...then the Lord spoke to Job out of the whirlwind, saying "IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE ME AT MY WORST, YOU DON'T DESERVE ME AT MY BEST." ↓ usually more on mastodon...
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Remember when we said movie night was just the beginning?
Last night, we were back together at the Sonic Radio Studio for Presentation Night, and it was an evening filled with laughter, learning and good conversations! 🧡
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We're excited to announce that SysConf 2026 is open for registrations: events.ringcentral.com/event….
Register and tell your friends! Registrations close Oct 1st, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC.
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand NixOS. The configuration is extremely declarative, and without a solid grasp of functional programming most of the abstractions will go over a typical user’s head. There’s also Nix’s purely functional package model, which is deftly woven into the system’s design philosophy — its package management draws heavily from immutable infrastructure and reproducible builds, for instance.
The NixOS users understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depth of nixpkgs, to realise that flakes aren’t just “another package format” — they say something deep about LIFE.
As a consequence, people who dislike NixOS truly ARE idiots. Of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the elegance of writing:
services.openssh.enable = true;
instead of manually editing seventeen configuration files like some kind of animal.
I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated Ubuntu simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as nixos-rebuild switch atomically changes the entire state of my machine.
What fools… how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, I DO have the Nix snowflake tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the eyes of fellow declarative system administrators only — and even then they have to demonstrate that their configuration.nix shares at least 95% of its logic with mine beforehand.
Nothing personnel, impure.
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One reason why this kind of commentary is not useful is that this is what every politician says or implies. I don’t need to steal money because I am already rich. Or, I don’t like money, I have been using the same watch since 1905. Or I have no house in Abuja. This means absolutely nothing. What does it mean to a poor Nigerian to tell them you are already rich and this whole political adventure is even hurting you? Are you more hurt financially than any poor Nigerian who cannot buy kerosene or put food on the table?
Nigerian politicians who ruin the country or enable corruption don’t do it because they are poor. Or because they are stupid. They do it because the entire system runs on a massive cycle of pecuniary and parochial incentives.
Buhari as far as we know did not amass stupendous wealth as president but still he made the country significantly poorer. Nigerian politicians who are powerless in the face of elite capture of the state don’t need to be personally corrupt for this to happen.
We need politicians to have a clear workable plan for ending poverty, building infrastructure and institutions, reducing corruption, fighting terrorism and building a nation that isn’t balkanised between competing tribal interests that only serve those in power.
Nigeria doesn’t need another person who will tell them he is doing them a favor by running for office or that in fact he is getting poorer. We don’t need more of “I am a good guy, trust me bro.” What is your plan exactly? How will you deal with strongly entrenched interests who profit from this dysfunction and who would rather see the country break apart than lose their power and influence? Why should Nigerians who have heard these kinds of sweet nothings and who might see you as a regional champion (however wrong they may be) trust that you can actually do things differently and will not just capitulate once in power?
He might be the least problematic of the presidential candidates but his messaging is piss poor, and must improve if he is to get support beyond his current cult following, enough to successfully challenge the very determined incumbent.
"In 1987, American Express introduced platinum card for 5000 people, here is mine, they later introduced the Black card (Centurion card) in 1999 for 1000 people on the planet, here is mine. I had a viable business and while I don't regret going into Politics, it made me poorer." - Peter Obi, NDC Presidential Candidate.
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(for Rust people)
Finally got around to writing about Diplomat, the FFI tool I've been building and using for the last five years. Check it out!
manishearth.github.io/blog/2…
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Counterpoint
Genuine question for women who have close male "platonic" friends:
How do you deal with the knowledge that he probably finds you attractive and would, under the right conditions, happily let the relationships become sexual?
Do you just repress this knowledge? Secretly revel in it? Pretend he's asexual? What?
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In case you missed it, here is a short story I published a few months ago in @Hopkins_Review.
How To Raise Your Parents:
Link here: hopkinsreview.com/features/e…
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my proposal for IPv8 (hope it's not too late):
MAKE IT AI FIRST.
it doesn't matter how long an IP address is and how reliable the DNS infrastructure is, if a program can just request in natural language "hey send this packet to that social network server".
the LLM under the hood, having all the user context, can infer what social network this is about and how to route the packet efficiently. no DNS needed either
