Simon @spoltier@social.cleverlibre.org

@carnage4life I see people in your replies thinking this is really gross, but … this is a big part of our art culture. A hundred years ago we had classical music composers conducting their own symphonies’ openings. Today modern composers’ works are very hard to hear: from your local orchestra to the New York Philharmonic, it’s all Beethoven &co., because that’s all what audiences want.

Similarly you go to the Met or National Art Gallery: sure there’s a tiny bit of modern stuff and some big artists are new-ish (Salvador Dalí) but the vast majority of space is for Rafael to Monet, plus ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. People love the old stuff and it’s really hard to compete against it

I as an omnivorous art lover have the surreal experience of leaving the art museum and seeing tons of street art outside that could just as easily belong inside the museum I just left (https://octodon.social/@22/110143692983629265)

People are having a kneejerk reaction to this story because of AI without thinking a minute about why Rossini’s operas or Stravinsky’s ballets are much more available than modern works in the same medium

With another round of tech layoffs happening, and other companies using RTO to cull their ranks:

Elastic has open positions in fully distributed teams in many countries:

https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/department/engineering?#/

i love verilog. every time i interact with the language it gives me more brain damage

@spoltier
It is Mother of Invention I believe, a great story. Also excellently read by LeVar Burton on his podcast.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/mother-of-invention-a-new-short-story-by-nnedi-okorafor.html

I switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and it was remarkably painless for something absolutely critical that I need to work reliably, with zero additional friction, every single day.
I cannot stress how low-hassle it is to switch from Chrome to a browser with a business model that doesn't rely on tracking you.
Do it.

thinking about how much software would suddenly go unmaintained if a stray bullet put us in the hospital tomorrow (e.g.)

@mweagle @SteveBellovin @edavies @norootcause

I’ll also flagrantly self-promote by mentioning that my book on software resilience is fully aligned with the OP quote.

One of my goals was to banish “human error” as a “root cause” of cybersecurity incidents.

It’s an entirely unserious practice, and also reveals how ill-equipped the industry is to tackle more fundamental contributing factors, like system design.

book link: https://www.securitychaoseng.com/

If you haven't checked in a while, Firefox is good. Like really good. If you're tired of Chrome taking literally all of your ram and CPU, you should try switching.

My relationship with the Threads app so far:
- scroll instagram
- get baited with a juicy thread
- click, download, use anonymously
- view thread
- realize it's shit actually
- uninstall
- repeat about twice a week

So there's this thing called systemd-sysext. It allows you to put "overlays" on your filesystem that cause additional files to appear alongside the regular ones, intermeshed with the regular file hierarchy. I was super happy when I learned about this! That is a neat and useful feature!

What I did not know is the moment you engage it, any "meshed" top-level directories are set readonly. So the sysext I installed put files in /usr/bin. This made /usr readonly. I did not notice this for two weeks.

this remains one of my favourite joke ever told

Para que necessita Jack Sparrow mucha harina?

Para pan pan, para pan pan, para pan pan para pan

@stavvers

One lens of this kind of difference brought by this paper is to consider differences as a signal for *domain specific cognition*, not deficit. "Social class operates as a potent psychological context that shapes cognition and neurodevelopment in crucial ways across the lifespan."

And if we take seriously a strengths-based approach to the cognition of these children, a new world unfolds where we see how much the benefits can cascade. In my humble opinion...what a beautiful set of strategies:

But the evidence doesn't necessarily support this!

"In psychology and among the lay public alike, assessments of
intelligence and tests of cognitive ability are taken to be the sine qua non of good thinking"

"The studies reported here demonstrated that many biases discussed in the heuristics and biases literature are surprisingly independent of cognitive ability in the range examined in our experiments"
(Stanovich & West, 2008)

Obligatory #psychology post about motivation for new years resolutions, some stuff I've learned both as a psych researcher and this year as a person trying to stay committed to very complex rehab!

- when we say set attainable goals WE MEAN IT! Cut the goal in half. Ambition is the mind-killer. Attainable is the recursive motivation feeder.
- mindful tracking means make it easy for yourself to see your effort, not fixate on outcomes
- we overestimate the cost of lapse, remind yourself of this

@spoltier developer tooling brings me personally to Rust. On a second thought, the word “niche” is probably inappropriate for Rust is good because it excels in many domains and learning to program in Rust alone makes you a better programmer even in other languages. I just don’t see a future where Rust becomes a mainstream language for general-purpose applications like Java/TypeScript/Python are.

@raito you actually don't need the hardware to start REing an FPGA; you can get probably 90% of the way there without any hardware at all (this is how I did most of https://whitequark.github.io/prjbureau/intro.html); you do need to test your stuff on hardware *eventually* and in some cases you can only get information you need by hardware tests, but this is, I want to underscore, a minority

Did you know "collaborative two-stage exams" are a thing? I learned about these from my friend Dr. Claire Meaders who is doing excellent work in how we teach about biology. And as usual, I try to think about how we might incorporate some lovely lateral learning into how we run software teams.

Imagine if performance evaluations had an individual component AND a group component. Imagine being able to promote whole teams together. It's a cool idea.

https://www.drcathicks.com/post/when-things-happen-not-just-what

The overlap between self-compassion and my own areas of expertise (learning/high performance/resilient productivity) are super fascinating.

"Because self-compassionate individuals have an emotionally positive self-attitude that is not contingent on performance evaluations, they should be freer to engage in activities out of interest rather than out of a desire to protect or enhance their self-esteem."

@ddosecrets is the real deal. we don't deserve the amount of work, risk, and integrity it takes to run a group like that. $400/150k, i think they deserve the funding: https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later