Chas Emerick

@cemerick
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Making PDFs reliable data sources, talking about PDF @pdfminute, former co-organizer of Papers We Love / PWLConf. Topics: PLT, distsys, future-computing, politics, policy, "ethics in tech", and annoying shitposts
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Day 23 in Berlin.

Finally caved and bought a bike suitable for city transport, a KTM Veneto. This rig is uncomfortably different from what I'm used to, but the practicalities of city usage. It's OK, I'll adjust (and probably keep some knobbier tires on hand for trail outings).

This place is beautiful.

Day 21 in Berlin.

Pieces of life are starting to fit back together, even though there's so very much left still on the floor. Nothing glamorous. Very grateful to be here, and grateful for the people that have helped (and keep helping) to make it possible.

Take-a-book, leave-a-book just hits different in Berlin ('Länder-parlamentarismus in Deutschland, Geschichte - Struktur -Funktionen', or 'State Parliamentarism in Germany, History - Structure - Functions')

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Lady behind me at the end of the TSA gauntlet: "No, thank YOU for everything you do to make us safe! 🫡🫡🫡"

Do TSA agents have a thin $COLOR flag yet?

Last goodbyes have been said, the luggage is packed, see y'all on the other side 🤘🛫🇩🇪🇪🇺
Imagine my reaction upon learning about ISPM-15 heat treatment requirements for wood packing materials ***AFTER*** finishing building 2 custom shipping crates. Fun, fun times! 🙃 🙃 🙃 🙃 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been mourning my French for a while, but "ich belschuldige dich" buries "j'accuse" so thoroughly, I might be ready to let go 😅
aktueller Status, jetzt wird's ernst

Scrolling down to the one sequence where the mutation rate hasn't overwhelmed the erasure coding, you copy it out and paste into git am. "We really should switch to a more efficient system," you muse, "latency used to be measured in milliseconds, not megaseconds."

After a pause, you mutter to yourself, "still a better user experience than mailing lists, though."
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You cough and sneeze. "Ah, another bug," runs the realization through your head. You put the napkin into the sequencer, plug its USB cord into your laptop, and start the awful Java application it came from. Fifteen minutes later, it beeps, trimphantly, and in the middle of the HAdV-A31 genome, you see a chunk of plaintext.
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