Benjamin Anderson

undetermined animal

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

“C++ and Rust are compiled languages and therefore don’t have runtimes” is one of the more audacious confidently wrong assertions I have seen on the orange website, and that is saying something

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

@the_wilderless Any good? I just finished China Root and was thinking about picking that one up

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

@rnewson Got it, will give a few other tracks a listen.

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

@rnewson Do you have Apple/Beats headphones? I listened to their “sample” with Marvin Gaye on mine and was thoroughly unimpressed with the “spatial” mix

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

@williamsjoe I refuse to believe that’s a house and not a strip mall

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

this container image from a major cloud vendor is based on an os that went eol over a year ago:

https://t.co/80VPyC7Lev

it’s too old to even scan for vulnerabilities with trivy

not sure if trolling

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

build a website with a cute logo, some nice developer-centric ux, slather on some false sense of security and take it to the bank

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

The current state of the devsecops saas market is bad and folks should feel bad

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

@meekaale this phenomenon is actually a postgres psyop

[Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理 @littleidea]

The problem to solve isn’t ‘repatriation’ but being deliberate about understanding the cost and benefit of your runtimes and the dependencies. To save time, the hard problems will never be starting and stopping stateless processes, what promises do you need to keep with data?

[Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理 @littleidea]

I agree that optionality is not free but we made this a lot harder than we had to. Where might we be if we didn’t have 2 decades of Agile brain damage that ‘architecture doesn’t matter’ and another decade of ‘go fast and break things’?

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

People are story tellers and story believers, and programmer types are no exception, especially when you step a degree away from the bits

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

This thread and tfa are good but I’d point out that this is more of a “narrative in the pejorative sense” than a lie - it sounds nice and plausible and there probably isn’t any malice involved.

[tef @tef_ebooks]

it's worth noting that when you ask a programmer "how do i learn to code?" you get exactly one of two answers

either repeat my mistakes exactly, down to the old computers and tools i used back then

or do what i wish i'd learned now but had no reason to then

[tef @tef_ebooks]

in other words, you can create tools and practices to reduce cognitive overhead for programming, but in practice, programmers will now find it easier to create systems chock of cognitive burden for others

their aesthetics demand it

[NOT A WOLF @SICKOFWOLVES]

I HAVE RETURNED HOME FROM WORK

FINALLY, MY TIME IS MY OWN AGAIN

I AM FREE TO CONTINUE MY SEARCH FOR MEANING

I WILL START BY STARING AT THE COMPUTER FOR LIKE THREE HOURS AND THEN GOING TO BED

IT DID NOT WORK YESTERDAY BUT I REMAIN HOPEFUL

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

@ngvrnd @eigenrobot this is the correct answer

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

@pee_zombie @magicianbrain christopher alexander would like a word

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

@skeptomai @MarcJBrooker I’ve not read this either but I’d buy it based on the cover alone 😂

[Benjamin Anderson @_b20n]

This is a good write up of a good paper, but I’ll note that computing *did* have the aforementioned different parents, at one point - it’s just that the cyberneticists “lost”