Brian Goetz

cruel to be kind

The remarkable thing about the Cybertruck is that it is a bottomless well of ridiculous. Every time I see one, I think "wow, that looks even dumber than I remember." Every time.

Being able to continuously confound the expectations of the most jaded observer? That's genius.

Or following the dashers around and reopening the door afterwards

So, at $11 per close, how many riders deliberately leaving the door open would it take to drain their subsidy chest?

It's spelled "cat"

And those who delight in reading them are pedofilephiles?

The human psyche is an unfathomable mystery…

What about capacitors, flywheels, and rechargeable batteries? Those are all power buffers...

If that was a serious question ... it is because they sense an opportunity to rewrite the power structure, of course with them on top (or a least a higher slot than they have now.)

They see themselves in a lower position in a world without AI than a world with, so of course AI is essential.

After working on ZGC for a decade, I’m happy to announce that I’m publishing a book about ZGC in JDK 25. It ships 22 May (www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...) and is being published by Taylor & Francis. You should get a copy if you want to learn more about ZGC. It’s available for pre-order now.

Trust me, you are in no danger of being the splainaholic in the room

I've long wanted a dashboard like that that shows what percentage of the time each participant has been talking. (Pro feature add-on: a chess clock that limits your global talk time, and mutes you after you run out.)

There was a cartoon where there was a sidekick called Deflator Mouse and it took me years to get the joke.

I don't understand how people could think this is just about "inheritance in OO systems." It is about _subtyping_, which shows up in all sorts of type systems -- width subtyping for tuples, return-covariance for function types, etc.

He wants to steal the oil.

But those same people didn't value it before, either. It's just the LLM confirmed their bias that "it can't be that hard."

You now have a mission

Eventual consistency? Maybe some of the stars are still flowing through the messaging fabric.

Yeah, I miss the days when it was just reply-all.

Cruel trick: give a packaging addict a set of packages with cyclic dependencies.

But you could take the floor model home today. Some people can't delay gratification.

YouTube video by thebrat307101 Monty Python - Mattress Skit

Following in the long tradition of mattress-related absurdity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEe...

They are invested in the idea that AI years are like dog years. So they see it as staying 14 years, which is entirely respectable.

Funny how"AI hypemonger bro" is never on the lists of jobs that AI hypemonger bros claim are about to be AI'ed away.

Me at McDonald's: I would like a Big Mac.
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled

When there are multiple reviewers, the Acrobat Pro features really shine. You can merge the comments from all the reviewers into one doc, and there is space for discussion. The merged result provides a "heat map" of sorts where more attention is needed. You can check them off and they disappear.

What an utterly irresponsible presentation of the data. Anyone looking at just the image - which will be seen by many more people than hearing the words - will come away thinking these are percentage increases. There’s no way they can’t, and he should know it.

Best caulking tip: keep a small cup of water nearby. Keep your fingertip wet at all times. You need only apply caulk roughly evenly, probably less than you think you need, then smooth it with a wet finger.

DIY math:
- Let R be how often you get to do this DIY job
- Let L be your expected DIY lifetime
- Let X be how many times it takes to actually get good

Then if RL < X, you'll suck forever, don't bother starting. Taping drywall comes to mind.

Good news is caulking and painting are OK.

Nope, never heard of it.