A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.
No but this is entirely correct
I love benchmarks. Making the number lower is the only motivation I need.
To me the mental exhaustion I’ve experienced using CC is very similar to the mental exhaustion I’ve experience managing junior engineers. The difference is that results come back in 30 minutes vs. 3 days, and CC doesn’t gain institutional knowledge from the experience. An interesting tradeoff.
Screen capture from Star Wars Episode IV, when Luke decides to "use the force" and proceeds to turn off the targeting computer.
Me when Claude repeatedly burns tokens doing something subtly wrong:
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
I can’t remember ever making an error due to shadowing. It always annoyed me when coworkers insisted on keeping the warning on (especially combined with insisting on -Werror).
But for real, Gas Town is Dadaism.
Busytown meme template with text stating “gas town is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. What’s the problem?”
Shipping up to Gas Town.
That’s *exactly* what it is, isn’t it?
Of course, you can also microwave on low power in the morning if you transfer to a microwave-safe container, but somehow that feels like too much effort to me.
Not microwave, but what I always did was: "Before going to bed, boil 4 cups of water in a pot. Then add one cup of oats and simmer for 1 minute. Cover the pot, cool, and store overnight in the refrigerator. The next morning reheat over low heat, stirring occasionally."
Kendall Square billboard saying “Biotech Greed is not genetic, it’s CEO behavior”
Big Bluesky commenter energy in this Cambridge billboard.
With headphones the cameras don’t need to replicate our eyes’ field of view. I’d love to have the situational awareness of a prey animal! Not that that’s the implementation here, but I love the possibilities that form factor unlocks.
Slopify: a Shopify clone where all the store items are AI generated.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr
As a freshman 20+ years ago, my CS professor shared a quote: "Computers do exactly what you tell them to. The bad news is they do exactly what you tell them to." At the time this seemed obviously self-evident.
Now it's clear that in my children's time, this "truth" will become an anachronism.
Yo, the same microwave technology was invented for radar, dries lumber, powers wifi and bluetooth, and has a million other uses. It’s a fundamental, ubiquitous technology.
The State of #Haskell 2025 survey is out! Please take ~10 minutes to fill this out and share it with friends/colleagues/coworkers, whether or not they are users of Haskell.
It seems unsurprising that, on average, an undergraduate student will lose one or more of their grandparents during college. And given that there's a large spike in the death rates of the elderly leading up to the holidays, it would be weirder if you didn't have any grieving students, wouldn't it?
A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, December 8th, at 23:15 (14:15 GMT).
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, and Iwate.
Here is footage captured by Aomori Asahi Broadcasting.
#earthquake
Not when blocking TikTok or canceling morning standup saves a similar amount of time.
Oh no, I just realized I've been writing Haskell for 20 years. I think I might be getting old.
Sure, but if Prelude wasn’t implicitly imported maybe the issues would have been fixed by now. It’s been a problem so long I was still using hugs when I first became aware of it :p
Given all its issues (head, error, String, etc., etc., etc.) my vote goes to Prelude.
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
Oh, you sweet summer child.
