Niclas Hedhman @niclas@angrytoday.com
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Grumpy Old Man who doesn't have any fucks to give! - I learned I am "based"
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Joined Mar 2021
@Mirk0dex Go for it!
@Mirk0dex Uhhh... It goes against Wikipedia policy, so good luck.
I even couldn't manage to get a open source software project accepted, even when following every little objection that the editors/tyrants brought.
@Paygan How about the abomination of pineapple AND banana? Available around here...
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@mushroom_soup
Ladies, I want kids and I have my name on the deed of a piece of property, pls become my gf.
Ladies, I want kids and I have my name on the deed of a piece of property, pls become my gf.
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"Why are so many Smart Meters in Britain turning ‘Dumb’?"
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If OpenSSL were a GUI 
Credit: https://smallstep.com/blog/if-openssl-were-a-gui/
@lrvick Wow. I exist because my dad was un-cool enough to wear that newfangled thing called a helmet, in ~1950.
I found the newspaper clip; "Young father survives horrible crash, thanks to Helmet."
@meena I don't know. I got an email that I wasn't hired for the role, without any further info.
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old woman yelling at cloud
I've long held the believe that the cloud is a scam. it's really alluring to outsource (fire) all your core engineering skill and have it sold back to you for ten times the price.
but now with all your engineering knowledge gone, you have no one to look at all your data, and go: mhm 🤔
therefore i posit that machine learning is a scam to sell even more cloud.
@meena I recently applied to a job at a Nuclear Research facility in Copenhagen, that in the advertisement said that one needed the talent to break things.
I sent in this application; https://hedhman.org/application.html
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old woman yelling some more at the cloud
you should probably ignore me, because I'm just the equivalent of aging COBOL programmer ranting at the kids and their super micros, and how they have no appreciation for the mainframe, but just you wait! the mainframe will have its comeback!
well it did, baby! in the form of Kubernetes.
COBOL didn't make the transition, but just like on the mainframe, you have full control over every aspect of the scheduling with Kubernetes. not that the hardware supports any of those features, slight drawback there. and when I say you, i mean you. Because of the three or so new IBMs, only one is actually willing to sell you its very expensive mainframe consultants, I mean Kubernetes engineers.
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For most young people, transitioning is a mistake. Only a minority of them have gender dysphoria so strong and persistent that transitioning is the right move that is worth the drawbacks.
Most of them won’t come to terms with it until they’re well into their 20s, but they were enabled by the adults around them and are the victims of this cult that told them transitioning was the only way they would ever be happy.
I really do think that we will look back on “trans kids” in the same way we look back on lobotomies, and I hope that every quack that pushed it is blacklisted and never considered as a possible reliable source of information ever again.
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How did we get here?
- Traditional distros didn't really provide a way to "work on" development libraries
- Language-specific tools like virtualenv, npm, etc exploded
- Combining these things became so difficult that binary black box solutions like Docker, Flathub, etc took off
- Web 2.0 happened, lots of software *using* FOSS became aimed at *not for end users*
This is *one half* of what has really resulted in a lot of "the developer knows best" kind of mindset which cuts out the user.
Part of why I advocate Guix so hard.
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@Hank_Ikes And in my days, we had not heard of "helmets"...
@lupyuen Yes, I have known about this for about 20 years. I recall one benchmark that to outperform the vector-insert-in-the-middle for a random element, the collection in the benchmark had to be >50,000 entries.
Then to complicate further, it is language sensitive, since for objects, OO languages (all?) need to make the vector a vector-of-pointers-to-objects, compared to an array-of-structs (or struct-of-arrays) in C.
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Grumpy Old Man who doesn't have any fucks to give! - I learned I am "based"
Identify as Naturally Immune - pronouns They/Lied
Joined Mar 2021
