vriesk (Jan Srz..)
@vriesk.bsky.social
Backend engineer for life, ex-SRE, software oxidization catalyst. Astro aficionado, desert plant herder, owner of too many bicycles. Autistic, enby, and left-handed.
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But that’s the same simplification as is calling the current system “capitalism”. And unlike the shift to communism, which likely requires some sort of economic earthquake, the capitalism-feudalism is gradual, with inequality being one of important symptoms.
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
But that’s the same simplification as is calling the current system “capitalism”. And unlike the shift to communism, which likely requires some sort of economic earthquake, the capitalism-feudalism is gradual, with inequality being one of important symptoms.
Counterpoint: “late capitalism” is not at all optimistic if you consider neofeudalism to be the next step.
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Counterpoint: “late capitalism” is not at all optimistic if you consider neofeudalism to be the next step.
Yeah, EPR was such a management/high level engineering failure.
Looks like EPR2 employs most of the learnings from this lesson, but we will see.
Looks like EPR2 employs most of the learnings from this lesson, but we will see.
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Yeah, EPR was such a management/high level engineering failure.
Looks like EPR2 employs most of the learnings from this lesson, but we will see.
Looks like EPR2 employs most of the learnings from this lesson, but we will see.
Don’t worry, there will be a next one. And next. And next.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Don’t worry, there will be a next one. And next. And next.
This is awesome, what on Earth is that?
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is awesome, what on Earth is that?
But the thing with knives is that good knife steel really isn't the stock stainless type - it will rust somewhat easily if left in water for too long or not cleaned up after some more acidic foods (e.g. fruits).
And the dulling is, as I understand, not to abrasion but to corrosion of the fine edge.
And the dulling is, as I understand, not to abrasion but to corrosion of the fine edge.
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
But the thing with knives is that good knife steel really isn't the stock stainless type - it will rust somewhat easily if left in water for too long or not cleaned up after some more acidic foods (e.g. fruits).
And the dulling is, as I understand, not to abrasion but to corrosion of the fine edge.
And the dulling is, as I understand, not to abrasion but to corrosion of the fine edge.
What about things prone to corrosion? Also, real sharp knives get dull.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What about things prone to corrosion? Also, real sharp knives get dull.
I didn’t know. Where can I learn more about this?
October 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I didn’t know. Where can I learn more about this?
Disagree that assigning structure and deciding upon abstraction layers is a lexical task.
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Disagree that assigning structure and deciding upon abstraction layers is a lexical task.
Not just in the comradeship. Whole LotR has literally a single interesting female character (Galadriel) and only as a background. Hobbit has none.
Only Silmarillion is different here, out of the main works.
Only Silmarillion is different here, out of the main works.
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Not just in the comradeship. Whole LotR has literally a single interesting female character (Galadriel) and only as a background. Hobbit has none.
Only Silmarillion is different here, out of the main works.
Only Silmarillion is different here, out of the main works.
Nah, not just space as oceans, also planets are effectively single-location things more like a single city/specific location on Earth.
The whole “space” thing in Star Wars is purely aesthetic.
The whole “space” thing in Star Wars is purely aesthetic.
October 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Nah, not just space as oceans, also planets are effectively single-location things more like a single city/specific location on Earth.
The whole “space” thing in Star Wars is purely aesthetic.
The whole “space” thing in Star Wars is purely aesthetic.
Also, there might be just a single electron out there in the whole universe, so it's essentially just "touching" itself.
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Also, there might be just a single electron out there in the whole universe, so it's essentially just "touching" itself.
Not just more enjoyable - I can't think of a single metric (apart from legacy/prior work/knowledge) - in which C would be anything but far worse than Rust as a general programming language.
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Not just more enjoyable - I can't think of a single metric (apart from legacy/prior work/knowledge) - in which C would be anything but far worse than Rust as a general programming language.
First ruff, now uv - seems like the only way to fix Python is to ecnroachingly reimplement the whole ecosystem in Rust :)
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
First ruff, now uv - seems like the only way to fix Python is to ecnroachingly reimplement the whole ecosystem in Rust :)
But also for ruthless and completely pointless (being well fed themselves) carnage of weaker beings like rodents and birds.
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
But also for ruthless and completely pointless (being well fed themselves) carnage of weaker beings like rodents and birds.
Also, fresh codebase but decided to use C++ :facepalm:
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Also, fresh codebase but decided to use C++ :facepalm:
That's completely orthogonal to the problem of efficient cross-system protocols.
October 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
That's completely orthogonal to the problem of efficient cross-system protocols.
Compression is not just calculation, compression is memory allocation, read, calculation (with memory access for state), then write. Plenty of neat tricks to make this efficient, including hardware acceleration, direct network buffer write and such, yet - wouldn't be needed for less dumb protocols.
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Compression is not just calculation, compression is memory allocation, read, calculation (with memory access for state), then write. Plenty of neat tricks to make this efficient, including hardware acceleration, direct network buffer write and such, yet - wouldn't be needed for less dumb protocols.
That's probably true for end-consumers, but for intra-datacentre traffic the numbers are likely very different.
Nevertheless, I'm not opposing compression - just saying that it's still-wasteful workaround against suboptimal tech's (JSON) ubiquity.
Nevertheless, I'm not opposing compression - just saying that it's still-wasteful workaround against suboptimal tech's (JSON) ubiquity.
October 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
That's probably true for end-consumers, but for intra-datacentre traffic the numbers are likely very different.
Nevertheless, I'm not opposing compression - just saying that it's still-wasteful workaround against suboptimal tech's (JSON) ubiquity.
Nevertheless, I'm not opposing compression - just saying that it's still-wasteful workaround against suboptimal tech's (JSON) ubiquity.
… and so you’re saving some bandwidth (otherwise saved by more efficient protocol), but on top of wasting CPU on string parsing, you waste CPU on compression/decompression.
Modern software stack are so shit.
Modern software stack are so shit.
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
… and so you’re saving some bandwidth (otherwise saved by more efficient protocol), but on top of wasting CPU on string parsing, you waste CPU on compression/decompression.
Modern software stack are so shit.
Modern software stack are so shit.
The thing is, the American goldenrods (solidago canadensis and gigantea) are extremely invasive and form vast moncultural fields when left unchecked.
Bees may love that in the early fall, but that leaves them starving in spring and summer, because nothing else grows.
So. We hate them.
Bees may love that in the early fall, but that leaves them starving in spring and summer, because nothing else grows.
So. We hate them.
October 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The thing is, the American goldenrods (solidago canadensis and gigantea) are extremely invasive and form vast moncultural fields when left unchecked.
Bees may love that in the early fall, but that leaves them starving in spring and summer, because nothing else grows.
So. We hate them.
Bees may love that in the early fall, but that leaves them starving in spring and summer, because nothing else grows.
So. We hate them.
Oh we hate those (golderonds, not bees) in Europe so much.
October 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Oh we hate those (golderonds, not bees) in Europe so much.