the-real-selta.bsky.social
Hobby dragon. Childfree cat person. Always learning.
The goal is not to be only as good today as yesterday. Do The Right Thing isn't a plan.
63 posts
59 followers
70 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
And everyone said Hillary was going to be too emotional, or something.
comment in response to
post
I'm happy you also made the trek from that other coast. :) Equally glad to have met you through all the decisions and circumstance that led to it all, too.
comment in response to
post
Birds? BIRDS? LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT BIRDS. :)
Also, F this guy.
comment in response to
post
@mcuban.bsky.social what do you think of using something like git for this? Could even be used for Congressional bills to see versions etc. as well. Far future, could be used for public comments and direct input, too.
comment in response to
post
Looks like you mallet is already
_puts on sunglasses_
on *break*
comment in response to
post
Amazing, Dylan. Also, inspiring. Thank you for being vulnerable and putting this out there. May someone find it and find their inspiration from it :)
comment in response to
post
Agree on all the points!
comment in response to
post
How do we make this happen @mcuban.bsky.social ? How can I help?
comment in response to
post
MTG brought articles of impeachment what, monthly during Biden Admin? Why isn't any Dem doing similar?
comment in response to
post
Please get your colleagues to realize that "Press Releases" and short comments in front of legacy media are not useful. I'd even posit they're a net-negative. Get more of them on Bluesky. Get more of them to regularly reach out to audiences everywhere. Dems need to comm better and more often!
comment in response to
post
Never apologize for something like this. Ever. Ever ever.
comment in response to
post
I can offer, when I'm building something personal/positive, my overall mental health improves. Maybe because I'm distracted from doom scrolling and news. I end up with higher energy and a more focused, in the moment, purpose.
I say all that composing this at 1am, after some building.
comment in response to
post
This isn't at all meant to disparage anyone - take care of yourself *first*. If you are, or end up in, a position to help, to build... explore that opportunity then, but not before you're ready. There will always be a need, and you can stand up when you're at your best if you choose to.
comment in response to
post
In a world which increasingly feels maddening and overwhelmingly negative, buildering (shush, I know, trying to be a little funny here) can bring a sense of normalcy, purpose, focus, pride... or even just a positive distraction, a few moments at a time.
comment in response to
post
Building also doesn't mean you are alone or have to be the actual builder. Ask for help. Accept help when offered. Don't burn yourself out trying to build things. Even if you use throw-away or pseudo-anonymous ways to start things and disengage, that is still valuable and commendable.
comment in response to
post
Building can also be community - it doesn't have to be an actual, tangible thing. Connecting circles of folks and creating support structures has incredible value as well. People often suffer quietly - allowing for that, but also being there when they could use a lift-me-up can be a positive force.
comment in response to
post
If you are able, like me, to afford time or energy to building, it is something I strongly encourage.
It can be something as seemingly small as "wouldn't it be cool if this existed? I can write a blurb about it and maybe get the right people together to make it".
comment in response to
post
I'm lucky, in *many* ways. I try to not spread "toxic positivity" and recognize my luck and privileges. As such, when I can extend myself to help, I do.
I also, of course, recognize that there are many who are fighting demons and struggling each day. It's hard to build when you work 2+ jobs now.
comment in response to
post
OpenAI et. al. assumed the way to "win" AI was to continually scale up models, regardless of all costs (actual dollars and otherwise).
We imposed tech sanctions on others. They needed to make ways to "win" with far less. They were hungry and constrained, innovation popped out.
comment in response to
post
Instructions unclear. God's AFK taking a shit.
comment in response to
post
The only thing that would make this better is "19-Jan" text on the left panel, and "20-Jan" on the right one.
comment in response to
post
Yes yes! This is what I was pointing to in a reply last night. Be out there. Everywhere. Point out the problem, briefly, but expand greatly on what Dems will do once voted back in. Do this Every. Day. Every. Where. Go where the eyes are. Take the oxygen out of everything.
comment in response to
post
And by "in front of cameras", I don't mean doing their lame "releases" of prepared statements. They gotta get out in front of where people are. NOT mainstream media.
Few people under 40, and less under 30, give a crap about the stupid letter put out condemning a topic. Get. On. A. Popular. Podcast.
comment in response to
post
That should say "making a fake reality". Late night composing :D
comment in response to
post
I disagree here. Rs, for years, have been good about controlling narrative and being fake reality. Ds need to get *out there* in front of cameras in much the same way. Starting yesterday.
Trump hasn't and won't "punch himself out". That thinking failed in 2016 and is failing again now.
comment in response to
post
Cool, catchy hook and riff on this, Jeff!
comment in response to
post
Looks nice! Totally surprised that it's green, truly :)
comment in response to
post
I've been adding " and we're complicit" to a lot of headlines from the media, and it really frames things in a meaningful and appropriate way.
comment in response to
post
Awesome, Dylan! So glad to have you here as a hubber, too! :) Glad to see you putting your (literal) mark on things.
comment in response to
post
I took a peek at Day 6 while I was here. It looks difficult, and enjoyable.
comment in response to
post
But, exploring DAGs was fruitful. Unfortunately at work, they're not something I'll use right now, so when I do run into them again, I'll have to freshen up on it.
But I took some notes for Future Me.
comment in response to
post
Today... friends, we went and explored Directed Acyclic Graph. Completely, utterly overkill, as I really could've just done some more basic sorting and had a simpler (more maintainable, and easier to read) overall solution.
comment in response to
post
Overall today was "easier" than yesterday, but I still am not a fan of string matching. Sifting through for a string pattern in a 2d array, even less so.
Onto tomorrow, though. I survived another day.
comment in response to
post
Turns out, I slightly misread the assignment (in a rush, don't do that) and also didn't have great pattern matching. Once I removed the case that shouldn't be there, tada, correct answer.
comment in response to
post
Through my struggle though, a couple colleagues stepped up, provided subtle hints to point me in useful directions. That paid off a ton. Grateful for the communities I have.
6 stars earned so far this year. Let's keep churning and learning.
comment in response to
post
Part 2 kicked my ass a bit. I very infrequently go into regex hell, but, it /was/ the right choice today. So I leveled up in my regex-fu. It just took a lot of reading and messing around on regexstorm.net to test crap out.
comment in response to
post
We'll see how many more days I can get done. My original goal was 10, but, seeing how the difficulty ramps up, that may have been slightly optimistic.
comment in response to
post
Anyway, got my new bits of story unlocked, learned a bit more about Go (how to really use variadic expansions effectively, and remembering after a weird output that passing a slice is more like passing a pointer for the slice), and both parts done for the day.
comment in response to
post
I'm sure there's more elegant solutions than what I cooked up, as mine's fairly "brute force your way through this" in something like O(8n) time. Better than the O(n^2) from yesterday.