@cdanis

Somervillian ✨ meme reliability engineer ✨

Joined July 2008
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everyone's working from home now and @slackhq be all like
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My objection to Rust, OCaml, Haskell, etc. is that I am a bad programmer who wants to write bad programs. Python is naturally suited to this task
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github.com/wikimedia/mediawi…

SECURITY: fix PoolCounter protection of Special:Contributions · wikimedia/mediawiki@781caf8

The call to $pager->getNumRows() itself triggers execution of the database query backing the page, so, that call must be inside the callback given to PoolCounterWorkViaCallback. CVE-2021-41...

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Chris@cdanis23 Sep 2021
I just wrote a patch that fixes a DoS vector. It is almost entirely whitespace. why did we decide to into computers, again?
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Sheera Frenkel@sheeraf4 Oct 2021
Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.
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I just wrote a patch that fixes a DoS vector. It is almost entirely whitespace. why did we decide to into computers, again?
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workshopping a warning message for some experimental software, WDYT?
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me, half-awake and bleary at 2am: ok buddy just a minute gotta get your bottle from the fridge cypress, their arms flailing: you STARVE the cypress? you ABANDON the cypress like the Fortunato? oh! oh! jail for father! jail for father for One Thousand Years!!!
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this feels like Nintendo support telling me to blow into the cartridge and try again
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most people: wow the internet is so magical! Let’s connect everything I own to it! network engineers: youtube.com/watch?v=OPKGbg16…
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Guido van Rossum: Python is a "batteries included" language with a rich and versatile standard library, without making the user download separate packages. Me: What about parsing ISO 8601 date strings Guido van Rossum: Me: What's the built-in way to do that? Guido: *Sweating*
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It's the froodiest day of the year! This one is for all the Beltalowdas out there celebrating this special day!
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"Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. AI is helping us do that in exciting new ways, solving problems for our users, our customers, and the world."
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anyone who says that they have never gotten a clone of a git repo into a state they didn't understand how to undo or fix, and has never just given up and started over in a fresh clone, is a liar
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knowledge panel are you okay??
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hot take: shell script needs better native support for mapreduce-like operations I keep reimplementing it there
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If you haven't yet read Slack's incident report on their huge Jan 4th outage, below is a tldr slack.engineering/slacks-out…
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His Excellency, the Great Manager Charlie Baker, has managed a vaccine rollout that has Massachusetts 49th in the nation. Which is just fine with the legislature, which prefers to abdicate its role in governing during a crisis and refuses to perform any oversight. #mapoli
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Massachusetts: "Our medical innovation is unparalleled anywhere. People come from around the world to be treated in our hospitals. No one does medicine better than us." Also Massachusetts: 30th out of 50 states in deploying the COVID vaccine. bloomberg.com/graphics/covid… #mapoli
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Just got off the phone with Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, who was murdered in Charlottesville: “This path has always been predictable,” she said. “And for people to now go, ‘I never knew this would happen,’ why not? How would you not see this happen?”
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