"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."
-- Voltaire

Pro tip - for now, cussing in your Google search term will suppress the AI summary (Claude is prim and proper). Something like "go fucking documentation format" will take you straight to the page for "Go doc comments" instead of showing you that horrible (and often wrong) AI summary.

I did indeed say that.

to @briantylercohen.bsky.social at the 4:23 mark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_Y...

A lot of the time, programming feels like kitbashing.

Code should not have layers of misdirection.

The real lesson from the satire Atlas Shrugged is that we just need to be extra mean to Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and Rupert Murdoch and Charles Koch and Elon Musk and Larry Ellison and Ron Paul and the like, and they'll go off to some private estate and leave us alone?

At what point will we no longer be running COBOL code in production?

“What I believe is that while resentment can put bad people in power, in the long run it can’t keep them there.”
— Paul Krugman

What are the odds that Pete Hegseth pulls his own nomination in the next few days, because it "was unfairly becoming a distraction"?

Also, why is it always "I only dropped out because people were making a lot of noise", and never "I dropped out because, frankly, I'm not competent enough"?

There’s a decent chance of another pandemic in the next few years. If only “mess around and find out” didn’t do also do splash damage…

Zero-sum is a spherical cow.

Either life is an epiphenomenon, or life creates information.