it is simply impossible to see a traffic cone in the wild and not think "ah, VLC"

I keep thinking "we live in a brief moment in which people's expectations of AI come entirely from fiction which is why they give them any credibility, it will pass soon as everyone realizes these are language models, not truth-telling machines" but this keeps happening bro

saying "happy pride" is really one of the easiest ways to figure out who to moderate out of your community

rebased? this code was never based in the first place

Look. If Elon Musk says we should spend less time on Twitter then we should take him seriously and literally.

It’s an unverified account, Michael, how many posts could it possibly need to read. 600?

This is a really great read about... all this theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782…

i need to be put into the machine that heals pokemon at the pokemon center

When I go to familymart to buy icecream, I normally buy two ice creams and the store clerk, bless her heart, always gives me two spoons. Both ice creams are for me.

Awful lot of people think the things they read are definitely true as long as they read it on a tweet with a big number next to the little heart.

On this day in 1985, Japanese baseball fans celebrated a win by throwing a Colonel Sanders statue in the river. Then, the team had an 18-year-long losing streak.

is life just oscillating between feeling sleepy and can't sleep until you die?

reading the docs front-to-back is not about memorizing or even remembering what’s in the docs. it’s about setting up a bunch of neural tripwires to make you think, “wait, I feel like I’ve seen a way to deal with this before” when you hit a problem

got a good grade in airport security line, which is an extremely normal thing to want

I find it funny that gamers on shoestring budgets can get crystal clear voice communications, yet engineers making $400k TC regularly show up to meetings as a garbled echoey mess of unintelligible distant feedback

In search of case stories / blog posts / replies about how people have done translatable database content (as opposed to static strings), ideally those that've integrated with a translation management system. Looking for something beyond the naive "clone the column per lang"

It's kinda boring how the only thing on any product roadmap in 2024 is "some AI thing"

I wish more people were less certain.

Wanted: for GitHub to never, ever make me expand “hidden conversations” again. I get that they do not optimize for Very Large Pull Requests™ but, spoilers: when you’re the home of much (most?) open source, you *do* actually need to solve for that! «sigh»

Oxide Computer Company what you are actually paying S3 for is not “24TB of block storage”, it’s “not having to debug the UEFI iPXE boot failures on 1/3rd of your otherwise identical servers at 4AM”