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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

In 2008, we got the DTrace community together for its first (un)conference. This became an Olympiad cadence, and while we were derailed by the pandemic in 2020, here is the summary for dtrace.conf(16): 6/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2016/07/29/dtrace-conf16-wrap-up/

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Ten years ago -- on DTrace's 10th birthday -- I described some of the things that we had added to DTrace over that decade. 5/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2013/09/03/happy-10th-birthday-dtrace/

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

That day continues to be memorable; @ahl and I talked about it on a recent episode of Oxide and Friends. 4/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3qZJBfHI0Y&t=988s

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

I reminisced a bit after the 5th anniversary (15 years ago!), describing in particular the harrowing day before we integrated. 3/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/09/03/happy-5th-birthday-dtrace/

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

First, to take you back to 2003, read the mail we sent out after we landed in the gate: 2/ http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/houston.txt

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Two decades ago today, DTrace integrated into the operating system. Much has changed in the last 20 years -- but one thing has remained true: we ourselves still use it on a daily basis. With your forgiveness, a short thread... 1/

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untitaker@woodland.cafe ("Markus Unterwaditzer") wrote:

oglaf is killing it with this one

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niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

Q: What do you call a AVX2 instruction that can be exploited in a side-channel attack to leak information?

A: An attack vector.

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

An Oglaf that is safe for work? Unless you live in a capitalist society, that is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/03/gazelle-lessons/

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

they call computers terminals because they're the end of the line

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

feeling the terrible draw of a new project

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digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

Asha Puthli remixed once more! This time it's Psychemagik, I love it.

https://nayabeat.bandcamp.com/album/right-down-here #music

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Which is to say that I think "journey" is getting overused in certain places. You know, like referring to your hobbies, or talking about the frenetic, random activities of a VC backed company.

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Reflecting on the journey of my life, which consists mostly of a series of unintentional pratfalls, slapstick, scatological humor, and other personally embarrassing moments...

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Maybe his pronouns are "raging" and "asshole", and they left them off the character creation screen. Did you think of that?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/03/these-people-are-mad/

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I wrote about the idea of craft -- a concept I've been hearing a lot lately in conversations about software work and often find myself wrangling with. But it also turned out to be about my grandpa. In a year of many losses, I have been thinking a lot about those I love and try to take with me in everything I do.

https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Some kind of... music for your Sunday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64voQEIY9k

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It started with me opting not to keep smart lights when I moved. I found the routine of pressing physical switches more rewarding than the tap of a touch screen. I've since gotten into vinyl, and film photography. I still stream music, and I still take photos with my iPhone when it's more convenient, but I find the physicality of analog devices uniquely rewarding.

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AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ~ Billy Sunday

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PyConUK@fosstodon.org ("PyCon UK") wrote:

📢 PyCon UK 2023 Schedule Announcement!

🎙 "I plugged a Z80 into a Pi Pico, here's how it happened" by Emma Delescolle
https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/77TPKP

Grab your ticket!
https://2023.pyconuk.org/tickets/

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It's hard to feel much sympathy with the Burning Man poseurs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/03/schadenfreude-for-hippie-wanna-bes/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The fragmentation among friends that follows Twitter’s collapse is exactly the kind of problem that Mastodon and the social web solves for. Imagine that you don’t have to pick and choose which new platform to adopt, or make and maintain a million accounts—because you can follow anyone regardless of which platform they’re on. That’s our reality.

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

It's so much easier to set up certain mons for raids now that you can transfer them back to gen 8. I have a ton of extra random cash/xp candy in those games just from shiny hunting during dynamax event raids

Money's a lot more scarce for me in gen 9 since the event raids are 1 and done things where you catch a single powerful opponent and move on.

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adwright ("TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️") wrote:

ICYMI Mozilla #Firefox 117 has a built-in translation mode that can be manually enabled.

Unlike Chrome and Edge, the Firefox translations are all done locally on your own computer, not sent to Google or Microsoft for their files.

Dunno about you but that suits my ass to a 'T'. I hate it when soulless corporations read over my shoulder.

I wrote a post with how to enable this here:

https://mastodon.social/@adwright/110987973582339164

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stancarey@mastodon.ie ("Stan Carey") wrote:

Scott Kim's symmetrical alphabet, a beautiful mirror ambigram

#design #alphabet #ambigram #art #typography #calligraphy #wordplay

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

The moral of this story about a developer who helped the team by pair programming and coaching junior engineers at the expense of his own individual metrics is “you shouldn’t judge a fish by how well it climbs a tree.”

Unfortunately companies tend to standardize on performance review systems that are easy to measure. So there are often people who add a ton of value who end up penalized by the system.

https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Currently trying to get the Bad End on Spirit Hunter: NG. I'm at the Screaming Author chapter and realized that the crane noises the ghost makes are basically the same as Arrested Development chicken noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0l0BludIwc

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Out of the Burning Man, Into the Fyre.

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lashman wrote:

HERE WE FUCKING GO!!! YESSSS!!! :catjam:

"SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry. 'Here we go again! Now our video game agreement is at a stalemate too.'"

https://www.eurogamer.net/sag-aftra-votes-unanimously-to-expand-its-strike-to-include-the-games-industry

#gameDev #gaming #gamingNews