He/they. Software engineer with an interest in ending racism and sexism, and increasing freedom for sex and gender identities/behavior. Attempt to practice Christianity and Buddhism. Mostly posting on software and books so far. Fall 2023 masters student in math at SJSU, looking at explicit Salem sets. 99% grown kids. Love Chennai and Colombo. Activist against the carbon burn. Parent to trans folks.
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Last Notes npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L Eid Mubarak! npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L cool. I have done this walk at Kitty Hawk and Death Valley - definitely a different texture than rocky piles. One starts paying attention to one's gait. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L one has to assume that wouldn’t apply to the million dollar visa. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L you don't get a third of women and a sixth of men abused by the age of 18 without some numbers of very bad people. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L I am reading the Great Transition by Nick Googins if my lying eyes are working. So far so good, it's a thriller in a relatively good post carbon burn society. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L I can but I like an Eink reader for two reason - it looks better and I do better with finishing books when a fixed physical object is “reading that book” rather than something I also use to check Mastodon or do financial things or whatever. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L I don’t think it’s the font :) I am in the same spot, unless I am reading outside in full sunlight (rather than in the dark trying not to bother my spouse or on the train or in a library). npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L Vermont had the guts to immediately sue Exxon in a similar situation. Will California take that sensible route? npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L isn’t that “time to wean oneself from coffee?” Do the long term solution in the short term? npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L as we expected, electing an abuser means more child abusers will go unpunished. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L like the meme says, always has been. :) npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L hallmark channel right. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L Whereas with Java upgrades we have to write code transformers and still have a list of manual changes due to open source deps randomly changing. What? And when I was using terraform a few years ago also I had to write code transformer to go from .10 to .12 to .14 with no end in sight. /n npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L version. I would change my implementation all the time but would always rewrite the old API to use the new stuff (which was possible with cleverness in both C and Python). 2/3. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L this is not related to your direct thread but it always surprises me how wantonly open source is about breaking changes. Maybe because two of my main languages where I had other people using my library's were C and Python, but in both these cases (at work) I would never consider releasing a non-backwards compatible 1/2 npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L ironically your dis-recommendation for Arch derivatives and your recommendation for Ubuntu shows how solid the Debian distro is. You just don't have to fix it at a low level like you do Gentoo or Arch even after years. (Well I did but that was because i manually installed a bunch of 32 bit libraries to enable my son to play terraria and steam before that was all worked out). npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L I am pretty sure that code would be horrifying to expose to the open internet, full of RCE at every layer in the stack. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L So Trump is trying to bully and insult Harris, but he seems not to realize she has been a smart black woman in public life in the US for 60 years - she's been insulted and demeaned like 100 thousand times by much better people than Trump. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L I carry the book around with me for what I expect to be the rest of my life. If I find out the author raped people or something like that, then I can recycle the book but otherwise I am condemned to fall under the spell of the idea of 50 hour days with no responsibilities except reading. npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L if you want quantity go for zucchini but I personally found one can have too many zucchinis. Now figs, on the other hand,... npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L or utility. You are going to judge software development by keystrokes? npub10n5jaftpaz4av893wepv93ssuadxyh03w6js8uhqvnh867sly86szj39nr Chris L that slogan immediate makes the phrase "only stupid people" roll thru my head. Perhaps more a reflection of my own jaded life than the quality of the slogan.
