AztecDataCo

No data question that begins "Hey, I've got a quick question for you..." will ever be quick to answer.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

EA being owned by some of the most conservative people on the planet does not bode well for BioWare, in particular.

Spinal Tap II is coming?

Managed to go off-site a bit at this week’s company on-site. #DamnFineCherryPie

9pm local time, and the tsunami waves affecting Hawaiʻi have been relatively minor.

Wild that pretty much the entire state rapidly shut down at 3pm.

Went for a walk on the beach this afternoon. Then a Tsunami Warning siren went off.

I'm not sure I've ever identified with a post more.

Almost exactly 1 year later, a meeting was called to try to make a decision about the same thing, which had somehow gone undecided for a full year. No decision was made again.

I feel like that experience really summed up the whole project.

For no particular reason 😉, I was reminded today of a game I once worked on.

About a dozen of us were in a meeting trying to make a decision about a particular thing. Opinions were diverse. It got heated. After 2+ hours, the meeting ended with no decision made.

RIP to BioWare's Anthem.

Bernie Sanders wearing a University of Arizona baseball cap.

Bernie Bears Down.

The Honolulu "No Kings Day" protest taking place directly next to the "King Kamehameha Day" parade is an odd look.

I physically ran into Bill Murray as he was leaving a restaurant in downtown Austin during SXSW 2010.

Shocked, I asked for a photo with him. He said I'd have to ask his female companions. They declined for him.

I have no idea why he had his luggage with him.

“Tell, Don’t Show: The Video Game”

Produced by Hideo Kojima.
Directed by Hideo Kojima.
Written by Hideo Kojima.
Designed by Hideo Kojima.
Told by Hideo Kojima.
Not Shown by Hideo Kojima.
Hideo Kojima’d by Hideo Kojima.

Finally got around to finishing Death Stranding (exactly 2 weeks before sequel releases). Wow, the ending to that game does the exact opposite of “Show, don’t tell.”

Oh man, I have stories about the early days of this project that I can never tell.

Reason #2 I need to move to Hawaiʻi… Arizona Wildcats sports games just getting started at 9 or 10pm on a work night is rough.

Why am I watching Survivor again?

Game theory research, maybe?

Next week's forecast looks cool. 104° in mid-May is totally normal.

Taken movie meme, but Liam Neeson just wants to assign me a Jira ticket.

Feels like this guy was chasing me all of last week.

Normally, I sleep for ~6 hours each night. Last night, I slept for 12.

I, too, stand with the University of Arizona of the East.

This is why I don't feel too worried that AI will take human jobs just yet.

Exactly. I consider current LLMs to be about as reliable at writing good code as a junior-level employee. QA by a senior-level human programmer absolutely required.

I personally love the experience of arguing with an AI, explaining how it might fix its own broken code.

He may have actually said it as an undergrad. It was a long time ago, but it's stuck with me.

Ha, I just remembered an old friend who once threatened to drop out of grad school to move to Hawaiʻi to farm pineapples. He claimed it "might be more relaxing".

Ready to quit my job, and start a Hawaiian coffee farm. Any investors?