Notices by tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)

@skinnylatte

I've been homesick for African street food, off and on. Y'know, it's easier to argue with my brain than my stomach.

@whitequark

Squarespace is what lots of the cool kids like.

@professorkiosk

#gop

Times have changed:

@impactology

3/ Why do top-tier consultants succeed where others can't?

I apprenticed under two superior consultants.

They took at least three semesters of accounting and can read a chart of accounts.

They have an unwavering commitment to rigorous code reviews and clean architecture.

They can spot how shortcuts create technical debt.

They can articulate why a "slower" approach now will save millions in the long run. They get buy-in for doing things the right way.

@impactology

1/ What are the main causes of bugs and unmaintainable code?

Unchecked Complexity: code becomes a "big ball of mud" where every part is tangled with every other part.

Lack of Clarity (Code as a Puzzle): The code works, but no one can understand how.

Pressure Overrides Process: Business deadlines force developers to take shortcuts. This is the origin of technical debt.

Inadequate Testing:

@impactology

2/ What defines bad quality code, and why is it considered poor?

Bad code isn't just code that has bugs. It's code that actively resists being understood, modified, or trusted.

It's Brittle: A small change requires a huge effort. You try to fix one thing, and two other things break.

It's Opaque: It's impossible for a new team member to understand what the code is doing without weeks of archaeology.

@RamenCatholic @sezduck

I enjoyed my years of drinking - and when I converted to the THC molecule for recreational purposes, I was content.

I will confess to shedding a few tears outside the shop, having purchased my first legal ganja - nunc dimittis

@sezduck

... with a few notable exceptions...

#browser #linux #fedora

I come to ye all in search of the Goodest Browser. Chrome is a work of the Devil, as we all know, despite having the best toolkits. Firefox was once my favorite, but running top reveals it to be farting out these monstro Isolated Web Co processes.

So what should I be using, with a modicum of privacy and a slimmer profile?

@david_chisnall

Heh. If you want Gemini to summarize, it's very good at that - but my advice is to ask for a limit on the output "-in 500 chars or less"

@skinnylatte

When I worked in The Loop in Chicago, every Friday, there was a little masjid on Lake Street. I was then running a team out of Hyderabad, on Fridays, we'd all troop down for prayers and big helpings of biryani, made by the ladies of this little mosque..

Would that the world's quarrels were over recipes and cultures, not the dangerous nonsense we do argue about...

@ariadne @mike30030

For those interested in the ugly details, google "Pegasus rocket failure in 1996"

The Debris Cloud: This explosion resulted in a significant and problematic cloud of space debris in low Earth orbit. It is considered one of the largest single events contributing to the orbital debris environment. Estimates suggest it created hundreds of thousands of pieces larger than half a centimeter. Many of these fragments remain in orbit today. ISS dodges it constantly

@netkitty

にゃー!

@skinnylatte

I'd have to say Osaka is the city I know best in Japan. It's a livable city, Tokyo at half the price. I could live in Osaka.

But rural Japan is totally different - but I'd prefer to raise my kids with their feet in the dirt and not on concrete..

@skinnylatte

I've lived in a blur of cities - they all blend together now. I loved them all, especially the Chicago, Old Town, Lincoln Park area.

Returned two years ago - nobody I knew was left.

"When I consider everything that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows...

I told my kids, everyone ought to spend a few years in the Big City - the clubs, the art, the hustle and bustle. Don't raise kids there, though

@lizzy @dascandy @mehdi_benadel

C++... what a horror story. I knew the woman who wrote cfront.

C++ is for writing solutions to problems people never have.

@Tharpa

What did I do to feel either good or bad about? I have this ugly smile for people who want to lump my six-language-speaking US Army veteran ass in with the rest of these mouthbreathers.

@lizzy @sodiboo

dw@fedora:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland
dw@fedora:~$

@lizzy @sodiboo

I picked up this box the other day because I was doing a Rust-and-RabbitMQ presentation... my tale of woe follows:

They told me the presentation box will be Windows 11, so I'll do it on my old corpo-dev box. Updated WSL whereup it defecated and refused to run Docker - or my IDE.

Fugg-o-wee, says I, and picked up this box and installed Fedora Workstation upon it. Ran everything beautifully.

I am no zealot - if your sweetie is all about gentoo, that's a wonderful thing.