@robpike@hachyderm.io2026-01-14 20:06:26
Many years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.
The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.
By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.
https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-02-14 11:00:05
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The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
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@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-03-13 13:21:32
GO train near Oakville was seconds away from ‘worst-case’ derailment, internal Metrolinx report shows
Again, this had to be leaked to the media because there’s no transparency about anything at Metrolinx.
#metrolinx #trains
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-02-14 18:00:38
North Korean leader Kim Il Sung allegedly fell in love with his first wife, Kim Jong-suk, after she shot a guy who was trying to assassinate him.
![From the official biography: One day, while the unit was marching under the General's [Kim Il Sung] command, five or six enemies unexpectedly approached through the reeds and aimed at the General. The danger was imminent. Without losing a moment, Comrade Kim Jung Sook [Kim Jong Suk] shielded the General with her own body and shot down an enemy with her revolver. The General also shot down the second enemy. Two revolvers spurted fire in turn and annihilated the enemy in a twinkle. But this was n…](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/116/070/191/252/902/100/original/30e8c82199290141.jpg)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-14 14:20:54
Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-adds
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-02-14 01:04:12
An optical transient candidate of ≲ 2-second duration captured by wide-field video observations: #transient candidate (TMG20200322) with a duration of ≲ 2 s by wide-field video observations in the direction of the Earth's shadow. TMG20200322 was detected in just two consecutive images of 1-second exposure time, with its shape becoming elongated in the second frame.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-03-13 15:31:00
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-14 14:22:39
I wanted to try making a super-thick pancake but trying to flip it in the tiny pan was a disaster. Luckily we have a second pan that is slightly larger so my second attempt turned out pretty good!
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-14 12:00:06
wiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
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