Was stopped in the USA today by an armed, un-uniformed law enforcement member who asked to see my papers. Any guess what agency they represented?

Look who got her dumb ass stuck on the wrong side of the fence today

My family has dedicated the entire day to calling and driving around to people's offices to get the kid registered for a few classes, thanks to computers

City folks are the ones "sounding the alarm" about climate change because the farmers never needed to - Don't you think they fucking noticed it

I like writing software libraries that ask you to inject some utilities as constructor parameters upfront and in exchange have zero transitive package dependencies

Switching back and forth between haskell and typescript has been pretty healthy, as they both have their respective strengths and weaknesses

miracle on 34th st (1947) is a very cute story about a little girl who doesn't want to live in new york city anymore

I don't think that the past ever really fades away. But as you add to your life, each event becomes a smaller fraction of the total, and that's similar.

Near 25 years, I have still never been through an airport TSA scanner. It's optional. Say "opt out" when you get to the checkpoint.

season's greetings

this is kinda crazy

huh, the Glengarry Glen Ross stageplay doesn't even have the Blake character, and the screen adaptation wrote it in specifically for Alec Baldwin

in montana news: man sentenced for bear spray attack https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2025/dec/19/prewett-faces-up-to-10-years-for-bear-spray-incide/

I think one thing often lost in some areas of information security is that locks are usually less about preventing somebody from getting in, and more about preventing somebody from getting in quickly or quietly

I often find myself wanting some way to have a memoized value (usually involving I/O, so nonstrict eval is irrelevant here) and not seeing any standard way to do that ergonomically and wondering how people live like this

If it's difficult given a URL on your website to find the code for that page, you really done fucked up

I think I actually believe in The Force insofar as it represents the extraordinary thinking people are capable of if they are able to get off the computer

It's batshit that neither audiobook nor movie players have a "stop at the end of this chapter" button

my wife is always mumbling "how does this website just... not work" and doesn't even appreciate it when I give likely answers for what the company did wrong to get them to that point

There's a school of thought that the perfect diet can be engineered, then there's the shepherds I know who just leave out buckets of minerals and stuff (some of which would be toxic in excess) and let the sheep decide how much to take

I wish I could have the same wisdom every day as I do when I forget about a project for a few months and come back to it later; I don't know what happens in that intervening time that tends to put things into better perspective

The only reason infix ops suck pragmatically is that all the libraries want to define the same identifiers. Languages that don't let you define custom infix ops are like the boss in Reservoir Dogs: I pick the names, or else my crew is just ten guys fighting over who gets to be Mr. Black

Aliens are the Earthly form of Pascal's wager. You can believe or not, and there are no stakes, other than one choice makes you sort of dull

Anybody know anything about this sort of christian rehab thing? A pastor in town is fundraising to open one nearby and I don't immediately know what to think of it https://www.hopecm.com/program

finished making wool hat

well SUNSHINE was decent so let's see if SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is any good

I think it is generally a bad idea to argue about the scale of ongoing humanitarian travesties whose scale could be dropped to zero; reasserting that an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere feels more productive

current Haskell workflow is to use Stack for dependency management but export what it decides and use Cabal for the actual work. To turn stack yaml into a cabal project: stack2cabal To turn package yaml files into cabal files: stack build --dry-run --hpack-force

Watched "The Thin Man" (1934) last night, and I am continually astonished that the best way to experience something new is to dig up something old.

As long as the punctuation and capitalization conventions in our APIs reflect the restrictions on the names of identifiers in the programming language that was first used to implement the service, I'm willing to admit that all this abstraction is sort of a clown show

It isn't smart to try to hire above average skilled people and then encourage them to communicate through any medium that munges what they wrote into what software guesses an average person would have been likely to write.

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

I was always happy to assume that community colleges are probably fine, but after now having interacted with one, I have to admit it's sort of a joke

Engaging in a back-and-forth conversation-style interaction with a computer is really neat! It's just slow. For business productivity, prefer the more straightforward model of computing where you enter commands and the machine runs them.

The doctors here have all replaced their own notes with LLM summaries of automatic transcriptions, and since I am literate I'm not sure why I couldn't just write a few paragraphs about my own health instead of meeting with somebody now

if your execs believe that computers are talking to them, you actually do work for a cult

if mozilla sucks so bad how long are folks going to keep on lamenting? it's been, like, a decade, give up

"Lost" season two truly was Big Mood for this era, you have to go on the computer and click some buttons throughout the day and you don't really know why

just don't rest on this, there's lots more basic services to replace https://tiggi.es/@DeltaWye/115732599074565943

I think even most of AI's strongest haters are underestimating the value there once was of knowing that if a text existed, a person had written it

I can't believe the only innovation I've seen in issue/task management systems over my entire career is that we now force everything to start with "As a"

I don't *want* to have to keep a pellet gun by my side to defend my animals from your animals

I'm curious, a question for anybody who uses a screen reader or other assistance to deal computer screens - What would the tech be like if everyone were as sighted as you, what is the ideal you would design?

npr, calling trump's numbers "wildly inflated," wants you to know that fentanyl only killed 48,000 americans last year

rofl Ford is dropping its entire EV business, and the kicker is its Kentucky battery factory is now going to buffer power supply for data centers

there's a mouse in the stove again

but now i keep thinking about this lady i know here from Slovakia, when i told her my son was studying Russian, and she said, "it's a beautiful language, but I used to hate Russian because...you know.... the communism"

Thousandth thing I use AI for because software sucks: Stack's "scroll up to find the error" message - fuck you I'm just gonna click the copilot button

When students write code comments, they mostly serve as translation guides for an audience that can't read the programming language fluently. As they move out of a context in which such notes are helpful, many go through a phase of seeing no use for prose at all.

Annual use of the Soviet artifact