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Sparkyte··on Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status
Github is my preferred too. However I imagine it is because of how popular GitLab was in 2022. Pivoting mid migration would suck.
Sparkyte··on Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status
Gerrit is like old school git, the flexibility of github and gitlab far exceed gerrit's use in my opinion.
Sparkyte··on AWS Secrets Manager Agent
Yep delegating it all to IAM is another huge win.
Sparkyte··on Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
My body is ready. I love python because the ease of writing and logic. Hopefully the more complicated free-threaded approach is comprehensive enough to write it like we traditionally write python. Not saying it is or isn't I just haven't dived enough into python multithreading because it is hard to put those demons back once you pull them out.
Sparkyte··on AWS Secrets Manager Agent
I got to use secrets manager a while back it was a breath of fresh air as it was all of those things you seeking in vault without all of the problems of it being hashicorp. No offense hashicorp. I rather blame AWS than a self-managed solution.
Sparkyte··on Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2023)
The footnotes are glorious. "He was convinced that using a shift would work and didn’t believe me when I said it wasn’t possible."
Sparkyte··on Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell? (2022)
Possible but that also means you have no way to convey the difference between the idea of wall and the unchangeable object that is the wall.

The idea of this experiment succeeding depends entirely on those in the experiment knowing the rules of the test.

Sparkyte··on Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell? (2022)
The problem with this study as that mice do not have the collective intelligence to know the situation they are in and there for the input and output is straight forward. If the information is kept transparent to a person human level sentenance the could have entirely different results.

No animal or human deserves to be compared to as their nature while still part of the same kingdom is distinctively different.

Man understands what walls are, what they do, what they mean. It is conceptual and tangible in thought. Pets, the family cat for example, knows only that it is an obstacle. There is no further meaning or allusion, it is to them in all ways just an obstacle.

Sparkyte··on Entering text in the terminal is complicated
Or you can just write a bash script file to do shortcut executions of complicated terminal commands...
Sparkyte··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
I suppose but they could've just made a whole API on a homelab that is a resume to test against and for luls.
Sparkyte··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
but why?
Sparkyte··on [dead]
Took the words from my mouth, to make a cheat sheet it needs to be simple enough to move from conclusion to conclusion and not be a string of redirections toward other conclusions.

It is an article period.

Sparkyte··on A reawakening of systems programming meetups
They need to happen again for networking reasons. I feel a lot of businesses are starting to look at tech costs as a burden rather than an investment these programming meetups help keep discussions open. I suggest if a business plans to start a tech front they should come to these and learn.
Sparkyte··on The internet is already over (2022)
It isn't novelty, it is dependency. Because we are dependent on a connection we stop using it for novel reasons.

The internet age is over is correct. The age of being connected has started.

More and more people connected to the internet but not actually using it the way we saw it in the 90s and 2000s. Mid-2010s we started to see the paradigm take place.

Sparkyte··on First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
Good the abundance of sodium and its stable state is going to give us a huge potential for power storage. I have so many potentially spicy pillows in my house I'll be glad to have it swapped for sodium any day.
Sparkyte··on DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either
It isn't dead, just companies refuse to implement DevOps philosophies because they assume it adds too much friction. When things run some and DevOps appears it isn't doing anything they fire operational engineers. Months later things go to shit because they thought they were not doing anything. Operational engineers or Site Reliability Engineers are essential because they consume toil work which would otherwise be there to distract a developer from developing. No one wants to solve pipelines and delivery methods and ensure stability and deliverability of code. Pipelines need as much continual development as a developer who makes the profitable applications.
Sparkyte··on RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems
People still use SSH these days?

I kid, but really you probably shouldn't on Production. You should be exporting your logs and everything else. The host or VM bootstrapped golden images with everything as needed.

It is okay to start that way and figure out your enternals but that isn't for Production. Production is a locked down closed environment.

Recomment from another Hacker News post.

Sparkyte··on [dead]
People still use SSH these days?

I kid, but really you probably shouldn't on Production. You should be exporting your logs and everything else. The host or VM bootstrapped golden images with everything as needed.

It is okay to start that way and figure out your enternals but that isn't for Production. Production is a locked down closed environment.

Sparkyte··on 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
Got to smoke them out, I wonder if AI will be great at auditing.
Sparkyte··on 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
If only we can be faster to detect health care fraud.
Sparkyte··on 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite
Lost media is a real thing, more and more so when the internet loses data we've stored. We think it is a premanent place and sure it might out live us, but nothing is permanent.
Sparkyte··on SSH as a Sudo Replacement
I would assume if you has to use SSH or sudo you've already lost. I've been working with people where we just completely lock down the VM or Container. They only allow necessary flow of traffic and are managed entirely from golden builds. If you need to make changes or fix something it is a new vm or container.
Sparkyte··on Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records
We need solar roofs to be cheap though.
Sparkyte··on Radioactive drugs strike cancer with precision
Yeah basically is there some sort of way to target the disease with the radioactive drugs?

I mean I know some has to be, but it feels kinda like it is the last ditch effort to kill something like with raditation therapy requiring bonemarrow transplant aftward.

Sparkyte··on Introduction to the Odin Programming Language
The advertisement on Y Combinator.
Sparkyte··on Introduction to the Odin Programming Language
Another one to collect dust. The problem I run into with new languages are the often dissolving community when they first gain popularity and then run into a critical design flaw. How is a person who goes about learning a language to find extendability of a language if it never gets out of the early-alpha stage and has more than 5k followers?
Sparkyte··on Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records
Indeed if solar panel roofs were cheaper than most roofs. People would be able to replace them with something far more sustainable than someone's side project.

I really like tesla's idea of solar roofs and how they implemented them. They need to be lightweight and cheap. Easy to replace.

Sparkyte··on Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
Even an ion engine needs fuel. We shot out Voyager 1 in 1977. It has traversed 47 years of distance.

There has been the talk of solar sails as well, but gravity assist propulsion is already so much easier to achieve for satellites.

Sparkyte··on Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
The ability of NASA to keep this system alive is remarkable. They had an expected expiration on Voyager 1 and this far exceeds it. If we could only get such reliability in stuff we bought today. :(
Sparkyte··on Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil skull found
Must be why Canadian geese are so aggressive.

Jokes aside bet they tasted good.

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