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There is a lunar eclipse tonight! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/01/18/heres-how-to-watch-sundays-total-lunar-eclipse/

This made me laugh out loud!

I've seen this one before but it's worth sharing.

Reminder: there's a bunch of engineer jobs on various Xamarin things up on careers.microsoft.com right now, at various seniority levels, including one on my team. Happy to answer questions!

Principles for C programming: https://drewdevault.com/2017/03/15/How-I-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-C.html

I am working my way through 'The C Programming Language' and I am beginning to realize this this langauge may have been written for my brain.

I know there are a lot of haters, but #C is very readable and clear with its purpose and I really like that.

Do one thing and do it well. I also like that. 😃

non-programmers are an important part of open source projects. non-programmer contributions are valid and useful and not second tier or otherwise less valuable.

it's easy to say programmers are the only value-add when you're fortunate enough to have enough non-programmers that you can take them for granted.

if you take away the feature requests, translations, and general chatter - many OSS projects would have never been more than flawed, narrow use case tech demos.

Forty years on, Joe Jackson is still releasing new albums worth listening to.

Yesterday, he released "Fool".

Well worth your listening time if you enjoy any of Joe's other work - all his various faces make appearances on this one (though you'll have to look hard for the classical face).

I'm going to listen to it again and then go sit in front of my music gear and curse a bit.

Feeling old...

Me: *glares at a large box of assorted electronic accessories, cables, and computer hardware*

Marie Kondo: Does it spark joy?

Me: I mean not right this second, but just wait until the next time I need a DVI/HDMI adapter.

#Philosophy porn by a Scott Alexander from the past:

“Poorly informed people who immediately get indignant at anything packaged by the media as being ‘outrageous’, even when their ‘hearts are in the right places’, end up poisoning a complicated issue and making it harder for responsible people to make any progress.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20120119170202/http://squid314.livejournal.com/260949.html

good morning tooters! happy Friday!

Good morning. Work so you can live and pay bills. Better yet, work doing something you enjoy. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Upon doing some research (looking into Samba and the SMB protocol implementations) I've found that SMB2 and Samba 4.10+ use the FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK message to offload copy requests to the server(remote machine) where possible, eliminating the need for a network round-trip.

This used to not be the case prior to Samba 4.10 and SMB2 (assumedly)

cc @bobstechsite @geniusmusing @rick_777 @rowens

My brain is mining bitcoin that my body can’t cash

I just got an email from Have I Been Pwned (#HIBP) saying that one of my email addresses was part of a recently revealed data breach.

"The unique email addresses totalled 772,904,991."
"There are 21,222,975 unique passwords."

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-773-million-record-collection-1-data-reach/

The article doesn't give many details about the breach itself, just how to use their products to protect yourself. I dislike that but this is still important to share in case someone is seriously affected by this breach.

(please boost)

I fail at most things. That’s why I keep trying. #life