johnwhitley.bsky.social
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”CLICK 💀oh sh*t” (iykyk)
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Same for engineering, especially on large complex projects. You aren’t Tony Stark in your robot garage, you are on a team, as leader or follower. Your success or failure will be about the people, especially as a leader. They did it, you just gave them the opportunity.
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🔥🔥🔥 srsly
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This is no small part of why it's far and away the best Heinlein adaptation for film IMO... not that that's a high bar... It's such a weird, delightful passion project.
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I honestly don't understand how someone could read SFF, as a genre, enough to be able to author a review and not get this to the core of their being. This is /everywhere/. I'm baffled.
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"Try this One Weird Half-Baked Open-Source Driver!" (Trust us, it won't be abandonware in six months after the maintainers spectacularly implode!)
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A housemate back in the 90s had The House PC with 1) a default-boot Linux partition and 2) a partition named "Games" (aka Windows).
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I think that's overly generous here. From long experience, when people "jump in" to recommend /an operating system/ without first asking about important use cases/application needs, they are in fact being self-serving (aka "a dick") versus being actually helpful. Pretty much 100% of the time.
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This should be a fun week. Enjoy!
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i guess i should ask more specifically, do i know anybody IN SEATTLE who's doing washington state summercon haha. looking around for potential carpools to join lmao
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What gets me is that the damage to USPS seems to be very uneven by region. In my area, USPS has been 100% rock-solid. I’m v. glad to have them as competition for other services. But judging (solely from anecdata) there are clearly places in the country where none of that is the case.
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we got two strings this year prominently labeled “warm white” and WHAT. on one hand, zero flicker. 👏🏻 on the other, made by aliens who’ve never seen a true 2700K warm white bulb, nor perceive light in the human visual spectrum. (and they’re bright enough to SEAR YOUR EYEBALLS OUT whyyyyyy)
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Now I worry there’s some poor character designer, wrought with angst, going “my god, it was right in front of me, I COULD HAVE MADE THE CAT KNIGHT”
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WHAT IF warp drive
BUT powered by the sound of
ONE MILLION IRONING BOARDS OPENING
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Did Apple just fall for the anti-pattern where you *must* tap through on "Set Up Lights" to dismiss this, even if you don't want it? (FB1000xxxxxx: dear apple pls ADD THE "X" kthxbye [screenshot with circles and arrows and a BIG X])
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... while in the US, employers lobbied hard for employer provided health insurance explicitly due to the human lock-in factor. It's not "historical accident" or "the market" or anything, it was employers seeking to control people's lives. /fin
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I'll apologies, I don't have the refs. to hand, but this is literally the case from a historical perspective. Coming out of WWII, the Allied nations were looking to shore up their social infrastructure, including health care. "Everyone else" went with a form of universal health care... 1/
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Cthurkey is SO CURSED
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Sure. ofc, the opening analysis is fundamentally visual. But at some point you get unknowns, and that's where I go "welp, let's start naming them". Warning, puzzle spoilers ahead: gist.github.com/jwhitley/b14...
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Interesting! I didn't end up sketching tho, just ended up hitting it with the algebra stick.
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“Garnish with fragments of crab shell“
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wait wait wait ... putting your cat on a bsky subdomain 🤯 brilliant
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Worse, under Biden we did end up with some incredibly critical areas of bipartisanship, particularly around anti-trust. Pretty sure that all just went *poof*. Now all the CEOs need a change of pants over consolidation wet dreams.
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Seconded. The GOP at this point is so over-the-top against anything the Dems do or put forward... I can't even figure how *staying home and accepting the demise of your party's political effectiveness* is a preferred outcome. I really want investigative reporting about Dem non-voters here...
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omg remodel ptsd: on lighting site with pretty good faceted (narrowing) search... make a bunch of selections... BINGO now only *7000* lighting choices to wade through. 🤯
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Thank you! What a great new-to-me artist to find. Based on that, I think you might like this performance I found just today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCi...
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OH, Dobrá Tea is amazing. I first encountered one on a trip to Northampton years ago, then accidentally bumped into another (I may have screamed… a little) on a trip to Ashland, OR this summer.
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Which also relates to: I want, more than anything, to eliminate all structural underpinnings of the US two-party system. We *need* more parties, which are able to align with constituents' interests.
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anyway, isn’t that the sequel to Alas, Babylon
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"Cortana, how do I disable Copilot?"
[nightmare settings path]
"Cortana, did you just tell me to go fuck myself?"
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And the guy to his right, holding him back from making a scene?!?! "Listen, I *know* you're all hangry, BUT..."
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That nose. Did Jim Henson design that cat, or what?
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Just absolutely crushing at the time.
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ugh? bad battery, no biscuit.