Benjamin Anderson

“C++ and Rust are compiled languages and therefore don’t have runtimes” is one of the more audacious confidently wrong assertions I have seen on the orange website, and that is saying something

@the_wilderless Any good? I just finished China Root and was thinking about picking that one up

@_b20n That one is from the introduction to ‘Awakened Cosmos’

David Hinton spins one hell of a Creation Myth

@rnewson Got it, will give a few other tracks a listen.

@rnewson Do you have Apple/Beats headphones? I listened to their “sample” with Marvin Gaye on mine and was thoroughly unimpressed with the “spatial” mix

@williamsjoe I refuse to believe that’s a house and not a strip mall

this container image from a major cloud vendor is based on an os that went eol over a year ago: hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-az… it’s too old to even scan for vulnerabilities with trivy not sure if trolling

build a website with a cute logo, some nice developer-centric ux, slather on some false sense of security and take it to the bank

The current state of the devsecops saas market is bad and folks should feel bad

@meekaale this phenomenon is actually a postgres psyop

There are so many obscure novel database systems with landing pages explaining how amazingly fast and consistent they are

The problem to solve isn’t ‘repatriation’ but being deliberate about understanding the cost and benefit of your runtimes and the dependencies. To save time, the hard problems will never be starting and stopping stateless processes, what promises do you need to keep with data?

I agree that optionality is not free but we made this a lot harder than we had to. Where might we be if we didn’t have 2 decades of Agile brain damage that ‘architecture doesn’t matter’ and another decade of ‘go fast and break things’?

People are story tellers and story believers, and programmer types are no exception, especially when you step a degree away from the bits

This thread and tfa are good but I’d point out that this is more of a “narrative in the pejorative sense” than a lie - it sounds nice and plausible and there probably isn’t any malice involved.

it's worth noting that when you ask a programmer "how do i learn to code?" you get exactly one of two answers either repeat my mistakes exactly, down to the old computers and tools i used back then or do what i wish i'd learned now but had no reason to then

in other words, you can create tools and practices to reduce cognitive overhead for programming, but in practice, programmers will now find it easier to create systems chock of cognitive burden for others their aesthetics demand it

I HAVE RETURNED HOME FROM WORK FINALLY, MY TIME IS MY OWN AGAIN I AM FREE TO CONTINUE MY SEARCH FOR MEANING I WILL START BY STARING AT THE COMPUTER FOR LIKE THREE HOURS AND THEN GOING TO BED IT DID NOT WORK YESTERDAY BUT I REMAIN HOPEFUL

@ngvrnd @eigenrobot this is the correct answer

@eigenrobot mu

baby question what is the best jumper to get? if they're all about the same that's also fine, that's useful information ty 🙇🙇

@pee_zombie @magicianbrain christopher alexander would like a word

@magicianbrain i feel my neuroatypicality quite strongly around these sentiments, as I unironically love inhabiting these spaces. so clean. so simple. so comprehendible.

wondering how much of my deep seated feeling of unease about being in spaces i'm not supposed to has to do with weird buildings that feel like humans aren't supposed to be in them

@skeptomai @MarcJBrooker I’ve not read this either but I’d buy it based on the cover alone 😂

This is a good write up of a good paper, but I’ll note that computing *did* have the aforementioned different parents, at one point - it’s just that the cyberneticists “lost”