Blinken should resign (and be prosecuted), but neither is likely to happen https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken

@dev visual studio code: Why are you coding under your bed? What are you scared of?

"The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it."

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/

Most production systems have lots of code to handle important edge cases or improve performance, and this means that the code can be quite complicated. Building minimal versions of libraries or containers can be really educational, and these walkthrough tutorials like this one can be really enlightening, even though we should never run this kind of code in production.

If you're using OpenTelemetry, I highly recommend this post:

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/minimal-js-tracing/ by @jeremymorrell

@jawnsy @ricci I had to deal with a nasty python. Not exactly the type of safe I was expecting

@ricci Thank you! I’m forever grateful for your support!

Congratulations to @hamza for successfully defending his thesis!

I was trying to draw a figure in latex and this is how the internet decided to help me :)

@davetron5000 Also programmers: Now let’s shove it into every screen under the sun.

@ricci @cloudlab @vish @regehr Always fun to hang!

@ricci @dev I once mistakenly ordered “turkish coffee” at a coffee shop in Lebanon, turns out they were Armenian and were not happy to say the least.

For some context, most Armenian Lebanese wouldn’t eat a chocolate if it was made in Turkey.

I can slightly observe the aurora from the park next to my house in SLC #northernlights #aurora

@gtw @ricci Thanks!

Hands down the best picture of the YEAR. Couldn’t have done it without you! Grateful for all the support and guidance throughout my grad years.

Advice for graduate students: find you a professor like @ricci

Now back to Thesis work :)

@ricci but somewhy?

@drmorr @ricci @irene @lindsey @tgoodwin I know of Alibaba's open-simulator and a subsequent scheduler simulator based on it but work on both projects seem to have stopped a while back.

Will definitely play around with simkube!

links:
https://github.com/alibaba/open-simulator

https://github.com/hkust-adsl/kubernetes-scheduler-simulator/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file

This report about AI targeting is one of the worst things I’ve ever read

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

@dev I once spent 40 minutes looking for a subway entrance only to find it under the plastic cover of a construction site :)

I need some volunteers outside the US and EU! All you need to do is run a script that will download some popular websites and run some traceroutes.

We're doing a study about where web trackers are hosted, and we want to get data from around the world.

The US and EU are well-studied in this respect, so we don't need more volunteers from there - but if you have access to a machine at a residence, campus, etc. elsewhere in the world, and are interested, you can either email me (ricci@cs.utah.edu) or DM me or @sachindhke here. All you need to be able to do is run a Python script on it.

Thanks!

Fun side effect of not linking with libc in Golang https://kgrz.io/go-file-read-max-size-buffer.html