I live in a left to right natural language (English) and I dislike awkward clauses in programming languages where I read left to right val = stuff_I_read_as_going_to_happen() if ha_ha_no_it_might_not At least Python and Ruby allow this weird "if" and I don't like it C ( ? : ) is fine tho

Ad-tech big data knows everywhere Santa has been because of all the tracking cookies

I have enjoyed Aphyr's writing about deeply nerdy database things. I expect he's writing precisely and citing good sources when he talks about Trump's war on Chicago disappearing people daily and other atrocities. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

nonsense snack: goldfish & cheddar quesadilla with costco sriracha powder in it

Comic of butt jokes doing its finest work with the "not racist butt"

Today I'm feeling a Camelot vibe from cryptocurrency (in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail sense of "on second thought let's not go there, tis a silly place")

another asymmetric win from this: every $1 we spend campaigning in these districts probably costs them $2-$4 but really, so many wins, run every race, 50-state-435-district strategy (and every local thing too)

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

`git submodule` is horribly broken and no one should use it. If you use submodules, someone can do a `git clone` or `git checkout` and silently get an inconsistent environment and they have to _somehow_ know to do extra stuff to get a consistent world. This is unacceptable.

trying to get do some development on an open source project because I really like the product, but they're really opinionated that their dev tools are npm and VSCode and I want neither of those. I'll try at least a little to get it working under a different stack

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18." p.s. Older people are really showing up.

the shrinkflation at @npr.org @wbur.org has been pretty fierce Nina Totenbag from 5-10 years ago vs WBUR bag this year

breakfast convo: 'oh wow the MOVE bombing was bad and more people should hear about it' as my partner catches up on a history podcast. Philly PD did some horrible stuff in the early 1980s culminating in a dozen deaths and 60 homes destroyed by fire www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

The next time a boss calls me in for one of those meetings, I want to be handed this shirt. Then at least I get this shirt.

futility = voltage / current

Drawing programs are cool but there's no input lag on a crayon

dexterity challenge: put a glove on your right hand without using your left hand

can't guarantee results today, but I'm giving it my best effor

gorm wtf: it has no Close() method I guess it's maybe managing the connection pool well enough, but, eugh, weird

recurring theme in my career: 'filter' and 'sort' are very different operations with very different computational demands and possibilities and limitations

Flaky tests! Every CI/CD system needs to collect per-unit-test history for success and run-time. Maybe the stats and pattern detection is hard, but a good plot of success/fail (bonus: overlay with run-time) should let me eyeball potential hot spots pretty quick

Republicans drew 3 times as many congressional districts as Dems did. Republicans in Congress & on SCOTUS unanimously blocked Dems from ending gerrymandering nationwide multiple times in recent years. Republicans could end gerrymandering today if they chose to, but they want even more extreme maps

why am I so full of non-sequitur? the Constitution guaranteed my right to free association

there are clearly obsolete/inferior technologies that are market winners that everyone should stop using e.g. x86 CPUs, 98% of internal combustion engines some of these things are happening organically but stupid-slow

children's media with anthropomorphized vehicles: FINE sometimes they note that there are human 'drivers' inside the whole time: THIS IS REALLY WEIRD

The Eyesocket Maggot Party is a long coalition ally of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

I have touched room-filling cluster machines that in aggregate topped out at around 128 GFLOPS; javascript on my phone currently runs around 9 GFLOPS single threaded on CPU, it has 8 CPU cores oh and GPU and NPU besides top500.org/lists/top500... bolson.org/flops_js/

good essay, but the hot take that stuck with me is that _enshittification_ is part of a larger system of Crapitalism

Today in Catholic news, the Pope is now also against Dei hires

I had to look up who this horrible person we should be ignoring is, the WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY says that the D party caters to terrorists and criminals that's bad

Distributed network-blockchain: every node must see every valid event on the network Distributed network-social media: any node operator can block any shit they don't like

Just read the last two months of @web3isgoinggreat.com and oh man an I still glad to be out of that industry

Go stdlib time.Time can represent int64 seconds since 0001-01-01 00:00:00 (and an extra 30 bits of nanoseconds). I didn't go that high, but just plugged in 0xffff_ffff_ffff_ffff milliseconds and got to somewhere in the year 584_556_019

Several states could lose Voting Rights Act-mandated majority-minority districts. We can presume those states will immediately redistrict to crack&pack those populations out of any representation whatsoever. This would steal another dozen or so seats for the R party

11 test flights. Saturn V flew 13 times ever.

As economic growth continues to falter, the civic council of Omelas debates adding a third child

I went to the woods and the hippies were mostly tripping on rocks and roots

I want to play "girlfriend of founder of antifa" game but can't find just the right Expanse gif of Camina or Naomi. (we love Chrisjen but she's way to establishment for this game)

supercharge the fan that keeps the suit inflated and put a filter on the inlet and you're wearing a huge fabulous PAPR (Powered Air Purifying Respirator)

Non-public posts has always been my top feature desire for bluesky. Right now I'd bet on Blacksky doing it first. Can't wait to see it

Central Vermont last weekend

Accelerationism: make things worse faster so that people get fed up and have a revolution to make things better This is dumb: good is good and bad is bad This is dumb: are you *sure* you'll get the revolution you want? This is bad: in bad times, the weak suffer the most

#ICYMI: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A GAO report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

don't rely on having a professional or business presence on facebook

I like waffles but at home those are the 'special occasion' breakfast because pancake setup and cleanup is easier. (it's the same batter, just pan vs waffle machine) On a good morning I can go zero to first pancake on plate in 15 minutes.

my office window for the day

My amazing partner got us tickets to the _first stop_ on Martha Wells' book tour for "Queen Demon"! bsky.app/profile/mart...

If I make a mud-straw golem perform circus ...