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Time to touch some grass. Better use of my time and energy than twisting the remaining things on my todo list today to make more progress on them than I have managed. I should have…

Yep, and my free speech liberties mean that people can say horrible things to each other too. You can't have it both ways and we live in a society with people who have priorities t…

There are three other things I could be doing instead, but I noticed it was down when I pushed the last of my GH todo list for the day and my brain is stuck in closure-seeking. I s…

I haven't said as much in any of the projects I maintain, but I've set a very high bar for even entertaining AI PRs to those projects. So far I've only accepted ones that are nearl…

There are several branches of horticulture that require the same sort of systems thinking that makes one a good staff or principal engineer. Natives are one of them.

They never were. They were just really good at maintaining the bluster and backing it up with expensive lawyers. Now that they don't come in claws-first like they did when they wer…

The entire complexity and value of GHA is rent-seeking to keep the lights on for other things. They have a strong motivation (self preservation) to continue to misunderstand the pr…

I think you can do better than a whataboutism. First, Costco has some of the best employee treatment in the industry. Second, we are talking about blocking unwanted neighbors based…

You’ve forgotten sales taxes and income taxes generated by shopping malls, which is a pretty big oversight. The square meters per employee is much lower for retail than for a data …

One of the ways Californians prevented Walmarts from getting built was to prove how egregious a drain they were going to be. The stormwater runoff alone was breathtaking. Those par…

Their net worth alone argues against this just being a character assassination.

They’re buying up undeveloped land that would not have been developed for any other reason. If the only developer is a problem, then it doesn’t matter if all developers are a probl…

You can also get layout glitches if you screw up your math where the scroll bar disappears and reappears in a tight loop. This is a dodge for that. The viewport doesn’t resize when…

Neglect and dust. With the billboards up nobody not even the rain has been washing the facade.

The ground floor is a Sunglass Hut from the looks of things. Then the first floor looks like it might be offices, or a fancy apartment. The other floors could be storage space for …

People underestimate the value of predictability.

That's the cover charge. It's like showing up at a karaoke bar and then complaining about all the drunken covers being terrible.

Probably not that much because one of the legacies of x86 is that library calling conventions are based on this same registry scarcity. To make an API call there is a convention th…

One of the lessons I picked up from my very brief foray into the world of realtime software is the idea of amortization. If you have one activity that is possibly time-unbounded, t…

At this rate I'm going to have "npm is by far the worst thing about NodeJS" printed on my gravestone.

So many Ghostbusters II flashbacks watching this.

Don't touch the weird pink goo you find down there either. And if your name is Winston, it's just best if you stay above ground, or stick to the subway system.

I guess a robot would have to be crazy to be a folk singer...

One of the pigments used for cave painting is also a really good natural sunscreen. So there is probably some truth to that. Perhaps recorded exploits of either first successful hu…

If you're doing the same job every day for dozens of years, that's a lot of time to figure out ways to do the work better. But whatever they were doing was either so mundane or suc…