Jean Hominal

Software Engineer, geek | he/him

[Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko]

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Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
Publication Date:January 6, 2023
https://t.co/1cc0TMnncO

[Julian Gough @juliangough]

Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.)
It’s not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in public… so I think I’ll talk about it in public.
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[your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷 @davidgerard]

"I'm sick of people bashing the obvious utility of NFTs. The ease with which I can look at a person's profile, see their involvement with NFTs, and then identify them as a blood sucking sociopath is revolutionary." - Bad Money

[Adam Wespiser @wespiser]

@atax1a This is my perception, just seeing how difficult it is to deploy the same software to different clouds and dealing with all the idiosyncrasies that cause things to never work as expected.
A private cloud? That's an entire system of bespoke solutions from infra on up!

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

in awe of this official photo the commander of the JSDF 21st Air Group chose

[John Arundel @bitfield]

I once worked with a manager who asked “Why do we all need these SREs when the site never goes down?”, and I think about that a lot.

[christina 死神 @chhopsky]

fuck it. hot take time

writing well is harder than programming well, and it isn't close

[Rory O'Neill @hazardseditor]

@steve_tombs Wages don't drive inflation. Official.
https://t.co/wyfV7ptA2x

[Jean Hominal @jhominal]

@IanDunt I have a separate US Amazon account for Comixology in order to get a passable experience, paid with gift cards.

[Harrison Kinsley @Sentdex]

ChatGPT: Just pip install python!

[Dan Luu @danluu]

I find this letter from Carmack interesting in that it summarizes a sentiment I've heard from literally all of the highest impact/most effective people I've talked to at large companies:

You can make a big difference, but you're constantly fighting a self-sabotaging organization

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Bad failure analysis: "Don't do this."
Good failure analysis: "Why did the intelligent human with their own goals decide to do this?"

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Lesson for Promotion Driven Development:
Captain believing his promotion was dependent on timely delivery of one last trip, ventured into a hurricane. This decision lead to the death of 33 people.

But the company had already decided not to promote him.
https://t.co/hStsZEPOK5

[Amanda Winn Lee @amandawinnlee]

My Sappy Christmas Story -or- Why I Love Being Wrong
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[Michael Bernstein @msbernst]

Despite the promise of AIs improving human decision making, a frustratingly resilient research result has found that people with AI decision-making aids are no better than people alone or AIs alone. Why? Overreliance: we take the AI's recommendations even when we shouldn't.

[Python Package Index @pypi]

Python 3.11 delivers.

[Jean Hominal @jhominal]

@radicalbyte @IAmLemau There is an enlightening article by @patio11 about the role of community banking and why it is a big reason that the US banking system is slow to change https://t.co/MEWsW8tk5o