david

Sad to leave the Bay, but I won’t be going far. Taking a step back, though, the US having both the Bay Area and the PNW so close to one another is insanely OP.

Corollary to this is that if somebody tries to apologize to you for “how you feel”, they are being insincere and you should expect very little from your interactions with them.

I try to block the former but it’s not working.

Missed a turn on my way to Harbin and ended up taking a lovely scenic route through Napa.

My first thought after finishing The Power Broker: “So… the NYT has always been a rag.”

Satisfied with my work. Now, sauna break.

…what

MS degree is, for many things, a nice sweet spot — especially if you can get it without paying by leaving a PhD program.

The first full programming language I learned was Julia, which also has powerful types and metaprogramming. Pretty grateful for that experience, it was super helpful when first coming to rust.

Good teavening

I want a Bullet Tooth Tony version of this gif

“Minced oath” goes hard

Based af

SKUroboris

If your team doesn’t know when docstrings are/are not necessary, pydocstyle will not save you.

I thought we were making category theory puns

Dysfunctornal?

Visiting some islands?

Does anybody else think the Spotify app is bad?

My heart goes out to all for whom it’s an act of courage to affirm this.

Working on it

Everybody should use git

Goon with the wind

“Crossed the disorder rubicon” sounds like something I’d say in a fight with my ex

Good

Describing LLMs as “basically SQL” is pretty silly. By analogous logic, you could say A* is “basically SQL” since it’s “just retrieving” a sequence of edges. Nobody actually would describe it as such because that’s ridiculous, but people make precisely this mistake with LLMs.

Coconut-pilled but just the actual coconut

Folks being confidently wrong, part X

Much admiration for the poise with which you speak about this incredibly frustrating and painful experience. I hope you find some relief soon.