Stig Bakken 🏳️‍🌈

This quote is wall poster material: "For any given topic, there is a gap between the supply of what we actually know and the demand for what we feel we need to know. Everything that fills this gap is bullshit."

@QuinnyPig Take care. See if you can reach the slowing down pinnacle; being bored and having no plans. It's a luxury.

I’m burned out; turns out I haven’t taken a vacation in ~a decade. Back in September; be good to each other—and yourselves.

@grajat341 @George_Kurtz This is an uninformed knee-jerk response, superstition or maybe attempt at humor. Nothing wrong with deploying on Friday as long as you have good 24/7 ops and escalation. This would have happened on a Tuesday as well.

@George_Kurtz A lifelong learning:- Never push updates on a Friday.

CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.

First day at Crowdstrike, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️

@xucian_ @RichardDawkins I came here to say this^^^^. But the way the female body changes during pregnancy, and during and after birth is mind boggling to!

@RichardDawkins DNA copying there is nothing, nothing that comes as close to this, it's mind-blowing maybe also the apparent non-determinism of quantum processes, which influence our brain, driving consciousness and thus potentially making a case for free will, but that's less palpable

What is the most amazing biological process in the human body?

@ibuildthecloud @offlinehacker The real question on everyone's mind is: what will we se first, a good Linux DE or cost-effective nuclear fusion? I want to know!

oh wow, no. So many bad things there. Wayland continues to have odd issues and silverblue is too forward leaning to be practical. I've been using linux for 25+ years as my only OS. Fixing random crap got annoying 15 years ago. I just need thing to work. And I do have that in Linux. The way I use Linux everything works great for me, but it's a very intentional, fairly static setup I've used for over a decade. But that's it, I've been getting that same experience from Linux for over a decade with little change. Gnome was completely unusable until maybe the last 5 years (gnome 2 was great before they broke everything). So in the last 5 years it functional enough to be decent. Not better than macOS/windows. The bar is just so low for Linux and after decades that just gets old. I'm just too old to expect Linux desktop to improve. It's like maybe in 5 years linux desktop will be completely solid and they finally nailed the desktop UX which was defined 30 years ago and has worked perfectly well for the rest of the world for the last 30 years...

I'm sorry, I love my Surface laptop. People don't understand, I haven't abandoned Linux. WSL2 is just sooo good. Linux desktop environments all suck, unless your on i3 you know that. Windows is a really good linux DE.

@perbu @robsmallshire Too late! 😅

@perbu @robsmallshire Is it a USB 3.1/3.2 internal header?

@housecor It doesn't have to be one or the other. You always make these tradeoffs, and if you know what your bottleneck will be, then by all means have performance in front of mind. Avoiding unnecessary copying for example may have design implications that can be hard to retrofit.

Two ways to write software: 1. Performance first. Consider performance from the start. 2. Performance last. Make it work, make it right, then make it fast (if necessary). Poll: What's your typical approach?

@Grady_Booch With the electricity grid being disrupted by intermittent renewables causing wild price swings, IMHO it's a rational decision to become energy self-sufficient for data centers. And then nuclear is the best option if you actually care about environmental impact.

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@ibuildthecloud Spaces makes for consistent rendering of the code. Tabs can do that only if some tool enforces that all indentation beyond the line start offset uses spaces. I don't understand why people even bother with the "smashing spacebar" and file size arguments, that's BS

I'm not kidding, I actually need to decide tab vs spaces. Go went with tabs. Anyone know the rational? I'm in the spaces camp, but thinking that I should do tabs because go did and honestly as a go developer it never bothers me it's tabs.

@perbu @bootrino @htmx_org Did you try loading the new image in an invisible img tag and swapping in the onload handler? Worked for me in 1997.

@perbu On my phone I've renamed it back to Twitter and replaced its icon. I'm such a rebel.

@robsmallshire Thanks for taking one for the team^Wrest of us! I took one too in my distant youth, hmu if you ever wonder what actually happens if you put dishwashing fluid in the dishwasher.

Warming this hand soap refill bag in the microwave to reduce its viscosity and hence increase recovery turned out to be a terrible idea.

WARNING young engineers are being exposed to frontend TOO EARLY it causes PERMANENT damage to their still developing brains studies show growth and income can be stunted FATALLY severe cases become ADDICTED to nextjs and tailwind AVOID FRONTEND TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

@SwiftOnSecurity @QuinnyPig @cliffb_infosec Too many.

@QuinnyPig @cliffb_infosec What databases do not store times in UTC?

Do not do this. Don't you dare. The one true timezone for databases is always UTC. You get this wrong at your peril and it haunts you forever. Allow me to demonstrate by sending some people into fits with three words: "Google Standard Time."

@ibuildthecloud I saw a game dev team once that used mapreduce to calculate top player lists, when a cached SQL query had been enough. (This was in the middle of the nosql period too.) Update latecy was 30 minutes, when it could have been 2 seconds.

I really wonder how much damage has been done by teams trying to adopt Google architectures.

@bytebytego Worth highlighting Consistent Hashing here!

What are the common load-balancing algorithms? The diagram below shows 6 common algorithms. 🔹 Static Algorithms 1. Round robin The client requests are sent to different service instances in sequential order. The services are usually required to be stateless. 2. Sticky round-robin This is an improvement of the round-robin algorithm. If Alice’s first request goes to service A, the following requests go to service A as well. 3. Weighted round-robin The admin can specify the weight for each service. The ones with a higher weight handle more requests than others. 4. Hash This algorithm applies a hash function on the incoming requests’ IP or URL. The requests are routed to relevant instances based on the hash function result. 🔹 Dynamic Algorithms 5. Least connections A new request is sent to the service instance with the least concurrent connections. 6. Least response time A new request is sent to the service instance with the fastest response time. Over to you: 1). Which algorithm is most popular? 2). We can use other attributes for hashing algorithms. For example, HTTP header, request type, client type, etc. What attributes have you used? — Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get a Free System Design PDF (158 pages): bit.ly/42Ex9oZ

@ChristinGorman Chrome be like [ :D ]

How many tabs do you have open in your browser? How many tabs in the webapp shown in each tab? So much IT strategy is about consolidation/unification. But at the end of the day, software will be split into different sections anyway. You can't have everything on screen at once 🧵

@svpino ChatGPT would be much worse without Stack Overflow, and may suffer from its own success. I hope there will be an equilibrium.

50% of StackOverflow traffic is gone! Look at the attached chart. It tells a scary story that will not be limited to StackOverflow. Right now, detecting AI-generated content is impossible. Last week, OpenAI shut down the tool they created for this purpose. They launched it in January, and it's dead today, less than seven months later. Their statement: "The AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy." I'm not surprised about any of these two events. I don't remember the last time I visited StackOverflow. Why would I when tools like Copilot and ChatGPT answer my questions faster without making me feel bad for asking? And I'm even less surprised about OpenAI killing their tool: Many believe detecting AI-generated text is impossible. I'm one of them. Here's what OpenAI had to say about this: "We are (...) currently researching more effective provenance techniques for text, and have made a commitment to develop and deploy mechanisms that enable users to understand if audio or visual content is AI-generated." Notice how they differentiate text from audio and visual content. For the latter, they seem confident they'll find a way to recognize humans from AI. For text, they are not and are word-salad'ing us with a vague "researching more effective provenance techniques." StackOverflow famously banned any AI-generated answers from the site. That's the wrong move. Instead, we need to find a way where human and AI-generated content coexist and benefit from each other. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, so how can we get the most out of it? Do you think StackOverflow will survive? What can they do to fend off what seems to be a life-threatening event?