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[UERISIMILITUDO]

Pushcx, the administrator of Lobsters, now has a stream:
https://lobste.rs/s/zzprkr/weekly_lobsters_office_hours (archive)

His schedule doesn't match up with mine, but he provides archives here:
https://push.cx/stream (archive)

I don't usually listen to streams, but I think I can make an exception here. It may help make this thread more active. I'm concerned that he may trim unflattering material from his archive, so I invite those of you who can listen as he streams to join me.

Here's his post:

Hey folks,

When this post is two hours old, and indefinitely twice a week, I’m going to stream Lobsters office hours and development on Twitch. The channel is here and more info + an archive is on my blog. (You don’t have to sign up to Twitch to watch.)

The office hours are largely to support iteratively running queries. People don’t take me up on this very often except via IRC because it’s hard to write these things perfectly out of the gate. Having a fast feedback loop is essential. Also, maybe having an open office hours session will be a nicely informal opportunity to answer questions and generally demystify the site.

If nobody has questions I’ll hack on the Lobsters codebase. Hopefully this encourages more activity on the repo. I’m also open to support people using the code to start a sister site, which is another activity that benefits from a tight feedback loop. (example)

I plan to stream weekly on (US Central) Monday afternoons at 2 PM and Thursday mornings at 9 AM in the hopes that this gives reasonable timezone coverage. Sorry for the inconvenience if you are antipodal to Chicago, though the site has always run on Chicago time. Sessions will probably run 1.5 to 3 hours and I’ll put summaries and transcripts in my archive for easy searching. I’ll try to keep the twitch schedule up-to-date and I already know I’ll miss 9/1 for a vacation.

This is pretty experimental! I did it a few streams back in summer of 2020 that went well, but everything was pretty chaotic that year for some reason and I dropped it. I did a technical rehearsal this weekend that went reasonably smoothly. If this continues to be interesting and useful, I’ll keep it up and try new things. Feedback here, in the stream chat, or by email (peter@ my domain) is much appreciated.

Special guest host will be my cat (subject to his schedule and whim). See y’all in our weird parasocial future.

All of those sister sites are even deader than Lobsters.

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

I don't usually listen to streams, but I think I can make an exception here.

I won't. Fuck that guy. I commend you if you're listening to get some juicy clips, but I cannot stand anything about that fucker or his shitty censored discount-HN/Reddit shit site. My hate for him is seething and overflowing. He's the worst type of human being and I hope that when the bomb drops, Chicago gets nuked first just to get rid of him .. and all the filth that is Chicago as a bonus.

 

[doomocract]

anyone aware soatok lately? he been mega retard. yell at other's
https://archive.is/wip/7r5SZ it wip not know how screenshot

discuss hacker news https://archive.is/dOlwm

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

anyone aware soatok lately?

Give me to the end of the year, because I'm lazy, and he'll have a thread.

 

[Markass the Worst]

anyone aware soatok lately? he been mega retard. yell at other's
https://archive.is/wip/7r5SZ it wip not know how screenshot

discuss hacker news https://archive.is/dOlwm

So not only is this faggot a furnigger who inserts furfag art into his posts, he's also an annoying Signal evangelist that thinks Signal is absolutely perfect with no flaws. Yeah, about that... (a)

Give me to the end of the year, because I'm lazy, and he'll have a thread.

Would love a quick rundown on what he has done.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Would love a quick rundown on what he has done.

Besides writing cryptography articles with his fursona interspersed throughout, and holding opinions with which I disagree, nothing. I'm only planning to write it because I think it would be funny. I may find more funny stuff after I finish reading his entire website and furry socials.

 

[Coolio55]

anyone aware soatok lately? he been mega retard. yell at other's
https://archive.is/wip/7r5SZ it wip not know how screenshot

discuss hacker news https://archive.is/dOlwm

All I know is that he posted a github gist on the Matrix protocol recently.
A developer commented - he shrieked at them.
A bunch of other people commented - he shrieked at them too.
If you want shrieks from the funny shriek boy you can comment if you want.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

I am all for an OP on Soatok, who's real name is almost likely Scott Arciszewski. That furfag made of pure narcissm and doublethink. I posted some stuff about him in the furry general thread, but it seems he keeps being an idiot:

He was mentioned briefly on the forums two years ago for his posting If you hate furries, you're anti LGBT. I'm not sure if this post should go into Open Source software thread, Mastodon or here. I'm putting it here because he is a furry and talks about the furry community, the post however is about a gazillion other things too... it's a ride.

@doomocract's post linking the two personalities

Heres centralized info about soatok dreamseeker, an popufur online who whose POSSIBLE real life identity is Scott Arciszewski. Soatok has mentioned he lives in Florida which is strange, as Scott does too. I cant remember how this came to my attention but I believe this is Scott.

My links between Scott and Soatok

In either case, I think Soatok and Scott may be the same person.

eta: Archived post screenshot:

Blog post archive: https://archive.is/8qDO4

 

[Stratovorious]

I am all for an OP on Soatok, who's real name is almost likely Scott Arciszewski. That furfag made of pure narcissm and doublethink. I posted some stuff about him in the furry general thread, but it seems he keeps being an idiot:


@doomocract's post linking the two personalities



My links between Scott and Soatok


eta: Archived post screenshot:
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Blog post archive: https://archive.is/8qDO4

I don't know Scott, but I've met Soatok twice at different furry events and have a few furfag friends in common with him. DEFCON last year was the most recent.

I've attached Scott's face below, taken from his medium page. Hard to tell with fat greasy computer nerds, but I don't think they're the same person because Soatok wasn't bald when I met him whereas Scott seems to have kept bald since his mugshot in 2011 as best I can tell.

I could be mistaken, but as far as I know they're close friends or something.

 

[RandyMiskatonic]

Patrick Ryan can make it to the top of Hacker News, but can't land a programming job, lmao.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

I could be mistaken, but as far as I know they're close friends or something.

This is my second theory - that they are close friends who share a hobby and some of the views. Why? In most part because of Scott's ChaCha20 proposal and Soatok's analysis of it, and because of their similar opinion on the IETF mailing list about using fake names.

Scott may just be using an old profile pic beause there isn't a reason to change it. But my sanity, however strong it is, is not enough to go through all the photos from furcons that Soatok attended and hope he got caught in the background with his fursuit head off to compare. Or try to find Scott's more recent photo that would show him with hair, because he is not very active on the scene.

 

[doomocract]

Soatok blind in one eye, for the record
He seem scrub mention of it from twitter, all archive are disappear no matter what links i try find. Can't proof it

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

A Rust programmer is frustrated that his employer uses KDB, an array language, which makes it really hard to infect his employer with Rust, guys:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40625800 (archive)
Array languages are very popular in finance. Here are some funny quotes which really don't need context:

People have built their livelihoods around it and use it as a hammer for all sorts of nails.

Within my firm, it's very hard to get an outside perspective, the KDB developers are true believers in KDB, but they they obviously don't want to be professionally replaced. So I'm asking the more forward leaning HN.

I keep on advocating for some Parquet style data-store with Spark/Dask/Arrow/Polars running on top of it that can be horizontally scaled and most importantly, with Polars, I can write my backtests in Rust and leverage the libraries I've already written.

I get shot down with "we use KDB here". I just don't know how I can deliver a maintainable solution to my traders with this current infrastructure. Bizarrely, and this is a financial firm, no one in a team of ~100 devs has ever touched Spark style tech other than me here.

The Greek gods were just like Marvel superheroes, guys:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227279#41261485 (archive)

Lastly, I just found this last comment funny:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41286203#41287549 (archive)

I just checked it again, and there's a new reply, asking how that could possibly be such a cutthroat industry, and someone has to tell the guy that it's a joke.

 

[Raven Rainbow]

I just checked it again, and there's a new reply, asking how that could possibly be such a cutthroat industry, and someone has to tell the guy that it's a joke.

Employed in higher education. Expertise and graduate degrees in critical pedagogy in secondary and post-secondary educational leadership. Have now written more than 52 million in grants (as of July, 2024). The ROI on my salary is pretty ridiculous. Looking to change the world, one boring spreadsheet at a time. Contact me at LoughlaHN (at) gmail (dot) com. But note that i only really randomly check that one. If you need an expert in higher education assessment, curriculum creation, or retention services, I'm your dude. And I'm actively looking as of May 2024. Hit me up if that's something you need.

 

[<3 norafawn]

Probably one of you faggots but this exchange made me laugh. Link (A)

 

[Kola]

Hector Martin's tranny alter ego made the HN first page:

https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409475

(it's a whole thread so there are more posts but they're not that interesting to warrant screenshotting them all here)

Bonus: the smartest Mastodon user:

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

The kernel API docs are mostly not there, or very vague and they often redirect the reader to the code. The reason kernel coding style is so raw and spartan is because it has to be readable. I can agree with the first part. But I don't see how adding Rust to this mix makes it anything but worse, becuase now you have the same undocumented pile of code but also doubled and in two different languages.

The remaining paragraphs are just cherry picked examples. A lot of kernel API functions do what it says on the can and their source code is so short it's hardly over 20 lines in most cases. Many of them are just a check and then a call of another more general function. As always, if you don't have a problem to bitch about, make it up.

 

[Kola]

The kernel API docs are mostly not there, or very vague and they often redirect the reader to the code. The reason kernel coding style is so raw and spartan is because it has to be readable. I can agree with the first part. But I don't see how adding Rust to this mix makes it anything but worse, becuase now you have the same undocumented pile of code but also doubled and in two different languages.

Their point is that a stronger typing system makes the code more self-documenting. Kernel docs do often suck in fact.

 

[geckogoy]

Their point is that a stronger typing system makes the code more self-documenting. Kernel docs do often suck in fact.

>the documentation sucks
>use my 'self documenting' language instead
monkey nigger

 

[quaawaa]

Solider of Fortune is too based for the soy golems of Hacker News:

Pearl clutching over Rhodesia:

Guy who googled "military contractor jobs" thinks he knows more about the industry than the contributors to SoF:

Bong who has never touched a weapon deadlier than a spoon says SoF is for losers:

SoF sucked because it talked too much about guns:

Literal communist complains that SoF pushed "dangerous" ideologies:

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