Ben Holmen
@benholmen.com
Big tall anti-entropy machine Software engineer + general maker Always curious about everything Eau Claire, WI, USA | benholmen.com ...let's go exploring!
There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this
I've fallen into the trap of answering slack messages. My only reward is more slack messages
Olivia Miles may be the coolest person ever
Olivia Miles goes between the legs on a drop pass to Kayla McBride for 3
Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."
Tonight's progress. I need to have this thing completed in 9 days 😅
I've been pissed off about this for a while. As we generate more slop documents, humans will inevitably start subconsciously mimicing the writing style of these models. Feed it back into the machines and repeat. It's gonna make all of our communication worse, even when we're not using AI to write.
The amount of AI writing on OpenAI's docs makes me sick. Filler sentences for nothing. Mannerisms and phrases humans would not write. Has a human even read this? And all of this will change how other docs are written, and how we all talk-for the worse IMO. 🤮 developers.openai.com/cookbook/exa...
@natepentz.bsky.social I'm going to the game tomorrow, are we gonna see Phee's return or not just yet?
RETVRN but it's just shooting a firehose of federal funding for a new WPA
Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.
I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off
Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.
I am accidentally creating an instrument whose lowest notes ring for almost 3 minutes Might need to figure out a dampening system!
Byron Buxton answer Shohei with his 25th HR
Two pitches in and it's 1-0 Dodgers courtesy of Shohei.
> Open a website > Reject all cookies > The website remenbers my choice 🤦
Purchased $600 of aluminum for my next art installation today - you can see it at Eaux Claires fest next month!
McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.