Jake Vose

@jakevose.github.io

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idk who needs to hear this, but until us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com gets its life together, this one liner in your bootstrap can save you a butt-ton of AWS build time: sudo sed -i 's/us-east-1\.ec2\.//g' /etc/apt/sources.list

The two wolves inside of you were domesticated millenia ago and have now developed a series of severe congenital deformities that are recognized as prized characteristics in kennel clubs

hey so, if the town my ip address geolocates to is mistaken for a town of the same name in another state, and this confuses Steam’s security protections, who do i even email about that?

IDK the source either, but I remember someone observing that if you go into a kindergarten class and ask, "Who can draw? Who can sing? Who can dance?" EVERYONE'S hand goes up. A few years later, it's almost nobody. This is, and I'm being v serious, a cultural-scale failure.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden@pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 5mo ago

I forget who originally made this observation, and I’ve cited it on Bluesky before, but: every five-year-old knows they can draw, and every eleven-year-old knows they can’t.