Thomas Cannon

10 Hours of Jingling Keys YouTube video by MyAbridged

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Jingling keys in front of Execs theory remains undefeated

There's nothing wrong with choosing to be your assigned gender, and choosing to use Windows.

But both should be a choice, not just a default you stick with because it's the most common. Make an informed decision about your gender and your computing needs!

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

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Why risk losing a costly stationary house when this Class C motor home can also transport you away from floods and fires. Reference #023478

Real Estate: It Wasn’t Called ‘The 2008 RV Market Crash,’ Was It?

i really don't care about using AI to ship more stuff
it's really hard to come up with stuff worth shipping

i want to ship the same amount of stuff with higher quality both in product and code

I think people are making a mistake trying to revive fixtures and forgetting all their inherent issues.

I've worked with fixtures in production and doing what @thomascannon.me describes would be extremely difficult.

Oaken makes deep refactoring like this doable.

In some cases, I’m literally just find/replacing the old model’s key with its new version across the entire codebase, saving at least 30m of manual verification

With factories, this would be a game of whack-a-mole to swap out this core model that’s used EVERYWHERE. But Oaken gets you think in sensible data with easily grep-able keys, with consistency to boot.

Another great thing about Oaken: as I rip out old models, I have so much less finagling to do because with Oaken’s seeds, I only have a small dataset that’s logically broken up. So I nuke the old seeds, work on a single test until it passes; then the whole suite.

every single employee being jailed is the moderate position

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

@hackintimseeley.bsky.social

Heads up! our new home for Ruby gems is gem.coop. If you're looking for the latest and greatest open-source work from us, there's where to go

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Tell Me Where You Made It Looking for places in a placeless internet

Really, really love this essay

www.kirksnotes.com/p/tell-me-wh...

Great to know their CEO doesn't even understand how AI works. It's not anxious because it's conscious, dumbass. It's anxious because you've been scraping the social media of users living and posting through fucking unstable times.

Dwarf Fortress is an engineering management simulator (you are also a humongous dipshit dedicated, body and soul, to finding your own personal way of delving too greedily and too deep)

Dwarf Fortress is an engineering management simulator (you are also a humongous dipshit dedicated, body and soul, to finding your own personal way of delving too greedily and too deep)

A picture of The Onion in print featuring this article posted on Twitter. https://theonion.com/anyone-else-have-those-weird-dreams-where-sobbing-future-generations-beg-you-to-change-course/

Grok being wrong: The Onion does have (hilarious) print editions, but this specific "Sam Altman" piece isn't from them—or any real outlet. It's a custom meme image made to look like one, floating around since at least February. Spot on for the satire though!

Wrong again, dumbass

Product managers proudly showing off one idea they had AI generate for them.

In that same amount of time I've already come up with more ideas while disassociating from the meeting.

"yeah haha actually i don't even do my job anymore! AI does it for me!" wow that's crazy. i hope your RAM explodes

People are more adaptable than software, so people will always have to adapt to software, not the other way around (uncomplimentary)

I am starting to wonder if people who spend a lot of time talking to LLMs lose their stamina for actual critical analysis because they're so used to having their own priors reflected back at them in the guise of another's voice.

I want to print "Microslop CopePilot" stickers now

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

(this is why DS9 is so great and worth watching in this era because Major Kira goes from being a resistance fighter/terrorist to being an official in the new government and is absolutely punched in the gut and torn in all directions by how hard and complex that is.)

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

Pay for however many newsletters you want, please, give all those writers money

But you can't replace a whole journalism ecosystem with a series of freelancers, you just can't. There also needs to be support for serious papers, magazines, online newsrooms, and nonprofit reporting