timweigel.bsky.social
Getting along like Unicode in an ASCII file. In a love/hate (but mostly love) relationship with Alabama, Mobile in particular. I like SQL.
And, of course, EVERYTHING I post here is on my own behalf, speaking only for myself, etc. unless explicitly stated
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Wait, is that not a normal part of the fast-casual restaurant restroom experience?
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Yup. Going outside on those days is getting hit with a wet mattress.
Still, I prefer the hot, humid summers to cold and snow and ice (this year’s snowstorm here gets a pass because it’s so rare, SO MANY people got amazing memories out of it, and also I work from home) in the winter.
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Hell, just have folks come to Mobile. We moved from Dothan to Mobile in June 2020, and immediately clocked the higher humidity and perceived temperature. We’ve acclimated, but it still gets feckin’ HOT here.
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It was pretty cool.
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WHY would they do that?!? Oh heavens.
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This is the only correct answer to that question.
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Our current automation gives us exactly what we need, and we know how to troubleshoot, maintain, and update it. Even leaving aside all the other issues, we simply don’t have the time or money to train an LLM to do what dumb dynamic SQL already does perfectly.
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This is the best.
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Werner Herzog's Star Wars, where he just films a depressed porg heading out on its own into the wilderness to die.
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If all you know is, "Ask the computer," what do you do when you can't ask the computer?
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I couldn't do it NOW because I've not practiced for over 20 years, of course, but when I was taking astronomy in undergrad I found an error in in my textbook BECAUSE I had learned all the precursors to calculus the hard way.
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You have to learn the how so you can evaluate the output of the tools! You also need to be able to do the thing without the tools, too, because what if the tools aren't available (outage, maintenance window, whatever) when you need to do the thing?
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