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Posts by Richard Crowley

eBay is running ads that say “Things. People. Love.”

Only one of those is actually legal to buy and sell on eBay.

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Slackbot says week's over. Pack it up, folks. Good job. See you Monday.

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Temporary tattoos for kids with their parents’ phone numbers. Is this anything?

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I think "don't read text in screenshots" might be my new guiding principle.

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Happy we-didn’t-do-shit-about-it day to those who celebrate. :/

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Me: [sips tea, calmly]
Clock: [ticks to 9:00am]
Slack: HEY IT'S AFTER THE HOLIDAYS HERE IS AN INDIVIDUAL NOTIFICATION OF EACH OF THE 21464863 THINGS YOU PUNTED UNTIL AFTER THE HOLIDAYS

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Potter had years to think of a reply to “warped, frustrated old man” and the best he could do was “warped, frustrated young man.”

3 months ago 1 0 0 0
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I agree with your technical assessment that the additional prompt instruction is necessary but I still find myself in despair at their acceptance that they have as much control over their software as a parent has over a teenager.

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The next trend in billionaire tax evasion (that they’ll call avoidance and which courts will allow) will be somehow claiming to be homeless.

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A recipe began “¾ egg yolks” and I stopped reading.

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Pinkeye

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Even more distressing.

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Industry learned the wrong thing from Windsurf, huh?

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You don't have to say "at [name of bank], my voice is my passport" in an exasperated tone but it helps.

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My main rule for AI use is simple: I can’t expect you to read something I couldn’t be bothered to write.

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I think they are valuable for their original purpose: Side jokes.

We called threads “asideholes” as a joke for a while.

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It should not be possible to start a thread from the most recent message in a Slack channel. Just reply in the channel!

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If we had any flying cars one guy would own them all.

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A meta-problem we can all agree must be solved.

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Computers taking over writing software would be just as sad as computers taking over making art. (Programming is fun!)

Fortunately, the averaging machines can’t write novel programs any more than they can make original art.

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Pundits on KQED today were saying Warner Brothers Discovery has so much debt that the only sensible path is to pursue a sale.

What about going out of business? They seem to be legendarily bad at it.

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Two-part question:
1. Isn't the vote on ACA subsidies Mike Johnson just canceled _exactly_ the vote promised the Democrats in exchange for caving and reopening the government?
2. WHY WON'T THEY EVER FUCKING LEARN?

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A+ key frame choice.

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Complete game-changer. Completely unclear from the settings menu. Thank you!

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High crimes (and misdemeanors) on the high seas.

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We offer much, much bigger that that, in fact! Our largest unsharded cluster has 192 cores, 1.5TiB RAM, and 120TB of locally attached NVMe storage per node.

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It’s that magical time of year when the leaves have fallen, dusk comes early, the air cools, the ground frosts overnight, and the Republicans deny climate change as if they’ve never heard of winter before.

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