⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ @pnathan@mastodon.social

wow, I am followed by a lot of people (over 500 !!!)

Well, I'm going to follow you back - I might unfollow you again, because I have finite time, and I am highly opinionated about what I read and what I value. Don't take it personally if you notice that. It's me, not you.

If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.

-- Richelieu

I'm not an anarchist and I reject their solutions & ideology; often considering their critique to be inadequate to manage the complexities of quotidian life.

n.b., I am aggressively muting posters who do a lot of jokey / inane toots.

if you do a lot of sort of posting and mention me, it probably won't get through - set up another account and poke me if its important enough.

I love reading graduate theses, in progress or otherwise. If sent them, I will read!

Saw Cirque du Soleil today. Pretty amazing!

On the sre / tools team here at work. Serving as a lead /architect more than a coder. Worried about pointy hair arriving.

If you are a good coder with comp sci chops, know k8s or other modern sre work, and are looking for work... hmu.

I have a work laptop with Linux installed on the "bare metal".

ohyeah.

Insomnia never sleeps.

I now work on a Go language team.

Naturally OCaml or Haskell would be better, but, alas.

Monday. Up at 5(ish) to work out, shower, etc. Breakfast. Out of the house at 7 to aim at being at work at 8:40.

Looking forward to moving back to Seattle. 100 minute commutes are 100% too long.

A lesson from Kevin Kruse's White Flight.

Racist policies were preferred by the local power structure. In order to defeat these policies, the Feds had to overrule the local laws and customs in the 60s.

Part of the White response was to flee to suburbs and build a de facto segregationist society. This is where a great deal of the "local control" and "localism" movement comes from.

Thought experiment:

What happens in a democratic society when the majority is viruently bigoted?

Tonight was a play night. I pretty much did all #barbells- I haven't worked with the bar for about 6 years.

Deadlift

Squat

Clean & jerk

Bench press

Experimenting mostly, so I also did some #kettlebells long cycle with comp bells and worked on my latest pulldown- blech, machine.

And of course a bit of jogging at the end.

For sure, I don't instinctively feel the barbell like I did kettlebells. But it was good to branch out. I should plan a 2-3 month barbell cycle this winter for #strength.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x7akv/masterslave-terminology-was-removed-from-python-programming-language

Python removes master/slave terminology. Good. Bout time.

The lack of social housing, the lack of guaranteed jobs, the lack of guaranteed medical care, all due to protection of property rights and race, even when said rights have to be generated from whole cloth, lead to the homelessness I see daily.

I am not sure FAGSC is the right way. But dang if its direction is better than libertarian ways.