Helper Monkey

#hugops to anyone reading this that is in a position to do anything about the Cloudflare outage. May the senior leadership on your conference bridges be calm and understanding, and may your multi-hour data restore attempts work perfectly the first time.

Why do I go antiquing whenever my wife does?

Worst case: a pleasant afternoon with her.

Better case: I also find a new in box Pickett N1010-ES trig rule, marked down to *ten dollars* because nobody else at the antique mall by the Food Lion saw it for what it was.

Unrepentant brigandry! Muahahah!

I hate it also, but I know that waiting out there, sometime in the future, is the one time I’ll get that “you left your iPad behind. Last seen…” and my reaction won’t be “shut UP, clanker!” but “shitshitshit” followed by (hopefully) a rapid scramble and a “whew!”.
So I put up with it every time.

I mention this not to seek kudos but to normalize behavior and share information: I got my flu shot and updated COVID-19 booster at CVS in Indiana today. Scheduled online; said ‘yes’ to the question about predisposing conditions, there was no follow-up.

(My predisposing condition is “literacy” fyi)

I haven’t thought it through as carefully as you clearly have, but I can see an argument for remanding to The Hague as a gesture toward rejoining the international community. That process is going to take a generation no matter what, but stark and forthright action might kickstart things a little.

I think this matters quite a lot, but I don’t see it being meaningfully discussed, and don’t know how to raise it into the zeitgeist for discussion.

Thank you for coming to my TED thread; next week back to photos of (hopefully) newly-eclosed monarch butterflies and sailboats!

There are essentially no steps between the “when the code compiles and the test pass” meme of closing two dozen StackOverflow tabs in time to the can-can, and telling Claude + MCP to chew on the problem definition until it has a prototype and working test suite to show you.

This is because software development is a culture of open, enthusiastic, and generally positive adoption of plagiarism in service of shipping working code.

There is a gulf of undetermined size - many fraught, unresolved steps - between making visual art in a world without genAI and a world with it.

I think there’s a book out there waiting to be written by someone smarter than me and with better research practices about how the current phase of AI adoption is experienced very differently by software folks than essentially everyone else

I love this - doesn’t feel like a “kitbash” at all, more a very natural step between the Excelsior and Ambassador?

I have been on a nostalgia binge recently going through old FASA ttrpg stuff and this is a ship I would *covet* in an untold era campaign. Thank you for sharing it with us!

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

computer end program

If you’re not already reading ACOUP, you should really be reading ACOUP.

Quick and easy thing to do today, click and leave a comment against repeal.

We cannot meet the challenge of leaving a better America for our children than what was entrusted to us if we allow ideology and the selfish desires of oil tycoons to override the clear-eyed practice of science.

FWIW as an avid and interested reader of academic papers I learned from this thread that authors are *permitted* or generally willing despite permission to just send out copies of paywalled papers.

One person’s been reached and their behavior has been changed as a result of this conversation. 😇

Chladni patterns structurally related to the labyrinth paths. The mazes of Shismar are meant to be sung? That’s all I got, interested to read the answer key when it is published.

Have you ever teared up because a word was absent from the page? I hadn’t either.
You have ten minutes for this, trust me. A different world is ten minutes in your future. Go, read.

It is absolutely meant as a compliment! The moment in the show is not about the reactor, but about Stellan Skarsgard’s character building a working understanding of a new-to-him problem space, and then immediately using it to take control of spiraling people problems.
While flying into a shitstorm.

This immediately made me think of the helicopter ride to the reactor site and the conversation immediately after it in _Chernobyl_, which I don’t wanna spoil for people who haven’t seen it, but people who have will (or should) recognize this as high praise.

My interpretation has always been that the shield generator was inside the (at least several kilometers wide) “origin” of the shield on the surface and couldn’t be knocked out from orbit any more than the Rebel base on Hoth could be, before the ground assault to take out its shield generators.

A whitetail doe walking through a narrow strip of grass with trees and bushes in the background.

Sometimes cool things happen here.

Not joking about this at all: if someone thinks it's appropriate to be cruel about young children drowning in a flash flood because it happened in a red state, they should not be allowed indoors. They should be out in the forest burying their own scat

A small victory but still worthy of celebrating IMO.

Khajit has wares if you gotta ID

I want to thank you for this run of photos and videos, which is where I learned about the existence of these remarkable creatures.

A tortoise or turtle with a high-domed shell with variegated gold and brown-black markings looks at the camera. Its legs have bright gold scales on dark, nearly black skin and singular orange irises sit in the middle of a face that carries markings similar to the shell but brighter in tone. The turtle is sitting on a sheaf of greenery at the edge of a walking trail, appearing to be caught in the act of pushing leaves down and out of its way as it makes its way to its destination.

As it happens, I did recently see a turtle. Here you go:

I know that a good chunk of the parade was battle dress from different eras of the Army’s history (which is why there’s video of Sherman tanks from WW2 squeakin’ along for example) so I assume these soldiers are representing the more-recent past. Though I haven’t seen *any* dress uniforms so, dunno?

The uncritical platforming of a hat *celebrating the day an armed mob almost hanged the sitting Vice President* is a new and horrifying development. I wish I could say it was surprising.

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A very specific synth chord swell into driving electronic drums plays in my mind’s ear when I look at this. I can’t tell if it’s one I remember from some late-80s tv show, or if my brain invented it just for the occasion. Very enjoyable, thank you for sharing!