Notices by Matthew Martin (mistersql@mastodon.social)

Who ordered this much coffee

The 3 kinds of queues are:
- FIFO
- LIFO
- FAFO

@mattl That resume is for someone who already knows you. The first line people reviewing resumes need to be able to instantly peg you as some job title that they're hiring for. Good luck, it is rough out there (compared to 2 years ago)

Mind blown. You can run IBM #zos on a PC with a personal edition license.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/14.2.x?topic=personal-edition

And it has IBM #COBOL inside it. I don't understand why this was so hard for me to find. Looks like I need a new machine (linux host, 1tb drive space and then enough oomph to run a VM)

@Gargron That would be an unnoticed protest. No one deleted their MySpace account, they just stopped using it. Had twitter been sold to a sane investor before so much damage had been done, I'd have resumed using them. I want platforms to behave well, I'm in no position to mete out justice.

@patrickcmiller Wow, this is huge. As a code racoon that has spent time digging through US Federal Agencies' public Github code & innersource code while doing contracting work, this has a lot of promise, like the shared web design but possibly for everything

e.g. https://designsystem.digital.gov/

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe"

That's why when I'm coding, I spend an hour sharpening my axe and now my computer is in 30 pieces and I'm at peace and free.

@dabeaz Mu calculus is next and the suspense is killing me

I am on the job market. I've 20+ years as an IC, 8 years as a tech lead in #govtech

I'm best at python, AWS, backend work, but I've done it all & supervised people who do it better than me. Open to both lead and IC roles. Can still do Microsoft-stack work (dotnet, etc). Heck, I'll learn z/OS if will help the mission.

Remote in US or Hybrid in #HerdonVA or #RestonVA

#getFediHired #fedihire #lookingforwork #pythonjobs #opentowork #hireme

https://matthewdeanmartin.github.io/Matthew_Martin_Sept_2024_One_Page.pdf

@TheBreadmonkey Coding is the 80s was so high pressure. One SYNTAX ERROR and the crowd is not smiling any more

The story of King Midas is a cautionary tale about adding the `async` keyword to a code base.

Millions of linux users around the world had their productivity crippled by #cloudstrike as they all rushed to read the news, post hot takes & dad jokes to their Mastodon feed.

@w7voa This is a gift to the Dems who can now accuse Trump of being soft on this criminal who hired a hitman, without saying anything harsh about drugs nor drug addicts.

@drewdevault Can a fork really pick a different license? If you can, why not relicense as public domain and free all the code?

@drewdevault I'll believe what the lawyers say. If the project fails, no one cares, not even the lawyers. If the project is picked up by a SAAS and is used in a money making venture, it will be litigated.

@jonny Y'all think it took LLMs to get people to ask the machines to just make stuff up.

@nsarwark All of them. Slacktivism is rampant around here. Algorithmic feeds have nothing to do with the urge to engage in slacktivism.

Therapist: And what do we do when we feel overwhelmed?
Me: Create a new empty repo in git?
Therapist: No

@adamconover I got a theory that celebrities feel more stuck on Twitter that non-celebrities. All the other social networks on twitter have been wrecked and left for elsewhere.

As for regulation, the new owner is experimenting with following no rules, not even contracts, & it turns out our legal & contract system doesn't have the sort of teeth to get that org to do anything in the law or a contract & so far there have been no consequences.

@carnage4life @xavez Who is the authority on that? Is it another culture wars opinion piece? We want to blame those who die of cancer because if they made a mistake, then if we get cancer, we won't make the same mistake. Cancer kills most people in five years.

"The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is only nine percent."
https://pancan.org/news/steve-jobs-still-innovating-six-years-later/