Seth H
zorak.net
Seth H
@zorak.net
Software a various other things
Not from state murder charges
January 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Even during the drought, there was no water shy. They are not the same thing. Unless you farm alfalfa for export.
January 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Colbert should bring them on
January 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Just play the video to a grand jury and get an indictment
January 8, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Roundabouts!
January 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
And the builder gets to punch the mayor in the face one time
January 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
New law: if the city looses a builders remedy lawsuit they pay 150% of legal costs plus all interest on construction loans.
January 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
AIUI, Venezuela stopped being socialist a while ago. It’s more extreme capitalism then the US.
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 AM
After recently re-watching all of Seinfeld, I now approve of the ending.
January 7, 2026 at 2:22 AM
I assumed from the 1st pic the issue was the narrow path between the walls, but it was actually a drop after the wall that you can't quite see from the 1st pic?
January 6, 2026 at 8:57 PM
The ALT text should describe the image, not re-state the text of the post.
January 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
And don't the trials get done in the US under FDA supervision? Trials are expensive. If you just wait a while you can instead look at the data from the US. Do they re-run the trials?
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I think people confuse "tech company" with "VC funded abusive monopoly". There is overlap, mostly because one of the faster ways to fund an abusive monopoly is in tech.

But the actual tech has little to do with the badness. It comes from the abuse of monopoly and public corruption.
January 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
and I have generally been disappointed with the number of Doctors who seem to understand the basics of Bayes' rule given it's pretty clear application to medicine
January 4, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The only time I can recall using calc in my CS career was to take the derivative of the sigmoid function when doing NN backprop. And that use is pretty trivial.
January 4, 2026 at 9:05 PM
IME, from CS, Calc was just useful as a way to learn mathematical formalism and a certain kind of logical reasoning and proof. Really any kind of math can do that (stats, calc, discrete math, set theory, etc)
January 4, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I think basic stats & probability is more useful preparation for citizenship than trig or calculus, and probably geometry
January 4, 2026 at 8:55 PM
On the other hand, everyone needs to learn statistics in high school. Everyone.
January 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Engineering is about thinking.

Writing is thinking.
January 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM
As a practical matter, being a good writer is almost required to be a good engineer. I spent many years as a very Sr engineer in "Big Tech" companies. I supervised and mentored a lot of Jr engineers, looking at their work very closely.

Very strong correlation between writing and coding skill
January 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
And you think this people are a representative sample of the American public?
January 4, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Bluesky is tiny. Most Americans don’t read, listen or watch news regularly.
January 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Huh?
January 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM