Brian Goetz

Channeling Colonel Jessup on the way out the door was a bold choice

But, understand the rhetorical trick here. He knows he isn't smart; he's taking away the "we're smarter than you" card by trying to redefine "smart" as "short attention span" and hoping you don't notice. And his audience loves it, for obvious reasons.

Because when you're walking the dog, you get permission to be a dog too. "Oooh, squirrel!" When it's just a regular human walk, you're stuck in your human frame.

And also: software devs may have made the tool, but surely it wasn't software devs that mindlessly took the recommendations of the robot and used them to kill people. Someone delegated their responsibility to an unqualified robot. Sure, scrap the robot, but let's not let that guy off the hook.

In specification comments (where this form is used exclusively), the toolchain will typecheck those uses to make sure they correspond to actual overloads. (When we first implemented this, we were both happy and sad at how many existing spec bugs it found.)

One of the clothing vendors I've bought from in the past (and which therefore will spam me forever) send me a mail whose subject is "New pants just dropped." There's not a hint of irony or punnery or snark in the actual mail, which makes me think that it was unintended and went unnoticed.

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.

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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.