Jan Stępień

@jstepien
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Bringing balance to parentheses. 🔉 /jan ˈstɛ̃.pʲjɛɲ/. 📸 @jan 🇪🇺 Berlin, DE 📨 jan at stepien dot cc
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@Miikka Having been to two of her gigs, I strongly recommend seeing her perform live if you get a chance.
@roundcrisis These days one Arch and one Debian. Arch moves fast and, quite rarely, requires manual intervention to fix something. It’s a rolling distribution, which trades infrequent large upgrades for regular small package churn. Debian on the other hand is solid and slow moving. On its foundation you can get fresh releases via flatpak, as the stable distribution itself is in no rush to stabilise packages. Overall, I’m happy with both.

On the other hand, I'm motivated to share what I do because I really want to help people. If it's just LLMs... it feels hollow. I think about this every time I've tried to work on open-source in the last few months.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210740

Welp. Glad to see Li Shen's using the last fifteen years of my work to automate ... | Hacker News

Several years of Deutsche Bahn business travel taught me something unexpected: eventually you stop fighting the system and start learning its moods, failure domains, and hidden virtues.

I wrote down the practical folklore that actually helps: apps, routing habits, delay survival, seat choices, fallback lines, and the strange civilisation of the Bordrestaurant at 250 km/h.

“A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn”: https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/

#travel #db #trains #bahn

A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn

After years of regular business travel by Deutsche Bahn, here is the small library of habits, app picks, routing folklore, and survival gear that actually helps. Not a complaint piece. A handbook f...

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@weavejester @plexus Seconding the importance of ease of automated verification. I've had good results with property-based testing. A small local LLM can debug quite nicely given shrunk sequences of steps leading to a failed assertion generated by a stateful model-based PBT with a test oracle.
@sanityinc @eh 39084; took me until December that year.
@moonglum same energy
@ewolff @hukl preferably over BitTorrent; I can think of no better way to get those Ethernet connectors descaled

the great pierogiing

#food

@plexus Some ladybird larvae might help. Their appetite for aphids is virtually unbounded.