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Steve Purcell
@sanityinc@hachyderm.io
mastodon 4.7.3Dedicated to joy, simplicity and kindness in software and its organisations. Open Source and startup leader/founder/advisor. #Emacs guy (melpa.org).
Past and current obsessions include dancing ballet, singing, acting, playing guitar/ukulele, qigong, cycling, climbing, cooking, street photography, mountain running and moving house internationally. Currently based in west Ireland.
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Joined November 18, 2022
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@t36s@social.ordinal.garden @existentialcomics@mastodon.social 4.1k viewed from here, so I suspect these numbers might vary in some weird fedi way
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The leader of the Transcontinental Race has now cycled around 1570km (almost 1000 miles) since Sunday evening (2d 15h), with less than 6 hours spent off the bike. He's now on the ferry from Malmö to - I believe - Świnoujście in Poland. 🤯 #tcrno12
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@cwebber@social.coop I always enjoy @andrewrk@mastodon.social's talks: he is an engineer's engineer. Keep being awesome! (Both of you.)
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@kangaroo5383@mastodon.social I still have multiple pairs of extremely nice trousers that I will eventually fit back into. It's only been 20 years, so any day now.
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@deech@mastodon.social The software space is a flame for those moths who hide in excessive thought, and then the fact that much of the work is morally bankrupt or pointless is a bonus bug zapper
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@tarsius/116857447830546754
#Emacs fans! Check out this write-up from Jonas of some long-awaited changes we're rolling out on MELPA. He has done lots of complex work to push this complex over the line recently. 🙌
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@tristan957@fosstodon.org @bagder@mastodon.social Fucking hell, you're not kidding. What a shit hole.
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Literally the only indication that the current page is an "Issue" in Linear is that /issue/ is in the URL. I am not even joking. Every life-force-sapping grey page looks the same and there's no navigation or hierarchy, and also the search is bad.
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@benjamineskola @cwebber "Agentic engineering" = "I also vibe-coded lots of tests"
(being a bit disingenuous here, but also not really)
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@baldur@toot.cafe GitHub dropped their Actions pricing this year to get people off 3rd party runners, so it's weird for them to complain about foot pain after they pulled the trigger
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@ricci@discuss.systems Ed Zitron calls out what I think might be this specific Utah datacenter as "not going to get built" in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeXwFWmv1U
AI Bubble: Everyone is aggressively avoiding reality | Ed Zitron
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@haruki_zaemon@aus.social In 2015 I moved to NZ three months ahead of the rest of the family, and it was hard work, because we'd rarely been apart up to then. You'll all be delighted once you get back home.
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@tastapod@mas.to before I reached the end of your post I was thinking "Non-Event Horizon"
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@irfan@sakurajima.social Nah, the install is fine and fully automated these days, and you can also use nix-darwin to declare which homebrew apps you want -- indeed you typically need a few casks in addition to what's available in nixpkgs. But it's a good story overall IMO.
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@AnachronistJohn@zia.io @ricci@discuss.systems more like "can only get 500MW in the next 3-5 years because there aren't new power plants being built" I expect
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@M0CUV@mastodon.radio I got hooked in early Feb, and their identity was pretty easy to stumble across even then. I clicked once to listen to their previous band, but I'd rather not have them reduced to human names and lifestyle facts. Just give me that pure joy of art!
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@britter@chaos.social @nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org not saying I'm a fan of the random code generators, of course...
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@britter@chaos.social @nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org That's nix, the tool: nixpkgs is the massive repo.
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos @baldur@toot.cafe Not quite: they initially announced the price drop at the same time as the coordination fee for third-party runners, and subsequently rolled back the latter. (But yes, it was whiny and cheeky!)
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@daedalus@eigenmagic.net @vampiress@eigenmagic.net I still say this regularly, almost 30 years on 😂
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- My girlfriend lets me remotely log into her computer
- She sounds like a keeper
- No, that's what makes it secure
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@haruki_zaemon@aus.social how many people have you ever met who are good at systems thinking?
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social Still a) with sqlite. Super easy for them to pick up enough knowledge to change it later.
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@thirstybear @cwebber Can't do that in a regulated environment, at least, where 2 humans need to have reviewed every change to production. I'm aware of one AI-enamoured fintech business that is having this uncomfortable realisation as it seeks to get a banking licence.
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@brianleroux@indieweb.social It's not that they need to cut costs, it's just that they're spending too much and not making enough 😂
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@tastapod@mas.to (I don't mean I hit that point myself during your post... My attention span is fractionally longer than that at least.)
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