I've never regretted getting a new (new or new-to-me) watch!

For real. And with some people I just want to ask “What do you even LIKE in life?” Any dummy can endlessly point their thumb at the ground.

As someone who actually works in the named company, I hope Steve appreciates the 468% stock growth in his absence and finds a new hobby.

(I do not disagree)

Life status: Therapist says my dating life is exhausting.

Eat 50g of protein and see if you still feel like shit after 20 minutes. If you do, the problem is systemic.

it basically just is, but there are a lot of firefighters

“I realize your team has a high visibility and high impact on all of Google's engineering efficiencies” was a nice thing to read in an email and should probably go on the resume.

Now I have /d+ jobs

LLMs have a lot of uses, but my most frequent use, by far is "Comma-separate this list {paste of dozens of Jira issue IDs}"

Congratulations to Douglas Dollars for securing access to yet another system at work with an inscrutable name and unclear purpose, but was necessary for something you already forgot about two weeks ago. You're killing it, dog!

Listening to the new James Blake album: “this is good.”

Listening to the new James Blake album on headphones: “this is gooooooood.”

+1, and when Disney jumps in with a $1Bn deal, largely around use of Sora …and that's still not enough runway to even keep it on life support, it has no path.

Congratulations to Titanic II (2010) and Rocky (1976) on your OSCAR wins tonight. I didn’t watch the awards but I think it’s your year.

Sorry, first three attempts.

Aperture at $x/month would lead me to a much stronger belief they'd stay in the space than the first two attempts at it.

I think he got Bloodsport stuck on the TV and thought it was MMA

If there is a number on a dashboard visible to executives, having the largest or smallest number there will become an arms race.

There is word of companies measuring AI productivity by their employees’ token usage and it just feels like a sign we’ve lost the technical leadership at those sort of companies that similarly knew that measuring productivity by lines of code was dumb, even fifty years ago.

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

The sleep equivalent to “you ate beets last night, don’t freak out”

If you wake up feeling like crap some random-seeming Sunday, it was Daylight Saving

And we also know that if one tattooer won't do it, a client will usually go look for one who will. Some real sickos out there still doing tribal bands on Dodge Challenger owners.

Da chips are da boats

I got it on my second guess. Very fun fact!

CONFIRMED (it was also my guess)

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

(A dream for my retirement years) My hardcore band was banned from the Denny's show because we got people summersaulting in the pit.

I believe the definition of being a wizard should expand. Example? Any time you've had good luck that was actually the result of an innate spell you emanate. You were being a wizard.

Bad luck? That was just a stronger wizard affecting your aura.