Notices by Ted Mielczarek (tedmielczarek@mastodon.social), page 3

@skinnylatte apropos of nothing (but on the topic of restaurants), my wife and I just got back from 6 days in Guatemala, and on my birthday we had dinner at this *fantastic* restaurant in Guatamala City: https://www.diaca.gt/
We had seen it months ago on the Guatemala episode of _Somebody Feed Phil_ (I do not like that man or his show, but he did get to eat at some wonderful restaurants). I had saved it on Google Maps in my "Want to Go" list, then realized I had saved it while trip planning.

@whitequark working with Google "open source" projects rarely sparks joy.

@whitequark are there common things you're uploading for each build? A lot of distributed compilation systems wind up benefiting from an artifact cache where you upload things keyed by a content hash, and then just give the remote build process a list of hashes for it to fetch from the cache.

@whitequark @implr @4censord a while back we implemented icecream-style distributed compliation in sccache, but with sandboxing, authentication, and TLS for network traffic: https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/docs/DistributedQuickstart.md

@whitequark I think you are reinventing Bazel's remote execution API: https://github.com/bazelbuild/remote-apis

@whitequark it's too bad you can't have HTML+CSS as an LLVM target.

@whitequark ironically with "network byte order" being defined as big endian, it's little endian systems that have wound up doing more byte swaps!

@whitequark build systems that forcibly rebuild from scratch every time because they can't be bothered to have working dependencies are so hateful

@whitequark this was an interesting watch. I sort of understood the principles but he's quite good at building up an explanation using simple concepts.

@skinnylatte oh I meant "built on top of a cemetery", but I guess they're both true. https://www.kqed.org/news/10779164/why-are-so-many-dead-people-in-colma-and-so-few-in-san-francisco

@skinnylatte living in SF at least you understand what that's like!

@whitequark someone assuredly rewrote that marketing copy from "service accounts" to this to shill their "agentic AI" stuff, but I like (what I assume is) your interpretation better.

@skinnylatte hm, *adding* sugar to what you're eating on-demand seems a lot easier than *removing* it, no? Does your sense of taste for sweetness max out at a lower level than the average American palate? My wife's does and she describes eating overly-sweet foods as painful, akin to overly-spicy foods.

@mcc I discovered this change while trying to turn off my 6am alarm on a Monday morning. Really great user experience!

@skinnylatte I bought a Tempurpedic mattress over a decade ago and got their extra firm memory foam and have never regretted that.

@skinnylatte Health Food is food for people who don't like food (or themselves). Food is such a wonderful, joyous part of being alive. People who attach morality to how much you weigh and then transitively to food live a miserable existence.

@skinnylatte it's a great city! The biggest downside right now is the cost of housing. I guess if you're already paying SF prices it's all relative.

@whitequark we have those in my neck of the woods, although I've only ever seen them on camera, not in person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs9D2J4g44U (I've seen a bunch of red foxes in person)

@jplebreton @mhoye the fact that we wiped out a strain of the flu in 2020 due to COVID precautions and that didn't make everyone stand up and take note and ask why we shouldn't work to eliminate the rest (as well as the common cold) is pretty damning of society.

@schratze Onfim's drawings from the 13th century fill me with joy because they're so relatable:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim