Adam Compton

I think of it as, you can argue about policies, but you can't argue about the polity. Everybody counts or nobody does.

I was referring only to the repeated findings that web page loading speed massively impacts peoples' willingness to view a page, to the extent that a 3s load time means a 1/3 of visitors will close the page altogether and there's a widely-accepted standard for measuring application latency ("apdex")

People respond to how things make them feel, and they're very bad at predicting what that will be ahead of time (probably because the feelings can come from something completely unrelated to the function, like design choices or even UI latency)

I had one of those. I solicited requirements from stakeholders, got sign-off from everyone involved, everyone loved the plan, I built it, not a single person ever used it. Turns out people have no idea what they want and will lie and agree to things just to get you out of their hair

i once had a professor comment that if you really knew your material, you could present it to anyone from any education background in a way they'd understand, from 1st graders to your phd peers

"experience" is just shorthand for "i fucked that up already"

YouTube video by Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约 Nerdy Professor Shocks High School by Speaking Gen Alpha Slang

I didn't catch this when it was new, but I was pleased that I understood at least a little bit of the slang. I'm not too old yet!

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Given that Aeon Engine already mentions "the game's turn order" as a game term, I'd suggest reusing that. I think "last in the game's turn order (right before the starting player)" seems like it'd be easy enough to understand and covers all the bases

"What We Owe to Each Other (Is Buying Each Others' Products And Nothing Else)"

"What We Owe to Each Other (Is Buying Each Others' Products And Nothing Else)"

I can't believe the industry has maintained the same inflation-unadjusted price point for 30+ years. Even just tracking inflation, a $60 price-point in 1991 is equivalent to $140 now

In researching internal developer portals, I consistently hear that Backstage is a giant pain to adapt to your environment, and having the service hosted for you seems like the least of the challenge. I would not expect this to take off for that reason

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Yes, from Hades and Hades 2

I'll vote to add The Luggage to that list

So many people seem to sincerely believe that "criminal" is an inherent characteristic instead of a label applied to people who have been convicted of breaking a law. Of course we need a ton of police, so much of the population is made up of criminals, even if they haven't ever committed any crimes!

this is just to say
i have demolished
the east wing

and which you
were probably saving
for posterity

forgive me
i am demented
so weak
and so cold

I have a firm (unfounded) belief that the process of working on something rewires a person's brain into being the kind of brain that can do that work, in the same way that athletic practice shapes the body. I _want_ a swole brain! Making AI do the work denies me the opportunity to improve and grow

down for everyone or just me dot com showing a lot of big sites and services down starting at the same time, including signal

somewhere an alcoholic on-call with severe PTSD just woke up to shattered glass when his phone exploded from being called so hard

I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic

being conservative is basically "I got what I have through hard work and being a good person, therefore *they* have not worked hard, are not good people, and have not earned *it*." That's a much easier sell than "we're all in this together, and the common good requires sacrifices from some".

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Property tax bills in California can be a bit weird sometimes. Like this block in Cupertino (Silicon Valley):

Pouring one out for the IT folks who are going to have to add OpenAI to the adult content filtering on their corporate firewalls

Pouring one out for the IT folks who are going to have to add OpenAI to the adult content filtering on their corporate firewalls

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

Sadly, I think most people will refuse to believe uncomfortable, true things, just as they've done about so much else (climate change, COVID, authoritarianism, etc.). Any concrete evidence will be derided as AI or buried under ginned-up scandals

The Ones Who Walk Away From Fox News

I am a computer infrastructure guy by trade, but I take a keen interest in other kinds of infrastructure, and it's near a miracle that anything ever works. I guarantee the people who spend all their time thinking up new societies never consider where the clean water in their tap comes from

The problem of how trash gets collected in A Nation State TM is left as a trivial implementation detail, an exercise for the reader, instead of the constant infrastructure and logistics challenge it is in the real world