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irvingreid

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Pretty friendly for an old curmudgeon.

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irvingreid, to random
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Toronto folks: Covid struck my household and I have two tickets for Bruce Cockburn at Massey Hall, 8:00pm tonight that I can’t use. Front row of balcony, left of center near the aisle. Cost me $105 each, open to negotiation.

mhoye, to random
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ok everyone's gotta pick a corner and then we can put this week behind us

irvingreid,
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@mhoye gluing men to rocks and leaving them for the bears to eat?

mhoye, to random
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I sincerely wonder how anyone is expected to react when the subtitles say "[scary music]".

irvingreid,
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@mhoye in the words of Dave Broadfoot, “A Canadian is someone who sees the words ‘bien agiter’ on a bottle of salad dressing …

and begins to shake“

irvingreid, to random
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Looking for recommendations:

One of my kids wants to publish a photography portfolio on the Web. I'd prefer to get them on something where they own the URL so they're at least somewhat protect from platform shenanigans. On the other hand, I don't want to recommend something that needs expert-level tech support.

They don't think of themself as a "coder" but they did just fine in the first year CS course they took, so some-assembly-required is OK.

hazelweakly, to random
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My director told me about a conference that she really liked and wanted to sent some of our principal engineers to. It was the O'Reilly Architecture Conference... But unfortunately, it's not a thing anymore. What's your favorite alternative conference that's close to that one?

irvingreid,
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@hazelweakly I’ve never been to QCon but people I respect have spoken highly of it

irvingreid, to random
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First time in nine straight years I haven’t know when my next on-call shift will start.

hazelweakly, to random
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Unreasonably sad that I'm at 4068 followers. So close to a Nice™ number

irvingreid,
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@GeePawHill @hazelweakly somewhere recently I saw someone describe the powers of two as “nice square numbers”

barsoomcore, to random
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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.

irvingreid,
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@barsoomcore if the big guy tells you he’s going to call Rusty, you know it’s time to make peace with your gods.

grimalkina, to random
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I want to see absolutely no sensible and practical advice here. What programming language should I start vaguely and in a chill way teaching myself if I just want to experience something fun or elegant or interesting in and of itself, assuming I have no goal for using it to do anything really (outside of learning)

irvingreid,
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@grimalkina not sure i’m up to answering this right now

irvingreid, to random
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Trying to explain a performance problem to co-workers and just wrote:

"All fast queries are alike; each slow query is slow in its own way."

irvingreid,
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a couple of paragraphs later,

"several child queries stacked up, wearing a UNION and a fake mustache"

GeePawHill, to random
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Well, it's 5:30 on a Friday.

Let's have a beer and see if we can convert this gradle to a) not use buildSrc, and b) support kotlin files in addition to the java.

(As far as I can tell, buildSrc exists only to make grasping gradle build scripts harder.)

irvingreid,
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@hazelweakly @GeePawHill Do you grant three wishes, as long as they involve sand and aren’t “more wishes”?

irvingreid,
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@hazelweakly @GeePawHill (playing the long game here, hoping I can rules-lawyer a “computers are poisoned sand + lightning“ past the judges)

irvingreid,
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@hazelweakly @GeePawHill GeePaw summoned you, so the wishes are his, but mine would be something outlandish like “I wish i could hang out with you two irl”

irvingreid, to random
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@gdinwiddie posted the Dave Clark 5 performing "Bits and Pieces", which reminded me of Stan Rogers' "Turnaround": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUEvQqhVFxM

zalasur, to random
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Never mind that there's no "i" in "team". I just want to know why there isn't an umlaut in "umlaut".

irvingreid,
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@zalasur @gdinwiddie My complaints are with "monosyllabic" (no it isn't) and "onomatopoeia" (what the heck sounds like that?)

irvingreid, to random
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Related to a shitpost in work Slack, I wonder how many HTTP requests there have been? Everywhere, ever, in total?

hazelweakly, to random
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In working with observability in engineering, I've encountered a lot of friction with the existing definitions, especially in how it's presented. So, I came up with my own:

> Observability is the process through which one develops the ability to ask meaningful questions, get useful answers, and act effectively on what you learn.

In this post, I break that down, compare it to the common definitions in industry, and show why I came up with this one.

https://hazelweakly.me/blog/redefining-observability/

irvingreid,
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@hazelweakly @renice Feels like a both/and to me? An Observable system in the control theory sense goes hand in hand with an Observed system in the model building, shared organizational language, sociotechnical (drink!) sense

Though tbh I’m looking for better wording because Observed (or even Observer) feel to me like they don’t give enough importance/agency to the people

irvingreid,
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@renice @hazelweakly the biggest hurdle I struggle with is getting people to see that we can have this relationship with the system we’re working on/in

mhoye, to random
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... and wearing a SCSI adapter on my belt, which was the fashion at the time.

irvingreid,
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@mhoye Earlier this week on work slack I said “posting the Grandpa Simpson Onion Story meme, which was the fashion at the time…”

hazelweakly, to random
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What's your favorite rhythm? I love rhythms, and I love hearing new rhythms and figuring them out

My favorite has to be a halftime shuffle. I am absolutely down for a halftime shuffle groove, I am so nasty for it, I am uncontrollably and undeniably a massive fan of it. It speaks to my soul

Purdie shuffle, Rosanna shuffle, halftime breakdowns, it doesn't matter, that syncopated semi-swing gets me going so hard

What's yours?

irvingreid,
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@hazelweakly @gvwilson We saw the Aladdin musical last night, which was mediocre, but one of the pieces had the 3/4 time “one-and-a two-and-a three-and” and that lit me up :-)

mhoye, to random
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I'm making myself sandwiches out of the half dozen heels of bread that have been in the bottom of this freezer who knows how long, and of all the unseen and underappreciated burdens of dadhood this is perhaps the most "alright, fine, get it done" of them all.

irvingreid,
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@mhoye Eat the parts nobody else picks, bury the small pets after they pass away, …

I would not have guessed before kids how deeply satisfying I find it to have these small things be part of my role.

avdi, to random

I just had this popup on my unattended computer. I don't often use Firefox and I certainly haven't started it since the last several reboots. Here I thought Firefox was supposed to be the one browser that doesn't do shenanigans like "be running in the background when no one asked for it"

irvingreid,
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@avdi Mozilla’s people believe keeping Firefox patched without the user having to think about it is the right default for almost every install. Running a background process was, on balance, the least bad way to accomplish that.

robcee, to random
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closing tabs like I'll never need those memories again

irvingreid,
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@robcee All those moments will be lost in time, like tabs in rain

mhoye, to random
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I wonder how much value there is in alerting on really basic stuff, like ls or anything POSIXy really. How many legitimate users are running “uname -a” in prod?

irvingreid,
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@mhoye Read an article on exactly that a couple of months ago, not sure if I could find it again. tl;dr yes, attackers can be spotted that way.

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