On the Buses!

This was an enjoyable read!

I wonder whether 'pre-pandemic feels like yesterday' is also having an effect: people calibrating their price intuition for the pre-covid times too. I sometimes find myself doing a sharp intake of breath at a price only to realise that I'm comparing it to 2016 or whatever.

Why the shame? That's a great reason for getting kicked out!

*It

What did you get kicked out for?

The uni groups were good fun. Many fond memories of organising collab meetups and canvasses between the Plymouth group and the local party. I was the national meetings where the worst people started slithering their way towards podiums that it all became horrible

They were 8 and 11 years old

I went to one NOLS conference and left with the sincere impression that there was nothing redeemable or useful about any of it. Absolutely god-forsaken organisation.

The OBR has been specifically designed to curtail any creative thought about the state of the world beyond the next half-decade.

I can't think of any examples where ML is used for 'truth-finding'. ML is about inaccurately but approximately modelling more complex systems.

Sad to see 'computer vision' entirely within the 'machine learning' set. It's very much not!

Do you remember those halcyon days when we were debating whether labour policy was state-sponsored fibre-to-the-house or fibre-to-the-node?

We want an outcome, so we invent a word. We use the word to mean the outcome. The word supersedes the outcome. The word ceases to be tethered to an outcome, its meaning is circular. Vibes all the way down

Object, simulation, simulacrum

Tony Benn is dead, and they have killed him

I can't stop watching this. I want to know what she thinks 'the internet' is.

Does she want a nationalised Openreach? Nationalised ISPs? Nationalisation of web hosting infra? Nationalisation of the companies that run the websites? Nationalisation of every tiny little personal blog? Bizarre

Broadly, yes! It feels like there's a 'missing protocol' though that enables build systems to talk to CI systems. The protocol might allow:

- Communicating about dependencies, determinism, changes, artifact invalidation
- Requesting caches
- Providing information about build steps and progress

You can infer that there's a dependency between them by listening to the syscalls cargo makes

Exciting! IMO there are two big problems with existing systems:

- Monorepo implies rerunning all CI on every commit, but really we need native support for detecting file inputs, caching the results for unchanged

- Lack of static typing in the CI language

Just some ideas :)

*how

For a past employer, I quickly discovered that "we'd like to see you think" meant "can you independently rediscover our entire software/hardware architecture based on abstract clues", i.e: "can you ensure us that you'll repeat exactly the same mistakes we did"