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Karma isn't complicated....

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I’ve been asked to put together a submission for The Paddocks and though I don’t love the admin it’s good to take stock and look through the work. First image is a selection of what I’ve made, second image is a 1840 map of the western port district in which the paddocks are identified

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I want a premium New Yorker subscription. It will be called New Yorker+. It will be the same as the New Yorker except each issue will NOT have the “gift subscription” cards that always fall out like confetti, and all the cartoons will be by Steed.

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Millbrook Cliff in the Gunks, early morning.

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My review of SwiftPaxos, a complex consensus protocol that minimizes network latency in geo-distributed systems: emptysqua.re/blog/swiftpa...

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Mixed-media climbing art.

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Jeff Bark

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New newsletter: "what hard thing does your tech make easy?" Some tools make the impossible possible. Others make the hard easy. I ignore the first case and talk about why the second case works, and some of the nuances (like how "easy" can be better than "correct") buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

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Rock guide and artist Dustin Portzline at home. emptysqua.re/blog/dustin/

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I gave a Zen talk at the Village Zendo about which animals might be sentient, and how we can really save all beings from suffering: emptysqua.re/blog/which-b...

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Zuckerberg's changing politics has such an interesting causal chain. Inflation -> higher interest rates -> tech layoffs -> less employee power -> Zuck worries less what his employees think.

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"Rosetta examples" are the same problem solved in many different programming languages, to better show how they're different. What would be the best Rosettas for formal specification? I came up with three. Read more in this week's newsletter: buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

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Photos from the Village Zendo's winter 2024 meditation retreat emptysqua.re/blog/winter-...

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Vampire lit fans! I'm trying to understand a bit about influence and the evolution of mythology and norms in sexy vampire literature. What am I missing?

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I’ve worked on performance engineering for ~13 years. Queuing theory has been my go-to framework the entire time -- thinking in terms of arrivals, departures, queues, servers, service rates, latencies, waiting times, and priorities. It’s simple to apply and doesn’t require diving into the math.

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Our dwarf hamster learning about her heritage.

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Does an enlightened person fear sickness and death? Here's a recording and transcript of a dharma talk I gave at the Village Zendo about my mother's scary brain surgery: emptysqua.re/blog/is-an-e...

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Because Adam ate of the apple, God condemned him to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and to visit his family for half the holidays and his in-laws for the other half.

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Hot take: Abolish stderr. Problematize the normal/error dichotomy. Just dump all the output on the same pipe.

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Training for climbing... bored in the off-season...

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The Gunks in the snow today.

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I'm glad Joe pardoned Hunter, but I wish he'd included the condition that Hunter must retreat to a shack in Alaska and never again appear in the news, or in public at all. Let this be the last time we hear his name or think of him.

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Photo friends, I would love more artists to hear about @flakphoto.news — Please tell your friends I'm showing #photography here on Bluesky now. Thank you! RT

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Farmers voting for the pro-tariff party! The Federalists are all spinning in their graves.

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My friend Gan climbing Supper's Ready 5.12a in the Gunks. Complete photo set: emptysqua.re/blog/gan-sup...

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New Cure album! 🤩 I listened to it once. 😐

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Hello, Bluesky users! I curate and maintain list of resources on testing distributed systems. You might have seen it before. It's a good one, if I may say so myself. asatarin.github.io/testing-dist...

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Hi, I’m a distributed systems researcher at MongoDB, photographer, Zen Buddhist in the White Plum lineage, rock climber living in New Paltz NY. I hope to meet fellow researchers here, and I hope we can all settle on BlueSky as our Schelling point for a couple years before we have to do this again.

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A stellar week for enthusiasts of system design, formal methods, and simulation continues: How we use formal modeling, lightweight simulations, and chaos testing to design distributed systems Lots to read & re-read this weekend ❤️ www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee... bsky.app/profile/domi...

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