Notices by pelavarre (pelavarre@social.vivaldi.net)

@pikhq

Because “a bug is not a bug till someone who matters cares that it recurs”

Yes?

@whitequark

Do we have any quantified idea of how much January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC will matter?

Who all does still encode a date/time stamp into 31-bits of Signed Ints these days, rather than 32 or 63 or 64?

I don’t think I’ve worked with 31 bit stamps since like 2008? I guess lots of us are not so lucky?

“ I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being

“ And even imagine some real grounds for hope

“ We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality

“ Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art

~ Ursula K Le Guin, via Jen Knox

« “Opt-in” isn’t opt-in while you’re not safe to refuse »

Log its output, log my input, log our mobile data fees and my battery charge? These moves all tempt people near me to police me

So then we owe me a secret way for me to say No and be heard well, even after they forced me to say Yes while surveilled

Until then we actually lack my true consent

RT @Patricia https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112604278520719168

Hannah McCarthy talks pop Civics for Np

she says her uncle says talking politics used to be fun, and now gets you kicked out of bars

how do we fix this?

does it help to blame who stole the fun, killed the buzz? does blame ever help anything? how do we bring back the fun of political disagreement? it’s only fun when we all feel safe about the basics, so we’re only arguing about the extras?

@encthenet

> human rights aren't politics, politics is what should be built next door, or how the roads should be laid out

this, yes, this

@shriramk @inthehands

> all far beyond even basic error-*catching*, much less *handling*!

should our everyone-learns goals for writing distributed Code include a form of retries?

me, the wheel i reinvented this morning is

r = requests_get_after_some_sleeps(address, sleeps=(0, 0, 60))

for me this says to try for the first time after 0 sleep, quit if happy else try a second time after 0 sleep, quit if happy else sleep for 60s and then try a third time, quit if happy else forget about it, give up, let that last unhandled Exception raise you out of here no matter if it's the same or different than the others

i'm then strongly feeling like i should've been taught this form of speech - but i sure wasn't

got thoughts?

.@robpike

1 ) you do remember the whole original meaning of leaving Stdin/ Stdout/ Stderr undirected in a Sh Pipe

2 ) our rerunning that logic at macOS now says the default Stdin of a Sh Pipe should be the PbPaste, no longer the classic unprompted indefinite sleep til the next Control+D Tty Eof

3 ) could you reply with the single word: Yes

for it would retweet well : -)

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