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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 10h

I'd like to riff off that but I'm not smart enough.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 10h

checking out toilets and circling the drain here

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 10h

Let us remember the night that I give up du -h | sort -rh | less to the pasture.

*training montage*

ncdu it is

*weeps in relief*

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 10h

He could try "I'm the dumbest Marine to have ever lived" card.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 10h

Can confirm. Also no crap this is going to save me from my 'du' shenanigans on the command line in tracking down random blowups.

Screenshot of a terminal program that is showing a directory usage figure with "yes_jerry_yes" being 1GiB of it. The graph below show directory "no_jerry_no" at 1MiB of usage.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 11h

Warranted. They lob these on incredibly high trajectories to test performance. Despite the local plop down those buggers might be able to reach North America. I haven't mathed it out lately.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 11h

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 11h

:)

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 12h

I understanding when products change, like Gmail having ads in it at one point, because it's an obvious trade. Facebook knowingly enticing users into rage bait to keep engagement up? Or running knowingly false ads on elections? That stuff bugs me. And it's why I don't engage with Meta.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 14h

I lolled. You'll have to visit the thread for context.

HotSaucePhD @hotsaucephd.bsky.social · 15h

Graham Platner has never been in my kitchen!

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know and unlike Cliff Claven I won't just make up a good sounding answer.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 15h

2007 in Croatia

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 18h

What's hilarious is him churning out volumes of factually incorrect hallucinations about AI.

He would actually benefit from using one to tame himself.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 19h

He was in Croatia (2007) when he got it.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

1-2%

People have been screwing up DNS for decades. Heck, @jeffgeerling.com sells shirts for exactly this very common hose up.

BGP is in 2nd place for organically disappearing chunks of the Internet.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

I think this was a case in Carmen Sandiego back in the day.

Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social · 1d

Someone robbing the Louvre with nothing but chainsaws, a ladder, and parallel parking was not on my 2025 bingo card

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 4d

... years of history would have taken the estimated 6 months.

I took the 6 months to process all of the data (I think 4 years) and turned it into 45 minutes.

I have a weird thing for this.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 4d

... but in 2009 we had that. Still not fun to compute. You have to figure out difference in rules between states and if something was a snow day.

The delivered solution from an internal employee would have computed a day's attendance in about 25 minutes. To backfill this calculation of many...

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 4d

... 2009ish on-prem SSAS/SSIS/SSRS workloads.

An internal employee develops a solution to the "count" problem with students. I'm 45 so back when I was a kid "count day" was a big deal because getting actual stats on attendance was impossible. You need a lot of accurate data to do that...

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 4d

I shouldn't be too coy about the work because the team I was on for this overall project won a Microsoft partner of the year award.

But the basic story is we're working alongside internal employees that build their data warehouse and we're also helping them develop reports. This is all old...

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 5d

I once took an ETL process that was doing loops, which you should almost never do, and took the runtime from 6 months (unusable) to 45 minutes.

It was fun

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 4d

It's a fun one. A very early part of my career in business intelligence/data engineering and one that made me realize I was good at it. I'll quote post my reply with the full story because I feel like it.

Reposted by Justin Buist

Carolyn Porco @carolynporco.bsky.social · 4d

I used this view decades ago (now taken from Google Earth) to argue that full-globe Cassini imaging coverage of Saturn's moons was imperative. We won!

Hemispheric dichotomies are common across the solar system. If you flew closely over this hemisphere 👇, you'd never know Earth had continents.

🧪🔭📰

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 4d

Tactical protest gear

WCW Worldwide Fansite @wcwworldwide.com · 4d

🧐

Photo of a black inflatable frog skeleton costume

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 4d

Unencrypted radio comms are the best at keeping authorities from knowing what you're up to.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 4d

Switch to thinking mode and it works.

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