I can feel the Waymo relax when another Waymo is on the other side of the intersection , and honestly Waymo, same

Unpopular opinion, but I think it’s good to practice empathy even towards people who don’t practice empathy. (I say “unpopular” bc they crucified the first guy who built a platform on that)

ADHD meds are controlled substances; meaning you can still get them with a doctor’s prescription, but are legally required to be inconvenienced several hours per month when picking them up. (my old pharmacy got sold to a new owner who “doesn’t sell narcotics”; 24 hours later I have a new pharmacy)

Other people in my peer group may have families, communities, and their mental health, but last month I reduced my team’s CI from 35 minutes to 7, so who’s **really** winning the game here

How do I get the timeline where the Wyld Stallyns won the 1989 San Dimas Battle of the Bands Bc somehow I ended up in the timeline where scotus made donald trump the worm king of arrakis

Eventually, the brutes burn down the library. Joke’s on them though, the sun will someday explode

It’s really funny how Vince Gilligan cast the perfect Gus Fring—a man so unassuming and even-tempered he fits right in as the New Mexico Dave Thomas—and a decade later casting Giancarlo is shorthand for “hey this is the bad guy”

I think about this comic all the time.

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

nice argument. however i have already portrayed myself as decentralized and you as centralized

Generative AI hallucinating makes it completely useless for the thing we want it to do but people are using it for that thing anyway and that is terrifying

Big “we support the jobs the comet will create” energy

They didn’t want those things, they wanted trump in power and those were the talking points their media bubble gave them

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Me: [thinking about the NOAA]“Andor is so timely”

Every millennial knows the pain of falling in love but ultimately having to break up because they’re on opposite sides of the “are we going to be Disney adults” conversation

A software engineer is an instrument for converting Figma subscriptions into revenue

Eventually, the brutes burn down the library. Joke’s on them though, the sun will someday explode

Michelle Trachtenberg and I were supposed to meet in the nursing home, I was going to say “you were great in Pete & Pete”, my inner 11-year-old and I are _feeling> this one

I like to watch an episode of something marvel before severance, like eating a bag of Cheetos before going to a gourmet restaurant

I see a lot of “AI is replacing engineers” hype, but the one company that actually tried replacing me with an LLM lost so many clients they went bankrupt in less than a year.

I used up all my social capital warning people about Trump the first time. I’m so isolated and burned out now, the only goal I hope for is survival. Idk why I bother with vulnerability on the open internet; it requires empathy and/or intelligence to respond well. Litmus test, maybe.

LLMs are a great tool, it’s like if I had a shovel that hit **just** to the left or right of where I was aiming, and sometimes shoveled some dirt on the third or fourth try!

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I grew up around airplanes. My dad flew us to family gatherings in his Beech Baron. I landed my first touch-and-go in a Cessna 152 at the age of 17. Over decades of flights, I never felt safer than when in the hands of air traffic control. I wonder if tomorrow I’ll finally stop crying.

In retrospect, the least realistic part of Tomorrow Never Dies was the part where intelligence agencies like MI6 and the CIA would be directed to **oppose** global chaos, rather than architect, engineer, and implement it themselves.

Social media peaked at xanga

Any other LA fire evacuees trying to work from a hotel room today? I feel like I’ve forgotten how to think

A show like hot ones but instead of eating hot wings you watch the first ten minutes of up and if you don’t cry you go to jail

Had a manager last year who’d been a college athlete and so always referred to code sprints in terms of weightlifting. Finishing tickets was “getting reps.” Ticket estimation was “big lift? Small lift?” Today at diff company I nearly referred to an item that will take a lot of planning as “leg day.”

Pretty sure the cruelest onboarding assignment possible is “fix broken tests”

oh, you gave my iMessage a thumbs up? so you hate me?

Again reminded I am incredibly lucky to get to write Rust for my actual work. After years of managing Java and Python APIs it feels like winning the software engineer lottery. Low overhead binaries go brrrrr. (don’t ask me about compile times)

Forcing everyone to see fireworks every time someone gives two thumbs up is apple’s war on introverts

As someone who grew up online, it does depress me to see how many people genuinely can’t fathom why someone would want to be on social media beyond reasons linked to building clout so you can make money. It’s fun to talk to interesting people from around the world. That’s always been my reason.

The CEO at my new company is such a cool and humble guy. he contributes to open source so prolifically, he has code in one of the dependencies I chose for our project, and *didn’t even say anything* until I saw the code & DM’d him to ask about it. Then he was like “oh it was just a few lines” lol

I have 895 followers here on no posts and feel obligated to use my first post to say I am definitely the quake guy, you are not here by mistake, I am not just a regular person with a Michael Bolton name, I am the famous John Carmack, with a different face for some reason