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Ubuntu loves to mess with upstream by shipping a bunch of vendor patches. It's one of the main reasons I run Fedora, they do this the least in my experience

Is leveraging an enormous capital advantage to strip-mine the Internet and sell it back to us cannibalism or not? Confused on this point. I think they are exploiting a loophole in …

I love it. It's not quite as good as Sonnet but it's quick, and Minimax 2.5 is like 1/4 the cost of Haiku. With enough of a harness around it, almost any breed of monkey can be coe…

Side effecting computations that depend on the "real world" go into an IO monad. The game in Haskell is shifting as much of the codebase as possible into pure functions/non-side-ef…

We do the same thing but commit to a second git repo that we treat like the "k8s yaml release database".

I have an extremely similar profile (chess, PBS space time!) and I get non stop Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate in my recommendations. YouTube Shorts are the worst for this, I can'…

This was one of my Q4 projects at work last year. We moved CI to 3x hetzner machines, each running four copies of the self-hosted github runner, and drove our build/test times from…

Developer velocity has been my project for the last quarter at work: we just switched from GitHub runners to Hetzner machines, and saw similar improvements to average build times. …

Pipewire broke me lots of times during its development and rollout, and that's okay, because new software has bugs and in some of my other use cases "hey it's a lot better than Jac…

On GitHub you can add ?w=1 to diff URLs to get the same thing (there's a button for it too?)

My partner also works in tech. Between the two of us, and between home and work, we've bought or used probably 25-30 of these over the years. I gave her an M1 air this holiday seas…

In my case: your employer only gives out MacBooks and expects you to use them.

I hate my work-provided MacBook SO. MUCH. I begged them to give me a ThinkPad with Linux instead, and it's been a litany of problems in the three months I've been using it. I did a…

You can also use NOTIFY in your postgrest stored procedure to wake up a hypothetical backend processor with low latency. I really love this project! I recommend it to people all th…

It's even better if you force a hardware two-factor authentication before you grant the ssh cert.

It's mainly so I can "road warrior" to my internal resources from my laptop transparently. IPv6 is a good choice for this since it won't conflict with any NAT address space you're …

Many of us switched to evil mode because we got RSI from incorrectly chording all the time! C-a & C-e I'm looking at you

Huge skew depending on what platforms you like to work on. Java or Windows people are significantly less likely to use trad Unix tools. Backend or Linux people, it's 30/30/* in my …

I don't know dude, I've had new grads recently wholesale switch to Emacs just after watching me work for five minutes. "Holy crap, why are you editing these programs so much faster…

You're supposed to use DHCPv6 or Neighbor Discovery -- like everything else in IPv6-land, it's significantly more complicated than it is over IPv4. I don't run the whole network IP…

I've done this before (postgREST) for internal apps and it's amazing . You can POST a JSON file to the front end from a shell script with curl and have it show up on a Grafana dash…

Worked at a Haskell crypto startup. Your analysis of cause and effect is wrong -- crypto people are attracted to Haskell because it has features that are excellent for the domain, …

Postgres + stolon + k8 is the easiest time I've ever had bootstrapping a DB for high availability. I'm not sure I'd use it for extremely high throughput apps, but for smallish data…

I mean, they definitely do. They also deploy an army of muppets! (6-yr ex-muppet here)

Where I'm from we catch rabbits with snares.