David Andersen

"her prose, even when precious, ..." *urk*

FTFY: her prose, even when not abjectly awful, is lengthy and tiresome, full of imprecise metaphors that hint that the reader should feel impressed by it without providing any reason to actually be impressed.

Makes you scratch your head a bit about whether it would be cost-effective to build a mix of armed and decoy shahed-type drones. Omitting the warhead would likely reduce weight/cost of the drone to half. If your goal was SAM elimination, sending a decoy-heavy flight might do it at $20k/unit cost.

Huh. That's twice now my Google pixel 10 pro has spontaneously rebooted after I've walked home in sub-25F weather. Is this a known thing?

I wonder how often this is true for many uses of LLMs. Sometimes it's really useful to have someone to talk to. Maybe we could just use ELIZA and save some power and ram. grin.

Wow, huge win using AI to generate exam questions

(You're correct, I never hit "send", because by the time I had gotten most of the way through writing down what I wanted, I realized what question I wanted to ask, switched over to my editor, and wrote it down).

Rubber-duck debugging wins! 🤓

Awesome so far. Rightmost zone is after the improvement. Temp has stayed consistently between 66-67f; previously it had been dipping down to the high 64s. 🤓

Nobody else does

As indicated in the actual blog post, that was before closing up the wiring.

I let myself touch 120v wiring again to fix a problem with a cold kitchen. Homeassistant and a cheap wi-fi controlled power switch save the day.

wiredream.com/boilerfun2/

It is working very well and I am as delighted with it as I've been with everything in homeassistant except for having to program in YAML, which feels a little cursed.

the tl;dr: kitchen cold. radiator with fan under cabinet uses aquastat to sense the temperature of the radiator water, turns on only if hot enough. I added a wifi switch in parallel to the aquastat and plumbed it with #homeassistant to turn on the blower whenever there is a heat call to the boiler.

I let myself touch 120v wiring again to fix a problem with a cold kitchen. Homeassistant and a cheap wi-fi controlled power switch save the day.

wiredream.com/boilerfun2/

(to be clear, nothing against bronies; the fact that we have created an ecosystem in which even people who wear "friendship is magic" t-shirts can be radicalized online to commit mass violence is at minimum food for thought and sadness.)

If we ever needed evidence to use against the Internet, I think we have it

A large measuring cup full of batter with blueberries and lemon zest floating on top

Making lemon blueberry almond pancakes for breakfast this morning, and zesting the lemon still gives me flashbacks to a terrible limonene extraction in undergrad organic chemistry.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Align U.S. Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries ALIGNING THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to begin the

This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office.

More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.

As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.

(Cora did say "most", though, and the existence of some very nice exceptions does not disprove the overall thesis about the state of German 80s pop. :-)

BUT WE DIDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT ALPHAVILLE. CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE BEST 80s GERMAN POP BAND YET?

This deeply hurts. There's fantastic German pop music from the 80s! Even the cited "Brother Louie" is a great song as long as you don't actually listen to the lyrics. ok moving on from that... 1985 brought us Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" & "Vienna Calling" - honestly good music.

Wendig's hilarious writing almost - but not quite - overcomes the sadness I feel about Google abandoning user trust and the idea of giving correct information.

Oy. Yup. My mom had a Very Fancy (tm) 1973 BMW. About an 8.5 second 0-60 time, 17mpg, and _constantly_ in the shop with extremely high costs.

I really do not want 1970s cars back in any sense. We have it good now if we'd stop making them so damn big and with pedestrian-killing poor visibility

I'm getting conditioned to believe that any time I see an uncredited snippet of terrible writing that it was written by Nuzzi, and, well, it hasn't been wrong yet this week.

ok, dice roll.

The forecast for #pittsburgh has had tonight/tomorrow morning's low at about 13F for several days now.

that's a _lot_ of time to be prepared.

will the schools do a 2h delay? Guess we'll find out tonight. :p Because gosh who would have guessed it will be cold tomorrow morning?

sigh

yes, yes, that's definitely what I want.

My first car was a 1982 toyota corolla. Small, not very comfortable. 21mpg. 0-60 in 13.4 seconds.

Today I drive a 2017 Honda CR-V. It's boring. It's reliable. It's spacious. It gets 30mpg. And it does 0-60 in 7.5 seconds.

fuck that, I'll take the 2020s.

i like a clear, plain-english privacy policy

Duck and Rabbit looking at offspring "really? I think he looks more like my side of the family".

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We've hit peak Psychology Humour

I used to listen that attentively in certain classes in high school and have the grades to prove it.

(Alas, said grades do not involve the letters 'a' or 'b')

everything's a little wilty because they were outside on my back porch until yesterday evening, including going through a hard freeze. Hopefully they'll pep up with some water and light. Decided I didn't need indoor mint. The other herbs were all in the ground, not pots, so...

since i have lots of grow lights for starting seeds, i rescued the parsley and chives before today's snow and will see if i can keep them ticking over winter. may expand to some other herbs if it goes well. (the chives are more alive than they look - that light is a blue/red one)

#gardening

that the labor outsourcers are both making an economically rational decision _and_ benefiting from structural inequality that disadvantages and devalues women's labor and care labor.

Were that imbalance not to exist it would still make sense for some people to outsource care labor, just not as much

You're getting dragged for this, but you're of course right about the economic decision the outsourcers are making. But it's also the case that female-dominated fields earn less (and this shifts as a field becomes feminized), as do women in equivalent positions to men, which does mean...

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