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mranney.bsky.social
Engineering. Trying to be better. Pittsburgh, PA
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SLOs are good and more people are using them now which is also good. But what verb should we use for going outside of an SLO? I like “blow” as in, “as GC crept up, we blew our SLO”.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It’s weird that I’m slowly turning into a LLM apologist. Obviously there are tremendous risks for humanity here, but LLMs are also a very useful innovation with real human benefit. I liked this podcast ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Doing some science at home

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The National Science Foundation gave us the internet.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@jamieloftus.bsky.social your Bryan Gaw interview was great. I sat in the car in the parking lot to finish the whole thing.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

submitted 29 days ago • 416 comments

@williebhines.bsky.social I enjoy “on it” from the other platform, but I would rather put my energy here. Do you on it troll here as well?

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

submitted 32 days ago • 185 comments

All US social networks are banned in China. The Chinese government controls the entire internet there. This is not a trustworthy government.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I did this hike recently and it was great. youtu.be/BREF3EcUkjc?...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

US / Mexico border

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Some of the firefighting activity over the #PalisadesFire this morning. www.flightradar24.com/multiview/38...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty cool cactus

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California

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Texas

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Making some solar powered @meshtastic.org radios.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Meant to be optimistic, but my kid’s middle school gym banner is kind of dark.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments