Is this going to include all of their back catalog? I’ve had a lot of free time lately and decided I’ve been missing the SIGPLAN proceedings and have b been procrastinating on reactivating my old membership to get them. I stopped when the paper version went away, which is ages ago now.

I think they're already available? e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/942572.807045

Hmm, and yet they were still pushing the digital library subscription as recently as two months ago.

There’s a PR on a project I contribute to that is as bad/big as some PRs by problematic coworkers. I’m not saying it’s AI work, but I’m wondering.

It’s clear to me now that I need to set up my home machine the way I set up BYOD when I was contracting last. I need a separate account for all of my development.

I have a friend who at one point had five monitors and 2 computers (actually it might be 3) on his desk and maybe he’s the one doing it right. He keeps his personal stuff and his programming/work stuff completely separate.

I have three OS installs. Windows install for games. Another Windows for development (I have to for windows dev). And a Ubuntu install for anything not games/work. The windows drives use bitlocker and they can't access each other's files. It's not perfect.

Although with the amount of crap I have to install for windows development I'm starting to wonder if a base VM image that is used as a start point for each project would be cleaner.

I set up a separate user that I ssh into for development. Not perfect but its something.

At least with external entities you could deny the parser an internet connection and force it to only load external documents from a cache you prepopulated and vetted. Turing completeness is a bullshit idea in document formats.

Postscript is pretty neat IMHO and it’s Turing complete. I really appreciated my raytraced page finally coming out of that poor HP laser after an hour or so.

I once sent a Sierpinski's Triangle postscript program to a shared printer. It took 90 minutes, and pissed off everybody else trying to print.

PostScript can emulate the ZMachine (Zork text adventures and all of infocom) with "zmachine.ps". Look it up at DDG/GG.

How does it do I/O?

A monad. It’s just a class of abstract Endor Moon or something. Probably you have to send all commands up to the current state to it. :)

One of the very first SVG documents I encountered was a port of the PS Tiger to SVG. It loaded a lot faster than the PostScript Tiger.

Sounds almost like a fun crypto mining opportunity.

With SVGs you can serve them from a different domain. IIUC the issue from TFA was that the SVGs were served from the primary domain; had they been on a different domain, they would have not been allowed to do as much.

calling Leonard Rosenthol ...

Am I right in assuming it’s not the amount of payment but the transition from $0 to paying a bill at all?

I’m definitely sure it’s saving me more than $140 a month to have CI/CD running and I’m also sure I’d never break even on the opportunity cost of having someone write or set one up internally if someone else’s works - and this is the key - just as well.

But investment in CI/CD is investing in future velocity. The hours invested are paid for by hours saved. So if the outcome is brittle and requires oversight that savings drops or disappears.

Have you ever set up GitHub Actions? The outcome is brittle because of their platform, not because of my inability to do CI.

I use them minimally and haven't stared at enough failures yet to see the patterns. Generally speaking my MO is to remove at least half of the moving parts of any CI/CD system I encounter and I've gone a multiple of that several times.

When CI and CD stop being flat and straightforward, they lose their power to make devs clean up their own messes. And that's one of the most important qualities of CI.

Most of your build should be under version control and I don't mean checked in yaml files to drive a CI tool.

Exactly this. I've used Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI and all of them were so easy in comparison to the github actions runner mess.

This is not investment in CI/CD. I already did that, by buying and investing in my own hardware, my own workflows, my own caching solution.

This is like if Dropbox started charging you money for the files you have stored on your backup hard drives.

You're sounding a lot like a Microsoft damage control artist.

Keep this kind of comment on reddit, not here.

I'll keep it where I like actually, thanks.

The only company I’ve held a grudge against longer than MS is McDonalds and they are sort of cut from the same cloth.

I’m also someone who paid for JetBrains when everyone still thought it wasn’t worth money to pay for a code editor. Though I guess that’s again now. And everyone is using an MS product instead.

io_uring is a tool for maximizing throughput not minimizing latency. So the correct measure is transactions per millisecond not milliseconds per transaction.

Little’s Law applies when the task monopolizes the time of the worker. When it is alternating between IO and compute, it can be off by a factor of two or more. And when it’s only considering IO, things get more muddled still.

> io_uring is a tool for maximizing throughput not minimizing latency.

some features are explicitly designed to minimize latency. I'm thinking of the IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL and IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL flags for io_uring_setup .

I'm not making that up, the manpage says that: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/liburing-dev/io_uring_s...

A contract that needs to be maintained at some level of quality even when you're deploying or overloaded.

Load shedding is a pretty advanced topic and it's the one I can think of off the top of my head when considering how Chesterton's Fence can sneak into these designs and paint you into a corner that some people in the argument know is coming and the rest don't believe will ever arrive.

But it's not alone in that regard. The biggest one for me is we discover how we want to write the system as we are writing it. And now we discover we have 45 independent services that are doing it the old way and we have to fix every single one of them to get what we want.

Advertisements and recruiter emails are pretty much the only thing in my inbox for the last, I'd say almost ten years.

You'll forgive me if I miss one.

Recruiting is turning into the business that still needs a paper check from you. Nobody else uses those grandpa.

In an 'economic downturn' where the rich keep getting richer, at least. This is a very weird downturn.

> the "current store" now points to a random location somewhere in a different state

I thought that was just me. It gets the first, maybe the second digit of the zip code right and that's about it.