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another weekend warrior trying to save the world shaping reality, one myth at a time be free, curious and kind

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¿Es tu perfil?Reclámalo y hyl.dirty.social es tuyo.Reclamar perfil

sōm ⁂@hyl· 6d

I've been getting this page for ages

Screenshot of cloudflare showing the host of arabica.social is down

sōm ⁂@hyl· Jul 10

Required reading for autocoding imo danluu.com/ai-coding/

In general, when I talk to software folks about testing, I'm coming from such a different place that they immediately look at me like I'm an alien, so let's talk about how we tested at this hardware company I worked for, Centaur, which informs my biases about how I like to work. Some of the things that we did that were or are unorthodox in the software world are:

Hired dedicated QA / test engineers, with testing being a first-class career path on par with being a developer
No code review by default
Virtually no hand-written tests
Constant testing via what programmers sometimes called property based testing, randomized testing, fuzzing, etc., although we just called those tests (hand-written tests were called "hand tests").
Large regeression test suite (3 months wall clock to execute on compute farm)
No unit tests

Just to give you an idea of the general structure, when I left (in 2013), we had about 1000 machines generating and running tests at all times for roughly 20 logic designers and 20 test engineers. This was on prem and the machines took up half a floor of the building we were in. The general structure was that we had maybe 20% of machines running regression tests, and 80% generating and running new tests. Three months of regression tests is too much to gate commits on, so there was a much shorter list of tests that took maybe 10 minutes or so to run that people would run before committing. Those pre-commit tests would run on a special setup to run as quickly as possible, with overclocked machines that were the fastest machines money could buy, as well as a different simulator setup.

sōm ⁂@hyl· Jun 26

@tangled.org please fix :)

Mobile screenshot of tangled.Org new repo page not being properly responsive

sōm ⁂@hyl· Jun 23

tiny lil guys

Photo of a tree with tiny little mushrooms (oysters) growing off them. You're looking up at them and it's almost a staircase

sōm ⁂@hyl· Jun 21

sōm ⁂@hyl· May 14

i'm putting 3js in my slides nobody can stop me

sōm ⁂@hyl· May 13

I thought you were a vibe coder! what is this real code doing here??

screenshot of the video above where there is code on the webgpu on the screen

sōm ⁂@hyl· May 13

i got inspired by @codetard.bsky.social and started doing threejs webgpu stuff start with boids ofc

sōm ⁂@hyl· May 5

It's not just ethanol either! Corn is in fucking everything. @swiftonsecurity.com had a bit about how corn is literally in everything you eat and use. It's not just for the energy production!

@swiftonsecurity tweet screenshot: "Surfactants in shampoo and dishwashing liquid are often chemically processed with corn glucose. Cosmetics are often corn. You use corn to remove corn from your dishes. You take a shower and clean yourself with the help of corn. Corn is applied to cardboard boxes during production. Table salt uses corn to help iodine stick. Windex uses 2-hexoxyethanol which is made from corn"

Animals eat corn, but meat isn't corn, right? Correct.

How is bacteria controlled in meat cutting operations?
Interestingly by spraying lactic acid.

Where does lactic acidd come from? Fermenting glucose.
Where does glucose come from? Corn syrup

You are slowly realizing it has been literally years, maybe decades, since you at any meal made without corn.

sōm ⁂@hyl· Apr 19

a single diagram should be able to explain "what is the cloud and how does it work" and it should be no more complex than the following water cycle diagram. the cloud diagram unfortunately doesn't exist

a pretty stock art image of the water cycle showing: precipitation -> (down the mountain) -> collection -> evaporation -> condensation -> precpitation

sōm ⁂@hyl· Apr 17

our robot has a hat

photo of my robot vacuum with a pan brush on top of it like its wearing a hat :)

sōm ⁂@hyl· Apr 16

this mf'er high af LOL

screenshot of the holding back tears emoji on the blacksky emoji picker, and why is its eyes RED!?!?

sōm ⁂@hyl· Apr 16

@semble.so please fix I'm following these people already and its very confusing to see

screenshot of semble notification page showing wesley and lyre with a button that says "Follow" (but I'm already following them)

sōm ⁂@hyl· Apr 2

thank god im covid negative still have the throat scratchies and a bit of brain fog so it might be a false negative... should i take the meds?

sōm ⁂@hyl· Mar 29

@henryzoo.com its henry!

sōm ⁂@hyl· Mar 15

I'm the best

screenshot of webring.brennan.computer showing I'm visitor number 1

sōm ⁂@hyl· Mar 11

nice!

screenshot of peek running locally on my machine, it's the settings page

sōm ⁂@hyl· Mar 11

practice makes perfect! some of my friends are insane, ~0.002 is common, im pleb mode lol

sōm ⁂@hyl· Mar 10

I can't tell if this is good or not?

i scored 0.0050 on the JND test (this is a screenshot of the result)

sōm ⁂@hyl· Mar 9

i tried a few different handles, always returns this

error page for atvouch showing XRPCError

sōm ⁂@hyl· Mar 6

Fuck this thing

screenshot of slay the spire 2, where I'm fighting a miniboss, and have drawn my whole hand as the debuff card the boss gives you

sōm ⁂@hyl· Feb 21

I might have a problem...

screenshot of Firefox mobile showing 3558 open tabs

sōm ⁂@hyl· Feb 15

Found out about it because I've been playing with Obsidian. Wanted to see all the music shows I wanted to go to, but didn't want to do the math of which show happens where and on what date. Built a plugin in about an hour that makes it easy to see. Just _had_ to use the tileset

Screenshot of obsidian showing a bunch of shows listed in seattle to the left, and on the right is the plugin i talk about. On the top is a calendar view showing all the dates the shows are happening (parsed from the file) and below that is a map with markers of where these shows happen (the map is using the watercolor tileset from the previous post). It's all bidirectionally synced, so if you move your cursor, or click a calender event or a map pin, it'll show up the date and the cursor moves to the location.

sōm ⁂@hyl· Feb 15

i just discovered Stamen's Watercolor tileset and it's just beautiful! I wish all maps where this beautiful. Bring more whimsy and beauty to websites

Screenshot of the vancouver metro area rendered by the Stamen Design water color tileset, and it's gorgeous. it looks like a real water color painting

sōm ⁂@hyl· Feb 9

Can't lie, landed in a pretty good neighborhood :)

sōm ⁂@hyl· Feb 7

v cool!

sōm ⁂@hyl· Jan 5

technically i think so, but the location goes missing?

sōm ⁂@hyl· Jan 5

Nope they accept my search, but when I go to submit both show some variation of this screen even though my location is on, and I've chosen to share it with the web app.

Screenshot of beaconbits failing to save a beacon

sōm ⁂@hyl· Dec 25

Experimenting with canvas for displaying records, using @tldraw.com and @nekomimi.pet's atproto-ui what do you think? Would you use this? Maybe for mood-boarding? Maybe a @kinopio.club-like, but AT proto native? Even just having tldraw -> save to PDS seems like, vaguely cool?

sōm ⁂@hyl· Dec 13

I've been learning blender! I made my first render the other day