actual developers being directed towards, and by who? good first step to take while evaluating it

moons ago i remember finding a cockroachdb issue about "can you do auto-TLS bootstrapping with EKE+password" and got a response like "yeah we hear this all the time from customers! and would accept a patch for it!" and the guy was like "you're outta your fucking mind, get a new PM." valuable lesson

i remember a tweet like “don’t blame yourself for cutting people out of your life who manifest vibes that harm your energies” and someone just replied “that’s called not liking someone.” an important leason

people love to over intellectualize their personal grievances. not me though. all of my grievances are perfectly calibrated

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makes sense tbh. i took a peek at the (ubuntu, not nvidia maintained!) kernel tree the other day, and the number of nvidia/mediatek patches is relatively short for the 6.17-next branch (hit "Load more commits" like 30x times): github.com/NVIDIA/NV-Ke...

there were some reports on Reddit that somebody just booted Fedora 42 on this thing and installed CUDA and it worked fine lol

The most misused word in the English language is "me". Everyone uses it to refer to themselves, but actually, it refers to me.

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

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