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  The more technology progresses the more I want to learn how to design an SR-71 using only a slide rule

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  You know what I should have done? Gotten hired early in the founding of a prominent startup software company in my 20s that made me fabulously wealthy before the company turned evil so I could retire and tinker on personal projects. Yeah. I forgot to do that. I really should have done that.

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  Here’s a reminder that you can buy a tube of premade cookie dough and heat up a few whenever you feel like having fresh hot gooey chocky chip cookies. You’re welcome.

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  Y’ever tryna cut your food with a fork but it’s too tough an eventually you just stab in the center and nibble around the edge of your dinner ona stick

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  Attempting to write my own SSO implementation. What’s that advice everyone always gives? “Definitely write your own security software”? Think that was it.

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  Wrong guy again. Let's go for rule of 4s?

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  [trying to comfort a recent widow] Ya know, there was another pretty cool guy who died at 33...

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  I am a very bad data analyst I think. Or bad at SQL. Or both. Probably both. Slog through writing a big query, start it running, wait forever, see weird-ass results. Realize I forgot something. Alter query, try again. Even weirder results. Several rounds of that before I throw it all out and start from scratch. Get even differenter wrong results. Eventually give up and say “I think the data’s fine. Good to ship.” and hope no one asks for specifics.

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  Just dawned on me that the spare chair I put next to the shoe rack in my bedroom so I can sit while putting on my shoes probably just looks like a cuck chair

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  If you’ve never experienced the window rattling resonance of sitting in a hardwood chair on a hardwood floor and farting, buddy, you haven’t lived.

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  I advise folks to block this guy at 127.0.0.1. He seems to have access to all my data and is a real dick.

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  I’ll stop adding shaky cheese when I can no longer see the food underneath

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  I’m tired of appeals to common sense. Don’t bother me unless your sense is epic or legendary.

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  It’s frustrating to listen to folks discuss “AI” and lumping together such disparate things as narrow, single-purpose models for tasks like industrial vision systems that identify flaws in manufacturing or protein folding with the more recent, popular, general purpose generative models in LLMs and image generators. It’s like lumping squirt guns and ICBMs in the same discussion about weapons.

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  How do I vote for the party that Republicans accuse the Democrats of being?

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  The frozen pizza companies that tell you to put it directly on the oven rack with no pizza pan are getting a kickback from Big Oven Cleaner

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  If you must use LLMs (and you really mustn’t), the human should always be the driver of the task. ❌ “Summarize this document.” ✅ “Where in this document does it describe xyz?” ❌ “Write this code for me.” ✅ “Tell me why my code isn’t producing the result I expect.” At most, LLM output should guide human decisions and output, not produce the output. “I’ll check its output” is a fail-dangerous setup. “I’ll do it myself with hints from the LLM” is fail-safer.

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  If you’re in the market for a prejudice, “if most people like it, it must be shit” has had a pretty good hit rate for me

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  What flags are available in shell "if" statements? % if --help if> no no, stop, ^C ^C ^C. How about: % man if "Here is a list of all the built-in commands in this shell which includes if. I will tell you nothing else." Why are you like this, *nix?

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  Software companies publicly humble bragging about how their products are out of control, aren't fully understood, and cause security problems is a marketing trend that shares its genome with yesteryear's Wendy's Twitter

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  It’s been so long since we’ve had a functioning government that I sometimes forget what it’s supposed to do. If a commodity is as important to modern life as RAM and the RAM manufacturers are making deals that are preventing consumers from obtaining any of it then it’s time for the government to intervene. A supply of 0 for another entire year is unacceptable and dangerous.

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  A chronological feed of only what you subscribe to is good, but it’s isolating. You miss out on the larger conversation. An algorithmic feed is nice for discovery but is opaquely controlled by untrustworthy companies with perverse incentives, and they lead to clickbaity content to game the system. What we lack these days is human curation by people with taste we like.

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  These two fonts are everywhere. Block letters with a worn texture and a brush stroke one. Often accompanied with brush swipe backgrounds or dividers and dense, varied typography. I've definitely seen the style in AI-generated posters and thumbnails, but I'm wondering if it started out as some super popular template that everybody used and then AI started aping it. At any rate, every time I see it I'm inclined to mute the creator that used it. Best case, you need to pick...

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  My ISP is upgrading our email server from 9am to 3pm on a weekday. My bank is upgrading their automatic bill pay system a few days before the end of the month right when rent checks need to be mailed to arrive by the 1st. Was there an IT conference talk that said maximum customer disruption is good actually and now that’s industry practice?

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  Hey. Ya like tools? Ya like weird tools? Alligator forceps. You need some alligator forceps. Why? Any time you've needed to grab something little in a place where your hand won't fit, alligator forceps have your back. One of the drawstrings on my pajama pants just vanished into its little waistband track. Oh no! But behold, alligator forceps! Stuck em down into that hole, grabbed the drawstring, and pulled it right back out. Alligator forceps! (paid for by the alligator forceps counci...

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  Cool to see four late night greats together plus Fallon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU3PSAAgbrU

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  Would rather be

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  It's pretty wild how much guesswork is involved with brain drugs. It's always like "Here, this might help with your condition, maybe, like 25% of the time. We don't really know how or why. It's far more likely to cause these dozen side effects, so enjoy those. When that doesn't work we've got several others you can try that also probably won't work. But all of them will definitely mess with your dick."

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  What is it about tortillas that turn them from soft fluffy delights into impervious dragon hide once they lose 1% of their moisture

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  Repost of https://bsky.app/profile/sifill.bsky.social/post/3mlrmn5mrms2a "Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe."