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I think I was talking about the pundits, not the staff at Bluesky. They certainly existed in 2020. You can be a pundit and say things without saying them on Bluesky. There is a not…

If your assertion is "a bunch of people got on Bluesky to talk about the election..." well, did you notice there were two candidates? I think what you're saying is "DEMOCRATS left …

So your data is "I noticed BlueSky is people who left Twitter." This may not be the convincing argument you think it is.

It sounds like your point is when left wing politicos are targeted and people celebrate it, those are obviously sock-puppets and bots. But when right wing celebrities (for lack of …

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There was a joke bumper-sticker in the valley back in the day that said "Windows 95 == Macintosh 89". But the critique of this was "Macintosh 95 == Macintosh 89". In the same way, …

Once long ago I worked for a small company doing unified messaging as their Security Architect. In that job it meant I was a software engineer with domain experience in implementin…

So the smartest guy in the world doesn't know that flashing a Nazi salute is bad? Also, he's not an aspy. I worked with him. He's an Asshat.

Thank you for posting something unrelated to politics today.

This is problematic.

I wonder how much of Ferris' latency is related to net speed and rendering speed / computational horsepower of their local machine. I've seen several different evaluation regimes w…

I was born in Texas. I wonder what country I'll be deported to.

meh. i always thought the real reason for the ban was EVERYONE in the states who has had to deal with ByteDance walks away from the experience thinking they've been dicked. Or at l…

I was a little surprised by how many times commercial airliners have been shot down.

I came across this one and it really spoke to me. I'm often thinking about how to optimize my career, project or code-base. But I am reminded that "play" is an important aspect of …

I have such fun memories of x86 real-mode assembly programming. Thx for the stroll down memory lane!

Should we be scared? [asked in all seriousness, not as a quip.]

Them: What's your LinkedIn Account? Me: Don't have one. Them: Twitter? Me: Nope. Them: InstaGram or TicToc? Me: Nope. Them: Do you use the web at all? Me: Only through Lynx. I see …

My Android phone just sent itself a text message talking about it's "Chat with Gemini in Google Messages" functionality. Tapping "No Thanks" doesn't seem to do anything. Anyone kno…

Hmm... doesn't really offer a suggestion for measuring progress. FWIW, in our dev team, we don't talk about "percent done," but say "percentage of unit tests that pass without mock…

Hmm... "Why don't more people use XXXX" type of posts seem like an invitation to argument and drama. But I'm a Lisp fan, so I can't ignore this opportunity for people to down-vote …

YMMV. I came the other way. I started with AWS a couple decades ago. I was lucky 'cause I worked at Amazon and there was always a friend-of-a-friend inside the organization which c…

NP. I love seeing people experiment. Thanks for listening.