"Distributed computing means that a computer you've never heard of can keep you from getting your work done."--Lesley Lamport, 1980

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one meets every hour of his life with men who have different opinions upon every thing past, present, and future; who deny the most notorious facts, contradict the most cogent truths, and persist in asserting to-day what they asserted yesterday, in defiance of evidence, and contempt of confutation.”

“Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate and wonderful is that of political zealots; of men, …in any of the parties that divide a state, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favour those whom they profess to follow.”

JOHNSON
1758

Because they neither flattered themselves nor her children, she could not believe them good natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps, without exactly knowing what it was to be a satirical; but that did not signify. It was a ensure in common use.

She was not a woman of many words: for unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape or not, one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed with the spirited determination of disliking her at all events

@mcfaulmike.bsky.social nails it -

I have no idea what Trump’s relationship is with the Russian government. However if the Russians were able to place an agent at the top of the US government, that agent would be hard pressed to do more damage to US society and international relationships than Trump is doing now.

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

See, if I was a federal employee my response would be to use an AI app like ChatGPT or DeepSeek to complete this bullshit assignment — because this is exactly the kind of task for which LLMs excel. —@dandrezner.bsky.social (Read his stuff in these trying times!)

Here in Northern Virginia it goes to 11 tonight, but not in a good way.

Discussing w the g'kids a small car they passed on the highway with a big dog mostly inside. "Maybe the dog was driving!" Almost-3-yo: "He doesn’t have hands."—her reasoning surpasses any LLM on the market.

Any other smalltime Apple developers finding the requirement for EU trader documentation onerous? Why isn't Apple satisfied with a screen shot that shows I rented a PO box? Do they think we have a local Ordnungsamt that registers addresses?

I'm trying to give Apple docs for EU trader status. I am NOT putting my home address out there, but Virginia won't let an LLC operate from a PO box. How are other small devels handling this?

Celebrated Black Friday by taking dead electronics to the dump and recycling all the packaging of their replacements.

The Letter to the Hebrews proves there is a place in heaven for nerds.

Honestly I kinda suspect the hacker who got it is Russian if we haven't seen it yet.

What if the real hallmark of being a macho man was not in owning a big honking pickup truck the size of a mastodon but in the ability to park said truck in a straight line