Jim Calabro ♟️

@calabro.io

Engineer I love computers!

I saw a CNBC report recently that all of Equinix's global sites use the same amount of water as 18 golf courses. Equinix is one of the biggest DC and colo providers in the world, possibly the biggest non-hyperscaler?

cyber professional@permadeath.com · 2d ago

my complex multi-agent work flow, if I ran it 8 hours a day over a year, is less emissions than a typical round trip cross country flight. and people would riot if that paid for its emissions since it would then cost above $600

AI is a really convenient thing to blame when its effects make even more apparent the way pre-existings systems have long been broken and beyond repair

Vaguepost, but calling your competitors "losers" and saying they "can't write good database software" makes me EXTREMELY happy I decided not to go with you as a vendor, and it immediately signals that I never want to work for or with you Just me?

Followup from last week's nextest vuln. Worth carefully paying attention -- please retweet! When interpreting Cargo arguments across a trust boundary, ALWAYS join flags with their values, e.g. --package=foo, never --package foo.

repeated `-p` without a value lets the next arg be parsed as an option · Issue #17684 · rust-lang/cargo

Problem Cargo command line parsing has a bug that flags like --package accepts zero values. The intent was that so Cargo can provide a dynamic error listing all possible candidates. However, Cargo ...

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I can't stop thinking about ParticleDB TigerBeetle reset the minimum bar for db engineering praxis, which is to say that all new databases must be: 1. paragons of engineering excellence 2. built by experts 3. over a long period of time 4. open source and transparent wrt their methodologies

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io · 2w ago

Wow this makes me livid. Apologies for the strong language, but all these irresponsibly vibecoded pieces of shit software makers need to gtfo out of the industry. Fuck all the way off. You, like eMudhra, are clearly not at the caliber required for this work