lol I asked claude to diagnose and fix a problem I was confused about; it failed to address my prompt but fixed an unrelated problem on its own accord 🥲

Regular grammars are interesting because it's the only programming domain in which using esolangs is standard practice

It really does seem like teenage girls are doing better than the boys. They're out and about, involved in stuff. They talk to you. Where the hell do they boys *go* when they turn ten or so? They just disappear, like this world is some sort of horror story and we just don't talk about it.

I think we are actually gonna bring a chicken to the fair next year because we have one that is just gorgeous

Lost was dumb as hell but the bit of the plot where they find a guy who has to push a button every day and says some unknown terrible thing will happen if nobody does, and they take over the responsibility with no idea what the fuck any of it is or whether it's true, is really big mood

The more stories from world war 2 I see, the more I value having an armed population. Resistances to occupations accomplished a good bit using violence.

The ladder is the most dangerous tool you own. People die falling off stepladders. Anything about cars is a red herring in the discussion of whether bike helmets make sense, whenever you get up onto a rigid thing you're creating a situation where if the thing falls over your head may go down […]

I really enjoy the serenity that is required to purchase firewood. You know that if somebody was good at communication and scheduling, they'd get some job other than being a wood cutter. So you just accept there will be some confusing texts and they'll come when they come

Implemented undo/redo buttons in our #godot card game today. Predictably, modeling history is sort of awkward when your programming language doesn't have a great notion of immutable data structures!

Okay I have a huge complaint with math practice and instruction software. Once you get to algebra, YOU NEED TO HAVE PAPER, and these websites need to stop implying to students that there are enough tools available on the website itself to be able to do the exercises

I can't help but wonder whether provoking a sudden outpouring of support for an ABC prime time host was actually bad for them.

Objects that are too large to ship cheaply are a real rich man, poor man thing in this culture right now. Either you have it because it's inherited/secondhand or because you paid a fortune

the people whose OSS you're using keep making security flaws so your best solution is to automate pulling updates from them, which is itself just another a security flaw

man making a website is so fucking easy, as long as you don't try to customize the look and feel too much

It's a great exercise to watch or rewatch Thank You For Smoking now, as perhaps in 2005 you didn't yet know who executive producers Elon Musk and Peter Thiel were, and consider its propaganda goals

one of the smartest things we did in the garden this year was as we sifted grass out of the soil for new inground beds, we piled it up into a compost bin with a bit of loose soil on top to create a raised bed and planted pumpkins in it

a lot of programmers in particular are uncomfortable with the idea of accepting that when an AI tool happens to work it's just a little extra bonus, but to most people that's simply the experience of using a computer and there never was an experience of it working another way

a computer cannot know whether I am trying to read something on the display, therefore a computer should never make a scrolling decision

is Fossil any good, this page sure looks nice at least https://sqlite.org/src/timeline

it's funny to compare virginia woolf said you need $40k/year and quiet room to write, versus techboss saying what if you get 150k but you have to do it in a noisy office

oh I haven't even noticed that Ver was in the soup https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/roger-ver-bitcoin-justice-department-deal.html

most of the things I love about haskell seem actually fairly superficial so I really don't understand what the fuck the compiler is doing that takes an hour to build dependencies for a project that does the same thing I can do in typescript in a minute

@chris__martin https://web.archive.org/web/20230622074912/https://openai.com/our-structure/

What is even the argument for what new data centers are going to do for AI, because the market feels pretty saturated already

one thing I find captivating about cloudflare's durable object framework is how amenable it seems to writing an application for yourself and then modifying to make it multi-tenant

once again: BEANS

if the plan is seriously "stop fighting, return all captives, and hamas isn't allowed to run a country anymore" I feel like I could have come up with this deal

we just watched a documentary about north korean defectors and now I'm sad

IMO the way task queues should work in a business is you should see a separate list of tasks ordered by priority by each person who wants something that you are able to do

ABC canceled jacques cousteau's show once it started turning into bleak doomsaying about ecological loss, and I think you have to understand it couldn't have gone any other way; the network's job is to air things that people want to watch

we just watched a documentary on jacques cousteau and, holy shit, I had assumed the life aquatic was an homage, but it is a roast

One lever you have as a parent is to play good age-invariant music at home so your kids do less of this. Classic country is a good example because the lyrics are intelligible and not stupid. https://dads.cool/@InternetEh/115333172160567491

i feel weird asking this again like thirty years later but where do you get bootleg snes roms nowadays

if one more guy comments on all the berries in the bear scat without immediately looking for the berries the bear is eating, i'm going to scream if the berry calories are good enough for a bear about to go down for the winter, they're good enough for you

Okay so I didn't actually expect to learn any psychology from Alone but, it's astonishing how reliably the people who do the worst in this competition are just pissed off at the world from day one

it's nice to clear away the cruft of sql tools and iterate over a damn cursor

You need a higher level of authentication credential in this country to merely *board* and airplane than you do to *drive* a car

a cs degree basically just means you say "performant" rather than "blazing fast"

in the tension between should I use a library or should I write it myself, I think the third option of I could copy some template is undervalued

we were talking about an article about the increasing illiteracy in our society and a zoomer said, yeah, they'd recently seen a video about that

today we visited the largest larch tree

as this year's gardening season comes to its rapid close in montana, I just want to make one observation: beans

even if you accept it at face value that our missile strikes in the caribbean are hitting drug smuggling boats, how does anyone think that is not an absolutely batshit thing to do

A Room of One's Own really is a banger

Read the Wired article about Bluesky that certainly makes it *sound* like an open network, which I find very confusing since here in reality it still doesn't seem to connect with anything

the power company when you live somewhere it gets fucking cold:

trailer in nowhere in the middle of a much larger nowhere in america, 170 thousand dollars

the "lame duck" framing amazingly tries to delegitimize like 1/4 of the whole history of the executive government, it's a bold idea

@chris__martin I certainly am a socialist, as many Europeans. "all cops are bastards" is obviously a very, very US peculiarity.