Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Vincent pointed me to his actual pull request in the OTP repo:
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/7215
#Erlang

@malwaretech

Microsoft is the Boeing of the computer industry.

@heidilifeldman I have never heard of #MastodonForHarris before. I probably shouldn't be surprised that #Mastodon is fundraising for political elites, but it's jarring to see y'all being proud about it.

@dalias @heidilifeldman People have the right of not wanting their timelines full of US politics. On the other hand, people should make better use of filters. Don't want US politics? Block posts with trump, kamala or biden in them. Simple.

Mnesia with CRDTs to allow arbitrarily ordered operations in netsplit healing sounds like such a sweet spot. Projects like Mria or Unsplit seem more heavyweight. I wonder if this ever makes it into OTP.
#Erlang

Write-up of trying various profiling and tracing tools on some problems: https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2024/07/22/performance/ (bpftrace in particular is amazing!) #ocaml

Emacs bankruptcy? Wanna see my VS Code config? 😂

#emacs #vscode

@laurahelmuth Yes, people care as long as it's not them giving up anything.

@laurahelmuth I wish there was messaging about reducing consumption to reduce environmental and climate damage

@laurahelmuth "Everybody almost cares", or "almost everybody cares"? A slight syntactical change but with a rather outsized effect.

@david_chisnall "the people who are most excited by AI in any given field are the people with the least talent in that field"
As many people will say, ChatGPT and its kind provide extremely good and detailed and helpful answers on all topics except the topics in which the one saying this is an expert. For these topics, ChatGPT performance drops from "very helpful and detailed and informative and correct answers" to "bullshit superficially resembling an answer in shape " 🙃

@david_chisnall No, you've got it. Coming at this from the writing/LLM side, the apex of AI writing is "mediocre," and I suspect the bigger the dataset gets, the MORE mediocre it will become.

@david_chisnall
It makes sense that average would represent an improvement for half the population. But very few people think they themselves are below average, except maybe in some specific area they don’t care much about. So who is the market for “become average”? My guess is it’s employers who assume all their workers are below average, and in any case don’t like paying them.

Mastodon is the world's biggest community of people who deeply love computers and also think that the world would probably be better off without computers

Every so often some Linux guy replies to me saying ‘no critical infrastructure runs Windows’, so I just gotta say, today is education for you.

Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike

https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/

@ireneista @jenniferplusplus for sure. I don't think I would argue with anything you've said. Devs love to give away their agency to make things easier on themselves. That's the thing people often come to regret later.

This was my snarky way of saying ORMs are often attractive to people because they don't want to be bothered to learn the power available at their database layer. In fact they actively avoid it.
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/112798058005744491

@jenniferplusplus the selling point of ORMs as opposed to the things we'd rather use is mostly that it lets the team include developers who only understand objects and not relations, but we would never want that, that's kind of the worst-case scenario even, because then we're guaranteed to get into problems the team can't get itself out of.

The Crowdstrike situation reminds me of Henry Ford's famous saying: "What doesn’t exist can’t break."

Maybe we should get used to increasing security by *removing* components and layers, rather than adding more.

#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #TechWisdom #IT #SysAdmin