@wohali how did you like it?
God, summer. Is anything worse? Heat, bright, noise.
I want to live in a bunker, at the bottom of the ocean.
On Enceladus.
queer euphemism for just started dating and are currently inseparable: "oh, we've been brunching a lot"
Sometimes I'm a real idiot.
The web, by not really putting much thought into how to do data storage or addressing, and by foolishly embedding links into documents, essentially cemented a hierarchical system in which the rich get richer -- because control over domain names and access to expensive hardware was directly connected to ability to serve and control data.
It's stupid to address a document based on a machine, which is why email got rid of routes & fidonet never had them.
oh hey, all y'all coming in from the facebook badness: the reason facebook is bad is because capitalism, in case that wasn't clear.
Uncomfortable fact: while my heart feels joy seeing all the random lovely weirdness of the community of users on mastodon, I realize I am continuing to use twitter more, because the people I follow there are literally more boring, and I too am boring, and in my middle aged boringness that is all I can handle, cognitively. Y'all too exciting for me here. Can't even tell what any damn things you're tootin' are about.
@federicomena No, I have no idea about homu; they switched to it after I left. As far as I know it's fine. Original-generation bors was about as stupid and crude as I could make it. Stateless cron job every 5 minutes.
@wohali *distant comforts*
@federicomena Yes, cycle time and commit volume. Speaking from experience these become significant enough bottlenecks that people who are cynical or impatient about the plan will argue for switching back to "merge first, test later". It's astounding but I've seen this play out repeatedly now. Like people who "don't need type systems" and use compile time as their lever in the argument. Failure to do whole system accounting on development process, time lost to broken trees.
@federicomena you probably want to point people to bors-ng; it has a much more scalable algorithm (optimistic batches with bisection) https://bors.tech/
"Blessed by the Algorithm" — I can almost hear an apocalyptic Muse song in my head, as regular people slowly start to venerate the computer gods
https://mastodon.social/media/UVFGozJyKSNF7TiBv90
tired: car/cdr
wired: first/rest
inspired: primus and secundus
too old to shitpost, too young to die
Spare time nerdery has turned fun lately: NaN boxing, five and six bit character codes, SCSU, ISPF, Mumps, qp-tries, CBOR. In case I appear totally miserable with computers: not totally. Still amused by some parts.
the cbc winter olympics broadcast has a moose named mr. orlando, a "professional reporter", who's commentating on zambonis smoothing out the ice on the rinks. 
This is Mastodon
There is little quite as tormenting to a static language engineer as spending a week in the "everything magically coerces to an index or an expression or a series" jello-typed world of data science environments. How anyone has the slightest confidence their code is doing what they think it is, I do not know.
