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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I'm not sure I understand the distinction as presented. It is much simpler to take the system that has caching and then remove it, but such a system won't have acceptable performance. In some ways, caching is the opposite of an abstraction: it is logic yielding to physics.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Engineers spend a lot of time talking past each other; a web developer will tell an embedded systems engineer "memory is cheap" and "just restart it" which are sound on the web and terrible embedded. I've not had great luck with AI driven development yet, I wonder if there's som...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: pathetic, but also really disgusting, just straight up mask off nazi shit
@jmoiron.bsky.social A lot of people might not realize how long Manhattan is, because it's often portrayed missing all of Washington Heights.. sometimes even all of Harlem! The walk Zohran did from Inwood to South Ferry is 13 miles; half a marathon. Almost half (~5.5 miles) of that walk isn't on this...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: His district (which is my district) also includes two of the major pop centers in Manhattan that went for Cuomo.
@jmoiron.bsky.social A bsky draft thread got out of control, so I wrote a post about Zohran Mamdani's famous victory, with some reflections/reactions on the race. The title card photo is from Zohran's site and is credited to Madison Stewart. jmoiron.net/blog/zohran-...
jmoiron/monet 4dc823c add desc & image og tags to post along with migrations, send them to the base template to populate the tags correctly
jmoiron/monet ebc214b add support for opengraph title/image/desc tags, work around fts failures on update
@jmoiron.bsky.social Democratic establishment has been pretty clear for a long time that they feel entitled to progressive votes even though they undermine progressive candidates.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: And a quick note on the price. I am, conservatively, a global expert on monitoring data storage. The infra costs for this shouldn't be high, it's all payroll. Still, the price does seem steep. Nobody wants to pay $100/yr forever for a worse version of something they already paid ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: As time goes on and more non-technical people get burned by not having meaningful ownership over devices they thought they were paying for, I wonder how long it will take for a real movement to develop around action against this kind of corporate cash grab.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: As mentioned here, there should be regulations around service EOL for IoT devices. The monitoring situation would be better even if it deterred the SunStrong acquisition, since their updates to disable cellular seems to have broken WiFi quite badly. bsky.app/profile/jmoi...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This company can charge they want for running this service, but for a them to buy out service contracts, invalidate them, install firmware updates without consent, and update terms to make using your device without their app illegal is pretty ridiculous. Seems like it shouldn't b...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I don't keep a close eye my solar system, because I got decent data the past few years on how much headroom we have for more electrification (about +5000kwh/yr). However, I'm still interested in tracking long term performance of the panels, so I just noticed this rug pull.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If history is any judge, not only should you expect sanction for thought crimes like "Gaza sure seems like genocide" for the foreseeable, but after moods inevitably shift, even the unrepentant goons responsible for this mess will not have their power or prestige diminished in any...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: What got rehabilitated? The people who built a case for war on obvious lies got rehabilitated. Journalists like Judith Miller and Jeffrey Goldberg, but also officials like David Frum, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and, somehow, George W. Bush himself.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: A scarier aspect to this is that the positions that the media ecosystem turned against in the lead up to Iraq are still not really rehabilitated, 20 years later. Hell, at no point since the 2nd Red Scare in the 1950s has being a socialist of any kind become accepted at large.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This time around, things are demonstrably worse, as even a very soft negative position on what Israel is doing is dangerous in a way being ant-Iraq war wasn't. It's grounds to get your food co-op investigated by the federal government, and it can get you deported. www.newyorker....
by jason moiron, 2026