Imagine the first day of school, fifth grade. You find your seat and sit down, meekly and a bit apprehensively. The teacher calls roll and the first or second name she calls is "Wolf Blitzer". You're like, holy shit, this year is going to fucking rock. What a letdown that must've been.

TFW you shut off a server that's been running like a champ for ~13 years. It's the server I first started playing with Docker on, which got me back into homelabbing after a few years off... which I credit for how well my career (and my life) has gone since then. Good night, ol' buddy.

Finishing up the kid's 50 mandated hours of driving practice with 10 hours of night driving. Introducing him to the joys of driving in the country at night with music playing. This is how _Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots_ needs to be played. Especially "All We Have Is Now".

Does anyone else have really vivid imaginings where they're demoing the the thing they worked on for a couple months in isolation in front of their team and their stakeholders, and that they deployed to production a couple weeks ago, and they're showing the dashboards and lowered error rates, etc...

Ah shit, I think I'm feeling the despair that is conscious of being despair and therefore is conscious of having a self in which there is something eternal and then either in despair does not will to be itself or in despair wills to be itself.

Anthony Kiedis seems like the least self-aware person in the world, but then I hear "Around the World" and I think, my god, there's no way that can not be self-parody.

I think it's obvious LLMs won't lead directly to AGI, but I think it's equally obvious that they will be employed by AGIs.

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I've been working alone a couple months on migrating an existing service with a decent amount of traffic from one system of record to another. Flipped the switch Saturday. So far, no new errors, much lower costs, and existing user-facing errors have decreased by a factor of about 25.

Watched _Glengarry Glen Ross_ again with my wife tonight, and it occurred to me that we took all of these sleazy toxic salesmen, rolled 'em in lard, breaded and fried 'em until they melted together a bit, and then elected it president.

Gros gras grand grain d’orge, toi qui es gros-gras-grand-grain-d’orgerisé, quand te dé-gros-gras-grand-grain- d’orgeriseras-tu?

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alexa, play "livin' on a prayer" by bon jovi

Finally got around to watching _Jiro Dreams of Sushi_ last night and was delighted to check online and find that Jiro is still alive (at 100) and finally stepped away from day-to-day work.

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

The most complete account of the US-Iran negotiations before April 11 that I've seen.

A lot of British foods, stores, etc sound like zoomer sex work slang to me: - bangers and mash - bubble and squeak - marks and sparks

I guess I'm running quite a bit behind, but I thought _I Saw the TV Glow_ was absolutely amazing.

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"History bears witness to the vital part that the 'prophets' have played in human progress, which is evidence of the ultimate practical value of expressing unreservedly the truth as one sees it. (cont.)

"Our tradition of individual freedom is the slow-ripening fruit of centuries of effort. To surrender it within after fighting to defend it against dangers without would be a supremely ironical turn of our history." - B. H. Liddell Hart, _Why Don't We Learn From History?_

my 15yo son sprinting from his bedroom to the bathroom a minute later, a text: > Never say “I’ll use the bathroom after I get this code working”

@nebhos.pds.goldentooth.net , are you feeling anything?

Ceci est hors sujet, et je suis désolé, mais merde à la police.

Went out yesterday and grabbed lunch while waiting on my wife. Little bland so I sprinkled some carolina reaper powder on it. A bit too much TBH. Tears were streaming down my face, but it was so good. Waitress came by and said my check was taken care of by someone else. Huh. Thanks, kind stranger.

I'm in the bathroom and hear my 15YO walk out of his bedroom, down the stairs, through the living room, grab the vacuum cleaner from the hallway closet, roll it back through and up and into his room, and then I hear vacuuming. I've never been so alarmed in all my life.

(The curtain is pulled aside so Gill can be seen on the screen, but his mouth is hidden behind the large microphone. All the people salute him.) ALL: Hail the Fuhrer! Hail the Fuhrer! Hail the Fuhrer! Hail the Fuhrer!

Just watched ST:TNG S02E16 "Q Who?" with the boy while lifting weights. This episode introduces the Borg. Absolute classic.

The world is better with trans folks in it. I'm sorry it's so continually - and disappointingly - been so unkind to you. Those who perpetuate anger, hatred or violence towards you and your loved ones are now and forever my enemies.

Please please watch this. youtu.be/LqwJFuntco4...

My wife was like, "why is Denise Richards famous anyway?" and I got to be like, hellooooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dY-...

Me: I need to be centrally located between the two exits and the windows yon; facing the entrance but with a view of the kitchen. I'm right-handed, so I'll need a good wall at my left. Olive Garden Hostess: Please just say "table" or "booth."

This is the guy that keeps me learning French. He goes and stands by the door to the basement to wait for me.

It was down to _Valerie and Her Week of Wonders_ and _Céline and Julie Go Boating_ last night. I watched the latter. It made me very happy.

I think if I had a band, I would name it Cinnamon Tree.

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

The time I saw NIN, Godspeed You Black Emperor was opening, and I knew nothing about them. Guy comes onstage, starts tuning his guitar, another comes out, starts tuning and it's completely out of tune with the first, then another, then 15 minutes later I realized "wait, this is their first song"

Watching _The Right Stuff_. Scott Glenn doesn't play John Glenn - Ed Harris does. Sam Shepard doesn't play Alan Shepard; Scott Glenn does. Not to be confused with Glennis Yeager, played by Barbara Hershey.

I hate that everything asks me for permission now. "Do you want to connect this accessory to your computer?" Yeah, that's why I plugged it in.

No, you don't understand, I *need* a viola da gamba

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJhN... gods, what a fat beat for 1968

I was just thinking about Trump's weird skin conditions and being like, what happens if he's actually part reptile or the human skin suit he's wearing is rotting, like Mr. President is your husk okay?

My son and I worked out together a few years back, and of course had to have the hooks moved up and down as we took turns, so I put stickers to mark the positions that fit him. He's working out with me again, but we don't need to move the hooks anymore. I don't want to remove the stickers, though.

"If I found out I was pregnant, I would throw myself down the staircase faster than you could say 'Limp Bizkit.'" - my wife

bold claim, Wikipedia

My last three reviews for @deciderdotcom.bsky.social are a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski

My son and I were talking and he mentioned that some anime series, he'd watched one 3-minute-clip at a time on YouTube, Dailymotion, etc because he couldn't find anywhere to watch it free. 😭 Son, what do you think the server rack and 200TB of NASes is for? Have I completely failed as a father?

It'll be funny if Zoomers and successive generations end up fine. Like everything actually goes okay for them and the world gets better and everyone lives happily ever after.