Daniel Stoddart

Ambidexter SRE from Philadelphia. Humanities enjoyer. Amateur musician. On a sugar cane plantation hacienda situated on a volcanic island in the Philippines.

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@GergelyOrosz Great interview; I watched the whole thing. It resonates with me at a high level b/c I didn't get into this industry through the standard channels.

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<s> "Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans" always sounds so reassuring. </s>

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Reading CPython source is both humbling and illuminating at the same time.

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@BadalK99277 Ubuntu.

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@adamcurry re: elevator mechanics. Something your listeners should know...

The union (IUEC) strictly controls the apprenticeship intake, which only opens in specific cities every few years. Competition is intense; it's common for a single opening to have *hundreds* of applicants.

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@madebygps Yes. It's a great book I always recommend.

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A Pod stuck in CrashLoopBackOff with completely empty kubectl logs and no obvious clues in kubectl describe is the ultimate Kubernetes silent killer. It usually means the container is failing before the application layer starts, or stdout/stderr is being blocked or redirected.

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@nic_carter I'd say the same for my '80s albums playlist: https://t.co/WDzPSjETAT

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@nic_carter At least for the '80s, I challenge anyone to better this playlist: https://t.co/YgF9MKSQh4

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I challenge anyone, anywhere, to create a more thorough '80s album playlist: https://t.co/mNjzJuaJoU

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Something @mischavdburg said today really hit me where I live:

"As the technical layer of the job gets cheaper, the work of dealing with humans becomes more load-bearing, not less."

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@ryanrhughes @svpino The newest Beelinks seem to have upgraded their wifi cards and don't have this issue, FWIW. (I'm guessing you're probably well aware of this, but this tweet is for everybody else).

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@svpino Forgot to mention other brands, but the obvious contender would be the Framework Desktop. You can max it out with 128G of LPDDR5x.

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@svpino I've been running Omarchy on a Beelink SER9 for the past couple of months. Same specs.

For the most part, everything "just worked" except for some audio issues that needed additional configuration. Mostly pipewire and alsa.

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@realpvarma Alacritty
Neovim
Brave

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But probably the best thing about Zed is that it's not an Electron app, and it shows.

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If I wasn't such a heavy Neovim user I would switch to Zed. It's absolutely the fastest IDE I've seen. VS Code and Cursor feel slow and bloated in comparison.

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@default_friend @j_amesmarriott I still think the best way to do it is just have your phone turned off until you need to send a text, search, take a photo, &c.

Just having to turn the phone on creates a moment where you question why you're doing it.

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@CaptainInsightX Linus. Nothing against the other guys, but All of their stuff runs on Linux.

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@typecraft_dev Framework and Dell are really upping the Linux game on laptops. I think I'm going with the Framework 13 Pro, just because I've never had a rig before that was right-to-repair and modular.