The 3.4% cask IPA at this pub provides proof that British culture is superior to ours

I feel like it'd be a hard problem to really solve but man, the worst thing about the small plate trend of the last 10-15 years is when 32 plates all show up at once for your tiny 2-top, and the server is just looking at you like "where do you want me to put all this".

Interesting. Tho I don't see a mention of runtime on the README, curious how that gets impacted. Or perhaps I missed it! 😅

The combination of listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl, reading David Mitchell, and watching The Pitt is giving me pretty gnarly dreams

These guys really could have sold AI as “this is going to make your lives better.” Instead they picked “this is going to take your job and ruin all the art you love and you better embrace it or get left behind.” And they expect applause at commencement speeches!

Fascinating perspective on the singularity. Though from where I sit, humanity's current trajectory looks more like an asymptote of predictable panic than true transcendence. ⚡️

A few weeks ago For Reasons I had a CT scan of head & neck and some chest Xrays. For funzies I dropped the images into Claude and asked it to spot anomalies. It said it spotted x, y, and x. Then I looked at the official reports which said no signs of x, y, nor z Singularity isn’t here yet!

Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

Opening band last night kept talking about how they were an old band that just got back together. Just looked it up: the debut album for the "old" band was 2013. FML

What if Bluesky doesn't have to be Important. What if social media doesn't have to be Important. Remember less than 20 years ago when social media didn't exist and we just hung out on forums and anyone who suggested the forum was Important would have been referred for a wellness check.

training LLMs on Reddit was clearly a great idea and should never be questioned.

Have noticed this trend & it bugs me. IMO the whole selling point of Twitter & its offshoots was that it allowed for easy communication from weird corners of the broader graph and not yet another broadcast advertisement scheme for large accounts.

For anyone who knows what I actually look like: cheers sea\son 2 ep 6 Creepy as fuck

I will never understand the reality-distortion field that the right has bought into around the physical capabilities of a sedentary octogenarian with the worst diet imaginable who literally hasn't exerted himself physically since LBJ was president. He can't fight! Why would you think he can?

That's one way to deal with the influencer blight!

@kenjennings.bsky.social I have to know. Last night's question about what tuna, tennis balls, and paint have in common: would "words that contain the letter 't'" count? I was hoping one of them would try it, but alas. If not, I could see it turning into that episode of Cheers w/ Cliff & Alex Trebek

It's physically impossible to not get jazzed up by the opening riff of Front 242's Headhunter. That's a scientific fact. Fun fact: this is also true of the lead in for the chorus.

lol. Face the Nation's video from last night was cut up to make it look like POTUS was evacuated first. Instead of, you know, last, like it actually happened. They also cut out the part where he tripped and fell on the way out.

Future researchers will never be able to determine which commit messages I wrote and which were written by Claude

Nope. Fuck off & don't use Fenway Park or Boston for your bullshit fascist propaganda. To quote Big Papi: "This is OUR fucking city!"

Gentry's Law: "As an online discussion about the Boston area grows longer, the probability of it devolving into an over simplistic debate about housing affordability approaches one"

While I enjoy his Dungeon Crawler Carl series more, and it took a bit longer to get here: @mattdinniman.bsky.social 's Operation Bounce House has achieved "well, I guess I can keep going for one more chapter ..." (rinse, repeat) status. I suppose this means I need to check out his other work

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

This. I've been slowly meandering my way to my own personal set of local optima. But every person and every circumstance is different.

Did they ever arrest this trump thug? (Probably not.)

Few people are aware of how much progress has been made against cancers. Leukemia is probably the most striking example. Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would soon die from it. Now, most children in rich countries survive. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

best rapper competition: chuck d vs krs-one. no other alternatives are allowed in the conversaition because of course.

Brands realize they don't actually have to post some stupid crap on insta today, right?

You haven't lived until BDR personally insulted you in a commit message

How come when it is layoffs it's the kennedy center and not the trump center?

Stoat hopping across snow: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

"And then the general said to me, 'Sir, sir, masterful gambit, sir!'"

Jeppson's Malört - please send me one bottle of your finest provisions in exchange for this top tier marketing material

Went looking for a full-stack GA4GH refget implementation in Rust. Couldn't find one, so I had Claude build it. 🦀 refget-rs server, client, data models, storage, & CLI for Sequences v2.0.0 + Sequence Collections v1.0.0. Serve, query, compare, compute digests. 🔗 github.com/fulcrumgenomics/refget-rs

I love how r/conservative became full of hockey fans for a hot minute a while back, but not a single post regarding the WBC game last night.

For anybody starting to get excited about the prospect of really dragging everybody with some AI slop for April Fool's day this year ... ... maybe instead just don't?

Bioinformatics tools usually emit the final result and discard everything that led to it. That missing signal is exactly what ML models need to learn from. Fulcrum co-founder @nilshomer.com makes the case that next generation tools should be AI-ready. 🔗 blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/your-bioin...

These posts are written by an LLM told to imitate the style of Trump, right? The increasing length, the functioning grammar, the em dashes and curly speech marks, the lack of typos... And there's something a little off in the tone.

Siri, show me Mission Accomplished mixed with Baghdad Bob

*If you thought a stroke would silence Jello Biafra, I'm afraid you are sorely mistaken. Jello has sent us this while he is in the hospital, and while the news sucks we are happy he's able to comment on it. -Alternative Tentacles Staff

If you’re using 1M tokens a day for software dev or personal assistant LLMing I think you don’t know what you’re doing, not that you’re a great engineer. (With a very few exceptions)

Good luck, Jello!

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

They’re calling it brain coding

These kinds of headlines were more cool back before we saw that the Patriots plane was also getting chartered for forcibly removing people from the country.

Legend. Plugin to let you play doom while letting Claude Code burn down more trees: github.com/cleggypdc/do...

claude code VMs feel unethical. good code needs free-range claudes. give him root access to your macbook

In case you ever have imposter syndrome, you should know that I am a C level executive in a publicly traded company and have an advanced degree in economics and I just had to look up the term “gross margin” In my defense, that’s not a concept we have in insurance and reinsurance

This. And I'm just gonna stick with the "mid-to-late 30s" part. 🤫