Just got back from Texas. Really weird to land in Texas and have bluesky tell me "you need to upload your driver's license to keep using this app". How is anyone OK with that? Also, how is anyone OK with the temperature getting to 107?!
Tim Misiak
@timdbg.com
OS/systems engineer, co-founder of Augmend. I used to work on WinDbg at Microsoft.
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
More vegetables need to have personality traits. Cool as a cucumber. Spiteful as a zucchini. Vengeful as a carrot. Angry as a radish.
Apparently this is what happens when you contribute code to a repository that goes to the "Arctic Code Vault" which then later gets disabled due to a TOS violation.
Mermaid diagrams are now built directly into VS Code. 🎉 No extra extension required. 🙌
The driver docs repo (including windbg documentation) got suspended for a TOS violation? So msft violated its own TOS and suspended itself?
Medina Park is quite a nice spot to get some bird pics. The heron nests can be seen from the walkway, and you can see the chicks with binoculars or a zoom lens.
Kind of impressed with Qwen 3.6, but it has this funny quirk where it's convinced it's the year 2024.
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This might be a hot take but I think anyone running a homelab should take the time to learn enough kuberenetes to run their stuff inside k3s. It has a slightly steeper learning curve compared to just using docker compose, but you can get a lot out of it.
I set up a minimal ARM64 linux VM with IPv6-only networking on Azure (with a cloudflare tunnel for SSH access) and it took a FRACTION of the time compared to setting up on AWS. I haven't touched Azure at all since working at Microsoft and I'm honestly pretty impressed.
Anyone ride the 2 line today? Couldn't make a trip today but looking forward to seeing how the ride is sometime soon.
Is there really any point to JS frameworks anymore? I've spent some time experimenting with frameworks by using claude to sketch out similar ideas with different frameworks, and they pretty much universally make things worse compared to Web Components.
Oh it’s called shell scripting
nat alison@tesseralis.site · 6mo agothey need to make these for adults
Started using Claude exclusively instead of ChatGPT (for obvious reasons), and laughed out loud when I saw claude say "oh wait no my bad" in the middle of an explanation.
Anyone who made fun of the windows file copy progress dialog owes someone an apology. My rsync has been sitting at 95% for 12 hours and is still making solid progress copying to my new ZFS pool.
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Today I learned that not only could an enterprise drive be formatted with 520 byte sectors instead of 512 byte sectors (causing linux to shrug and give up) but also it could have special vendor firmware. It's been an ordeal, but it looks like openSeaChest and sg_format are going to save this drive.
This OpenClaw thing is amazing. It helped me corrupt my database in a fraction of the time it would've taken me to do it by hand.
If you've never played with server class machines, you'd never know some of the crazy stuff they can do. I learned today (from some drives I got on ebay) that multipath SAS is a thing. One drive connected to a single backplane talking to two HBAs. Like a little network for hard drives. Crazy
Incidentally, I think reasonable people can still differ about whether this counts as thinking or understanding, but frankly either possibility is weird. Either a machine can think and reason really well, or you can somehow solve very hard open math problems without thinking/reasoning/understanding.
Parents - check your halloween candy carefully. Someone may try to teach your kids the C programming language
I'm switching to Anthropic for an app I'm building because OpenAI doesn't have an IPv6 endpoint... in 2025. Sorry, I'm not going to pay $45 a year extra just so I can have an IPv4 address to talk to your API.
If you just heard a really loud sigh, it's because I just saw the library book my son took home. It's about a kid who time travels to the distant past... to the year 1993
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