Schumer is a senile old fuck that needs to go.

Maybe Andrew Cuomo can now retire to Staten Island to be with his people.

With the polls closed, Zohran Mamdani unveils his “100 Mosques in 100 Days” plan.

Does the noise get to you? WHAT??? SPEAK UP SONNY...

I'm folicualry challenged enough to want a man bun. But y'all could sure call it whatever you want. 🙂 <- actual hair style

Ah yes macOS ancient crappy buggy built in awk (and many other utilities). We'll be using sprintf() again too force 'casting' of the results of addition of two hex values back into hex. Sigh. God damn it Apple you make me dream of Linux.

New, long, oral history of Ken Thompson, my and everyone's hero. From the Computer History Museum: https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/ Click thru a while to get a text transcript.

"That's no ballroom"

Washington Post editorial board: Right-wing idiots who also cannot spell.

wake up babe new $20 bill just dropped #meme #memes #eastwing #whitehouse #uspol #uspolitics #trump

Was trying out Cursor. Paid the minimal monthly fee. Not impressed and I ran out of the first months credits before achieving anything useful. Just frustrating, so canceled my subscription. Cursor made no effort to use AI to ask why I was cancelling. A week or so after cancelling the […]

I found the secret to vibe coding with a LLM (currently Claude). It's consuming two large margaritas. By the end of the second one I'm much happier, no code still does not compile, but who gives a fuck. And I have enough tequila open for a other margarita or two if needed. Overall drinking is […]

Helping Claude chat with more correct responses to it making basic dtrace script errors. Anything is better than long winded explanations about things that I already know and it's repeatedly getting wrong. 🤷‍♂️

this is hilarious

Kid ran the Chicago Marathon in 2:47:51, in the ~1% of male runners and ~top 100 in his age group. Hopefully a qualifying time for the Boston Marathon in 2027. Meanwhile, I got off the sofa.

In heavy rotation: Carol King Tapestry. Mentioned it to my son and his girlfriend as a vinyl album I need to get them. Now can't get it out of my head/off my playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-TgA6bQk

Damn macOS with it's ancient set of badly maintained UNIX tooling. Today's adventure is wasting hours because of an awk parsing/math bug. Apple's old awk is supposed to handle hex arithmetic if it sees number strings starting with 0x lets see how well that works /usr/bin/awk ' BEGIN { a=10 […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

Boy is not happy about the cone.

Amazon customer love. Upgrading to eero Max 7 WiFi router took oh four minutes. Had to swap the old Ethernet cable to the unit to solve glitches now it's at 10 Gbit from the Sonic optical drop. Sign, now I need some WiFi 7 devices, but the reception is better even on WiFi 6 with the big 'ol […]

One of the best television commercials ever. Hey it's for beer, I'm Australian. https://youtu.be/iU5XG-LnkBU?si=J-YuyE9wHWAeCD6M

@NanoRaptor Neither a Ford nor a fish: Seen today in the SF Bay Area.

Vibe coding with ChatGPT. It had a nice idea of solving a problem by just reading aio control blocks out of a programs user space to reverse engineer what it was doing. We will timestamp things and log the aio_read() file names and importantly the target malloc’ed memory they are being read into […]

Not sure what message spam is worse the scammers who keep messaging me that the CA DMV is going to prosecute me if I don’t pay a fine online, or the kids sports team parents list that somebody accidenly added my phone number to. No I don’t want to bring after game snacks…

@ahl @bcantrill A commercial Mac application detects it's being run as root and quits, likely a barrier against bad actors defeating licensing protections but I'm a good actor and I need root to run dtrace/dtruss. 🤷‍♂️ sudo dtruss -f su -l boo '~/Users/boo/run_app.sh' I just laughed when that […]

I love the movie Wall Street and the scene with the hand cranked sushi maker always got me as peak 1980s. Ah but at $3,500 I'll pass.... https://ebay.us/m/tQKSKp

Trump encourages women to "tough out" their pain in pregnancy like he toughed out the bone spurs in his heels to honorably serve his country in Vietnam.

God damn it Microsloth how hard would it be to just print a error if Windows 10 is trying to install on a PC with no PAE and other needed instruction support, instead of the install just hanging. (trying to repurpose a really old 32-bit Thinkpad to run one tiny little custom app).

I'm not fat, I'm actually very thin, I just have a tummy plateau. (Thank you Apple Marketing).

the terms and condtiions have been altered pray we do not alter it any further

Critical all hands product meeting at Meta this morning... like troops standing at attention, all lined up. "All those who had a demo on stage yesterday that worked take a step backwards..."

Been fun pair programming with ChatGPT. It's drifted off into hallucinating about constants used in an API after I pointed out it was not using all the valid message type values in a test, so it changed the test to use them all and for good measure added a few made up ones as well. Me: The last […]

Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr

Thought I was done with the Monarchs this year. I was out in the garden watching what I think was the rescue Monarch I released yesterday enjoying feeding on some milkweed. And then along came another male that may be one I released around a week ago. These two males are either confused and […]

Setting free the last rescue Monarch butterfly (rescue from the dog trampling milkweed plants). Good luck little guy. He hung out for a short while sticking his proboscis into the cone flower, hopefully he got a snack, and then flew off.

I didn’t say Trump has become honest, I said he’s no longer talking out of both sides of his mouth

This!

Every major gun-rights group has now spoken against the idea of the DOJ trying to strip trans people of their gun rights en masse. GOA, SAF, FPC NAGR, and CCRKBA all publicly oppose the effort.

With the dog on a nighttime walk and I hear folks down the street calling out at something, thought they were shouting at a dog in their yard. Turns out it was a few deer likely getting into their garden. This is several miles well into suburbia from usual deer […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

New butterfly warming up to take flight…

@kenwhite.bsky.social Just listened to the latest Serious Trouble, amused by Ken's rye sense of humor.

Late night arguing with Copilot.... Basically way to tired to put up with it's mistakes 🙂 Me: "You refactored the code and deleted the IEEE floating point related #define that was needed". Copilot: "No it's not a the reason the code does not compile is blah blah blah .. it needs to define a […]

My son is moving to Miami. Getting him and his girlfriend a housewarming give of some good vinyl (I keep buying them good classic rock vinyl albums). o Idlewild South, Allman Brothers, September 1970 o Layla and other Assorted Love Songs, Derek and the Dominos, November 1970 o At Fillmore East […]

Ya can’t make dumb shit like this up. https://toot.community/@newsyc200/115091740473245390

Spending time trying to attract and protect monarchs in the garden it’s nice to see other visitors, here a gray hairstreak butterfly visiting a hollyhock. Notice the day-glo orange anti-collision wingtips. 🙂

An Autum Sunflower leaning out to say hi on the dog walk.

Eric Adams many problems also include design and typography. I noticed this campaign poster in NYT coverage. It's... oh where do you start.... Lack of white space. Drunk weird R and C. (can't grok which typeface that is right now). Nothing lines up. Uneven […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Five into one. Trying out a Sofabaton U2 programable remote control. It’s pretty nice and a bargain (~$70). Main goal here is to give a simple remote to others so they can do basic stuff in a somewhat complex A/V rack. Bonus is it has backlit buttons when most […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

The latest Jepsen talk, from Systems Distributed in June, goes live in 15 minutes. We'll be doing a live chat during the premier, if you want to chat about databases and testing. :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpTxWePmW5Y