torymckeag.bsky.social
Software developer for the power grid. Drums, metal and other food for the soul.
Contributor at https://trolie.energy when I can.
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This post is stupid enough to make me laugh. Thank you Jerry.
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Oh. My. God. These guys really aren't listening to anybody who knows what they're doing.
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Audio engineering really forced this lesson on me. You don't have to be able to recreate the math behind a compressor or EQ. However, if you don't understand at a high level what the tools are doing, your chance of success is pretty bad.
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Broken PostgreSQL replication, which of course didn't get noticed until the poor PV filled up with sad, sad WAL files.
Honestly, it did have the fortunate effect of educating a lot of people, including me on said replication, and making a nice investment in observability on the subject.
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It will be the most social media ever socialed! Way better than IBM. You'll be glad to pay $10000 per-core for your socials, pays for itself as long as you never upgrade a server. Rights reserved to jack up annual maintenance fees without notice.
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I can't count how many times I have forgotten and relearned that bad connections, usually cables or jacks, are the source of 95% of all audio problems
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I really hope they don't get gutted. I've met a couple people from CISA at conferences who are really smart and passionate and are working their asses off to try to make a dent in some really scary problems
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The amount of shitty apps in prod across really important industries suggests you're right. The guardrails of Devops and QA processes are like an air filter- they can pick out the particulates and let the good through, but if you throw actual mud at them, well...
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Solutions looking for problems = somebody sees an opportunity to make $$ they shouldn't be.
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golang really retired all excuses for this. I'm sure there's fancy people who make them in Rust and other tools too, but a golang CLI is just too easy to build well. Especially if the CLI is just a REST API wrapper.
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NIH-funded scientist here, anyone in science knows how hard & stressful this job is competing for grants in administrations that support & believe in science. I am numb knowing what this administration is about to do to our jobs, our progress as a nation in science and medicine. We will not recover.
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Does the proliferation of AI warrant refocus and innovation of the old semantic web ideas? Digging through web pages is messy. If you had a discoverable ecosystem of semantics and APIs tied into them, the agents would clearly have a better chance. But there's reasons that movement didn't stick.
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I'm worried about the leverage people will use on the geopolitical mess to convince governments they're in some flavor of an arms race for surveillance, intelligence and popular influence. Races do make money.
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It seems to me that any implementation of a customer-supplier relationship I've seen (most unintentional) never QUITE stayed that way over the long term. Customers end up with tweaks to the language, implicit or explicit, either as a result of their own needs or evolution in the supplier as you say