Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society
Oreskes and Conway in Scientific American: It is a truism among scientists that our enterprise benefits humanity because of the technological breakthroughs that follow in discovery’s wake. And it is…
The Fatal Attraction Of Techo-Fascism
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/fatal-attraction-techo-fascism Authored by Mark Petrakis via Off-Guardian.org, “Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.” – Cato the Elder
Psychology Today: How Programmers Can Avoid Burnout
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/20/08/31/0225234/psychology-today-how-programmers-can-avoid-burnout An anonymous reader quotes Psychology Today: While software development jobs sound great right out of the gate, technology roles don’t always offer a great career path. The entry-level salary…
Go routines stuck in runtime_pollwait
siddhesh…@gmail.com https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/EHdReKpn7RM unread,Aug 23, 2020, 3:06:18 AM (3 days ago) to golan…@googlegroups.comHi All,We saw an issue with our process running in k8s on ubuntu 18.04.Most of the go routines are…
Mysterious RSS memory spike
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/CPuJmSURumw/m/6-ex14xfBAAJ Hey Gophers,I’m puzzled by a mysterious RSS memory spike in my Go program, when all memory allocations are happening via Cgo. I assert that there are no memory leaks…
Solo Sys Admin
The Best Linux Blog In the Unixverse @nixcraft 2 Dec 2016Surviving as a Solo Sysadmin is not easy. You need to do unexpected stuff everyday.
Discussions: Flat or Threaded?
https://blog.codinghorror.com/discussions-flat-or-threaded/ Clay Shirky’s classic articles on social software should be required reading for all software developers working on web applications. As near as I can tell, that’s pretty much every…
Buffer Overflow: the Ghastly Future of Work
https://www.unz.com/freed/buffer-overflow-the-ghastly-future-of-work/ A common topic around the web is whether automation will drastically increase unemployment. The usual scholarly answer is only a bit, and conservatives often insist that new jobs will…
What does a scrum master do?
https://opensource.com/article/20/7/scrum-master?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY Scrum master is a career path that open source enthusiasts should consider. Here’s what a day in the life of one looks like. Turning a love of open source…