US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

House spiders are pretty good, but I think we should genetically engineer house dragonflies.

for you, and @mattdm.org: 🤣 jcuff@nvidia:~$ sudo jetson_release Model: NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Developer Kit - Jetpack 6.1 [L4T 36.4.0] Hardware: - P-Number: p2180-1000 - Module: NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Platform: - Distribution: Fedora Linux 42 Workstation Edition - Release: 6.15.7-200.fc42.aarch64

Things I have accidentally invented because I don't have a proper CS education: 1. long format data tables 2. k-fold validation 3. simulated annealing To be clear, this is not bragging. Turns out, learning things from others is good, actually. (Notes for 20-year-old-self.)

The absolute best intervention for poverty: just give people money and stop hand-wringing about what people might spend it on. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Me: You know, this anniversary is a significant milestone! Her: What, because it's a cubic number? *rolls eyes" And that's why we've been married for 27 years.

Anya comes home from her restaurant shift. "Dad — go dish out ice cream. Mom — queue up the video. I'm going to go change into my PJs." *takes a beat* "Now imagine I said that but less bossy."

I like a lot of these candidates, so... it might come down to extra points for those who say "Somervuhl" and "Somervillan" properly. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #SomervilleMA

ASQE SQE SSQE PSQE SPSQE SPQR wait no

People have trouble interpreting this. Nobody’s saying Donald Trump or Pam Bondi are personally selecting Nazi iconography. They don’t read enough for that. The point is they hire and promote Nazis who ARE steeped in Nazi iconography, and they’re fine with it.

Huh. I did something which made my system load go up to 140 and filled 32gb of ram and 8gb of swap. Desktop wasn't responsive at all, but I could ssh in from another system and ran top and killed some stuff. I expected to have to reboot, but it all just sorted itself out. Good job, modern Linux!

This sauce is 3× hotter for English speakers.

This sauce is 3× hotter for English speakers.

I, for one, am glad I am finally going to be able to use my 1300 baud modem. lwn.net/ml/all/59060...

K: You ate half this jar of Marshmallow Fluff! I just bought that! V: It's not my fault you got the small jar!

This is too long to post here so I'm just gonna link: hachyderm.io/@mattdm/1148...

I made a new website for my wife's store. magpiekids.com #somervillema

Boston University IT claims that they intend to retire AFS at the end of August. Good luck with that, BU sysadmins! (They've been trying since at least 2005.)

fine i will do it i will inspect the potato

I like how the Spanish word ojo is, like, the visual equivalent of onomatopoeia.

What if instead of the trolley problem it was the Trolli problem and instead of getting run over everyone got sour gummy worms. I believe this to be a much better deal.

Just over here watching the temperature, listening to the AC struggling, and wondering how long Eversource can keep the power on.

I said "You know, technically the entire ocean is seaweed soup", and my daughter laughed out loud, so I am officially winning at Dad.

*sits down on plane* *gets notification from Egencia that my departure gate has changed* Thanks, Egencia!

I am on the bus to the airport in Prague, and am surround by old British men with whichever accent it is where every sentence ends with either "innit" or "an' that".

Is there a vscode plugin which automatically notices when you are adding comments or fixing typos in random parts of the codebase and breaks them out into their own distinct commits? As an undisciplined coder making things up as i go along, I don't know how to deal with this.

As a human, I * love the em dash, * enjoy making bullet lists, and * am not sure if that body of water counts as a "lake" or whether a moped is a "bicycle".

* and they are all crosswalks

So there is a profile of me in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

As a human, I * love the em dash, * enjoy making bullet lists, and * am not sure if that body of water counts as a "lake" or whether a moped is a "bicycle".

OH: "My family is going to Ireland for 10 days. What do you recomend they see?" "What part of Ireland?" "Well, they're going for 10 days, so.... all of it?"

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Obviously, kids doing their homework with AI has no educational value. On the other hand, it's been pretty well shown that most homework has no educational value, at least before high school. Maybe some good can come out of this.

OH: "New bugs are more fun than old ones."

The 191 bus takes a sort of random-walk path from the airport into Prague. This sounds kind of bad, but actually gives an interesting tour of parts of the city you wouldn't normally tourist through.

I'm looking forward to going to Brno for many reasons, but pretty high on the list is (I am not making this up) the best Indian restaurant in Europe.

you know what I find helpful when everything on earth is hot garbage? Creating something with your own hands- doesn't have to be elaborate, or inspired or anything, but just doing will improve your mood and outlook

For real though, this is a really good resource for anyone interested in helping an open source project succeed.

I don't disagree, but this doesn't answer my question.

The open source community seems to be incredibly hostile towards "things normal people want" - I've noticed a shift from "we could do this better" to "we should not do this at all", in very broad terms.

GLX sure is busy at rush hour. Need to get those Type 10s into service! #mbta

Any politician or pundit who frets about both * immigration or birthright citizenship * declining birth-rates needs to be pushed hard on exactly what they are asking for. Every time they bring up either one, make them say it.

Google Gemini 2.5 can actually write a properly-structured villanelle. Everything I've tried previously will output some doggerel crap and then explain how it meets the traditional structure when it blatantly does not.

This is the light switch by my front door. I've made it so the LEDs on the left show levels of COVID RNA detected in Boston wastewater. It's an arbitrary log2 scale, with the first 3 lights green, the next 2 yellow, and the top 2 red. This is the first time it has been down to green since 2023.

"You want me to RAT on my MOLE like a SNAKE?"

A follow-up. theonion.com/trump-argues...

I've been telling my daughter that she should read #Murderbot for _years_, but she has a contrarian streak where she "doesn't like books people recommend". Well, last week, she said "fine, I need something new I'll give it a try."

"Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally." youtu.be/sTswXAFA18Y?...

Here is my dad (a retired joiner) explaining that the doors of Harvard's Memorial Hall are poorly made.