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Charles Woerner

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Let the words be yours I am done with mine ⚡️ I do software engineering, hobbyist EE, Grateful Dead, guitar, and golf ⚡️ Working on data engineering for embodied AI at Wayve.ai

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Don’t you wonder whether they will fatigue of this? Isn’t there a point at which the accusations become so farcical that they cast doubt and undermine the more subtle forms of bs?

17.06.2025 02:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lawmaker arrested after tip about sick videos and disturbing username A SOUTH Carolina representative who prosecutors say used the username “joebidennnn69” has been charged with distributing child sex abuse material. RJ May, 38, was arrested on a 10-count…

It's always a Republican. Every single fucking time.

13.06.2025 01:36 👍 369 🔁 80 💬 7 📌 6

yes. i think the only thing the white house has accomplished this week is dramatically grow the crowds against them.

12.06.2025 23:49 👍 4534 🔁 753 💬 82 📌 11

DHS and ICE aren’t sending their best people. Well, maybe they are…

13.06.2025 02:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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World - yesterday

As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.

Goran World - yesterday As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides

www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

09.02.2025 02:09 👍 11182 🔁 4243 💬 129 📌 236

“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

09.02.2025 12:20 👍 16455 🔁 3731 💬 1458 📌 357

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

09.02.2025 13:49 👍 22835 🔁 5598 💬 97 📌 99
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

18.12.2024 11:37 👍 34531 🔁 9803 💬 1114 📌 935
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They hypothesize that there exist key "forking tokens," such that re-sampling the system at those specific tokens, but not others, leads to very different outcomes.

An example would be that a simple punctuation mark, or just a single token, can prompt an LLM to produce a different response.

15.12.2024 22:23 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1

Shawn Colvin is so under appreciated.

15.12.2024 00:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This electric mini-truck is the length of a Mini Cooper—but can carry as much as a bigger truck Telo's new EV can haul lumber or surfboards—and it starts at just $41,250.

The coolest electric vehicle launched this year? Sooo much better than a cybertruck.

www.fastcompany.com/91236969/thi...

12.12.2024 03:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Barista at Starbucks compliments my new Grateful Dead holiday sweater. I ask him if he is a fan of the GD. He says “I think I know one of those guys… Jimmy Hendrix or something?”. I correct him and he says “earliest band I know of is Linkin Park or something?”. Truly we are doomed.

11.12.2024 22:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Designing data products A step-by-step, systematic approach to defining data products by working backward from use cases.

FINAL §

Once we've designed our initial data products, Kiran Prakash finishes his article by leading us through the next steps: identifying common patterns, improving the developer experience, and handling governance.

martinfowler.com/articles/des...

10.12.2024 14:31 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Dead owl on the side of Geary blvd in San Francisco, CA. Not an everyday occurrence.

06.12.2024 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Developers love to write code, it’s what comes after it that is the problem.

06.12.2024 16:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

4/3 It’s disappointing and reflects poorly on the data accessibility model of the google classroom ecosystem. In an ideal world anyone ought to be able to publish code which a student can run over her data to improve her learning rate safely without leakage. What is needed is a kind of sandbox.

06.12.2024 03:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Designing data products A step-by-step, systematic approach to defining data products by working backward from use cases.

NEW §

Having got an initial data product, Kiran Prakash leads us through the next steps: covering similar uses cases to generalize the data product, determining which domains the products fit into, and considering service level objectives.

martinfowler.com/articles/des...

04.12.2024 15:43 👍 37 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

3/3 It turns out schools (understandably) have a lot of bureaucracy around gaining access to children’s data and this involves accessibility reviews by various gov’t agencies and the need for the application provider to show proof of insurance.

02.12.2024 22:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2/3 So I worked with them over months to get it reapproved. Super helpful IT department did their best to help, but then it landed on the desk of the policy makers and was rejected.

02.12.2024 17:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Built a super helpful Google Classroom app to organize and plan my son’s schoolwork. All front end, requests minimal read-only scopes and profile data. It used to work fine and helped my son improve his grades until SFUSD locked down their org.

1/3

02.12.2024 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m an admitted #LLM junkie, but as a research assistant they are best used as a cross-reference and “info expansion pack” for other more reliable sources of truth. E.g. reading a book on #Azure and asking #ChatGPT detailed questions about what I’m reading to deepen my understanding.

29.11.2024 18:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Java dns caching and ttl management has been the cause of soooo many problems.

28.11.2024 22:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whatever happens, it doesn’t matter.

28.11.2024 15:21 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The keychron Q60 looks like a nice balance of simplicity and modernity.

27.11.2024 21:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section?

`npm install bluesky-comments`

Built by @coryzue.com

25.11.2024 22:32 👍 3199 🔁 568 💬 155 📌 71

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

27.11.2024 06:22 👍 37376 🔁 7689 💬 455 📌 296

Any #emacs users on Mac OS X using an #HHKB mechanical keyboard (or similar 60% board)?

27.11.2024 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Turns out Google Voice reclaims your number after about a year of no use. This makes it particularly unsuitable for an infrequently-used disaster recovery account MFA mechanism. Don’t ask me how I know. 🤦‍♂️

26.11.2024 22:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This makes terraforming slightly annoying because you have to configure multiple AWS providers, one tied to us-east-1 for DNS management.

25.11.2024 22:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0