Maybe they are twins?

For some advice about staying quiet I do seem to say it often. Haha

Not saying I do it all the time, but every time I don't, I wish later I had.

not at all claiming I'm not a foolish arrogant man from time to time, but the one thing that saves me from embarrassment and harm most often? Repeating to myself "Saying nothing is not admitting you are wrong or they are right". Usually leads to me actually learning something.

spoken like someone taking a long drag off a cigarette, looking off a thousand yards... "I've seen some thing..."

I think all the time about how we need to make this truth more legible - more present and central to our thinking. I hate the “frog in the pot of water” thing but this is what ignited the burner on the stove.

Feels weird that my house shook and windows rattled this morning. And then finding out so did most people’s across the northern part of Ohio. And the “oh, it was just a 20 ton meteor, no biggie” says something about the state of the world.

Feel like this might be really useful in one of my apps - users have Guid IDs we assign, but having to correlate that with a sub claim from a token or cookie or whatever - am I thinking right?

The cliches aren't incompetence, they are the mechanism. - Orwell, kinda.

I'd pay cold hard cash to get a few of these from @guylongworth.bsky.social or @rascality.bsky.social. "I don't think i mean to do THAT with words..."

"Act as if all your words will be used to train LLMs over and over again, eternally." - Nietzsche, maybe.
"Act only according to that maxim by which you could simultaneously will that it become training data." - Kant, maybe.

Easy to avoid. Just rename all the methods and classes after a new model is trained. :)

I swear I teared up just reading your post and being reminded of that song.

Just did a POC with the new Nats transport. It is fantastic! Whoever contributed that has my respect! Kept it idiomatic Wolverine AND Nats. Perfect so far. No notes.

Cover art for the first Devo album, produced by Brian Eno. A weirdly featured golf pro (perhaps) smiles ambiguously in a circle that resembles a golf ball. Outside the circle is a flat field of yellow. The title of the album is hand written across the top left of the circle: "Q: Are We Not Men?" The name Devo is spelled out vertically along the right side of the golf ball in big primary school letters (and prime colors). It is a quotation from the horror film, "Island of Lost Souls" (1932), based on a novel by H.G. Wells. The character in that movie who screams that line is a half-man, half-animal. In the film, mad scientist Dr Moreau is breeding a whole race of such man-beasts, in a hideous parody of evolution. Devo means de-evolution. Have a nice day.

Devo was right about everything.

Dang. You are old. Haha. (I’m older but had kids later.) congratulations!

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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A fake skeleton on the porch wearing a Santa hat.

Busy day switching our Halloween decorations for Christmas.

I just do this with .reg files, but you do you.

But who is going to click on *that*?

Actually I probably would. Carry on.

Best moment of the transition to remote teaching was similiar. A studient posted in teams "LaBronIzHawt69!".

Got to see the legend Herbie Hancock last night here in Cleveland. Fantastic show, fantastic band, fantastic keytar.

Weird - won't tell us his super-secret healthcare plan, but just blurted out the best possible plan for the Democrats.

I am amazed by their persistence. Especially when an even cursory glance at my profile would tell them I don’t need whatever they are selling.

Took my son last night to hear the Cleveland Orchestra perform Beethoven's 9th. We were right up front. I'd prescribe that for anyone that needs a joy injection. Which is about everyone, I think. So priveleged to live in Cleveland and have this available.

My home-town guys!

In order for this to even have a chance at success we'd first have to create a culture that would accept this. Oh wait...

One woman I work with said "the ones that don't code miss meeting in the breakroom to make decisions that affect all of us that actually work for a living".

Meanwhile doing absolutely nothing to learn how successful developers have been working "remotely" forever. They got to "our standup is on Teams|Zoom" and quit there.