If you can't take a PR from an AI agent, then I don't see how you take one from an arbitrary other code author either (e.g. open source contributor or intern). The threat model is basically identical: - Test coverage may or may not be present - Code quality is ?? - No guarantee of follow-ups

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

"Kids, you can watch TV once your laundry is put away" What you think will happen: they diligently work toward an immediately achievable goal What's actually happening: a "booty-off", which is where you try to knock the other person over using only your butt

This is inconvenient information, but there is not one kind of AI/ML technology that only does the good use cases and a different kind of AI/ML that only does the bad use cases

I'm tired of hearing about "unintended consequences". Let's just pass a law that says all consequences must be intentional.

The problem of evil, posed by St. Thomas Aquinas, asks how a just, loving, and omnipotent God could allow someone to say "watt hours per hour" instead of just "watts" without facing immediate divine retribution

This guy asking me to sign a petition for "fairness in girls sports" doesn't believe that my voter registration is under the name "transphobes eat my entire ass". His loss I guess

Chris Thile stole my girlfriend

View from the playground. As usual, the parking lot has decent lighting, but there is no light on the playground. Let Seattle Parks know in this survey, since they will rebuild the playground: engageseattleparks.com/glcc-and-poo...

Wife: did you get the kid back to bed? Me: yeah he just had a question Wife: what was it? Me: he's asking why you have nipples Wife: isn't the better question why do you have them?

D names: I recognize all these names but mostly from contexts in other countries. My own kid's name is in this list. R names: I am having a stroke and require immediate medical attention.

The worst singer-songwriters are the ones who think they're Woody Guthrie but aren't even half an Arlo

The 7yo was distressed because he's "too scared of space to be an astronaut", an occupation that he estimated 5% of grownups were employed in

Reminder: The TIOBE index claims that there is approximately equal interest between Visual FoxPro (final release 18 years ago) and TypeScript (the most-used language on GitHub)

Rad: "contrary to the CPSC’s statement, mere exposure to water and debris does not create a hazard; rather, significant water exposure, as warned against in our manuals, can pose a hazard." So it's now on customers to parse the difference between "exposure to water" and "significant water exposure"

Google: We have the world's most powerful AI-enabled operating system and devices Also Google: Do you want to reply "Thanks!" or "Will do" to this SMS from Nancy Pelosi?

Daycare: Your child was lightly injured by a falling or flying object Me: Do you mean thrown? A thrown object? Daycare: falling or flying

on type safety

Our crack team of pentesters now includes an English major

Don't worry!

My wife requested ten Labusbu "for work" and I'm still not really sure what her job is

Said it before, will say it again: doing this should carry criminal penalties. We're shutting down your company because you're going to jail.

Historians in 2487: The term "Olivia Nuzzi" was coined in 2025, obviously representing a sort of behavioral archetype rather than any specific person,

Is someone trying to break into my house or did I forget that I started a 3d print job 10 minutes ago?

The scare quotes around "free" are what let you know the author's brain is totally cooked Roads: free to drive on Police, firefighters: free to call K-12 school: free to attend Parks: free to visit Childcare: "free", someone has to pay for it, don't you know nothing is actually free??

What bad writers think good writing looks like

Fremont Arts Abbey clapping on the 2 and 4 tonight, utter defiance of stereotypes here

before you’re permitted to gamble, you should be forced to consider yourself as an old person spending your fading years blank-faced and shoveling your dwindling savings into a slot machine that’s decorated with sexy Looney Tunes characters. this is an essential service real-life casinos provide

Your college hires were born in ~2003 and were 4 years old when the iPhone came out. The flip phone to smart phone transition occurred while they were still learning to read.

Love getting notifications from our daycare about illnesses I've never even heard of. Someone in the infant room has "Fifth Disease"? That's not real. Come on.

I've been trying various games with the 7yo, and you would be surprised how many games show you *important* text only for a fixed amount of time that isn't long enough for a slow reader to get through it all

Some people seem to think if some behavior is behind a flag, the team owning the product isn't responsible for making that behavior work well, be documented, play well with other flags, etc They never think this about actual existing flags, just the flags that they want added, of course

Questions that seem easy but are actually hard: When you ask for a completion list, should the language server give you the actual valid identifiers for the code you've written, or speculatively show other identifiers that would be valid if you also made some other plausible code edits?

Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it

"coffee grounds" is a misnomer because if you try to make a bunch at once, you will quickly find out there's a ton of electrostatic repulsion

The real QR code for Diamond Parking: points at arrive.com, which redirects to parkwhiz.com The scam QR code my friend lost $40 to: points at stripe.com checkout page showing "Diamond Parking Service" as the merchant and the correct lot location as the product How do you even defend against this?

Analyzing differences in error output between TS6 and TS7 and finding the rare triple negative: - TS 7 doesn't report an error in a testcase - That's a presumed TS7 bug, because TS6 did report an error - TS6 should not have errored, *that* was the bug

7yo: Dad can we go to Shake Shack for dinner? Me: No, we just went there on Monday 7yo: Pleeeeease Me: No, we're not going to do that 7yo: You're not hearing my feedback. Reopen this issue so that others can weigh in, and also commit to a timeline for reconsidering this Me: Who taught you that?

Today on the pod, Daniel Rosenwasser & Jake Bailey reveal what's coming in TypeScript 6 & 7! Learn about ES2024 defaults, the new Go compiler, and smarter DOM typings. share.transistor.fm/s/ad05eae6 #typescript

Not mentioning that the article was ABOUT JOHNNY CASH seems like lying by omission

Me to the little league coach: We're really looking forward to another great season, and are flexible on which division to play in. Have a great weekend! Summers to Epstein: do u think that women IQ. is actually for laundry... bc i definitly could see taht

An unfun fact about programming languages is that different languages have different rules about what counts as a line ending character (e.g. U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR) Thus you can't really make a language-agnostic protocol that talks about "line numbers" in a text block in a consistent way

Guy who talks about IQ but writes at a third-grade level

Update: 🥳

Today the kiddo asked me what "nemesis" means. I've been waiting 25 years for this

My apologies, late-returning Seattle voter effect, I was not aware of your game

I was discussing with a friend last week how it seemed like they were not selling at sustainable prices relative to competitors. Oops?

Imagine trying to explain to someone on 9/12/01 that the most foundational change to our government to happen as a result will be the federalization of airport security

Related to perhaps my biggest parenting fail moment, where I tried to explain the distinction between swears and slurs, went on an overly deep digression about the civil war, and briefly had my half-listening son thinking that the white people were the enslaved ones

Non-parents, please understand that there are two choices with young kids: 1) let them interact with other kids, at which point they absolutely will learn about the existence of age-inappropriate media (FNAF, South Park, etc) 2) a level of social isolation that is both abusive and impractical