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Omar Rizwan @omar

Inpatient Press is an independent publisher based in New York that champions work which extends the imaginative plane. Suffice to say, *we publish what others do not.*

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Omar Rizwan @omar

"Pi My Life Up"

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Omar Rizwan @omar

install package -> hack on package

I think I have run into 2+ different issues where the Linux sampling profiler `perf` literally does not work out of the box and I have to clone the kernel source code and compile it myself

i feel like packages just don't work a lot of the time when I try them and I end up having to unzip and compile them myself & even patch the source code, so it's very annoying when there's too steep a slope between 'install package' and 'hack on package'

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Omar Rizwan @omar

"Please remember that the kernel is for running userspace" https://lwn.net/Articles/803421/

screenshot of first 2 sections of linked LWN article "We've been through a lot of tracing tools and frameworks both for generating/annotating traceable data and for collecting/processing it. uprobes, ftrace, dtrace-for-linux, SystemTap, linux-perf and perf_events, LTTng, and more. They're inter-related and not a simple generational series of changes. But one pattern seems to have persisted pretty strongly: nothing works very well with "real world" production userspace deployments initially, yet earlier generations of tools tend to be abandoned. If you go to use one tool you're told it's obsolete, you should use the new one instead, but that one doesn't actually work on any of the systems widely deployed in production and won't for a long time yet. When it does, it probably doesn't support external debuginfo (like every system has had for 10+ years) for another year or two after that, because really, who debugs packaged binaries on production systems?"

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Omar Rizwan @omar

finally learning about `perf probe` -- https://bristot.me/using-perf-probe-to-measure-execution-time-of-user-space-code-on-linux/ -- think I want to add a hook to scripting language so I can inject probes at script level. might just JIT & call a stub C function with unique name and then probe that

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Omar Rizwan @omar

trying to hold to the old rule that when you're writing a script, you use the long-form versions of command-line arguments (`--pid` instead of `p`, etc) because documentation and future readability is more important than convenience of typing

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Feel like I spend most of my time looking at weird-shaped USB cables on Amazon

various panel-mount USB-C cables / sockets in Amazon search results (like CERRXIAN 0.5m Right Angle USB-C Male to Female for $9.99)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

I think that this feeling of exploration requires that you have 'limbs'/'actuators' that you control and use to interact with the space, that you're continually moving around and making active choices to inspect & poke at things, and "feed" interfaces are antithetical to that sort of engagement https://mastodon.social/@rjkwon/112299691696820710

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Omar Rizwan @omar

i mean through git and github a certain workflow has definitely been created
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and even an idea of what a software engineer is
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i think github created software engineering
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like the critique that it’s not systematic is just outdated
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in the pure techne sense

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Omar Rizwan @omar

yeah we probably will make like a 'wizard' type physical booklet at some point for full computer setup including wifi etc..
i think the deeper reasoning is like, it's fairly doable to make UI for the easy path, but it's actually very hard to anticipate and cover all ways in which things can go wrong or need to be debugged, so you probably need to escape hatch to a Unix terminal most of the time so people can Google it and type in commands if they're technical

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