Jeff Nall

@jeffmnall.bsky.social

Fractional CTO. Digital nomad. AI guy. 30+ years in tech. Difficult engineering problems solved immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. #cancersurvivor #freelancer 👨‍💻 #thirdparty #digitalnomad

Non zero chance this post is AI generated. Stating "one question" then posing two questions is suspicious. Not participating in any debates on the topic, but thought everyone interacting with AI and not knowing it was worth a mention.

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I really hope Haley Stevens doesn't start kicking and screaming over the loss. She fought a good fight. Don't ruin it be being a sore loser. You can almost feel it coming though.

Can anyone find where Stevens has a statstical chance in Michigan at this moment? Trying to figure out why more people haven't called the Michigan race for El Sayed.

You have to put yourself in the shoes of an Iranian leader. Would you make the decision to capitulate to the enemy that bombed a school and killed 120 kids (and 26 teachers?) When you understand everyone involved is doing what they think is right this might get solved.

On Facebook, I can't get over how many well thought-out posts that have a SHOT at changes someone's mind are completely blown up with a corrosive last sentence. "You idiot." "Use your reading comprehension" "libtard" TBF I use the word magat frequently, but not while trying to actually argue.

Todd Blanche's successful nomination isn't such a bad thing. It removes all doubt. Any hope you had for the republican congress to do the right thing is safely ruled out. Requiring them to respect the mid-term election results is the real issue here. There's no way they'll certify the results.

Mitch McConnell's day of ascension and I'm having trouble accessing bluesky....related? No, just posting something as ridiculous as his whole situation has become. Living your life so that 1/2 of an entire country wants you dead is nothing to be proud of.

Oddly enough, no recording exists of any of Trumps rounds of golf during any Bedminster Golf tournament. You would think a person scoring 10 strokes under their age would want people to see a recording of it happening. lol.

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Today's datacenters are built to support severely inefficient technologies. They are to tech what the Hummer was to the automotive world. This WILL crash. Hosted workload prices will collapse. The data center real estate will litter the world like abandoned shopping malls.

Anthony Fauci is Piggy from The Lord of the Flies. If you haven't read the book, referring to Fauci as Piggy is the furthest thing from an insult possible. I'm in awe of Fauci's humility. His treatment of PhD candidates is legendary and admirable.

you 👊 wherever *you* work y'all should hire me. I build servers, clusters, web apps, backends and all sorts of nonsense. thank you for this PSA

There's a whole lotta bad uses for AI. Writing software is not one of them. 1 talented programmer paired with AI produces more valuable software than any entire insuretech corporation....and they're supportung customers better too.

The double pendulum isn’t random and it is not broken physics. It is deterministic chaos, a system governed by precise rules that can still behave unpredictably. It’s one of the most iconic and widely studied examples of chaos theory in physics, mathematics, and engineering. IG: @quantumdigest

The awful truth about Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela and a bunch of other countries is this: If you do not have nuclear weapons or you voluntarily gave them up, you will be invaded by countries that have nuclear weapons. A fact of international relations in an amoral word.

Fighting a war on behalf of Israel, who's citizens get socialized healthcare. The war costs $30+ billion dollars...more than enough to partially subsidize healthcare for Americans. 30 million US citizens luke me lost health insurance because we spent the money on Israel's war with Iran instead.

Spending a few hours looking into the environmental impact of datacenters. Currently using 1.5% of the worlds electricity--projected to double by 2030 to 3.0%. Definitely localized troubles in the US because of unscrupulous power utilities, but on an aggregate level? Not so sure.

The single greatest improvement in Microsoft Windows over the years is spell correction so that notepad.exe opens despite every misspelling I make when trying to open it--which is virtually every time. notpad nodpad noteped note pad nodepad notped ntpead ..and counting...

A majority of programmers in my experience don't operate in the % chance grey area well; If there's a chance, they assume it will happen. I can't be the only one, having explained the chances of a duplicate guid, has a manager say "So you're telling me there's a chance!"

📹| In a funny incident, two people tried to enter a movie theater screening [The Odyssey] without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse in a comedic reenactment of the famous story.

It's a genuine tragedy that Stephen Colbert/John Stewart/Jimmy Kimmel aren't doing a live fact-check/roast of Trump's speech tonite. Comedy Central did it years ago for the SOTU address with Buck Henry and others and it was FANTASTIC.

I still remember a meeting back in the mid/late nineties with a client concerning purchasing some software. Buzzwords were driving everything because tech was foreign to so many. I mentioned I was using--and only that I was using XML and that sold the product. They didn't care why or where.