The year is 2034. The scaffolding reaches to the sky, seemingly forever. A small crowd known simply as The Watch cheers, voices tired, as another piece of iron is hoisted up, up, up, forever up, until it disappears into a cloud.

I think they're going to wait for another full hour and say that the 59 minutes of noncompliance is "0 hours" when computing a fine

Literally sounds like there are more people here than there were at the Nationals game

Remember when OpenAI said gpt-3.5 was too dangerous to let loose?

I made my GitHub account literally yesterday and am an expert in LLVM, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and SQLite with fixes ready in a dozen repos all authored within the same three-hour block. We exist. Do not call us bots. We are legion. Our human bodies will blot out the sun.

Yes, get in your car to drive to the gym where you ride a stationary bike indoors in the state with the nicest weather. Then wonder why we don't get enough exercise as a society

(I have no choice) Great question

Was everyone else aware that Sound Transit is planning to prohibit bringing a bike onto Link or Sounder on FIFA match days? Because I apparently missed this news.

The correct response to SpaceX entering the S&P500 at a $1T valuation is to buy some puts, not liquidate your entire portfolio into bonds. Get a grip, people

Mariners fans understand that your team having a win probability of 96% is at best a 50/50 and really more like a 40/60 most of the time

I love the "what counts as ultra-processed" debate because within reading the three proposed definitions, you learn that it's okay to cut apples but not okay to cut potatoes

This situation is why I'm extremely skeptical of the types-as-comments proposal for JavaScript. pyrefly.org/blog/too-man...

If you showed your ancestors the pros/cons of modernity, they would immediately take everything in the 'cons' column in exchange for just the modern child mortality rate

Fairly convinced at this point that Muñoz is actually a set of twin brothers like in The Prestige, except only one of them can actually pitch

I don't think riding a Lime Glider (e-bike with no pedals, max ~18mph) should require the same license as a Hayabusa (0-60 in 2.8 seconds)

Kindergartners play Battleship like every turn is some kind of riddle from a trickster god

Someone just set off fireworks at 1 AM and I had to see if It Had Happened

If you actually know anything about computer architecture and don't want to take sanity damage, don't read the replies on this one

This person authored 10 completely different PRs in 8 different repos in the span of 31 minutes, but there's just no way to know if they're a bot or not

We're changing how single-character inference in template literals works in TypeScript 7.0 TL;DR

Blocked for this, lmao

Taking bets now on which gate will get broken first, and after how long

Labor market data point: the new guy working at the bike shop could not diagnose a dropped chain

What if we made the light turn yellow for a few seconds before it turns red?

When the Sound Transit ads tell you to take the Light Rail to beat traffic, this is not what they mean

Celebrating Pride month by watching a trans friend's kids while she and her wife go to CA for her FFS. After 10 years of marriage one realized she was trans as the other realized she was gay. The most beautiful reverse Gift of the Magi situation you've ever seen

> [Hank Hill] Y'all here perpetuating car culture? < No we just want sensible e-bike regulation like geofenced speed limits, new special licenses with tests, complete ban on throttles, no class 4+ on mixed-use trails, insurance, age minimum, exclusion zones for bike shares, regi- > Yeah this is it

Is it good if your bicycle starts rattling during a ride, the rattling gets louder and louder, then suddenly stops?

I'm much more bullish on AI than the average bsky poster, but what are we even doing here? There are large sectors of the economy that will be entirely unaffected. This is fraud through stupidity and the SEC should treat it as such.

even if you're using claude daily, we should all be mad at the CEOs who rushed to shove this into as many software applications as possible when it was abundantly clear (and was made abundantly clear to them by their safety teams) this stuff should have spent years more time on internal development

When people do this, I just sit there and refuse to turn. Why? Because they're creating a dangerous situation where they're making me turn into a bike lane where they've blocked my view of possible cyclists in it.

Wow, Gemini image creation is amazing

Footloose remake but it's about an Ace Hardware trying to sell garden hoses on a Sunday

I put clipless pedals back on my bike after a long period of just using platforms. I was worried I would have a hard time readjusting to it again, but it was no problem. I wish we had an idiom for that kind of thing.

I miss Palin birtherism because it was such a fast way to screen out completely unserious people

If e-bikes can't have throttles, cars should make you do the Fred Flintstone foot shuffle thing the whole time you're moving. None of this "gas pedal" laziness.

E-bikes having/not having throttles is an accessibility issue on top of the basic convenience of temporarily adjusting assist for specific things (getting up a hill or off the line). Acting like anything with a throttle is an e-moto is ridiculous and elitist.

Not having a bar between the bottom bracket and front hub actually makes this an above-average bicycle drawing, sadly

I just type in "critique this document for clarity, accuracy, and consistency" and this inevitably finds 3-5 things per page that could be better (plus a few more suggestions that, unbelievably, you can just choose to ignore)

Insisting that your write-in candidate is "on the ballot" because they're eligible for the office or on a separate list somewhere is probably the most counterproductive thing I can imagine. Voters who hear this are going to look for the name, not find it, and not know what's going on.

I think in general you should be a descriptivist and let people speak with their own meanings of words. English is not described by the dictionary, not defined by it. But if you're going to be a prescriptivist, you cannot try to enforce non-dictionary meanings. That's absurd.

My take on this is: it's becoming more important than ever to teach people to code. For-loop syntax? prob not important. But the habit of giving your computer instructions, and treating it as something malleable, really seems to determine whether AI is perceived as empowering or disempowering.

I don't know why we're talking about the homeownership rate when there's a 20% homelessness rate driven almost entirely by investors who neither rent nor own/occupy. We need to get these investors into homes of any kind.

This seems like the traffic equivalent of base jumping in terms of expected mortality, except you're far more likely to land on someone

Realtors follow Do Not Call registry challenge (impossible)

There are so many apps I use now where they are straightforwardly deficient in ways that could benefit from AI, but they're shoving AI buttons in places that make no sense

And oh my god, people, please stop doing the, "uh, actually, Patagonia is the name of a region. They don't own the name!" thing. They own a trademark when it comes to the specific industry they work in. No one is trying to stop this drag queen from using that name, just from selling clothes with it.