Wade Dorrell

Sliced habaneros on a food dehydrator tray

Better leave the garage door open 🌱

Ah, the new Superman is legitimately good. I didn't expect so much goofing off!

So are there completeness of information thresholds that define "assume" vs. "presume" vs. "know?" I'm going with 1%, 2%, and 4% (but that feels high)

Smart avoidance of DRY is fine, but when AI spits out repetitive code, and comment, and readme, and test that repeats the code rather than prove anything, GTFO I said DRY MF'r.

The Dilbert cartoon about abusing incentives

I feel like I already posted about AI initiatives encouraging writing minivans squared, but here's the reference again.

Coining "VX", vibe experience, while in the area. This vibe coding felt/went good, that vibe coding felt/went bad, some one/thing's gotta push it toward the good.

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I had the distinct honor of being the very first person to donate to Radio Boise. I hadn't even met Jeff yet, but I knew what a boon community radio could be. To see the current management trash the first amendment is infuriating. They have seen the last of my money.

Yikes.

(Also I feel like the "warming up" behavior, where climate doesn't blow until things have warmed up, made it harder to understand the controls. If I press a button I think will turn on the blower, and it doesn't blow right away, hard to know I pressed the right button.)

One thing @Tesla could do better w/ screen is label climate controls. All these years and I still don't understand the nuance between the 3 defroster-ish symbols; that they're the same symbols all manufacturers use doesn't attack the issue.

Minor habanero harvest 🌱

I must've imported some root weevils at some point. I hope this works, they do a surprising amount of damage! Spent all summer picking the adults off plants at night.

What's with the new ad format that starts with half a second of uncanny AI-alley, then switches straight to the same old gameplay video for one of those shitty machine gun firehose mobile games? (They figured out our eyes like the weird stuff?)

Guns are garbage, pass it on

I'll raise ya peanut butter and raisin AND golden raisin sandwich!

Who'd have guessed that language models hallucinate because training and evals reward guesses over acknowledging uncertainty? Certainly not most people. I mean come on. We deserve cookies.
openai.com/index/why-la...

Oh just thinkin' about what my beneficial nematodes are doing (or not doing, it's such a long wait!) You? #gardening 🌱

Chad

Not that guy again

Wasn't looking forward to US Agent returning, but they said "you're an asshole" to him plenty in Thunderbolts. He should be fine now.

github.com/anthropics/c...

Odds that 80% of Mermaid "diagrams" are linear flowcharts? (Better explained in plain language, but no, management requested legends and horizontal scrolling!)

2029, "You're absolutely right!" uses as much bandwidth as Netflix did in 2009.

Watch like no one's dancing

So awesome. 🤌

I used to eat the Pez straight out of the pack, no time for dispensing.

If we just knew what kind of husks we could beam our consciousness into, we could send them out now, send ourselves later.

This is what ads on buses look like from inside. Typical "compromise user experience for revenue." We need a different way to do this. 🪓

Norway sucks for programmers. It's not what you think.

The country code completely breaks the official YAML 1.1 spec.

NO evaluates into Boolean false...regardless of case.

This can cause cryptic, hard to debug errors; especially in YAML-heavy environments like Kubernetes.

Coincidentally my placeholder word is "banana" and parts thereof. (Eschew "foo", ban "bar", who is this "baz.")

Lewiston in Lewiston