James Linnell

James Linnell

@jamesnl.bsky.social

Software Engineer / San Diego / πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ / craving an espresso martini / have a cat https://jamesnl.com

780 Followers 228 Following 110 Posts Joined Sep 2023
3 days ago

Hi god it’s me, could you maybe pick a different brave soldier because I’d kind of like a break. no worries if not lol

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5 days ago

I introduced a coworker to the "Unread" section of slack the other day. I fear I've made a FOMO out of them.

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3 weeks ago

SQL book 😍

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1 month ago

That's my girl right there πŸ’š

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1 month ago

A reminder to the news media: β€œconflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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1 month ago

The insistence on and total reliance on AI by those with malformed frontal lobes. My government being overrun by fascism. Reps, governors, federal workers, and companies refusing to show a spine in spite of it. The worsening global warming. Congress not enforcing the EFiles release.

I'm drowning.

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1 month ago
Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. Three stills all focused on Odo. He's a shape-shifting humanoid looking at the moment fella with very smooth skin, tightly combed back hair, and as always, wearing five shades of tan as his uniform. Here, he's just sitting and chatting with someone. Closed caption reads, "It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice is that, sometimes, they make the wrong choice." Alt in image 1 Alt in pic 1, also fuck ICE
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1 month ago

Business leadership positions. Government leadership. Middle management willing to propagate orders. Grunts carrying it out without critical thinking or morality. Citizens who revel in all of this. You're all complicit in this fucked up supervillain story. Why can't we learn and move on from history

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1 month ago

I used to wonder how super villains or evil organizations in movies would hire so many grunts and foot soldiers.

Usually the reason was they were forced to, else their families would be hurt.

Now I know in reality there's just evil people willing to commit evil all around us. I'm so scared.

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2 months ago

Minor inconvenience at work immediately followed by a recruiter reaching out to me. Don’t tempt me!

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2 months ago
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you really should be watching all of thescifisavage.com 's video

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3 months ago

I'd also recommend a mini/micro form factor PC! I used to use an Intel NUC but when it died I switched to a micro dell PC.

If you get a NAS I know Plex can run on it pretty well, and so I'd assume Jellyfin too. But mainly only if it has to stream media, and not do any live transcoding of the media

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3 months ago

β€œAI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

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3 months ago

I've gotten spam/scam messages impersonating Apple themselves with no substantive way to report it. I'm surprised Apple doesn't already do filtering like this. I think this is a great change.

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3 months ago
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Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today Some time ago, we were contacted by a group fighting against online CSAM, demanding that AdGuard DNS blocks the Archive.today website. This was only the beginning of a much larger story…

The article: adguard-dns.io/en/blog/arch... (talking about archive.is).

Also, if anyone has a Lobsters invite πŸ‘€

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3 months ago
Lobsters

Reading yet another article on users able to host illicit content on public website and the challenges of moderating content, and all I can think of is how Bluesky's original and lobste.rs permanent invite system solves all those problems significantly. Websites should be invite-only by default.

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4 months ago

See a tuxedo post a tuxedo

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4 months ago
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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

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5 months ago
Me sitting on a ledge with a Greek blue dome and sunset behind me

Remembering Santorini

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5 months ago
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5 months ago
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CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI

PATEL: That's false

CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question

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7 months ago

ADHDers could never

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7 months ago

TIL! I suppose I can retroactively preface earlier comments with: unique among more popular languages. Go is certainly unique when compared to: C#, Python, JS, Rust, Swift, Java, C/C++, and the like. IME Clojure, Elixir, Scheme are all very valid and noteworthy langs but less widely discussed/used.

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7 months ago

I'd also argue that Go's resistance to add every language feature and shiny new thing is a feature in itself. It prides stability and function over features. Compared to C#, Rust, Swift, JavaScript/TypeScript and the like, it feels like a breath of fresh air to me.

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7 months ago

Native concurrency using green threads and channels over mutexes and semaphores, and from the get go at that (not tacking on async/await after v1 as an after thought like many others). And duck typing over OOP and inheritance. Not entirely unique but it strays from the average.

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7 months ago

That's why I applaud Go for straying from the norm to solve problems with unique solutions.

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7 months ago

You can drag the address bar up and it animates into the tabs. Not intuitive until you stumble upon it, but it's quick at least and not two taps.

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9 months ago

It's difficult to be in a good mood on the eve of total dictatorship :/

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9 months ago
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The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

Annoyed that this wasn't disseminated more during the time of all of those layoffs. I had no idea until today that the layoffs were fueled in part by a change in tax code in 2017. qz.com/tech-layoffs...

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9 months ago

It sounds like that's basically what the judge is demanding. This article does a terrible job at framing the story. It should emphasize more that the initial flight took place after the judge already disallowed it from happening. It's giving too much voice to ICE and their illogical statements.

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