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I work on software for finding things and summarizing stuff. We were one of those Apache 2 -> other relicenses a while back.

I can't really talk about specifics. But we all have a working imagination though. I think about it a lot. But I still do the job. There are good folks doing good things with it.

I've been listening to the Andy Serkis reading it lately. First experience since I was a kid. It's surprisingly nuanced for something so old and so baked into the popular culture. It's kind of amazing how flattened my memory of it from childhood is.

Dune as well. And Snowcrash too

We can be heretics together. But you're wrong. It was the best of the three because it commented on the universe.

I wanted to love TFA. So much promise wasted by repetition. They had an es-storm trooper! A super emotionally damaged Vader worshipping anger Jedi. The wiggly light saber. I should have loved it. The characters were so cool. But they didn't do anything new. Felt very design by committee.

In TLJ the characters did new things. It didn't all feel right to me. But it was new. I loved Luke's story. War stories should leave their heros damaged. I loved the worthless dirtfarmer parents. Everyone can't have special parents. Even Poe's stupid story with pink hair general was a commentary on how ruthless rebels have to be. People die. You can't waste resources. There was a lot wrong about TLJ but it tried.

And ROS had one good line. That's it.

The actors deserved so much better. They worked hard. They loved star wars. They wanted to make something good.

Tom's got every right to be proud for the British plug. It's super over engineered and a love it.

I wonder if LA is a better comparison to Sydney. Sydney is much too hot to make me think of SF despite bay and nice bridges. On the other hand, I took the ferry a bunch when I lived there. The bay matters.

But beaches! Sydney has famous beaches. LA has famous beaches. SF has beaches too but they don't really come to mind when I think of the bay area.

I dunno. Hard to compare.

I'm a pretty good engineer. Not the best I've ever met by a long shot, but I'm good. But I'm very outgoing for an engineer.

Ironically, that'd describe both my parents too.

Pre-merge code review should stop that kind of thing. I honestly haven't seen anything like this in years.

Chrono Trigger. The Magus Fight. The music.

FF6. Magitech Factory. Also music.

Metal Gear Solid. Psycho Mantis. Late at night. Tired.

Eternal Sonata. Last Fight. Intro line.

Hades. Final boss. Extreme measures 4.

NES Tetris. Crashing.

I heard somewhere that's what they were trying to say when they made at first. The episode just didn't work. DS9 redeemed them.

Windows -> RedHat -> Windows -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> RHEL -> Ubuntu -> Debian -> Arch

I hate the smell of some ground coffee. Others smell good.

Five minutes of googling says some folks thing stone mason. Some copy and paste response says unskilled tradesman. Other response says translation is just "learned" so maybe they could read.

I'd never heard of this before so seeing that there is disagreement is a fun new thing for me. Especially interesting to see this "learned" response.

I spent a few minutes looking to see if a name I trust said any of this. Ultimately I don't have the background to evaluate it and lots of folks spend their lives about historical Jesus. I didn't see anything from anyone I recognized but, like I said, I don't know much about this area.

In case you haven’t heard of it, check out Altered Carbon. It’s a series and the first book is cyberpunk noir detective stuff. Rest aren’t. Good, but not in the noir style.

The point of the license combination they use is to allow the enterprise version to be open and live in the same repo as everything else. Dunno if that's what they do, but that's why the elastic license exists.

The only surefire way is to read it all. And understand it all. That ain't happening though. So you decide how much to do.

You should figure out how many people are landing patches and get a rough sense of why. Same for folks filing issues or talking about the project in general. Maybe you trust one of the contributors for some reason. Either way, you want to know how alive the project is.

You could land a patch.

You could spot check parts of the code.

You could run vulnerability scanners on it.

I dunno. It's hard.

It really is. It'd make a wonderful assignment in a second level programming class.

We use hyperlloglog++ for this because it's mergable across nodes and threads. I haven't thought much about combining this one.

I'm not sure I'd attach any meaning to real names online. There's a whole group of us whose online names are just things they thought were neat when they were 12. And they've just stuck forever. There's lot of reasons.

But otherwise, yeah. I'll spend ten minutes looking up someone's online profile. Mostly for GitHub if I can find it. If someone's commenting on public prs and seems nice that's a big signal.

I agree. Light touch until you have a bunch of changes landed.

I was a professional open source contributor for a while. Still have the same job, but the license changed. Culture still quite similar though.

Amazing

We squash. I'm not really interesting in your local journey to land the change. It's sometimes useful during review, but after that it's mostly the state of the main branch I care about. It's what I need to bisect anyway.

I don't like commits that are just references to issues. Copy the issue into the commit message so git blame tells you something useful. Unless it's just closing a simple big. Then the title and issue reference are plenty.

Depends on the project I imagine.