jess

after a year ircc is now telling me "one more month. just one more month. promise."

all of my lenses are kmount but that doesn't mean the system isn't dead

how dare I call the k-mount system "dead" when the lenses still work

someone doing crimes to me by trying to reignite a 2008-era camera webforum flamewar over discord

This is what happened when Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry For two decades, critics showered Thomas Keller’s restaurants with accolades. But on the night I showed up at the French Laundry, he had a bone to pick.

www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

It was the French Laundry; it was Mackenzie Chung Fegan, the SF Chronicle food critic

my wife is so smart y'all should be lucky enough to have a wife as smart as my wife

i write my stained glass patterns in SVG

if a life of surveying kinds of levers leads you to infer incorrect information about one specific weirdly-constructed lever and a bunch of people die as a result maybe that's okay if in the vast majority of universes you are enabled to make a correct snap judgement about the levers you encounter

I don't have an exact name for this but I'd frame it as multiversal consequentialism? you act in such a way as to shift the largest proportion of universes downstream of you into a configuration of mutually-minimal harm?

see also: pears, cantaloupe

for context, after the king gives the speech that the new prime minister handed him, it's mandatory to have a successful vote to thank the king for giving such a good speech, or the whole government gets the boot and new elections have to happen

jon how (if at all) should i adjust my posting pls tell me boss

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A square stained-glass mosaic panel made up of three sizes of rectangle and two sizes of squares. The predominant colors are dark blue, light blue, white, and clear, with varying levels of transparency.

if i ran a "fuck ice" fundraiser auction for this piece, would anyone be interested?

a closeup of a 2u by 2u section of a keyboard PCB design with hotswap sockets in kicad. an RP2040 is near the center, with NOR flash, an ESD protection circuit, and a seven-pin JST connector to the right. to the left is a crystal and a voltage regulator. traces fan out in various directions showing that the circuit can be connected to the whole board without blocking any key placement.

practice makes slightly less imperfect

it turns out that i will learn kicad but i refuse to get a hotflow station. if that board arrives not working, too bad, it just doesn't work.

leftist position: █████ ███ ██ ████ ███ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ██ █ ███████

my poor ipod nano, which can legally drink this year

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

Like okay yes I became a girl because I wanted to, but even after that I still kinda thought I was the same person, or was trying to be, so then I later had to become the girl a second time because I finally gave myself permission to be new. Sometimes you have to do it twice. Hello again!

mfw a day off aligns with the hopper of my coffee grinder being empty and I decide to finally align the burrs

they've been completely fucked for the last three years since I last "aligned my burrs"

consistent grind size?? what?? no seizing???

jenna maroney

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

I left teaching because I couldn’t figure out how to do it and afford housing in SF. SFUSD paid way less than neighboring districts despite being in a more expensive city.

Pay teachers more! So many have already left due to low pay and the SFUSD payroll fuckup that caused missed paychecks.

"i will accept the debt of this feature," says the maintainer, "if you are willing to learn of our standards and practices."

"i will learn," says the contributor, "if you help me achieve my aims."

the learning is fundamental to the existence of the community.

vibecoded PRs break that.

vibecoded PRs are purely instrumental: they achieve the contributor's goals and offer no opportunity for growth beyond that.

i think what this points to is a subversion of the implicit contract of the OSS contribution process: the maintainer will consider a contribution that achieves the contributor's goals (an instrumental relationship) under the understanding that some contributors end up becoming maintainers themselves

also vulnerability research has a way of looking a whole lot like "what are some of the most likely token combinations that a reasonable software engineer without security expertise would produce in this context?"