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   Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:55:08 JST Valerie Aurora

   Me: I can't implement that with signals because it is impossible to implement without bugs, so instead I will use this library

   5 minutes later: this library is implemented with signals

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 06:30:18 JST Valerie Aurora

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     • Hugo Mills

     @darkling heavy use of 128 bit cmpxchg going on

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     Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 06:30:19 JST Hugo Mills

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     @vaurora Eight papers later: "I don't think it's possible at all."

     Another 13 papers: "It might be possible, but only on these three architectures."

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 08:49:07 JST Valerie Aurora

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     • Hugo Mills

     @darkling hm, tell me more - what have you been doing with btrfs? And will you be at FOSDEM?

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     Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 08:49:08 JST Hugo Mills

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     @vaurora

     Good luck!

     I have to say, that job ad a month or two ago for ngnfs was really interesting (I've been knocking around the edges of btrfs for years, and find data management and distributed systems both fascinating), but I have no practical experience in FS or kernel development...

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 08:58:22 JST Valerie Aurora

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     • Hugo Mills

     @darkling hm, interesting! Probably not enough for what they want right now but if decide to spend your fun coding time on btrfs maybe you will be qualified and interested by the time you have recovered from burn out :) file systems do weird stuff to your brains, be careful

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     Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 08:58:23 JST Hugo Mills

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     @vaurora Oh, and I spent a few weeks trying to work out how to do per-subvol RAID config in btrfs. I fell down on how to store the relevant config in the FS metadata -- the infrastructure wasn't really there to do it easily at the time, and I ran out of spoons.

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     Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 08:58:24 JST Hugo Mills

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     @vaurora I spent a lot of time helping people out on IRC and the mailing list. I wrote a reasonable chunk of documentation on the wiki. I did write the first draft of the balance filters, but that got rewritten by someone else for the accepted version.

     I'm not going to be at FOSDEM this year -- haven't been to that since about 2008.

     I'm also currently completely burned out, and won't be in the job market again until at least mid-June.

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     Christmas Tree (christmastree@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 18:38:28 JST Christmas Tree

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     @vaurora

     looking for a new library

     ask the package manager if the library uses signals or not

     package manager doesnt understand

     pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is signals and what is not

     package manager laughs and says "it's a good library sir"

     install library

     look inside

     it's signals

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 23:44:00 JST Valerie Aurora

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     • Hugo Mills

     @darkling I would say go ahead and apply when you are ready. I'm in favor of generalists but they are looking to replace a specific skill set so it might be a hard sell

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     Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 23:44:01 JST Hugo Mills

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     @vaurora I also have background (postdoc research and industrial expreience) in metadata and data management -- mostly RDF/SemWeb, but a lot of the principles apply elsewhere, too.