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New comment by stephenlf in "Petered"

stephenlf — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 14:46:23 +0000

> What we call imposter syndrome was originally termed imposter phenomena, a term that makes plain that it is something that can be observed, not merely felt. The transformation into a syndrome shifted the experience of being impostered by a patriarchal, white supremacist society into a medicalized disorder, something for which the impostered person must be treated. That’s a neat trick: to shift the locus of treatment to the mistreated person, rather than the system that caused her harm. But perhaps there’s even another, more diabolical move here.

I have no idea what this is saying. What does “being impostered” mean? As far as I know, “Imposter Syndrome” is all about personal insecurities. It’s not something imposed.

New comment by stephenlf in "The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo"

stephenlf — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:43:55 +0000

I don’t have any skin in this rs-coreutils debate. But Ubuntu still hasn’t patched CVE-2026-98432. We’re migrating too

New comment by stephenlf in "Have I befriended a murderer?"

stephenlf — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:24:48 +0000

> Ten of the 12 jurors agreed, and Robin was found guilty by a majority verdict.

God bless America. I’m glad I’m here and not there.

New comment by stephenlf in "/dev/null: social network for developers"

stephenlf — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:25:24 +0000

Weird, especially because it DOES have likes.

New comment by stephenlf in "/dev/null: social network for developers"

stephenlf — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:13:59 +0000

I signed up for TextLog a few weeks ago. I love the text-only social network, but their European infra meant too much latency for my US-based browsing. Maybe this will scratch that itch!

New comment by stephenlf in "/dev/null: social network for developers"

stephenlf — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:12:33 +0000

Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer:

GitHub is the single most widely adopted, developer-specific OIDC identity provider.

If it’s facetious, then WSL BABYYYYYY

New comment by stephenlf in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

stephenlf — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:11:54 +0000

I predict a very orthogonal outcome. This is an interesting experiment. If it gains some traction, Roblox and Minecraft are both very well situated to build a similar product and dominate the market.

New comment by stephenlf in "The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)"

stephenlf — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:16:28 +0000

I agree with this post. I’ve never found the GitHub wiki experience to be particularly ergonomic. I don’t have any issues with it, but it’s no more convenient than a simple /docs folder. And from there, it’s almost trivial to turn /docs into GitHub pages. Similar effort for a much better end product.

Wikis typically connote distributed, anonymous edits. This feature is partially covered by git already.

New comment by stephenlf in "The "omarchy" stuff is getting weird and weirder"

stephenlf — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:33:19 +0000

The whole thing reads like an odd parody. “A modest proposal.”

New comment by stephenlf in "Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices"

stephenlf — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:34:54 +0000

> Follow a complete course, change real manifests and see what cpak accepts, refuses or changes. Professional paths lead to an exam and a public, verifiable credential.

Holy Claude

New comment by stephenlf in "US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs"

stephenlf — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:03:28 +0000

Robin Hood?

New comment by stephenlf in "Pandas Should Go Extinct"

stephenlf — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:50:40 +0000

Besides the performance benefits, I use Polars at work because it’s just (subjectively) nicer to work with. The “pl.col” API lets you create arbitrary generated/virtual columns anywhere you want, declaratively. You can throw in these column expressions in wherever without actually computing their values and storing that in memory. Very powerful stuff.

New comment by stephenlf in "118M Queries per Second on Neki"

stephenlf — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:35:30 +0000

I watched an interview that Casey Muratori did with Tyler Cloutier (SpacetimeDB founder and spokesperson) [1]. One of the points that Tyler is that, given modern CPU architecture with cache lines, a distributed database needs to fan out to at least 50-100 nodes to beat the throughput of a cache-optimized, single node database.

It’s cool to see the flip side of that argument. Planet scale is answering the question, “what does it look like when you DO fan out your workload to >100 nodes?”

There’s a place for both technologies. Very cool stuff.

[1] https://youtu.be/ONxwjqFjP3A?is=awlEJwGLxQmRE25i