@jmoiron @mschoening Do you think of your Television as a computer? Platforms that have significant barriers to running your own code on them don't feel like computers to me, even though I know it can be argued restrictions are net positive for consumers.
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@jmoiron @the_sttts @alexcarolc Why does syntax not matter? It's not like humans do not need to interact with it.
@jmoiron @jmmv #3B6EA5 was a gift to the world
@jmoiron Apparently, the Alvin DSV, which I remember watching videos about on one of those school TV+VCR carts during the 80s and 90s, was built by General Mills... the one that makes Cocoa Puffs.
@jmoiron.bsky.social I know running a submersible company with a move fast shoestring DIY attitude pioneered at low stakes tech cos doing shit like online dogfood retail is incredibly stupid to the point of being funny, but I can't get over the basic horror of a hull breach at depth.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social Popular decen/federated platforms tend towards concentration (email, bitcoin, bittorrent trackers, etc), so the claim that decen solves bad operators is over sold. On the other hand, the drawbacks d/f have directly impact UX in very visible ways that are seldom acknowledged by p...
@jmoiron @richardartoul @felixge Given the request rate and longer time scale I'm also surprised random didn't have more of an even distribution.
@jmoiron.bsky.social The "AI Model Collapse" reminds me a lot of low-background steel. We were careless with nuclear testing, so steel created after the 50s is contaminated with nuclear fallout and not usable for sensitive instruments like particle detectors and geiger counters.
@jmoiron @eatonphil Ramen (eg. sun kaedama) carbonara works really well.
@jmoiron I get this question at the end of nearly every interview. A big one is that I am a target user for the product I work on, and building "your own tools" is a kind of work that is almost universally gratifying. https://t.co/gAJ4KYh9sz
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@jmoiron Adeus, Astrud 😢
@jmoiron It's wild how much of a cultural touchstone things like Chrono Trigger or Cowboy Bebop have become; things that (in the US) felt incredibly niche in their time.
(also, to the question, Primer or 12 Monkeys) https://t.co/8ckWtamLEw
@jmoiron @JackMurphyRGR Shows how little people incorporate evidence into the way they build their world view when even corroborating evidence is dismissed.
@jmoiron @enpeta7police Yes :)
@jmoiron The problem with ORMs is mostly a social one: it's not that they aren't a useful tool for SQL experts, it's that they are foot canons for SQL novices, and the way they're sold to novices as "a way to avoid writing SQL" prevents them from building this judgement. https://t.co/LLBI...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Is there a consensus as to why Mimas is spherical but Proteus is not? Is it Proteus' slightly higher density enough of an explanation? Does temperature play a role?
@jmoiron @jordanorelli I still see this occasionally, and people have told me that it is "more readable" which is both false and not the inspiration behind doing it in the first place.
@jmoiron Times Square got this much better and it's still absolutely terrible. https://t.co/DDtd8XKy1y
@jmoiron Threw on Guitar Romantic this weekend, just sat and listened. Hard to believe it's been 20 years. There's a re-master due to come out this week. Wonder if that period is due a revival soon.
@jmoiron @inowland DRAM isn't persistent, but even there repeated access to the same DRAM page is faster than accesses to different pages. Everywhere you look, sequential access is going to be advantaged, whether it's in cpu cache or prefetching.
@jmoiron Lesson: linear access has dominated the physical storage layer for ~50 years. Even when vendors improve random workloads, physics (c) will continue to advantage linear over random, and hardware will continue to bias for linear workloads because you design for what people run. ht...
@jmoiron The only reliable 10x multiplier in engineering is having solved the same problem before
@jmoiron RT @BlackwolfOates: https://t.co/90jSpfG2N0