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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-30 at 20:47

The latest news about the only people in the western world who have never, ever heard about Skynet: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/openai-partners-with-us-national-laboratories-on-scientific-research.html

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-25 at 05:21

TIL holding down the Shift key while scrolling on the mouse scroll wheel makes it horizontal scrolling.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-24 at 00:02

New email from the landlord, 13 minutes ago:

"I hope that you are having a great start to the week, and that this email finds you at a great time."

Brother it's mf'ing Thursday.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-22 at 07:43

[#]intellij trick: you can copy the contents of a file from one branch (or anywhere, really) and open the same file in the editor in another branch, then right-click in the editor and choose “compare with clipboard” to get a diff view.

This way you can manually “cherry-pick” stuff, for instance if git can’t figure out file renames or you got changes from outside of git.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-20 at 17:28

Please be considerate of the leopards. Too many leopards are getting fat these days. A lean leopard is a healthy leopard.

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113861446565697953

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-19 at 19:11

That anyone has asked, but if you want my recommendation for a VPN, it’s Mullvad.

When you go through their account setup and purchase flow, you’ll see why. And perhaps wonder why no one else does it like this.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-15 at 23:27

The reason the ASCII delete character is at 0x7F is because it'll punch out all the holes in hole tape.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-14 at 19:43

We've released #Netty 4.1.117.Final, which contain a bunch of bug fixes. Release notes: https://netty.io/news/2025/01/14/4-1-117-Final.html

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-10 at 15:05

Big shake

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-10 at 00:26

"Tesla board that gave itself nearly $1 billion in excess compensation must now return money"

https://fortune.com/2025/01/09/tesla-board-elon-musk-compensation-chair-robyn-denholm/ :KEKW:

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-08 at 20:34

My hot take on AI is that local inferencing is useful (for text manipulation) and use less energy than the casual gaming I do. Training is expensive but the price is dropping very quickly, and is amortised across users. The problems are the hype that power ridiculous power & water spend despite training efficiency gains, and the unethical sourcing of training material.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-07 at 19:13

AS A totally normal computer programmer, honest!

I WANT a faster computer with much more memory.

SO THAT my browser can actually display the 30+ MB plain text build logs without the whole system grinding to a halt.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-06 at 22:49

"Dell Pro Max Plus" is apparently a real computer, made by a real computer company, and I'm convinced they have played us for absolute fools.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-03 at 17:09

Our sole, individual assigned SRE live in constant fear of getting used to luxury.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-03 at 17:07

The most boring service I've ever built and deployed – a fully-connected, 6-way fully-replicated, CRDT-based database managing all of 260 records – did not have any incidents or outages over the holidays.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2025-01-02 at 22:14

Micro-services are SOA but with JSON instead of XML, and with the software running in kubernetes pods instead of web application containers. Much of the old literature is otherwise still relevant.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2024-12-31 at 20:13

Just spreading some awareness of text fragment links, to help us cope a bit with what the web has become: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Text_fragments

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Written by Chris Vest on 2024-12-24 at 02:13

“But sir, they cut off all the branches and laid them end to end on the floor!”

Sure, but is the tree falling over? No? Didn’t think so.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2024-12-24 at 02:09

Is your Christmas tree leaning or falling over? Too many decorations on one side? Let a database engineer take a look. They love balancing trees.

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Written by Chris Vest on 2024-12-22 at 00:36

Upon looking into it, it turns out that if you do nearly anything with technology anywhere, there's a high chance that some network traffic somewhere will go through #Netty.

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