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zipMy job is having redundancies and I expect I'll be one of them. I've been told to call myself a staff engineer due to my experience and I'm a full stack, will learn your language and framework kind of a girl. All the usual bells and whistles, kubernetes and networking and The Cloud all the way to CSS.
I'm looking for UK remote, ideally at a fully or mostly remote company. A four day week would be a major plus.
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I would like someone who knows more than me to explain, in technical terms, what exactly the open source Swift compiler is missing, that Apple’s shipped version in Xcode has, that makes the Objective-C bridge not work. I know the Swift project doesn’t want to support it, I know all the social and political reasons, I am asking strictly about the technological reasons. It can’t be as simple as a compile time option, there has to be something missing at the low level, or someone would have released a fork of the compiler with it enabled by now.
DizzySo a poll I've seen boosted around is showing that of about 5.5k fedi users polled a good 42% use Linux.
So that made me curious.
Distro families! Which do you primarily use?
Please boost for reach, am very curious.
EDIT: To answer a frequent question, this is intended to be mostly about what you use on personal/desktop/laptop machines, though if you just use Linux for servers and use something else on your personal machines, I don't want to exclude you!
EDIT: To answer another frequent question, yes Guix counts under the NixOS choice. I'd honestly forgotten about it. I'd also forgotten about Void Linux entirely, sorry about that Void users.
#Linux #poll
So that made me curious.
Distro families! Which do you primarily use?
Please boost for reach, am very curious.
EDIT: To answer a frequent question, this is intended to be mostly about what you use on personal/desktop/laptop machines, though if you just use Linux for servers and use something else on your personal machines, I don't want to exclude you!
EDIT: To answer another frequent question, yes Guix counts under the NixOS choice. I'd honestly forgotten about it. I'd also forgotten about Void Linux entirely, sorry about that Void users.
#Linux #poll
Debian/Debian based (Ubuntu, MX Linux, Mint, etc)
RedHat/RedHat based (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, etc)
Arch/Arch based (Manjaro, EndeavourOS, etc)
openSUSE/openSUSE based (GeckoLinux, etc)
Gentoo/Gentoo based (Calculate, Nova, ChromiumOS, etc)
Slackware/Slackware based (Austrumi, Porteus, etc)
Mandriva/Mandriva based (Mageia, etc)
Alpine
NixOS
Something else
Something else and I'm offended you didn't list it and am going to whine in your comments
I don't use linux
Poll ended at .
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Terence Eden’s BlogBook Review: Hacking Capitalism - Modeling, Humans, Computers, and Money by Kris Nóva
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/book-review-hacking-capitalism-modeling-humans-computers-and-money-by-kris-nova/
I was saddened to hear of Kris Nóva's untimely death a few weeks ago. I had her book "Hacking Capitalism" on my eReader for several months, but hadn't got around to reading it yet. Never put these things off.
The book is a complicated but fitting legacy. It absolutely showcases Nóva's ideas, ideals, and potential. Perhaps a little overwrought in places, and a little underpowered in others. It's clear that her heart was in the right place and she was making a huge impact in the world. The staccato paragraphs and bullet point entries only underline how much she had to say and how quickly she wanted to say it.
There are a lot of pithy statements buried in the pages:
For every exciting innovation, a legacy system must rot.
And some sections ought to be tattoo'd on the inside of our eyelids:
Remember: The tech industry expects competition because the tech industry is built on capitalism.
There’s legally nothing wrong with playing the same game that the corporations are playing.
The book attempts to map cybersecurity hacking onto work/life hacking. For example, can you use social engineering tricks to find job openings?
You can start to probe for weaknesses by looking for a response. In career exploitation, this can be a response to a tweet, a LinkedIn message, or an email.
It's a clever way of looking at the world. Indeed, Nóva has an interesting perspective on the tech scene as a trans-woman:
In my opinion, masculine socialization directly leads to the ruthlessly competitive personality types that are rewarded within tech. This opinion is based on my experience as both a man and woman working in the tech industry.
I'm not sure I buy all of the pronouncements she makes though. The book does overlook that some of us working in tech are doing so for Governments, charities, and non-profits. Sure, we're all inside capitalism, but our employers aren't necessarily solely driven by a profit motive.
It's certainly a hell of a lot better than most "thought leader" / "industry insider" nonsense. It's a good way to open your eyes to some of the ways the system is stacked against people - and how you can fight back.
Kris leaves behind a huge legacy. It would have been brilliant to see how much further she could have gone.
I'll leave the last word to her:
I want to buy as much land as possible and give it back to society and to the people. I want to wake up in the morning and — even if for a single day — I want to feel free.
Book Review: Hacking Capitalism - Modeling, Humans, Computers, and Money by Kris Nóva
I was saddened to hear of Kris Nóva's untimely death a few weeks ago. I had her book "Hacking Capitalism" on my eReader for several months, but hadn't got around to reading it yet. Never put these things off. The book is a complicated but fitting legacy. It absolutely showcases Nóva's ideas, ideals, and potential. [...]
Mikkel Roald-ArbølJust moved instance (hi #neuromatch!) - so I guess it's #introduction time!
🎓 I'm Mikkel, I'm a PhD student at University of Sussex doing #neuroethology, currently working on sleep in insects.
🗺️ A winding road has taken me from Sports Science (biomechanics, motor control and learning) to #neuroscience, thinking about brains in the context of ecology and evolution.
🔓 I'm enthusiastic about #OpenScience, developing tools with #rstats, #python, #3Dprinting and beyond.
🏕️ Outside of work, I love spending time in the outdoors, from caves to mountain tops. I also enjoy any type of sport, photography, singing, my piano and books.
Looking forward to get to know you!
Compound InterestToday is the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere, so here's a look at the chemical cause of the yellows, oranges and reds in the fall foliage we'll be seeing shortly! https://wp.me/p4aPLT-sn
The Chemicals Behind the Colours of Autumn Leaves
With autumn looming on the horizon, the leaves on some trees have already begun the transition towards the vibrant hues of autumn. Whilst this change may outwardly seem like a simple one, the many vivid colours are a result of a range of...
RavenCodeWhat #operatingsystem do you use?
Please boost for maximum exposure.
Linux distro
Windows
MacOS
Other
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Project Gutenberg"Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth."
The World as Will and Idea
Arthur Schopenhauer died #OTD in 1860. German philosopher, who was primarily important as the exponent of a metaphysical doctrine of the will in immediate reaction against Hegelian idealism. His writings influenced later existential philosophy and Freudian psychology. via @Britannica
Books by Arthur Schopenhauer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648
