nik9000

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on Runk · c/programmer_humor · 77 pts · 39d

When I last talked to Richard he had company to work on SQLite. It was like four people.

SQLite is still deployed on everything, everywhere. You browser. Your phone. Macs. Half of Linux machine. Your airplane. It's super impressive.

I've been remote since 2013. We said "distributed" because it was important that we didn't have a central office. This kind of thing happened much less. A company can do distributed well.

That hasn't held up forever. Because, well, gestured wildly at entire sub.

I live in the US South and "folks" is a normal word for "people" here. I'm intentional not looking it up and trying to go from memory to get my dialect. I don't use it for "humanity", but will for any subset. "The folks who live in that house." "White folk." "City folk." I dunno. There's a shit ton of dialects in the US South East and they differ by geography and income and race and all kinds of stuff. And maybe they aren't dialects. I've heard "register". I'm not a language knower.

Should you use the term "black folks"? Ask a couple black folks if it makes em feel bad. Do what they say. Don't listen to this white boy.

It's built into my dialect so I'd use it. But if folks told me it made them feel bad if stop.

I have no idea when I pluralize it and when I don't.

In the Alpha Cenauri game there was a wonder you could build called The Longevity Vaccine. If you were a planned economy two sad citizens were made happy at every city. Amazing. If you were Green economy it made happy one per base. Amazing.

If you were capitalists, the base that built it made a bunch of money and nothing else. It's a lot of money, but isn't global.

It's the only wonder like that. And I've been thinking of it more lately.

Back when I worked at the foundation there was a special permission that you couldn't have unless you'd broke stuff super badly. To push new code you have to have one of those folks present. They were responsible for making sure there was a back out plan and ran the actual deploy script. Their ssh keys did the deploy.

I got this bit set after I took out search for Italian Wikipedia. And all none Wikipedias.

on Sea Level · c/science_memes · 9 pts · 267d

Do you think "big enough moon" is going to be similarly rare to "liquid water"? We're getting better and better at finding planets. Not sure how we'd find their moons though.

I put it in the "fun concepts boring characters" bucket with most Clarke.

I really liked the next Hugo winner. And 2020. And 2023. Honestly I think about half of the Hugo winners are amazing. 2007. 2002. 2000. Oh 1993. That's a vintage. 1990. 87, 86, 85, 84 is ok. Oh. They get more consistent as they go back in time. Still pretty good.