I actually saw cybertruck pulling a trailer today

I love all this stuff about beauty but for me the point of programming is getting the kids through college and shit and I don't believe that's unusual

Tello is still the only website I have ever seen that simply puts information of timely relevance to you right on the first page you see

New paper thread! "Rings in the Sky: Orbital Data Centres and Potential Impacts to Astronomy and the Sky" by A. Boley, me, and @hannorein. Submitted, and posted to the arxiv preprint server. What would the sky look like if companies actually launch the tens of thousands up to one million "AI […]

Firefighting aircraft around spokane were grounded for two hours due to drone activity. What a world

When you want software to access a system that was designed specifically to be used by a human and not by a computer, of course you can benefit from a "guess what a human would do in this scenario" box

Oh my god if you thought Jira was unusable, try using it on a phone

All my life making anything or doing any work it has seemed to me the common thread is that people like what I do but mostly just complain that it took too long. The AI adoption is a reaction to that I guess

Part of the reason it's harder to practically take advantage of coding agents is they're slow. You think you can take advantage of that by doing a bunch of stuff at once which is sort of true but how to avoid just ending up with a dozen open "80% done" ambitious efforts and no human focus left […]

man sometimes using a record full of TVars to write java in haskell is just the right move

I think the biggest bifurcation in our society is actually between - young people and retired people to whom time means nothing - the people who work all the jobs and raise all the kids

A pair of claude skills: - how to write a PR description when it's a work repo - how to write a PR description when it's codeberg

I like to be forbidden from stuff I didn't want anyway. "Do not puncture refrigerant tubing." Yeah! Okay. Cool, I already had no interest in doing that

wow github execs are personally reaching out to business customers to provide assurances they're working to address their uptime issues

christ they've evacuated 60 thousand people in spokane

If you've sold usage-billed saas agreements and the users are software engineers and you can't turn that business into a money printer, I think that's sort of pathetic

If you think that some people need religion to be good and others like you just don't, then I guess the interesting wager left for you to make is to guess which kind of people your children will turn out to be

The way people talk about vibe coded shit is *exactly* the way people talk about tasks farmed off to contractors. Cheap and quick and hard to maintain is how we've always thought of that stuff. So, uh, if it's competetive on price, you're making the AI vendors' case when you describe it that way […]

"Smart" is for some reason the only word that people can think of when they talk about computers, but I think a closer word to what we're talking about with heuristic-driven machinery is "grace." Systems that are able to accommodate flaws and forgive mistakes.

The labeling on acetaminophen says don't have more than three alcoholic drinks, and idk man given the severity of the risk of death I think I'd have just written "for fuck's sake quit drinking while on this" on the bottle

Opening day box office record has been broken by... Yet another Spider-Man movie. Why do motherfuckers love spiderman so much

I like Christopher Nolan so much better when he doesn't think the project is "serious"

All the little bits of advice your mamma gives you haven't changed, they've just been rebranded either as life hacks or as adhd copes

I have to admit to this mistake, thinking of claude code like something that was "stupid" rather than a machine I could simply fix like any other https://lgbtqia.space/@grim_elsewhere/117000518574074326

Do these "ubi test programs" ever target young adults who have never gotten their first job yet

The practice of mental health is increasingly about liability shifting, huh. Your child does something terrible, whether you had put them into counseling first makes the difference between your incarceration and freedom.

in france vineyards are being burned by wildfires, in california vineyards are being burned by farmers because americans don't drink wine anymore

If the containers library's Map merge function would only have: - Used a record parameter instead of positional arguments for the first three parameters - Made them simple function parameters instead of trying to abstract over it with WhenMatched and WhenMissing monads it would be an […]

Call from the logistics company that a delivery got delayed... because of scheduled roadwork. I really feel like, if "logistics" were anything more than a euphemism, you would have known logistically relevant information in advance when you did the scheduling

solution is actually to double down on anthropomorphizing and make employers pay the same taxes it takes to employ a human on every computer they use