brian m. carlson

Polyglot programmer, writer, cyclist; lover of footnotes and epigraphs; queer; he/him or they/them; tweets in en/es/fr. Also found at @[email protected].

[brian m. carlson @bk2204]

@rabcyr_alt Yeah, we typically use cloud for things like CI systems which we want to scale and descale quickly, but most of our production servers are hardware. Even if we're not making full usage of all the hardware, it's probably still cheaper.

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I think I'll probably be moving over primarily to Mastodon, although I'll be here from time to time. You can find me at https://t.co/29PmrdsL8r.

I promise to offer the same snarkiness in the same three languages as before. And maybe a cat pic or two.

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Je comprends pas. Le Québec a déjà l'autorité de choisir leur immigrants. Pourquoi pas préférer fortement les immigrants francophones s'il y a des inquietudes sur le déclin du français? Ou est-ce qu'il y a un peu de xénophobie?

https://t.co/5ld1lxUV4x

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I thought payphones were obsolete until I moved to Toronto. Most or all of the subway stations have them because most major cell providers refuse to make their networks work in the subway and you need a way to call 911.

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So my 9P server can now handle a git clone operation successfully, if a bit slowly. I have only one more thing to fix and then it should be good to go.

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If we'd like to have fewer buffer overflows in critical libraries, we need to get Rust and Go to be much more portable.

Neither language even covers the full scope of Debian architectures, let alone less common Unix systems.

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Every year, we buy candy, but we have never had a trick-or-treater. Ever.

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@rabcyr_alt Sounds less than great, but also not surprising for Walmart.

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Ah, yes, another instance of me quoting "Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names".

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I have sent off my election ballot and it will allegedly arrive on the 5th. I take my civic obligations seriously; let's see if Canada Post and the USPS do, too.

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@Wxcafe @SnepOnSecurity In Ontario, when you trade in a license, they literally take the old one (in my case, from Texas) away from you and don't give it back.

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@mojavelinux I'd use an array if ordering of users matters, since in most languages maps don't preserve ordering. Otherwise, I think the map is a simpler and more ergonomic data structure.

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All of these people need to work together and maintain tools and systems so that site functions and people don't flee elsewhere. Nobody wants to use a platform where there's a bunch of spam or people saying the N word, I promise.

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I think a certain billionaire doesn't understand how much abuse is on a major platform. I deal with it all the time, and that's just too many resources abuse. There's also other folks that deal with spam and inauthentic content abuse, and others who do terrible people abuse.

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@libsysguy Sadly, this is not an uncommon occurrence. A good number of people try to do this with our services. We have great rate-limiting, but in many cases it's focused on the health of the services and machines, not whether someone is being greedy.

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So far this week on call: two pages and someone who thinks I won't notice if they make as many requests as the rest of the planet combined. (I noticed. I always do.)

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Doug Ford certainly isn't my favourite person, but criticizing him for working with Justin Trudeau is silly. I fully expect the national and provincial levels of government to work together for the benefit of the population. It's called having a functional government.

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@fscker Seems like a prudent idea. We can also get it for free here at most pharmacies (plus training on how to use it), and I should probably do that.

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@fscker But also, congratulations on your move!

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@fscker I've seen someone smoking some clearly illegal substance in one of the back entrances to the subway here in Toronto. (Not to mention that smoking anything is prohibited indoors in public buildings.)

They apologized and we otherwise ignored each other.