mastodon 4.7.3“I heard that you work for computers” – my nephew
That time of year in Vancouver when falling cherry blossom petals are almost at nuisance levels. Fragrant, beautiful nuisance
My thoughts are with my Iranian friends and their families. None of them support the regime.
Some of them, over the past few months, even dared to hope that American intervention might improve their lives.
This seems pretty rad. Can we be tentatively optimistic about the Digital Public Good Alliance? This is the right language to talk about it, anyway
In a public place, sitting next to a guy who plays his Tiktoks at full volume and wants to show me the videos that amaze him
me: “That’s AI”
guy: “what? No look at this, the cat caught this baby that fell from a window”
me, icy contempt: “It’s OBVIOUSLY ai”
I try to be a compassionate person especially about technology but I am a classist elitist at heart I guess
Anecdotal Claude Coding results this week
- generate a React web page that queries an API: insanely good, 10x faster, arguably better quality than what I can do
- a complex data warehouse query: probably 10x slower, worse quality, and especially if you consider all the times it led me down blind alleys and then forgot what it was doing
Maybe data engineering is harder because it has the least boilerplate? Like, it’s literally your business data in its purest form, all knowledge, no filler
Americans often seem unequipped to understand that a leader can be an absolute idiot.
The rich must be geniuses. The president must be a strategic mastermind. The belief in meritocracy is deep.
I’ve seen so many people wringing their hands about Trump’s cognitive decline. I don’t see it. In his first administration, he wanted to nuke hurricanes and put venomous creatures in a moat along the US-Mexican border
All right, in this brave new era, it seems that git worktrees are the way to go for simultaneous feature dev
I’ve been managing them a bit ad hoc. The company has a monolith plus many microservices that internetwork locally with docker-compose, so there are issues to solve like
- keep disk usage down
- worktrees with only what’s needed
- don’t clobber each other in the network
- keep the purpose of each change clear in your mind
Some of my colleagues wrote their own tools to help. Suggestions?
Music Friday! I'm playing the Bobby Lees on repeat lately. Fun fact: they were about to go on hiatus when out of nowhere, Jason Momoa funded their new album.
Please help me make them go viral on LinkedIn
I should write fanfic where all the village-terrorizing dragons are just rationalists who actually achieved immortality and transhumanity, convinced themselves that evil was good, and lash out at whoever makes them feel uncomfortable (everyone)
Caution: cognitive hazard post from someone in the Zizian scene.
I wouldn't say that "he disagrees with me, therefore he must be so rich he doesn't have to work again" is the most charitable interpretation.
You're free, even encouraged, to call BS on all of this, but maybe consider other factors
For the first time I ever I looked at Polymarket. It boggles my mind that the most liquid market is on the price of Bitcoin, volume ~34M USD. Like there is already a direct way to bet on that, it’s called Bitcoin.
I am often naive and slow about these things. But wha does this mean? Some casual investors just find it more convenient to bet on Polymarket than actual Bitcoin? Some traders want to take advantage of a less informed, more manipulated platform?
@ben@werd.social actually never mind, you are making a different point. sorry about that
