Arch, i3, IntelliJ, VSCode when I’m not in Java.

Get a doula. They are like a birth helper. They have so much practice with birth stuff than you do.

Take off your ring during labor.

Same. I love that there are so many different kinds of pies. But I still want the pican pie from who’s recipe is on the karo syrup bottle.

I say this with all appropriate irony: as the guy that deployed it at for Wikipedia, yes.

There is still fun to be had! Just… Different fun!

In database land lookup tables are pretty common. Prefix tries and the like are super common in search land. I’ve seen GCD, offset, delta-of-delta, and some funky bitwise floating point compression used. Sometimes just to save dist space. But usually to save working set space or IO or S3 cache space.

And squeezing the most out of modern CPUs is its own art. Compilers are glorious. And modern CPUs are magic lightning rocks. But you can learn to sing to them just right to make them all happy.

I’ve been in the industry since 2001 and think maybe once I had a one-meeting cycle.

We’re two years out from the API apocalypse. I think. That’s how I got here.

There’s a book called Catch 22. Looks like the made a movie of it. The book is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. Made me think about how crazy fighting is. Sort of like a funny Slaughterhouse-Five.

Neither mentioned illegal orders as far as I remember. Was the movie quite different?

Take the win.

I mostly just use GitHub for work. I don’t think the social media bits matter.

Except stars. I’ve been told investors use stars as a proxy for interest lately. I see how bots these make a lot of sense.

All this bots stuff reminds me of an off hand part of Anathem. They had this historical arms race of garbage spread on their internet. There’s these monk folks who have been fighting it for generations. I thought it was sill years ago. Feels sane now.

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I follow two people. I have no idea why I did that either.

Same as lemmy username

147 people follow me. I have no idea why. I’m boring.

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A government stipend to make public art or open source software or literature or whatever sounds pretty great. It’s hard to see how we get there from here. But it’d be great.

France has something like it for artists I think.

I believe they were referring to this: https://youtu.be/9eyFDBPk4Yw?si=sb_v_EPhTM9C6bZZ

I imagine a delta encoding scheme similar to what the time series DBs use would work well for the geo points. Maybe even a delta-of-delta encoding for things like ships which move very consistently.

It’s probably not worth it given how small they’ve already go their data. But it is fun.

I don’t believe Prometheus supports geospatial data. Two minutes of googling though, so I could be wrong.

I think the last new instruction the JVM added was invokedynamic like 10 years ago. I believe they did it so lambdas could be called efficiently. Polymorphic incline cache and stuff.

But the JVM has grown more complex in other ways. The way to force simd instructions is pretty wild, for example.

I don’t know enough to call it a mess or not. It works though.

It’s not just Google. If you enjoy that sort of thing there are industries where it’s more important. Not every day. Not every team. And you’d have support like you say.

But you can go a lifetime without using it beyond rules of thumb.