What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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You: are a woman or gender minority who's curious about the of waves 🌊 👋

You: would like to spend a life-changing week at Princeton IAS this May, for a lecture series on Waves, Wave Packets, and Their Interactions
Me: has good news! Apply by ⏰ Feb 6 for the Women and Mathematics program.

ias.edu/math/wam/wam-2026

Travel, food, lodging, and childcare are funded. Undergrads, grad students, and faculty are all eligible—there are two parallel tracks!

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I discovered this piano interpretation of Imperial Triumphant while looking into the dark abyss of my musical taste

I have not heard Imperial Triumphant, so I am listening with no reference

I wanted to make a selection, and discoverd this, but also discovered we have a new album from Blut Aus Nord. No new album from Bohren & Der Club of Gore though. I believe I started listening to The Others (Lustmord Deconstructed). I think I will listen to Atrium Carceri. And I haven't listened to Abul Mogard for a while; he released an EP earlier this year.

The image displays a digital screen showcasing album covers for "Imprints of Man" by Imperial Triumphant. The covers include titles such as "Rotted Futures," "Crushing the Idol," and "Maximalist Scream." A musician dressed
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I've said this a million times before but it bears repeating.

If you've got a complex but working highly available distributed system and you're trying to replace it with something new that's "simpler", you'll spend 6 weeks on designing the replacement, 6 months on implementing a working prototype, and 6 years on fixing all your edge and corner cases that the old system had already addressed that you were too dumb or arrogant to even consider.

And sometimes the number isn't 6, but 10.

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Today (December 3rd) is International Day of People with Disabilities - and so I thought I would share this graphic which emphasises that not all disabilities are visible.

This year's theme is 'fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress'; which on a purely practical level make sense as so much promise & potential is lost when people with disabilities are excluded or suffer prejudice in the workplace & more widely!

h/t Kate Hapin/LinkedIn

Graphic: two lines of people;
The top line offers a wide range of illustrations of those with visible disabilities with the caption: 'Some disabilities look like this'; while below a second line of illustrations is of 'normal' people with the caption: 'Not all disabilities are visible'
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I "love" the way those (ir)responsible for cyber insecurity (time-to-market + profit maximizing fetishists selling closed systems) propose even more closed systems as a cure and even get them mandated as part of cyber "security" directives 😡

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2017년 이후의 여러 흐름으로 경험한 것은, 민주주의의 승리를 쉽게 말해서는 안 된다는 사실이다. 아무리 거국적 분위기가 그럴싸해 보여도 차별, 혐오, 증오, 선동이 방치되는 이상 전선은 언제라도 후퇴할 수 있다. 민주주의의 승리는 선거 한두 번이나 악당 몇 명의 처벌로 달성되는 것이 아니다. 나는 견고하고 불가역절인 사회대전환을 원한다. 빠르고 확실하면 제일 좋으나, 둘 모두를 동시에 달성할 수 없다면 확실하기라도 해야 한다.

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A short tale from way back when I worked at Apple: My team had a lot of lunchtime meetings and they usually got pizza to feed us lunch while we worked. There were two of us on the team who were vegetarian, so they'd order six or eight pizzas for the team and all of them would have meat except for the one meatless pizza they had for just the two of us. But everyone likes vegetarian pizza, so people would get in line, take what looked good which included the veggie pizza, and by the time I got to the veggie pizza it would be gone and I'd have no lunch (and the other vegetarian had the same problem, of course). They tried to get the non-vegetarian people to stop eating the veggie pizza, then tried to hide it so only we veggies could get it, but nothing worked. So I suggested they order four kinds of vegetarian pizzas and a couple pizzas with meat, and that worked out great and there was much rejoicing.

This is a post about gatekeeping disability accommodations.

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In a partnership with Mistral AI, CNRS is deploying a locally-hosted LLM chatbot for its employees.

They provide some examples of tasks you can ask the chatbot: summarizing a long text; translating; and writing an outline for an article.

Tasks you'd want to delegate to an assistant because they're beneath you.

And then they decided it would be a great idea to "honor" Emmy Noether, one of the most influential women mathematicians ever, by naming this chatbot Emmy after her.

I cannot fully express how angry that makes me.

Can't be arsed to read something yourself? Ask good old Emmy to summarize it for you, that's right up her alley, she'll do it between proving two major results in algebra or mathematical physics, too bad she's only a website and can't make you a cup of coffee while she's at it.

alan-poc.dsi.cnrs.fr/accueil/i (in French)

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