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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 3h

I'm trying out tailscale for the first time.

It turns out we still can build good software! Really impressive.

Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

Yeah it’s a real bad look. The blacksky experiment is v interesting though, I hope this is at least a serious chance to test the robustness of atproto and the surrounding social dynamics

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

Ah sorry. DMs are open (genuinely 100% not a request or challenge, just a statement)

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

I just wanted to say “hey, consider that you might’ve overreached in this specific case, and that this road is strewn with radicalized people who one day eventually stopped being reasonable”. I’ll crawl back into my lurker hole now. 2/2

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

In disclosure, I met and (briefly) interacted with Timnit personally and professionally very early on, and I think “famous for getting fired” specifically is inaccurate.

I understand this is a personal thing, but i don’t think discussing any of this in a public forum will elucidate much 1/2

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

I think you hold a sufficiently interesting point of view and again, you do you and if this feels to you like you want to mute or block me, ok. But I’m just telling you this in case no one else thinks to nudge you away from this attractor.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

Hey so I’ve followed you for a long time and whatever I’m mostly a rando. But that’s just genuinely not true, and I hope you one day you come to realize that. Like, you do you. But I do worry you’re going to go deeper into the posterdom problem of not walking back something you once could.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

Here it is:

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

(Andrie; damn autocorrect) @grrrck.xyz caught some of it, but I can’t seem to make Bluesky post it

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

Seriously though, Andries and i brought instruments to posit::conf this year (clarinet, guitar) and it was the best. I’ve been trying to convince more folks to do it!!

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

Recent Nikons have this, but apparently it’s not going entirely smoothly: petapixel.com/2025/09/22/n...

Nikon Can't Fully Solve the Z6 III's C2PA Problems Alone

Nikon is doing its best but some issues concern C2PA software itself.

petapixel.com

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 2d

(Seeing this now - yeah, GitHub discussions is the right place to ask, esp because you can share more details about your setup)

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 2d

Case in point: Posit paid me this morning to suffer through learning an extremely obscure corner of a parsing library so that you all (eventually!) don't suffer from weird markdown parsing issues.

(hi tree-sitter external scanners, you're too complicated even for Claude. But I beat your ass.)

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 6d

Three phrases that capture some of the tidyverse team culture:

Everybody takes out the trash

We suffer so users don’t have to

If it hurts, do it more often

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 2d

with that said, this is my screen rn

Screenshot of claude code trying to debug a tree-sitter parser.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 2d

Watch out, you’re going to soon be at the edge of quantum physics or whatever the hell that guy was on about

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 3d

In Clearly Unrelated Comments, I built myself a little chrome extension that lets me tag github users, remembers the tags in local storage, and annotates GitHub issues appropriately.

It's very useful for repeat offenders.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 3d

Ooo hades 2 is fun

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 4d

Who will win?

- a 20-page furniture assembly manual, or
- a well-medicated adhd patient

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 4d

this is besides the point and I know we're all halfway-to-blackpilled here

but the fact that we can all read this debate openly on bsky reminds me of the fleeting old days of twitter

grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · 4d

i can't see how any answer to this doesn't ultimately boil down to a bureaucratic theory of statistics

good thread

Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 4d

But what good is lower variance if the estimand isn't real?

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 5d

If you've ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I'm giving in a couple weeks! It'll be a blast (and we're covering Quarto's brand new _brand dot yaml system!)

Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 20d

Learn to create and publish a professional, data-focused website in “Create an Online Presence with Quarto Websites” on October 16-17, with @andrew.heiss.phd‬! Discover how to use #Quarto to build a variety of websites like personal portfolios, research compendiums, and interactive dashboards.

Quarto Websites | Online Seminar | Code Horizons

This online course taught by Andrew Heiss, Ph.D., teaches you how to use Quarto to build a variety of data-focused websites.

codehorizons.com

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 5d

e as torres gêmeas ali atrás?

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 5d

Colder than Minneapolis (we’re expected to hit 90 today, wat)

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 ITS FIFTY SIX DEGREES IN ATLANTA GEORGIA I REPEAT ITS FIFTY SIX DEGREES IN ATLANTA GEORGIA 🚨

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 6d

I'm choosing to believe this is the true cause of my gray beard

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