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skovation A Research Preview of Codex

I'm curious how many ICs are truly excited about these advancements in coding agents. It seems to me the general trend is we become more like PMs managing agents and reviewing PRs, all for the sake of productivity gains.

I imagine many engineers are like myself in that they got into programming because they liked tinkering and hacking and implementation details, all of which are likely to be abstracted over in this new era of prompting.

skovation 20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says

Congress hasn't actually agreed on a FY2025 budget though right? We're just running on Continuing Resolutions currently. So the budget is actually subject to change when this CR runs out March 14th.

skovation Hyrum’s Law in Golang

reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1172/

skovation 20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel

If you haven't already, look into the avionics and flight software of the Ingenuity helicopter. First time Linux ran on Mars!

skovation NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars

Interesting note about this: the speed of sound on Mars is only ~70% of that on Earth, due to less atmospheric density. Might change your Mach numbers!

skovation A Schism in the OpenPGP World

Signal does have offline backup support though?

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

skovation My personal C coding style as of late 2023

FWIW, Java does have the "final" keyword.

skovation Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster

My philosophy has been to let the distro package manager handle system packages (kernel, OpenSSL, etc) but then use flatpak [1] to install user progs like Chromium and VSCode so I get bleeding edge releases and sandboxing.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.chromium.Chromium

skovation Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)

FWIW, musl has implemented DNS-over-TCP recently [1], so future Alpine releases shouldn't have DNS issues in k8s anymore.

[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/43#note_2...

skovation Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?

Interesting read on the official golang.org proxy DoSing git.sr.ht

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror/

skovation Cloudflare overtakes Apache and Nginx to become most commonly used web server

They've recently built their own proxy [1], not sure how much of their total traffic it handles though.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...

skovation Computer Latency: 1977-2017

Essentially, energy is carried throughout a circuit by the electric field created by a voltage differential, not by electrons pushing other electrons like how sound is transmitted through a medium. So signals propagate on the same order of magnitude as the speed of light. I think this is a relatively intuitive explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7tQJ42nGno