I told Claude to make a word search generator for kids, and to be sure the grid doesn't randomly contain any bad words. It made a list of words like HELL and POOP, but was too chickenshit to put actual racial slurs in the source code, so those can still show up in the grid. Great job.

Sometimes when you're naming a flag, nothing seems to stick. You try for weeks, ask everyone you know, but the "right" name doesn't seem to be there. Eventually maybe you just ship a name that's bad enough that you figure people will read the docs to figure out what it does.

In college the tradition was to place an outhouse on top of the annual bonfire, but it had to be a _real_ outhouse. For a while you could just drive around to find one and people would let you take away their disused one. But even in 2002 the answer was sometimes "No, we're still using it"

I love bsky so much, where else do you need a psychosexual explanation for why you don't shoplift?

The UPS guy wanted to talk to me because the box had broken open in transit Him: are you ok accepting this? Me: yeah it's just a bag of lentils; it obviously hasn't spilled open so it's totally fine Him: you're sure it's not broken? Me: it's lentils, it cannot break Him: I'm just gonna leave a note

We went to the Seattle Torrent (NWHL) game last night and I must say, the vibes were immaculate. BlueSky was the first social they announced, X was last. The crowd was super positive. Singalongs! Every sport should be like this.

This might sound confusing, but you can think of go typescript as being the brushless DC motor equivalent of an ultrasonic toothbrush.

Pediatrician here. It's important to let us know if your child's place of birth or eye color has changed since the last visit

You might think this calculation is suspect, but it's not. My friend Tim died when he was walking (3mph) around his house (400,000 lbs) and bumped into a wall. He exploded on impact.

It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders. But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

The fundamental truth revealed by React is that the correct way to do two-way data binding is to simply not

My favorite commercial right now is the ESPN ad where a guy tries to explain the pricing structure involved in the unholy trinity of ESPN Plus, MLB TV, and Your Local Team's various premium offerings. I asked ChatGPT for a summary and it gave me this, not sure what's going on:

Me: "Yeah I'm pretty low-maintenance, I don't really need anything special to get by" Also me: currently dehydrated because we have the wrong brand of sparkling water in the fridge

TypeScript 7.0 Beta is here! Built on a new native and parallelized foundation, it's already being used on multi-million line codebases. Read up more here and try it on your projects today! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

If bsky is having capacity issues they should just buy a bunch of computers and put them in a big room somewhere. No one's going to object to that.

Humans report wildly varying internal experiences (aphantasia, monologue(s), auditory recall, etc), but these modalities don't seem to strongly correlate to any particular cognitive ability. e.g. people with aphantasia still do fine on tasks most people claim to solve using mental imagery. But how?

Anyone have good copypasta to stop Claude from stubbing out complex functionality?

Thread: How I accidently DDoS'd npm with TypeScript

Playing the Hal Baleigh ad again when the Mariners are scoreless in the 9th inning should be a federal offense

Fire the third base coach

Rangers due to switch pitchers, please Dan Wilson stay the course and let Raley bat

Are environmental reviews really a problem? Well, folks, consider: a Sam's Club on north Aurora (near where I live) closed several years ago. Been sitting vacant, attracting ... the stuff vacant buildings attract. There's a proposal to open a low-cost grocery there. Much needed! However ...

I can't believe John Eastman is mad about getting disbarred when the proper penalty for his actions is [redacted]

Like others, I don't think "AI" is a good name for LLMs. It's not true intelligence, merely a feigned appearance. An insincere and deceitful device to trick the audience into believing a fiction. It is but an artifice of intelligence. In fact, we should be calling it "artifice-al intelligence".

(driving my car directly into a telephone pole) how was I supposed to see this?

What if I told you that the authors of PRs that did cause serious regressions thought their changes were low-risk too?

Refsnyder is out on paternity leave, which isn't Dan Wilson's fault. Well, it might be, but that'd be a much bigger story I imagine

We get a lot of PRs from humans for bugfixes. Nearly all of them "work" (i.e. make the testcase pass). Only some of them, maybe 60%, are actually *correct*. What I see with AI is that they will almost always manage to produce a working PR, but have roughly the same correctness rate as humans.

Ross Douthat, the dumb liberal's idea of a smart conservative

Wut

It's entirely possible I'm somehow uniquely out of touch, but when I went to Sasquatch! in 2010, Pavement was the only act out of the top ~25 that I hadn't even heard of

Let's do a little poll here. 'Like' your preferred reply below Q: Some desirable invariant is not happening at all. For example, it'd be nice if some function's return value retained object identity, but it currently never does A proposed fix upholds the invariant in *some* cases. Merge it?

Your manager should be allowed to hit you with a rolled-up newspaper if you blow a challenge in such a low leverage situation like this. What was Donovan thinking?

I wasn't thinking of selling my house until this random text from a realtor really got the gears turning

If you're in line to relief pitch for the Astros, stay in line

Oh no, Phoenix airport is doing shadeslop now

What are we calling routine customer-facing lies like "We are experiencing higher than normal call volumes" or "This is a completely full flight"?

Trying to stop AI by taking out Sam Altman is like trying to stop the '91 Chicago Bulls by going after Mark Randall

I didn't expect to have a happy cry showing my kid the Artemis splashdown but I sure did

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards

Fun account. This is the biggest miss so far AFAICT:

As OpenAI makes the same sort of restricted release for 5.5, I think it’s important to remember that what David is saying here about evading distillation could be the really significant shift — even if it’s also true that these systems find a lot of vulnerabilities in code.

I'm unsympathetic to these people 99% of the time, but we can't really be surprised that Boomers aren't downsizing when you only break even moving to a smaller home, and dying in your home steps up the cost basis. There's an enormous incentive to stay put.

Union types in C#! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/cshar...

When you delete a post you should be able to leave behind a little tombstone with a few hardcoded options for why you deleted it, e.g. - Oops, that was misinformation - Typo - Thought better of it - Y'all annoying

11. Donald Trump personally converts to Islam

I think it's actually likelier that you could convince JD Vance to pull a Ser Jaime Lannister than to invoke the 25A

These things just predict the next token. Nothing to worry about.

Seems like the 25th Amendment may have been a mistake, since it creates the "No YOU get rid of him" dynamic that we're seeing today. Just change the impeachment clause to "high crimes, misdemeanors, or incapacitation" instead