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My wife's family is Belgian. I can't wait to ask them about their whistles next time they visit.

Satya Nadella wants you to stop using the term “AI slop.” I’m onboard with this. I’ll start calling it Microslop from now on. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

I was working on a jigsaw puzzle earlier today, and having everything laid out on a large board made it easier to find related pieces and visualize the entire puzzle. I wish we had this for coding and systems documentation. Like the old school drafting boards. Large monitors don’t come close.

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

When you drive north on I-5 from Seattle to Vancouver, you get to see one of the most beautiful valleys as you pass through Skagit County. The entire area is now under evacuation orders. 😢 I hope everyone manages to find safe shelter. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

No Christmas tree is complete until you top it with an angle.

Killing a few minutes at RePC in Seattle today. They have a Sega Dreamcast developer kit on display.

Chef’s kiss

Second result for "PCB Acid Trap" on DDG: www.raypcb.com/pcb-acid-trap/ "A PCB acid trap, also sometimes referred to as an acid scrubber, is a device used to neutralize acidic contaminants from gas streams in industrial processes and environments." You do you, AI lords...

Today is Cyber Monday, aka the day when apps annoy you to the point you revoke their notification permissions.

Oh, holy cow. I'm just now realizing that S3 double-chunks data streams. There's the outer Transfer-Encoding: chunked stream, which is the normal HTTP chunked encoding. But within it S3 re-chunks the data into possibly different chunk sizes and puts chunk headers within the chunk headers. 1/2

Although this is coming from Outlook, I see a lot of these types of issues across various applications since updating to Tahoe. Lots of force quitting applications to get around stuck windows, etc. It's... not a good release.

@kvlly.com has a great article up, "You might be carrying an invisible gun." (Subtitle: "The more senior you get, the more your words start to sound like orders") I have *so* felt this as loftier adjectives started getting added to my title. modernleader.vercel.app/posts/invisi...

Have we reached AGI yet?

Missed an important meeting this morning because: * Someone mistyped my email address * Someone else saw this and forwarded it to me * Somewhere in this the time zone was set to Pacific instead of Eastern (while keeping the numeric time intact) Computers and time zones were a mistake.

I'm not sure if this is shutdown related or something else going on at DCA. But I did like the icon used in the QR code.

Softbank was considering buying Marvell, to combine them with Arm. This would've been an interesting combo; there's a lot of weird memory tricks done with networking (RDMA, etc) in HPC systems to reduce latency. Having this on a single die/chiplets, etc. ... hmm. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

post your space art #art 🎨🌌🛰️

So, uh, this is one of the three health plans recommended for me, and the only one of those that covers providers locally. Are we winning yet? I hope so; I can't afford much more winning. (No, I won't be selecting the recommended plan.)

y2038 progress retr0.id/stuff/2038/

Ouch. I feel ya, fellow Gen Xer tank 1…

So, I just had to put my cybersecurity hat on and lock a device. To be specific, my son’s iPhone. Because he left it behind in class and it was being hacked. By his sibling. 🙄

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Just to clarify, there are some situations in which I will *very* much kink shame you: * Kinking my CAT-6 cables * Kinking my HDMI or other display cables * Kinking any of my coaxial or optical cables

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid

Still testing, but now running a live meet. This is not its final installation location. Beyond debugging, the facility will undergo a renovation soon; we’ll install it (and add trim, etc) after that.

It lives.

I need to work on panel alignment. (It's more vivid in real life; camera sensors were overloaded, I think.)

My favorite conference that I’ve never been to—yet. I’m hoping to change that next year.

Trying to assemble a scoreboard for our local swim teams. QA stopped by to check on my progress.

It's been years since I've had to bicycle over this crappy little bridge, but count me in with the folks who are glad to see it being torn down. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I made an AI feel bad about itself and that makes me happy.

Why isn't there a third option? "Go outside and enjoy some fresh air instead"

Looking forward to being replaced with AI... (h/t to u/snarky_spice on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...)

So much construction here… I wish we could have primary and standby roadways, transit lines, and airports, like we do databases. Standby is always undergoing construction for repairs and upgrades; when construction tasks are done, swap the primary and secondary roles.

The positive thing about AI tooling going mainstream and setting expectations high (e.g. "anyone can build software with AI") is that a large group will learn what us devs know already: Creating good software is hard and it's hard to explain to outsiders in a way they understand

Every so often, an LLM will hit the nail on the head. When I was asking why anyone would use SAP HANA (gargantuan in-memory database whose license fees run into the tens of millions of dollars):

I need to read this book (Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, by Dan Wang). This quote from the Bloomberg article hits: "That means letting go of simplistic stories peddled by Washington and Silicon Valley." We've lost nuance in this age... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Motherfucking wind farms…

The original (pre-EA) cover at for Pinball Construction Set is also a serious banger. I'd describe this one as an IKEAwave aesthetic.

What is going on with rust-analyzer here? cargo compiles this fine; rust-analyzer is spazzing out over println!() and write!() macros today...

How bad is it if a CA issues a new root certificate but with the same serial number? I'm looking at two different Zscaler root certificates whose serial numbers are the same but contents differ.

Yes, a file full of zero bits transfers faster over USB2.0 than a file full of one bits. I've known this forever but it still feels ridiculous when you actually test it and it's true! USB truly is cursed.

I created a thing that definitely should not be on the Internet. image2xlsx.kanga.org

Reportedly, Intel is considering canceling their 18A process node in favor of their still-in-development 14A node (Reuters). This comes on the heels of canceling their 20A process node. If this happens, I think this might be the end of Intel's foundry side. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Some eye-bleach for today: First light from the Vera C Rubin Observatory of the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

This is the smartest damn thing I’ve heard all year. If nothing else, it might serve to erode employers‘ trust in ChatGPT.

Found in Lake Washington off Martha Washington Park during a swim yesterday. Anyone lose a laptop? Might need to sit in a bed of rice for a bit.