November 2024 - Lug-nuts

standford study says 9.5% of research engineers do virtually nothing.
by Brian E. Lavender 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Seen on Slashdot and posted Xitter. Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers 'Do Virtually Nothing' https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/1346219/stanford-research-re… Seems like an interesting study. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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better top
by Brian E. Lavender 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Someone said that there is a way better top these days. What is it? Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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thank you to everyone who came
by Brian E. Lavender 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

We had an interesting meetup. Next meetup is in December. We talked Debian, purple air, putting IoT on its own network, code correctness using Spark/Ada, dotNet 9, and miscellaneous stuff. See everyone back in December. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2024/december-2024.html Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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SacLUG social this coming Tuesday at Kupros
by Brian E. Lavender 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

We will have the next social this coming Tuesday! Kupros Craft House in Midtown Sacramento: 1217 21st Street Sacramento, CA 95811 6:30pm - 9:00pm Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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dotNet 9 released
by Brian E. Lavender 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hey everyone, DotNet 9 was just released https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-9/ You can find the installation instructions for Fedora here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Halloween documents
by Brian E. Lavender 07 Nov '24

07 Nov '24

26 years ago, we had the Halloween documents https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/11/05/046247/when-linux-spooked-microso… -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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