Mitch Patenaude

This has "Let them eat cake!" vibes all over it.

I found this while cleaning up. I'm going to spend it right away!

As one who actually benefits from DST, I shan't be griping this year.

Happy daylight saving time everyone [*]. Let the semi-annual griping commence!

[*] in North America

A Duolingo prompt to translate the phrase "Are you dressing up as a pirate for the job interview?"

Ja, natürlich! Was anders?

I'm working on an app the finds and animates anagrams. This is a sample of what v0.1.0 can do.

I'm working on an app (still in beta) to create anagrams. This one tickled me!

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.

Useful tonight for Americans (with command line skiilz):
yt-dlp -o "%(id)s.%(ext)s" tiktok.com/@username

#tiktok

A green owl/unicorn hybrid with a pink tail and a rainbow over its horn.

I don't know why I find this owl/unicorn thing in @duolingoverde.bsky.social so disturbing!

Post a male character that's your favorite

sed </dev/urandom -e 's/...'

That way you can code in python while mixing tabs and spaces!

:set ts=1

"I used to edit my code by whistling vi commands into a modem"....said no one ever

Unhelpful because it lacks any context about how much we've spent, and disingenuous because the amount is relative to prices that almost nobody actually pays.

A screenshot of the Target app showing that I've "saved" $2.54 so far this year.

Aside from the paltry amount (not too surprising since this year is only two weeks old), this screenshot of the Target app is both unhelpful and disingenuous

$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.

This sounds like a stupendously Bad Idea™️

I know a scientist who proposed ending space exploration by putting a few dump trucks of sand into earth orbit. Anything trying to leave the atmosphere would be "sanded" into pieces within seconds. This sounds like it would do the same.

That's okay. For the longest time, I thought Phil Collins was singing about a girl with an "invisible talk show".

You have achieved peak 80's!

What proponents of Big Data often glossed over was how much bad/inaccurate data was in there, so it's no wonder that current LLM's "hallucinate" so much. The problem is that the current LLMs are producing even more questionable data to be consumed by future LLMs. I don't think this will end well.

Thanksgiving?

Paying tribute in the best way I can: by living up to his example of striving for a better world and helping others not as well off.

Your database is taking the D out of ACID.

Just to be safe, I haven't turned it back on (yet)

There's a lot of different sub disciplines: cosmology, galactic morphology and evolution, nebulae, stellar formation and lifecycles, planetary sciences and celestial mechanics. A good survey course will touch on a lot of them, but not go into many in depth.

Joyous Kwanza! Today's principle is Umoja, or "unity". We must remain united as a community to resist oppression.

I've decided that my Batman villain name is "The Nuzzler"

Only one?