“May somebody find a use for your software that you never could have imagined” can be either a blessing or a curse, depending on the context.

Seconded. I know I can hover the mouse, but I don’t want to have to.

There’s this constant process of error detection and recovery going on in complex systems that we rarely have the opportunity to observe directly.

Pro tip: wired headphones work much better when they’re plugged in

Same

Highlight the interactions, make the connections.

TIL there’s a protein named after Sonic the Hedgehog: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hed…

@[email protected] on mastodon Looks like we're near max. 'increasingly' since 2005: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c…

CS researchers are increasingly using the word “increasingly” in the opening paragraphs of their papers.

Pretty happy with Feedly as an RSS reader.

Slowly but surely, we are infecting Niall Murphy with the LFI mind-virus. blog.relyabilit.ie/rices-theorem-…

Sometimes I think we could use some further ado.

I think Asimov would have gotten a kick out of LLMs.