in which Paul Graham shows he doesn't know how taxes or capital gains work https://paulgraham.com/winc.html

Kinda weird for your operating system to prompt you to upgrade to the version it's already running

Getting annoyed by the code-review bot's useless suggestions

"The experience is better on the app!" is such a weird self-own by companies. It's an admission that they made a bad website.

This is exciting news for adversaries

SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP!!!

Heard this song last night for the first time probably since the 90s. Been stuck in my head ever since. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD9xK9smth4

Too soon?

GitHub has become so unreliable that, even if AI were making engineers significantly more productive, those productivity gains would be wiped out by GitHub's own failures. I spent most of yesterday tracking down an issue I thought we had with our CI and it turned out to be GitHub's merge queue […]

It always bothered me that in ASL that the signs for R and X look like they should be swapped

Prometheus implies the existence of Semiprometheus and Amateurmetheus

Reading a transcript of a call and seeing how much I stutter makes me really self-conscious about it

RE: https://ruby.social/@Schneems/116417150417956401 > We have parted ways with our Executive Director, our PR agency, our CFO … I'm liking that RC are being more direct and speaking plainly about things. This is a very welcome change. I don't know anything about the CFO, but firing the ED […]

My favorite[1] type of interaction Slack ping: "Hey Jamie" *other person continues typing* *several minutes pass* --- [1] I do not like this type of interaction

The guy narrating the Artemis II re-entry sounds SO MUCH like Brent Spiner (Lt Cmdr Data).

“Our new AI model is too powerful to release to the public” is the new “my girlfriend goes to a different school”

Bow-chicka-bow-wow

Working on the financial aspect of some software and deeply annoyed that "basis" and "basis points" are unrelated concepts in finance.

I've had to restart my Mastodon server's Sidekiq process twice in the past couple days. Both times, it's been fun to watch the posts pour into the feed rapid-fire. It was like watching the federated timeline on .social back in the day.

The more you understand the inner workings of git, the more you realize all the people who pointed and laughed at GitHub for being a centralized place for everyone's git repos were right. This is especially true now that GitHub has reached 0 nines of uptime.

IT'S HAPPENING GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ #github

Holy shit this is detailed. Can you believe the hubris to silently collect all this information on users? #privacy https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/

RE: https://beep.town/@hacktheplanet/116320135205259358 sometimes I really wish I didn't

Me when asked for feedback in meetings: "Sure, let's give it a shot." Me when asked for written feedback: "I have several thoughts on this issue, which I will enumerate here in excruciating detail …"

“Researchers measured autistic people against neurotypical expectations and called every difference a deficit. They tested empathy by measuring in-group preference and missed commitment to universal fairness. They measured creativity by counting the number of ideas and missed originality. They […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116308891820413082 time to make sure your resume has “better availability than GitHub” in it

I'm only one update behind on macOS, why is the update a 16GB download? Is the liquid glass that heavy?

Given what it's gonna do to the world economy I think it's better if we drop all references to intelligence and just start calling it subprime computing

What's a work-appropriate way to call something a "circle jerk"? I need to respond to someone at work posting something in Slack without HR getting involved.

When I create the next evolution of enterprise chat software, I'm going to make it so that all code blocks are collapsible. Why Slack doesn't do this is beyond me. Surely Slack engineers have seen the 400-line monstrosities some people post in their real-time chat app, right?

Teenage Mutant Chicken Tenders

The phrase "a number of", like "there are a number of things that …" is so weird to me. No matter what the person is talking about or what situation they're saying it in, it's never untrue. And that makes the phrase pointless.

Huge boom in Cleveland this morning. Turns out it was *a fucking meteor*. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/meteor-identified-as-possible-cause-of-boom-heard-across-cleveland/ar-AA1YP7Pt

One of the engineers on my team this morning said they wrote code without AI and I came a little too close (for a work meeting) to saying "you were raw-dogging it?"

I woke up this morning with something hilarious rattling around in my head, and I was like "I'll have to write that down later". Now it's later and I can't remember anything about it other than it involved the word "banana".

But if we stop people from selling snake oil, how are we going to oil our snakes?

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116201386535858138 Are there other tech companies that have pushed back against the current US administration even when faced with financial losses? I'd be disappointed to discover that the only company that's done this is a slop factory.

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116199324769094232 “Can y’all stop naming your companies stuff like Palantir and whatever from Lord of the Rings?” “Uh, sure …”

Discerning whether to try to understand meaning in someone's imprecise words or check them because those words come across as dismissive is a hard problem.

I don't think I ever saw Safari using so much CPU before macOS 26. None of these tabs are selected. Apple mentioned at WWDC several years ago that Safari aggressively throttles the event loop in background tabs, so they *should* all be using < 1% CPU. No wonder […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

"How are we gonna spin the announcement that we're laying off the people who did all the legwork to build our entire company?" "Yeah, it's hard to spin 'the loyalty only goes one way and we'll disown you as soon as you become an inconvenience' into a positive-sounding statement." "I've got it […]