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Computer! Enhance! DALL-E should be able to fill in the missing pixels. https://x.com/jackabryan/status/1542591198610698240
Oh this is so true. If I was a hacker, I'd never bother attacking PROD instances, you can get most of what you might want from DEV/TEST/STAGE and they have far fewer protections. The ability to execute a prod transaction or prod data isn't always the valuable thing anyhow. https://x.com/MerrittBaer/status/1541827243810627584
Free compute! A stale copy of PROD! The build server and artifact that will deploy to PROD (eventually), and signing keys (who uses those anyhow) All the codez, API keys for 3rd party things.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Ah, you say, Matt, dammit, you're right! We'll make the dev resources so damn secure no developer will have access to DEV, TEST, STAGE or PROD! Genius! Now all the development is on personal machines and contractor machines on less secure networks. Success!!!
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The only device driver updates I ever remember are the ones that ruined my computer. Device driver writers are mostly saboteurs, amateurs and cranks and a general threat to society. They should pay for their damage.
It's okay the head grows back instantly https://x.com/USCPSC/status/1542575629597646849
IDEA: Visual Source Safe v9, but it just encrypts your code, drive all the drives on the network and then deletes the key. Wait! Wait! Hear me out! This will get the last users off VSS, that would be worth it right?
Ditto for ClearCase, v10
And TFS v18
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```
File ...\site-packages\coloredlogs\__init__.py, line 211, in <module>
from humanfriendly import coerce_boolean
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'humanfriendly'
```
This is how the robot uprising begins.
Supreme court is trying to create a civil war, I guess that is in part their historical role, to spark civil war.
Going into the office 1x a month or after a long while of WFH is sort of like
- starting a new job
- office moving day
- business travel
all bundled in one. Don't expect to get much done.
Damn, I forgot how much going to the office stress me outs, wrecks my ability to focus, just how unpleasant it is.
then the dirt walls collapse and that's the end of that youtube fad. (where is this? A country without OSHA-like agency) https://x.com/DudespostingWs/status/1541844021466767360
5x booked, so I guess I'm a 5x developer https://x.com/mistersql/status/1541799803948089344/photo/1
"Tech companies redesign office to lure workers back" - Most of my several decade career, I work 38 hours with zero human interaction, 2 hours off meetings. The offices were loud, distracting with most elements meant to humiliate the low rank.
The same people that create that hellscape for techies will never, ever, ever, ever figure out how to fix it because that isn't their goal and never was, it is about humiliation.
♡ 0 ↻ 0I'm looking at you NARA & DRC.
♡ 0 ↻ 0(the other people my pre-NARA DRC contracts were cool, I think they still follow me)
♡ 0 ↻ 02 hours of meetings... oh life of an individual contributor... ah those were the days...
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My 3rd Python Librarian episode is up. I talk about how to infer what programming language is in a string, without resorting to ML libraries.
My wife says I need to write a script in advance.
https://youtu.be/oqL5ZZSzU6I
Institutions* & unpopular laws. You can pass a law that says "Everyone must poop from their mouths & eat with their butt" but unless people accept and internalize it, it doesn't matter how much a of a rule of law country we are, people aren't going to do it.
* Institutions here is in the sense of institutions in people heads. Cliché example is how 3rd world countries sometimes adopt 1st world laws word for word, yet corruption continues nonstop & economic growth fails to materialize.
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Forget bitcoin, you can print your own money, official .gov website, too. This uses an innovative technology called "proof of paper, ink and laser printer" You give me goods & services and I give you this money.
https://www.uscurrency.gov/sites/default/files/downloadable-materials/files/en/10-2006-present-features-en.pdf
I mean, they let people print their own stamps, that's pretty much the same thing, right?
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Published my line editor clone to pypi -- it is still so buggy. Not letting any standard of quality be the enemy of done here. (cf Don't let perfect be the enemy of done)
https://pypi.org/project/dedlin/
Next, I gotta record a video on this & try out finding bugs with hypothesis. It is so buggy for some code with 75% unit test coverage.
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Puns aren't funny. I posted 10 puns to see if they'd make people laugh. No pun in ten did.
I'm tempted to get a standing desk now. I hurt my hip running. Well, actually it was the falling part. So it now hurts to sit for a long time. Standing is actually less problematic.
Thing of the moment action plan:
Pick effective actions
-Funding rule change, ROI on $20, 0 or near infinity
-Direct funding, give $ to do the thing, $20 = $20 ROI
-GOTV, Ballot Access, ROI 300%? Probably each $ x worth a few votes
-Messaging $0 returns ROI = $0.0001?
by direct funding I mean, like fighting poverty by giving $20 to a poor person, which has a lousy ROI compared to funding institutional change, like passing a UBI law, which could cost a few million $, but if it passed, way more than 1 person would be better off by more than $20
♡ 0 ↻ 0the same sort of reasoning applies to abortion, immigration, etc, etc.
♡ 0 ↻ 0For example, the effectiveness of this tweet thread is only measurable in the trillionth of femtodollars, or one over whatever your 8 year old son thinks is a really big number right now.
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Won't conservatives now sue in blue states to claim that abortion protection/rights laws are unconstitutional & the Supreme Court would rubber stamp that since it matches their partisan leanings?
I'm thinking up the most outrageous feature ideas for a line editor. So far I've added a web browser and will add text-to-speech next. Wife suggested pictures, so I'm going to add ascii art support (I'll have to add a new concept, lines that must stick together)
Were you a little kid in the 80s who never had enough quarters to play Spy Hunter at the 7-11?
The game is now free in a browser tab, who knew?
https://arcadespot.com/game/spy-hunter/
Turns out these hips do lie, they're all like "sure you can sit for 8 hours and you'll be fine." Nope.
https://youtu.be/ABH4dhFZiew?t=17
META: We already have novel length DM's, now we will be able to do novel length tweets. I guess I could write a 50,000 word tweet every month. https://x.com/Write/status/1539640956915290112
Not enough love for Atariwriter. As soon as I figure out how to do full screen editing in Python, I'll write a clone, promote it and we'll all be editing in a 40 char wide screen. Python people overwhelmed with 79 chars will rejoice. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1537069457541038080
Github copilot is going to cost $100 a year after Aug 22.
You going to sub?
I only wrote function names for the history feature for my text editor, GitHub Copilot wrote the rest. The guesses get better if you learn how to throw it some softballs.
https://github.com/matthewdeanmartin/dedlin/blob/main/dedlin/history_feature.py
Do we get better returns if we put our money into a couch, bed, or mattress?
IDEA: olympic sport, instead of competitive running, walking or wogging-- competitive limping. I think I could compete.
KATA: Write some code that will parse English like this, I mean, a dog could it it. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1538614362612670464/photo/1
* a dog could do it. double sigh.
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We're going to hear a lot more of this song if the purchase of Twitter goes through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxT9TLGoLI
The feature set for a text line editor and a TODO list manager are pretty similar.
When I run a 5k it is a blood sport*. 27m1
* I fell.
But enough about knee, let's talk about hip. My hip is like really mad at me for falling. In a mere 15 years, the same fall will be a medical emergency with a high death rate. Be careful out there, the ground is waiting to kill you.
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Next 5k starts in 2 minutes...
Testing out my edlin clone, it mostly reminds me of how I used to edit Atari Basic. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1538475555116425216/photo/1
Now we can humanely release it outside and no one will get hurt. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1538296694089072646/photo/1
Indian sutras: "Those that do evil karma will be reborn in the narakas where they will have molten iron poured in to their mouths"
Indians: "Yeah, that's an idea, but what if we used lentils and peppers, we can make that recipe, but it will require some substitutions."
My next "Python Librarian" video is up. I talk about how I tacked generating random "names" that round trip from a name to an integer and back.
Unexpected challenge- keeping the code from being saying socially unacceptable things.
https://youtu.be/5_yxbtQOALg