@renice.bsky.social if you don’t mind, I’m super curious to know more about how you reduce or push through bad design choice from agents with your setup. I’d love to get to a point where things like caches or simple but context-dependent calculations don’t require close scrutiny.

I’m a net proponent of using LLMs with coding, but I REALLY don’t understand the productivity gains that a lot of credible people say they’re getting from more hands-off auto approaches. Feels like 3 steps forward 2 steps back, vs more straightforward wins w/ “implement this narrow specced detail”.

A very beginner stab at ikebana. I love spring bulb flowers in general, it’s one of my personal marks of the seasons shifting.

Feeling weird about the borderline performative backlash about how this will help no one, when this is EXACTLY the kind of thing that would reopen more activities to me despite chronic tendon damage. Not every disability revolves around a wheelchair and not every QOL improvement is a ramp!

Is it really going to snow in the Bay Area next week? 🧵 The coldest air mass since 2023 is forecast to move over the region Tuesday & Wednesday, dropping the freezing level below 3,000 feet. Snow can fall 500 to 1,000 feet below the freezing level and heavy showers can temporarily drag it lower.

Some sad personal news: Curzon passed away this week at the old age of (about) 7. We adopted him from the Marin Humane Society in 2019, and he's been a wonderful and jouyous companion through some tough years. His presence will be deeply missed.

Walking along the beach.

I am begging my fellow Canadians to learn how their own governments work. If you can name a US amendment and you can't explain the division of powers and authority in our own system, you need to stop paying attention to US news and start reading about your own country.

On Feb 7 2020, Dr Li Wenliang, known as one of the first whistleblowers on COVID, died from the disease in Wuhan.

37 Corbett

one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel

Hilariously, a coyote walked behind a San Francisco reporter as she was doing a segment on the mountain lion. 🤣

Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.

Three people I really appreciate following right now are: @mekka.mekka-tech.com, @lookitup.baby, and @lizthegrey.com.

Deeply frustrating how much of politics consists of tricking people into being willing to pay for the things they want. No tax, only resources and services.

We should make transit free on spare the air days.

Frustrating that we live in an era where politicians can just lie to create whatever compelling-sounding argument they want. Supervisor Wong claimed that creating Sunset Dunes doubled traffic injuries in the district. That sounds really bad, except it's also horse apples.

I don’t think there’s a better way to wait out a model training.

Wish I'd taken the "before" photo for this one. It takes less than 10 minutes to dig through a snowbank, but it's a huge benefit to your community and neighbours to help clear a bus stop or the snowbanks that collect at street corners. Adopt your local bus stop today to keep it cleared and happy!

See y'all in a few hours!

Van Ness Station

Apropos of nothing in particular, reminder that there is a deal where you can get 440 Aura N95 respirators for $34.95 here. They are real, shipped from 3M and the box is comically gigantic. Breathe well

Holy hell, what an obituary

Overall sentiment, I’ve been getting talking to people: quantifying/scoring quality is HARD. To me, I think this boils down to: 1. Prescribe some base no-harm expectations like merge gates 2. Get devs to score projects based on qualitative factors. 3. Get into some downstream metrics (eg uptime).

Software engineers with strong opinions on craft: how do you quantify software QUALITY? LOC coverage? Engineer feedback scores? Checklist-based scores?

it’s not open source if i can’t reproduce it. it’s that simple to me.

forgetting the word Domesticated and telling people at this party raccoons have gotten "more coachable." at some point i start adding "over the offseason" which i don't think raccoons even have yet

🚨 Save the date to save Bay Area transit: January 23rd! This is our all hands on deck moment: we’re kicking off signature gathering for the regional measure with a day of action across all five counties on the 23rd. luma.com/le1g7slf?tk=...

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

You are under no obligation to traumatize yourself. You do not have a moral responsibility to watch those videos of a woman being murdered. Take care of yourself so you can take care of others, whatever that means for you personally.

Nominating No Other Choice for “best scene where 3 people fight over a weapon”.

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Apropos of nothing, it’s a great day to make conscious choices to reduce your direct and induced oil consumption. Happy Uposatha day. 🌕

I wonder if I delete and re-create my Bluesky account, is Google is going to delist it again? I thought it was just a sticky side effect from having previously deactivated the account, but changing the handle did not get me re-indexed.

why doesn’t anyone care about doing things well anymore

The California DMV is in deep need of reform. Enraging stuff, uncovered by a team of reporters at @calmatters.org calmatters.org/investigatio...

Hey East Bay, Car Free Happy Hour will be on Tuesday, January 13 at Two Pitchers in Oakland. 24th and Webster near 19th St. BART and multiple AC Transit lines. See you then! Spread the word!

Real good sunset from a few weeks ago.

Currently at a crossroads thinking about long-term plans and I’d love to shadow a transit service planner sometime. I’ve been fascinated by service planning since I was a kid and learning more about their day-to-day work would be really helpful! 🚌🗺️

There's two fundamental downsides to mass AV use: 1. They fail in "novel" situations that humans can adapt to. Ranging from annoying to "isolated" collisions to blocking streets after a quake. 2. Like Uber/taxis, AVs spend more "useless" time on the road than personal cars, creating worse traffic.

For a preview of what's to come from AVs, look to San Francisco. As ex-SFMTA CEO @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social explained here, affluent people love Waymos. But they muck up transport networks by blocking streets and obstructing transit. What’s good for individual riders may not be good for the city.

happy boxing day to all who celebrate

"Le is one of a handful of Asian women who operate San Francisco buses. Among the roughly 2,500 Muni operators employed by the SFMTA, about 80% are men and 20% are women. While Asian operators make up roughly 43% of the workforce, Asian women account for just 1.7%."

yellow line skokie, illinois

Downtown Boarkeley

📢🌾 I’ll 2x match up to $5,000 donated to the World Food Program between now and December 28th end of day. That‘s a 1x personal match and 1x employer match. We can raise $15,000 together, up to 60,000 meals. 🙏🏻 Just share your redacted receipt, I’ll match daily. donate.wfpusa.org/page/Funding...

📢🌾 I’ll 2x match up to $5,000 donated to the World Food Program between now and December 28th end of day. That‘s a 1x personal match and 1x employer match. We can raise $15,000 together, up to 60,000 meals. 🙏🏻 Just share your redacted receipt, I’ll match daily. donate.wfpusa.org/page/Funding...