You gotta dance with the one who brung ya.

Just got myself an ABI cup :-)

Also, it was riffing on serials that were only, like, 20-some years old. So a Raiders today would be riffing on some nostalgia media from the year 2000-2005.

This is just as wrong as when they said it about the Irish, the Italians, the Poles, the Jews, the Catholics…

Are sure this isn’t AGI? Lying about work they didn’t finish so they don’t get in trouble is about the most human thing a computer could do.

Ouch. But… yeah.

My travel hack is checking bags.

This is kinda cool even though I was never able to make any headway in any of those games (or the Scott Adams, no not *that* Scott Adams, games)...

I follow more of these people than is probably healthy given that I haven't worked there for a while... :)

It is amazing how people can be very talented in one specific arena and spectacularly… not in many others. I once was stunned to read a relatively accomplished coworker’s Twitter anti-evolution/pro-creationism rants.

Give them enough time and they’ll find it again…

I remember all the random places Surface tablets showed up on TV. Worked really well, Surface tablets totally crushed the iPad!

Next up... one gazillion dollars!

You've got a nice company here. Be a shame if anything... happened to it.

"I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning..."

I'm writing another book, and the first few chapters are available through Manning Early Access now! For 50% off! hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0 More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i... It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)

Hey, wow, this is cool! Interested to read what @ericlippert.com has to say about this!

I backed this!

We’re all just looking for the guy who did this.

My thoughts are with my friends at Amazon tomorrow. May the odds be ever in your favor.

So sad... I was a TiVo early adopter and sold more than a few to family and friends. Even went so far as to crack them open and replace the internal HDs with higher capacity HDs, I used it so much. All things pass...

Being a teenager when Watchmen and V for Vendetta had their original run, both had a deep, significant effect on me and I still think about them frequently. But given the ways they’ve been twisted and misused and misunderstood over the years, I find myself wondering if it was really worth it.

Up next? Requiring parents to have at least one child named after Charlie Kirk.

Take copious amounts of ketamine and try and destroy the federal government?

When someone says to you, “I’ve been so good to you, you should be grateful,” the subtext is always “…because I didn’t have to be.” Which says just about everything you need to know about this person.

And the sad thing is that may be for the best!

AI changes things in unexpected ways. One of my personal superpowers has always been writing technical specifications. It's an amazing way to work out the kinks in a design, expose missing cases, and just generally work through lots of problems before ever committing a line of code. The downside...

I miss the key so much! Lots of key paraphernalia from those early days in the team.

I'm shocked that Trump doesn't personally get a cut of all sales for use of his name. Or is that just in the fine print?

Let me fill that in: President Trump's announcement that his administration will impose a [ludicrous] tariff on [basically everybody], unless a company is [paying him personally a lot of money], sparked confusion.

100% this, it’s the same kind of broad-based bubble we saw in the early Internet era. The question is not whether it’s going to be painful, the question is *how* painful will it be?

I don't watch it much myself but I feel like "Trump take SNL" is a message that would get through to the normies

I think the whole point is that, relative to the past, his show *isn't* that popular. So many people have abandoned broadcast / cable television that I imagine affiliates are in a bad place as it is and are particularly vulnerable, and the corporate parent is, in turn, vulnerable to the affiliates.

Whatever may have happened in this interaction, there is no question that Jesse Helms absolutely was a racist, insensitive bully and ascribing ill intent to his motives was never unreasonable. (In college, I specifically kept my residency in NC to vote against Helms, for all the good it did...)

All the bloviating about "political debates" right now puts me in mind of a treatise I read on three-card monte in the pre-web Usenet days. Three-card monte is ostensibly a game that is played on street corners where the player tries to guess which of the three cards is the queen. But in truth...

When Reddit nuked their third party API it was the impetus to get me off of wasting time on Reddit. Now it looks like I'm going to have help getting off of waiting time on TikTok.

Making something polished and consistent enough to put in front of real customers is a pain in the ass, and something that coding models aren't (yet) good enough at. You also need to have a coherent idea of what you're doing, also something that models can't do.

I'm unfortunately old enough to have had chickenpox and to now know folks who have had shingles and ongoing neuralgia as a result. (Yes, you can still get shingles even if you were vaccinated, but it's much less common and impactful.) I also remember having to worry about measles and mumps and such.

100% this. When starting something new I will *frequently* work for a while, say “OK, now I have a better idea of what I’m doing,” revert, and start over. Of course there’s a “point of no return” where I’m far enough in I’m not going to do that, but this is an essential planning strategy.

Tired: This is WAR! Wired: This is a random act of senseless violence.

Two words: Tan. Suit.

The first personal computer that I owned was an Apple ][+ and I have such a soft spot in my heart for Applesoft BASIC.

This is what people were saying in 2016 about Hillary Clinton, and, well... I'm not saying those people shouldn't have held their noses and voted for Hillary in the general, I'm just saying that driving the signal underground isn't going to fix problematic candidates.

Also wondering how much this increased because many of the people who were purged had relatively low tenures. FIFO.

Goodness, I think I wore out every CD of theirs up to Monster. Somewhere between “Driver 8” and “Don’t Go Back to Rockville,” although I always remain partial to “Superman,” the first song I ever heard of theirs.

According to ChatGPT, there are five lights.

I can

This article reminded me of a funny story. A long time ago, I just started on the Visual Basic team and was trying to diagnose an issue with some math processing code. I asked someone who to talk to and they say, "Oh, you should talk to Tim, but he doesn't work Mondays or Fridays, so...

This is the XY version of a house full of dolls or little figurines or commemorative plates or Beanie Babies...

We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.