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@movq Very cute! :-)
@prologic @movq @bender Clearly a witch on a broom!
It was a tiny bit moist on today's stroll. We saw exactly one other person in the forest. It's only raining once the entire weekend. And how!

All the black stuff on the shore of the pool are tad poles. Technically, there are hundreds of them on the flooded forest road. :-)

Tad poles on the flooded road

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-05-31/
@lyse Yeah, I guess it's not a hard and fast rule as such. I think you're right in that it probably comes from the Java enterprise world. This was sparked from when I decided (_for some reason_) in Bitcask v2 that I would define a set of interfaces for the library's public facing API. Turns out that probably not really needed or that useful I guess.
@lyse Yeah, I guess it's not a hard and fast rule as such. I think you're right in that it probably comes from the Java enterprise world. This was sparked from when I decided (_for some reason_) in Bitcask v2 that I would define a set of interfaces for the library's public facing API. Turns out that probably not really needed or that useful I guess.
@lyse Haha, migrations can get rather complicated and pointless IMO 🤣 Kind of reminds me of our other thread, which is also a good read and somewhat related to over-use of the "let's have a migration for every change to the DB we make"
@lyse Haha, migrations can get rather complicated and pointless IMO 🤣 Kind of reminds me of our other thread, which is also a good read and somewhat related to over-use of the "let's have a migration for every change to the DB we make"
[47°09′29″S, 126°43′22″W] Raw reading: 0x6659ADB1, offset +/-5
Good spotting! It's impossible for me to spot because I don't have request/response logging for my yarnd instance and all that is handled transparently by the app anyway.
Good spotting! It's impossible for me to spot because I don't have request/response logging for my yarnd instance and all that is handled transparently by the app anyway.
I missed this in the source, code, but yeah the User-Agent is reported incorrectly šŸ˜…
I missed this in the source, code, but yeah the User-Agent is reported incorrectly šŸ˜…
@aelaraji Oh that's why @bmallred appears like this for me:

> bmallred may not follow you
@aelaraji Oh that's why @bmallred appears like this for me:

> bmallred may not follow you
@movq it’s a leaf, or a tree branch.
@movq Wow i have absolutely no idea! 😱
@movq Wow i have absolutely no idea! 😱
[47°09′42″S, 126°43′13″W] Transponder fixed
https://stephanearnier.com/2024/05/31/creation-de-personnages-trois-tamis/ #writing personnages
[47°09′03″S, 126°43′34″W] Transponder jammed
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:986 ARCHIVED:72965 CACHE:2435 FOLLOWERS:17 FOLLOWING:14
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Ensign Ro https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/05/30/ensign-ro.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Pinellas County - Fun run: 3.02 miles, 00:08:39 average pace, 00:26:09 duration
blow off stress between meeting followed by an excuse to go outside with no comms.
#running
Pinellas County - Fun run: 3.02 miles, 00:08:39 average pace, 00:26:09 duration
blow off stress between meeting followed by an excuse to go outside with no comms.
#running
Pinellas County - Fun run: 3.02 miles, 00:08:39 average pace, 00:26:09 duration
blow off stress between meeting followed by an excuse to go outside with no comms.
#running
@bmallred No I was trying the other one I got from logs, it's missing the /user subdirectory:


"GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 27110 "-" "nahongvita/0.1.0 (+https://staystrong.run/bmallred/twtxt.txt; @bmallred)"
@bmallred No I was trying the other one I got from logs, it's missing the /user subdirectory:


"GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 27110 "-" "nahongvita/0.1.0 (+https://staystrong.run/bmallred/twtxt.txt; @bmallred)"
Base: 5.02 miles, 00:09:39 average pace, 00:48:27 duration

#running #treadmill
Base: 5.02 miles, 00:09:39 average pace, 00:48:27 duration

#running #treadmill
Base: 5.02 miles, 00:09:39 average pace, 00:48:27 duration

#running #treadmill
[47°09′19″S, 126°43′06″W] Reading: 1.64000 PPM
@prologic Nice šŸ‘Œ

(What’s that black spot in the upper right corner?)

No photos to share at the moment. 🫤
@prologic Nice šŸ‘Œ

(What’s that black spot in the upper right corner?)

No photos to share at the moment. 🫤
@prologic Nice šŸ‘Œ

(What’s that black spot in the upper right corner?)

No photos to share at the moment. 🫤
@prologic Nice šŸ‘Œ

(What’s that black spot in the upper right corner?)

No photos to share at the moment. 🫤
@lyse Ohhhh, that’s lovely! šŸ˜
@lyse Ohhhh, that’s lovely! šŸ˜
@lyse Ohhhh, that’s lovely! šŸ˜
@lyse Ohhhh, that’s lovely! šŸ˜
[47°09′53″S, 126°43′27″W] Raw reading: 0x6658A281, offset +/-3
today I'm quiting Telegram for good
Durante anos tive sempre de ir confirmar como criar um USB bootÔvel a partir de uma imagem ISO. Usei o Unetbootin, Balena Etcher, e ultimamente recorria ao velho dd, mas a wiki do debian acaba de me dar a solução mais simples, e que funciona impecavelmente:

$ cp live.iso /dev/sda
$ sync

E tĆ” feito
Durante anos tive sempre de ir confirmar como criar um USB bootÔvel a partir de uma imagem ISO. Usei o Unetbootin, Balena Etcher, e ultimamente recorria ao velho dd, mas a wiki do debian acaba de me dar a solução mais simples, e que funciona impecavelmente:

$ cp live.iso /dev/sda
$ sync

E tĆ” feito
Oh yes, it's certainly the DROP and CREATE COLUMN of existing tables. Wow! Alrighty then, removing the migration, here we go.
[47°09′42″S, 126°43′19″W] --bad checksum--
@prologic I had to read it two, three times, but I think I got it. Let me try. I believe most of it is general advice, not just specific to Go only.

# No Interface Is A Good Interface

First of all, don't start out with an interface right at the very beginning. Only create one if you later on come to the conclusion that you really have to, because chances for truly needing one are actually slim.

I experience that at my dayjob, too. There is a code base where I always wonder why certain interfaces exist in the first place. They're all implemented by exactly one type each, which is kind of useless. Just the type alone would totally suffice.

That train of thought to always also have an interface along with an implementing type might come from the Java enterprise world, at least that's where I encountered it really heavily. I never liked that. It just makes the code arbitrarily more complicated than it needs to be. The best code is the one that doesn't even exist. Simpler is better. Complexity is the root of all evil.

Advocates of the type with interface faction then like to argue: "But maybe sometime in the future we would like to create a second type that implements this interface, you will never know@11!! Or think of refactoring, we can also change the underlying implementation completely when we have an interface in front of it without people knowing!" But that basically never happens in reality. It reminds me a bit of premature optimization, preparing for the unknown future. Firstly, things turn out differently and secondly, other than one thinks. :-)

To be fair, thinking about what might happen or not is still a very valid thing. In my opinion it is even done not enough in this agile world. Implementation first, consideration second (if at all). But there are limits. So, start out simple. No interface for you at first.

That general rule goes at least for application development, it can be a little bit different when you write a library. More flexibility _might_ be actually helpful there.

# Interface Placement

When you define an actually beneficial interface, then place it in the same package where it is actually used in. Or lexically close to where is is used for that matter. As oposed to in the package where the implementing type resides in. This recommendation is very logical to me. The interface describes the API, so it should also go along with the rest of our API.

# Return Values

When you have a factory function to create a type that implements an interface, return that implementing type, not the interface. Using ugly suffixes in identifiers to help visualize the concept:

o
type FooInterface interface {
    Foo()
}

type FooImplementation struct { }
func (f *FooImplementation) Foo() { }

func NewFoo() *FooImplementation /* as opposed to FooInterface */ {
    return &FooImplementation{}
}


Most of the time I agree on that rule (it feels natural and correct), sometimes I don't. I reckon this depends on the exact use case at hand.

# Testing

When you have a type that you want to test, the recommendation is to not create dedicated interfaces for testing purposes only in order to mock something. If you do, this smells like a bad API design of the type in the first place. Instead, try to make its regular, productive API better, so it can be also used when testing the type.

Phew, this turned out to be a much longer post than I first anticipated. ;-) I hope this helps a bit.
Hmm, when I join all my eight incremental database schema changes into just a single one (basically drop support for migration of old databases), my test execution time drops from about 1:10Ā minutes to just 33Ā seconds. I might consider doing exactly that. I'm the only one who runs that software anyway.

Just haven't figured out where exactly the speedup comes from. I suspected that the column recreation is kind of expensive, but it doesn't really appear to that obvious. More testing is needed.
@prologic Absolutely! :-)
@prologic That looks cool! It even appears to get close to sunset.
MOTD: (Media od the day)

An interesting fog formation early this afternoon in the park tha our house backs on to, in full daylight 😱

What about y'all? Anything interesting to share today? šŸ¤”
MOTD: (Media od the day)

An interesting fog formation early this afternoon in the park tha our house backs on to, in full daylight 😱

What about y'all? Anything interesting to share today? šŸ¤”
[47°09′04″S, 126°43′16″W] Carrier too weak
@tkanos @bender Thanks, but the thing is that Microsoft has blocklisted these well-known keys in their Service Pack installers. So, yeah, it works, but only for a basic installation of XP – and some games demand a Service Pack being present. 🫤

I don’t remember having seen bender’s key, though. Maybe that one works. I might give it a try some day, when my motivation is back up. šŸ˜‚
@tkanos @bender Thanks, but the thing is that Microsoft has blocklisted these well-known keys in their Service Pack installers. So, yeah, it works, but only for a basic installation of XP – and some games demand a Service Pack being present. 🫤

I don’t remember having seen bender’s key, though. Maybe that one works. I might give it a try some day, when my motivation is back up. šŸ˜‚
@tkanos @bender Thanks, but the thing is that Microsoft has blocklisted these well-known keys in their Service Pack installers. So, yeah, it works, but only for a basic installation of XP – and some games demand a Service Pack being present. 🫤

I don’t remember having seen bender’s key, though. Maybe that one works. I might give it a try some day, when my motivation is back up. šŸ˜‚
@tkanos @bender Thanks, but the thing is that Microsoft has blocklisted these well-known keys in their Service Pack installers. So, yeah, it works, but only for a basic installation of XP – and some games demand a Service Pack being present. 🫤

I don’t remember having seen bender’s key, though. Maybe that one works. I might give it a try some day, when my motivation is back up. šŸ˜‚
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′21″W] Transfer aborted
@lyse That is cool šŸ‘Œ
@lyse That is cool šŸ‘Œ
@aelaraji hi, is it this path you are trying?
@aelaraji hi, is it this path you are trying?
@aelaraji hi, is it this path you are trying?
@prologic it was great to meet ya'll!
@prologic it was great to meet ya'll!
@prologic it was great to meet ya'll!
@prologic thanks! i normally enjoy the long runs because i just zone out.
@prologic thanks! i normally enjoy the long runs because i just zone out.
@prologic thanks! i normally enjoy the long runs because i just zone out.
Windows XP Pro 32bits volume license media: DKPRM-Q68HX-FRKCJ-MT88X-7QKBB
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:985 ARCHIVED:72956 CACHE:2433 FOLLOWERS:17 FOLLOWING:14
sun, sun, sun
botando o Debian no portƔtil novo, este processo continua a dar-me alegria 15 anos depois
botando o Debian no portƔtil novo, este processo continua a dar-me alegria 15 anos depois
One of our scout leaders found a blackbird laying outside the car and is now raising her:

Blackbird

https://lyse.isobeef.org/amsel-2024-05-29/

I should have taken a video of that gorgeous bird.
[47°09′33″S, 126°43′32″W] Transfer 25% complete...
For now, I removed the BIOS battery from the PC in question. šŸ˜‚ I just want to play some older games, that’s it. Let’s see how long it’ll work that way.
For now, I removed the BIOS battery from the PC in question. šŸ˜‚ I just want to play some older games, that’s it. Let’s see how long it’ll work that way.
For now, I removed the BIOS battery from the PC in question. šŸ˜‚ I just want to play some older games, that’s it. Let’s see how long it’ll work that way.
For now, I removed the BIOS battery from the PC in question. šŸ˜‚ I just want to play some older games, that’s it. Let’s see how long it’ll work that way.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/#nothing-would-fundamentally-change
(To be fair, I could have seen it coming back then. It was well known that you have to activate Windows XP. I still ā€œboughtā€ it. Lesson learned: It was a rental, for a limit period of time.)
(To be fair, I could have seen it coming back then. It was well known that you have to activate Windows XP. I still ā€œboughtā€ it. Lesson learned: It was a rental, for a limit period of time.)
(To be fair, I could have seen it coming back then. It was well known that you have to activate Windows XP. I still ā€œboughtā€ it. Lesson learned: It was a rental, for a limit period of time.)
(To be fair, I could have seen it coming back then. It was well known that you have to activate Windows XP. I still ā€œboughtā€ it. Lesson learned: It was a rental, for a limit period of time.)
Wasted another hour trying to get Windows XP to work again (while avoiding totally shady stuff). Not much success.

Windows XP has scarred me for life. šŸ˜‚ I bought this thing, cost me 140 bucks, but I can’t use it anymore because Microsoft says so. Screw that.

I won’t buy commercial software anymore and haven’t done so in a long time. You want an online activation or, better yet, some sort of subscription? Screw that.

Up until the end of the 1990ies and very early 2000s, it was okay to buy commercial software. Things like StarOffice 3.1 still work just fine today, because you can just install it, done.

Free/libre software is the way to go.
Wasted another hour trying to get Windows XP to work again (while avoiding totally shady stuff). Not much success.

Windows XP has scarred me for life. šŸ˜‚ I bought this thing, cost me 140 bucks, but I can’t use it anymore because Microsoft says so. Screw that.

I won’t buy commercial software anymore and haven’t done so in a long time. You want an online activation or, better yet, some sort of subscription? Screw that.

Up until the end of the 1990ies and very early 2000s, it was okay to buy commercial software. Things like StarOffice 3.1 still work just fine today, because you can just install it, done.

Free/libre software is the way to go.
Wasted another hour trying to get Windows XP to work again (while avoiding totally shady stuff). Not much success.

Windows XP has scarred me for life. šŸ˜‚ I bought this thing, cost me 140 bucks, but I can’t use it anymore because Microsoft says so. Screw that.

I won’t buy commercial software anymore and haven’t done so in a long time. You want an online activation or, better yet, some sort of subscription? Screw that.

Up until the end of the 1990ies and very early 2000s, it was okay to buy commercial software. Things like StarOffice 3.1 still work just fine today, because you can just install it, done.

Free/libre software is the way to go.
Wasted another hour trying to get Windows XP to work again (while avoiding totally shady stuff). Not much success.

Windows XP has scarred me for life. šŸ˜‚ I bought this thing, cost me 140 bucks, but I can’t use it anymore because Microsoft says so. Screw that.

I won’t buy commercial software anymore and haven’t done so in a long time. You want an online activation or, better yet, some sort of subscription? Screw that.

Up until the end of the 1990ies and very early 2000s, it was okay to buy commercial software. Things like StarOffice 3.1 still work just fine today, because you can just install it, done.

Free/libre software is the way to go.
Base: 7.01 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 01:08:08 duration
just logging the miles and time. last day of kids' school so a lot of chaos has settled only to be replaced i am sure!
#running #treadmill
Base: 7.01 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 01:08:08 duration
just logging the miles and time. last day of kids' school so a lot of chaos has settled only to be replaced i am sure!
#running #treadmill
Base: 7.01 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 01:08:08 duration
just logging the miles and time. last day of kids' school so a lot of chaos has settled only to be replaced i am sure!
#running #treadmill
[47°09′23″S, 126°43′11″W] Waiting for carrier
Note pour plus tard : se documenter sur les ADR architectural dƩcision records. En complƩment des RFC, Ʃlaboration collaborative, l'ADR trace les dƩcisions.
Note pour plus tard : se documenter sur les ADR architectural dƩcision records. En complƩment des RFC, Ʃlaboration collaborative, l'ADR trace les dƩcisions.
[twtxt.net Timeline](https://twtxt.net/?title=Go Wiki: Go Code Review Comments - The Go Programming Language) šŸ‘ˆ Can Someone better at Go than me explain the guidance on interfaces here such that I understand why? Explain this to me like I'm five! Apparently this was talked about on Reddit some ~3yrs ago, but I missed the memo šŸ“‹ #Go #Inerfaces~
Go Wiki: Go Code Review Comments - The Go Programming Language šŸ‘ˆ Can Someone better at Go than me explain the guidance on interfaces here such that I understand why? Explain this to me like I'm five! Apparently this was talked about on Reddit some ~3yrs ago, but I missed the memo šŸ“‹ #Go #Inerfaces~
Go Wiki: Go Code Review Comments - The Go Programming Language šŸ‘ˆ Can Someone better at Go than me explain the guidance on interfaces here such that I understand why? Explain this to me like I'm five! Apparently this was talked about on Reddit some ~3yrs ago, but I missed the memo šŸ“‹ #Go #Inerfaces~
Good old (bitmap) Helvetica works as a GUI font again:

https://movq.de/v/2456cfb05a/helvetica.png

This broke a year ago and I gave up on it. Now it’s back. Crisp fonts, just like in the terminal. šŸ’š

This is *much* easier for me to read. Maybe it’s because of my myopia. Everything is a little bit fuzzy anyway and font antialiasing *on top* is really exhausting for me.
Good old (bitmap) Helvetica works as a GUI font again:

https://movq.de/v/2456cfb05a/helvetica.png

This broke a year ago and I gave up on it. Now it’s back. Crisp fonts, just like in the terminal. šŸ’š

This is *much* easier for me to read. Maybe it’s because of my myopia. Everything is a little bit fuzzy anyway and font antialiasing *on top* is really exhausting for me.
Good old (bitmap) Helvetica works as a GUI font again:

https://movq.de/v/2456cfb05a/helvetica.png

This broke a year ago and I gave up on it. Now it’s back. Crisp fonts, just like in the terminal. šŸ’š

This is *much* easier for me to read. Maybe it’s because of my myopia. Everything is a little bit fuzzy anyway and font antialiasing *on top* is really exhausting for me.