The Pain That is GitHub Actions - Feldera Blog
Dialectical Materialism
How about "a tug-of-war between owners and workers for jobs, resources, and technology"
Three examples:
Factory Work and Labour Unions
Early 20th-century factory jobs involved long hours, low pay, and unsafe working conditions. When workers tried to unionize, factory owners often resisted, viewing unionized labour as a threat to profits. This created a direct conflict: owners wanting to keep costs low vs. workers demanding better wages and safer workplaces.
Automation in Warehouses
Warehouses (e.g., Amazon fulfilment centres) are increasingly adopting robotic systems to speed up sorting and packing. Employees might feel pressure to meet higher performance metrics set by a partly automated workflow, while also fearing that further automation will reduce human jobs. Here, the “tug-of-war” is between technological efficiency (and profit) vs. workers’ job security and well-being.
Tech Industry Outsourcing
Companies sometimes outsource tech-related jobs to countries with cheaper labour costs. This lowers expenses for the company but can lead to local layoffs and economic hardship for employees in higher-wage regions. The conflict revolves around the benefit of increased profit margins for the company vs. the material needs of domestic workers who lose their livelihoods.
The USA actually spends several billions, if not trillions on Medicare (meant for the old) and Medicaid (meant for the poor, and single mothers, and young children) combined.
In 2023, the federal government spent about $848.2 billion on Medicare, accounting for 14% of total federal spending.
source - and that's just Medicare.
I agree with you that it's weird that corporations get a bailout, instead of selling the company to competitors, but no need to act like the USA doesn't spend a TON of money on its citizens, keeping their head above water :)
Here's a summarization of the summary (also done by AI, because lazy):
The author recalls his initial reluctance to speak publicly after a past misstep and later revisits the subject by examining how movies, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and WarGames, dramatize computers. He contrasts these cinematic portrayals with the subtle influence of everyday technologies like email and PowerPoint, and criticizes modern development tools like Visual Studio and IntelliSense for potentially diminishing deep coding skills. Ultimately, he champions a return to fundamental programming to rediscover the pure joy of coding.
FFS, you could just have run gzip on it probably.
Gzip doesn't reduce your data's size by 2000x. Of course this could be done by other languages as well, but running gzip on your data doesn't keep it accessible.
Even turning the data into a Parquet file would've been a massive improvement, while keeping it accessible, but it likely would not have been 2000x smaller. 10x, maybe.
edit: zip: about 10x; 7zip about 166x (from ~10GB to 60MB) - still not 2000x
Formatted:
csv
Last Name,First Name,Display Name,Email Address
Aimonetti,Justin,Aimonetti, Justin W.,Justin.W.Aimonetti@doge.eop.gov
Atik,Jacob,Atik, Jacob R.,Jacob.R.Atik@doge.eop.gov
Armstrong,Anthony,Armstrong, Anthony J.,Anthony.J.Armstrong@doge.eop.gov
Balajadia,Jennifer,Balajadia, Jennifer,Jennifer.Balajadia@doge.eop.gov
Beynon,Alexandra,Beynon, Alexandra T.,Alexandra.T.Beynon@doge.eop.gov
Biasini,Riccardo,Biasini, Riccardo N.,Riccardo.N.Biasini@doge.eop.gov
Bobba,Akash,Bobba, Akash N.,Akash.N.Bobba@doge.eop.gov
Boizelle,Ashley,Boizelle, Ashley S.,Ashley.S.Boizelle@doge.eop.gov
Bryant,Emily,Bryant, Emily L.,Emily.L.Bryant@doge.eop.gov
Burnham,James,Burnham, James,James.Burnham@doge.eop.gov
Coristine,Edward,Coristine, Edward H.,Edward.H.Coristine@doge.eop.gov
Davis,Steven,Davis, Steven M.,Steven.M.Davis@doge.eop.gov
Elez,Marko,Elez, Marko,Marko.Elez@doge.eop.gov
Farritor,Luke,Farritor, Luke E.,Luke.E.Farritor@doge.eop.gov
Fox,Joshua,Fox, Joshua,Joshua.Fox@doge.eop.gov
Hanley,Joshua,Hanley, Joshua A.,Joshua.A.Hanley@doge.eop.gov
Holmes,Stephanie,Holmes, Stephanie M.,Stephanie.M.Holmes@doge.eop.gov
Killian,Gautier,Killian, Gautier C.,Gautier.C.Killian@doge.eop.gov
Kmiec,Keenan,Kmiec, Keenan D.,Keenan.D.Kmiec@doge.eop.gov
Lahera,Nicholas,Lahera, Nicholas,Nicholas.Lahera@doge.eop.gov
Lindemann,Kendall,Lindemann, Kendall M.,Kendall.M.Lindemann@doge.eop.gov
Musk,Elon,Musk, Elon R.,em7m@who.eop.gov
Peters,Noah,Peters, Noah,Noah.Peters@doge.eop.gov
Rajpal,Nikhil,Rajpal, Nikhil,Nikhil.Rajpal@doge.eop.gov
Ramada,Adam,Ramada, Adam,Adam.Ramada@doge.eop.gov
Raynor,Austin,Raynor, Austin L.,Austin.L.Raynor@doge.eop.gov
Schutt,Kyle,Schutt, Kyle L.,Kyle.L.Schutt@doge.eop.gov
Shaotran,Ethan,Shaotran, Ethan,Ethan.Shaotran@doge.eop.gov
Smith,Brad,Smith, Brad M.,Brad.M.Smith@doge.eop.gov
Stanley,Christopher,Stanley, Christopher,Christopher.Stanley@doge.eop.gov
Wick,Jordan,Wick, Jordan M.,Jordan.M.Wick@doge.eop.gov
Wiles,Susan,Wiles, Susan S.,Susan.S.Wiles@doge.eop.gov
Young,Christopher,Young, Christopher J.,Christopher.J.Young@doge.eop.gov
Now? That shit has been going on since the 90s. My native population has plateaued since 1990. The only reason the population grew was due to immigrants.
Same goes for America where a LOT of the populations got fewer and fewer kids since the 90s.
In case you want to see some (not all) faces:
http://12ft.io/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html
edit: direct link: https://12ft.io/api/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2025%2F02%2F27%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fdoge-staff-list.html
Electric. Blanket.
Get it. Now.
It's so nice when you feel like shit, and you can just have some local warming, right on your body.
Until you use exit codes, which flips the logic.
Multiple ones.
- Wave Function Collapse for an existing tileset (Warcraft 2) - it's really hard to figure out how to build the data on whether a tile fits on a certain side of another tile. From the top of my head: Some 180 tiles total * 4 sides to compare * 180 options per side = 129_600 total checks I would need to do, which is just wayyy too much. Need to figure out how to reduce these checks (or automate them using OpenCV or something - not sure yet)
- Comparing dual datasets of people who worked on certain games (the games being all Warcraft games), so I can see who worked on Game A, who on Game B, and who on both. Am currently (manually) cleaning up the data, because Blizzard has been very inconsistent in how they structure their credits. At least WoW had everything available in HTML - having to manually copy over 600+ people would be no fun (per expansion).
- A cryptocoin predictor for my friends and I. One part ingestion from an API into a Postgres DB, one part Streamlit + some stats / data science stuff that I'm very much a beginner in. The platform we're on doesn't provide much predictive power. Using the typical Simple Moving Averages and the like simply doesn't predict clearly enough, IMO.
Oh, and I'm also setting up a private ProxMox server, over at a friends house, and need to connect that to the NAS over at my house, so we can copy over our data for redundancy/backup purposes.
I'm bouncing between these projects.
How is Nifi? I've seen it pass by at work, as a generic ingestion application, but for most ingestions we're using custom-written Python for better flexibility.
I've never worked with it, but it looked pretty daunting (as an initial view).
I dont know... This Linux thing is pretty great, IMO.
I get their point, but it feels like it's more about tech being abused by large corporations, trying to squeeze another cent out of you.
Years of having good controls has ruined my ability
Where my WAXD gamers at? The Chaos Engine was a fun game, but the controls were a bit weird.
Not to be confused with /r/straightedge, which is about drug-less Punk.
I know i’m white
100% American.
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PewDiePie has switched to Linux
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I'm not watching all that stuff, because I don't care about Pewdiepie enough.
Typical American response.
Alright, calm down, no need to insult me like that!
I'm just getting sick of the keyboard warriors that bitch and moan on the internet about the situation, yet have exactly zero plans to do literally anything about it. They could write to their representatives, they could work towards Dems winning local elections, they could become politically active by demonstrating, etc.
But all I see are online complaints; no plans. Storming the Capitol should be option Z, but maybe Americans can start with Plan A, eh?
As Jake the Dog said: "Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something."
Jenkins is neat if you use a shared repo. Yes, the functions are weird (a file is a function, and the function inside is named
call.), but having a default list of*Pipeline.Jenksfile(ingestionPipeline, modelPipeline, parserPipeline, dataProductPipeline, etc - data engineer here) is so nice. You can also specify which branch of that repo you are running as well!It's less neat if you previously had to migrate off of a Jenkins that had everything running as root, to a Jenkins that doesn't.
At least if you fix a bug for a function that's used in multiple pipelines, it's fixed everywhere. Or if you fix a bug in a single pipeline, it's fixed for multiple repos.
edit: the Groovy language isn't great though. Not being able to pass kwargs in my own order, unclear how to define the pipeline (somewhat lacking docs, grabbing working examples from SO). I wish something like Python would've been used instead.