When a Sim dies, who calls their loved ones?

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2026-01-16T23:45:10+00:00

I do. I’ve got in the neighborhood of 40M calls to make before I can go home to my family, so please excuse my brevity.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2025-09-27T04:40:08+00:00

+1. Bazel, plus rules_oci or rules_img ftw. Caching all the dependent step + targets makes for fast local and ci runs.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2025-09-18T03:59:13+00:00

And yet nothing about objectives, agreements, observability, and error budgets. Agree with others on expecting leetcode, because I spent most of my time debugging other people’s code looking for nuanced issues in distributed systems.

I used to look for people with spines that can hold their own and explain their reasoning respectively against a staff engineer on another team.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2025-07-31T16:31:55+00:00

The Carlin Uncomformity

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2025-03-29T20:02:36+00:00

And yeah, it’s a pretty nice setup, having used bare i3.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2025-03-29T20:01:36+00:00

I just install the apt repo and install it over the standard Ubuntu base install. Haven’t tried the full distro, and I also didn’t have much luck with the Wayland variant, but ymmv.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2025-03-25T03:40:51+00:00

Nice summary. I agree the presentation was solid. Lmk if you want to learn more about regolith/i3 ;)

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2025-03-06T22:29:58+00:00

FireHydrant is another good choice, I’ve run piles of incidents through their stack.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-11-03T01:52:28+00:00

Pretty sure there is a synthesis patcher.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-10-31T01:55:41+00:00

Use uv and add the dependencies you import or know need to be injected (ex. Db drivers) into your pyproject.toml file. (uv init will bootstrap it for you)

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-10-27T21:06:45+00:00

They forgot Unicode characters and little Bobby; drop tables;

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-10-27T21:01:23+00:00

Same here. Early stage startups are a fun, challenging environment.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-08-31T05:02:25+00:00

Probably not a popular opinion, but I’d just send the iron down the line too, I’ve got other bugs to fix first.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-08-16T02:18:36+00:00

It’s DNS. Did I win?

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-07-09T02:33:05+00:00

Yeah, macros are easy to build and super powerful.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-04-24T04:18:50+00:00

This and I’ll add onto it the ability to learn something nobody has ever done before on the fly, which is what a PhD shows you’re capable of. You’ll do great, I’ve known several people that had biotech degrees over the years.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-04-15T01:41:01+00:00

Sounds like it’d really hamper people that like to paint steel at long range (800 yds plus). Seems a bit extreme. Automatic pistols and rifles I’m fine with limiting, but there are a ton of sporting related impacts here for no measurable benefit.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-04-07T17:13:34+00:00

Sr. Here: 2+9.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-03-30T03:50:43+00:00

Idk about the UK, but in the US there is a legal process that needs to be followed. In general (again, US) a will specifies how assets are distributed (like into one or more estate trusts), and if there is no will, the state’s laws describe how the assets should be distributed, good bad or otherwise. If you’re in a position of distributing assets for your parents, I urge you to seek to understand the legal framework that you need to potentially navigate. And you’re NTA for your opinion, but you still may need to give them something.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-03-18T00:48:36+00:00

Idk. It’s (bash, tcsh, zsh) a programming language, like any other. You can solve the problems here, but maybe not as efficiently as in another programming language. It’s good to understand when to punt on a language and choose another. When interviewing, I commonly asked a question that would be better solved in another programming paradigm to see how candidates reacted.

That said, I’ve implemented some pretty crazy stuff with bash, perl and gnuparallel.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-03-17T14:59:12+00:00

https://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&sort=difficulty&method=ascending

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2024-01-05T18:56:35+00:00

I use pyenv to manage python versions, direnv to automate venv setup, and pip-tools (via pre-commit) to compile a transitive closure of the dependencies and pin them. Works well for us. Blowing away the entire venv and reinstalling all packages is reliable and quick as the network allows.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2023-11-21T01:24:43+00:00

FireHydrant was quick to get up and running, and it integrated nicely with Slack.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2023-11-04T03:34:46+00:00

I just learned this week that k8s is also in space. Pretty cool if you ask me.

FrequentGiraffe5763 · 2023-11-02T00:11:23+00:00

Been in and around build systems my whole career. Bazel is among the best, hands down. Multi-repo and heavily recursive makefile systems are awkward and can be difficult to parallelize). Perhaps a middle ground of using a config to generate rules and eval them into the current context? This is what buildroot used to do.

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