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There's a lot of crap code out there.

So i expect AI to generate a lot of crap code.

must be some kind of racket

Google News shifts to automated publication pages Google completes transition away from manually created publisher pages, affecting how news content appears across its platforms.

Google News shifts to automated publication pages
« Google completes transition away from manually created publisher pages, affecting how news content appears across its platforms. »
2025 March 31
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Treasure hunter who refused to disclose location of shipwreck's 500 gold coins is released from prison after a decade Tommy Thompson found the S.S. Central America and its thousands of pounds of sunken treasure that sat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for more than 150 years.

Treasure hunter Tommy Thompson refused to disclose location of shipwreck's 500 gold coins; released from prison after a decade
2026 March 10
www.cbsnews.com/news/tommy-t...

In part I think this aggression is to showcase the Secretary of Lunkhead, because I think Mr Trump wants him to be the next Republican presidential candidate.
But… he can’t display competence he doesn’t have.

Raven peeking around a juniper bush

Raven looking into the sky against a lilac background

Raven calling

Raven with a mod do.

Ravens of Grand Canyon National Park 🪶

And that works pretty good when the insult is toward *me*

But… it doesn’t work when someone says something offensive about "group x" or "person y" to me, or near me.

Forever ago I went thru foster parent training, and Dane County had some trauma-informed foster parent training. That was some of the better training they offered.
They taught us - and helped us learn to teach the kids - to respond to insults with:

So?

"Do you really mean that?”

An iPhone notification now Quince: New men’s pants just dropped French Terry comfort, ProTech performance, and breathable linen. Sho…

i like quince

but i don’t need any notifications
about men’s pants dropping 🤣

*doesn’t unfollow*

My white mates reading my posts about race, and not unfollowing:

Is that keto-paleo-friendly?

In Wisconsin we figure
bluesky might as well
rhyme with brewsky
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brewsky

7-Year-Old Dies Of Measles-Linked Brain Disease In Orange County A child who caught measles as a baby later died from SSPE. Health officials urge MMR shots.

«subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a progressive brain disorder that is almost always fatal and can appear years after a measles infection»

7-year-old Dies of Measles-linked Brain Disease in Orange County, California
2026 March 9
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Federal Judges Are Slowly Realizing They Can Treat Trump Like Anyone Else Federal judges have been reluctant to hold the Trump administration in contempt for violating court orders. Now, they are getting impatient.

The Trump administration has shown that it will keep violating court orders until courts force it to stop. Judges are starting to remember their responsibilities to enforce the rules by which everyone else must abide. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Logical Reads Aren’t Repeatable on Columnstore Indexes. (sigh) Sometimes I really hate my job. Forever now, FOREVER, it's been a standard thing where I can say, "When you're measuring storage performance during index and query tuning, you should always use logical reads, not physical reads, because logical reads are repeatable, and physical reads aren't. Physical reads can change based on what's in cache, what other queries are running at the time, your SQL Server edition, and whether you're getting read-ahead reads.

Logical Reads Aren’t Repeatable on Columnstore Indexes. (sigh)

Sometimes I really hate my job. Forever now, FOREVER, it's been a standard thing where I can say, "When you're measuring storage performance during index and query tuning, you should always use logical reads, not physical reads,…

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Thankfully, the robots are taking over, and they don't need accurate data to do their jobs.

and without good measurements from production systems… all the models are a bit wobbly.

Someone once tried to convince me something like this would even out in aggregates and averages.

I think it’s more likely aggregates would amplify the error range.

Yeah. I’m an individual system, this makes perf tuning and scalability modeling tricky.

Across systems, eg for a software vendor, it makes system scalability modeling for customer sizing really tricky.

Sure, there’s a relationship between SQL Server memory and physical io. But it’s complex…

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Conan the Octogenarian

Conan the Octogenarian

The real story of the prosecution of Hannah Dugan Judge Hannah Dugan was charged and convicted in federal court of impeding or obstructing a proceeding while presiding over misdemeanor court on April 18 in Milwaukee County. But the real story of that...

The real story of the prosecution of Hannah Dugan
«Federal agents derailed a state proceeding, undermining the integrity of our court system»
2026 Feb 6
isthmus.com/opinion/opin...

My computer may restart a few times.

USB is a stack of protocols which is over complicated. Many USB implementations are riddled with bugs and people are used to just "disconnect and reconnect" when it crashes. See Raspberry Pl and how USB is a pile of shit, drivers are crashing and since they went with ethernet over usb, even ethernet is unreliable. Implementing a working USB host support is über-complicated and basically require your device to have a full blown operating system (Linux) This might sound "not a big problem" but it raises costs and development efforts a lot when all you want to produce is, eg, a audio speaker. Compare this with just having a raw audio signal, and also think of when the dock connector was introduced (2002), when there was no Android in sight, USB support in Linux kernel was causing kernel panics when you plugged a USB pendrive, etc. Even though it might be easier to deploy USB today, it's still a complicated and unreliable bus, with many broken implementations and broken drivers. It's a total no-go in the industry world where things are supposed to be plugged in and then work 24/7 for months or years without crashing or without people having to disconnect and reconnect. I work in the industrial embedded field, I have worked in at least 3-4 projects where USB caused total failure and eventually forced a redesign to drop it. In the others, USB is avoided

One of the reasons every device is basically an entire fully capable computer now

lol

reading the situation in a manner favorable to him: he is an absolute lunkhead who can’t listen and act in others’ interests even after a landslide of signals over many years.

Doesn’t sound like someone well-suited to represent constituents.