James Daniels

logging onto Bluesky

A new term for SRE just dropped.

Or really…a lot of my life even outside tech.

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week

I declare this National Brotherhood Week in memoriam Tom Lehrer
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r/AskNYC u/UmweltUndefined • 3h Is there anywhere that delivers that will give a discount rate on 65 gallons of milk?

You WILLL NOT guess what this is about. But I encourage you to try before clicking through for the answer. www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/X...

It's hilarious that they genuinely don't seem to understand the difference between "the entire body of scientific research into quantum physics" and "what I've kind of passively absorbed through pop culture over the past twenty years"

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

“I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East.”

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president

Voters: Like not voting for his nominees?

Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

In retrospect, the flaw in the Turing Test was always using human discernment as the model to measure against.

LLMs easily pass the Turing Test, not because they’re sentient, but because we’re dumbasses who interpret the most dopamine-supplying response to ourselves as the most intelligently human.

A bunch of 90s kids gathered around a desktop computer, stoked by what's happening on screen

Bluesky right now:

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

The Angular Mascot RFC is live and you should go vote. I'm really pulling for the Angular fish designs. So definitely vote for 2️⃣ or 3️⃣. I guess you can vote for 1️⃣, if you like it, but you're missing an opportunity for an adorable pun mascot.
github.com/angular/angu...

It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

sdgs.un.org/goals

dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

Actually the best life advice I ever got: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. A half-cleaned room is better than an uncleaned room. Occasionally flossing is better than never flossing. A 10-minute workout is better than no workout. When it’s all you can do to get out of bed, get out of bed.

Flowchart titled Bluetooth Troubleshooting with only One option "Is the bluetooth working right?" > No > Yeah sorry bluetooth just kinda sucks

Bluetooth troubleshooting

on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

Myth 1: “Client components are bad” There’s a misconception that Client components (and 'use client') are bad and should somehow be avoided. This misconception stems from three reasons: Some people assume the goal is to move as much computing as possible to the server. So having a Client component in the tree seems like it goes against that. Some people assume that Client components can’t be SSR’d (turned into HTML). So they worry that using Client components will hurt SEO or performance. Some people assume that having a Client component makes everything in the tree below it “Client” too. So they want to avoid using Client components near the top. All of these three assumptions are wrong.

started drafting a post about RSC myths. any other myths you want to see addressed (or wanted to ask about)?