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Another photo from the archive: it felt great to get GenBank DNA sequences out on the table with a bit more room to breathe.

ALL THESE YEARS HEARING ABOUT AUTOMATTIC AND MATT MULLENWEG AND I NEVER REALISED HE WAS VAIN ENOUGH TO NAME THE COMPANY AFTER HIMSELF!!! 😭

(watching a video about wordpress drama centring on the guy who runs the project, who's called matt) wait hold up hold on a fucking second is the company called autoMATTic because of this aaaaaaa

If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight.

That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it is fun to pick on them for it. _Nearly every_ significant infrastructure tool has this shape. Organizations that adopt these tools are unable to receive their value until their staff know how to use them, and that knowledge is deeply not self-sustaining.

Yeah I use an IDE setup for programming

internal GPU
deticated GPU
external GPU

OH: "brekkie is like Beckie but with a hard R"

weirdest gdpr error ive gotten so far

this latest edition of "Android team posting nothing but Ws for adopting Rust" is super important because it identifies that:

*you don't have to actually rewrite all your old unsafe C/C++ code to get the benefits of adopting safe languages, in terms of reducing vulnerabilites*

because they identify that most bugs are in new/changed code (with exponential decay!), so if you preferentially write new code in a safe language, your vulnerabilities crater even though most of your code is still unsafe!

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html

silicon valley is fucking cooked man. they have absolutely nothing left. they don't even have straws to grasp at anymore.

Hey. I love you.

the [gender redacted] urge to name myself after a food

No one responsible for Marcellus Williams' death will lose a wink of sleep tonight. Not the governor and not six six justices

But many of us who called, faxed, implored, and begged for a stay will toss and turn wondering what more, if anything, we could have done

The distribution of shame in this country is almost as imbalanced and unfair as the distribution of wealth

Completely Useless Legislation, Exhibit A:

Hungary has a new law that students have to surrender their phones at school. The phones have to be locked up, hauled around in safety boxes by teachers etc. Students get them back at the end of the day.

A friend of mine teaches high school. He noticed that when students get their phones back, they don't even turn them on, just toss them in their bag.

Decoy phones.

Seriously, no one thought about this?...

maintaining an open-source game emulator has really perverse incentives. users do not care whether your code is good or clean or properly tested. if a horrible hack gets a popular game running, they will plagiarise your WIP patch, make their own build of it, and distribute both…

…at which point it becomes very tempting to just move to a completely closed development model, where we only publish code that is complete enough to land on trunk. and already we are like half of the way there with touchHLE, but it's tempting to go all in. perverse incentives!

i would like to introduce my new GenAI, The Linguini Board