Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.

It's correct; California doesn't have a pocket veto.

California doesn't have a pocket veto; if he doesn't sign, it still becomes law.

Two things I firmly believe that I'm not sure how to reconcile:
1. You have to look at your data record by record to understand it at all.
2. P-hacking is bad.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

your software engineering career depends on not developing a fascination with opening a farm, carpentry, or living in a camper until you have at least 8 years of experience. if you get the bug early it's joever for you

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

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Folks that have experience with deterministic automation in (esp. in distributed systems) understand compounding error rates well enough to be very sceptical about throwing non-determinism in that mix.

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

is there a way to filter o'reilly books by animal

my other big American literary teaching complaint is that even the good teaching focuses far too much on symbolism and character and not nearly enough on tone, style, figures of speech and the suchlike. It's often a bird's eye view of the text rather than a tight-up read of paragraphs or sentences.

the two surest ways to make sure nobody else fucks with your code are extensive use of type systems and functional programming

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

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stealing this phrase. "easier to move gigabits than gigawatts".

Ah, that makes sense, then.

We released domesticated computers from captivity and they displaced healthy ecosystems

however even they will only be allowed to use it in the Internet Room.

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

Other fun question: what's the EDVA hook here?

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
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imagine tweeting so bad that a federal court is like "didn't ask don't care"