David Thompson
@dhwthompson.com
I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—that the kind of people who would come up with a straight pride flag would be super ignorant about how pride works.
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—that the kind of people who would come up with a straight pride flag would be super ignorant about how pride works.
I was about to say, that is about the saddest, most miserable flag I could possibly imagine.
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I was about to say, that is about the saddest, most miserable flag I could possibly imagine.
This conversation gives me a much-needed dose of hope that there are still people who get it. I like the cuts of your respective jibs.
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This conversation gives me a much-needed dose of hope that there are still people who get it. I like the cuts of your respective jibs.
Exactly: the understanding is the worthier part. Doubly so when you get to distribute it across a team. That’s the good shit right there.
I can only imagine that an awful lot of people pushing this LLM boom have never experienced or understood that.
I can only imagine that an awful lot of people pushing this LLM boom have never experienced or understood that.
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Exactly: the understanding is the worthier part. Doubly so when you get to distribute it across a team. That’s the good shit right there.
I can only imagine that an awful lot of people pushing this LLM boom have never experienced or understood that.
I can only imagine that an awful lot of people pushing this LLM boom have never experienced or understood that.
Yeah, I can see how the “reasonably accurate typing automator” model makes sense. That at least doesn’t set off the same “this is wrong tool” response for me that other approaches do.
December 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Yeah, I can see how the “reasonably accurate typing automator” model makes sense. That at least doesn’t set off the same “this is wrong tool” response for me that other approaches do.
This gets at the heart of the issue for me: for me, at least, the code is a far less interesting product than the understanding. I don’t want to ship more code: I want to know more things. I can’t see a way I would get that out of a tool designed to string the most plausible words together.
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This gets at the heart of the issue for me: for me, at least, the code is a far less interesting product than the understanding. I don’t want to ship more code: I want to know more things. I can’t see a way I would get that out of a tool designed to string the most plausible words together.
Honestly, I’m mostly just relieved that I’ve got an alibi for this one. The last one broke out on what was supposed to be my last day at GDS, and people joked that I’d gone to rather extreme lengths to avoid giving a speech.
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Honestly, I’m mostly just relieved that I’ve got an alibi for this one. The last one broke out on what was supposed to be my last day at GDS, and people joked that I’d gone to rather extreme lengths to avoid giving a speech.
As someone who recently started another Satisfactory run, this is delightful and good.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
As someone who recently started another Satisfactory run, this is delightful and good.
Hubris guides us all
Spin and smash the danger rocks
Winter’s chill wind blows
Spin and smash the danger rocks
Winter’s chill wind blows
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Hubris guides us all
Spin and smash the danger rocks
Winter’s chill wind blows
Spin and smash the danger rocks
Winter’s chill wind blows
Oh dear. I’m going to have to dive back into Satisfactory, aren’t I?
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Oh dear. I’m going to have to dive back into Satisfactory, aren’t I?
As someone who picked up an emergency packet of dark chocolate Hobnobs yesterday, I feel you.
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
As someone who picked up an emergency packet of dark chocolate Hobnobs yesterday, I feel you.
Yeah; same here on the first point. I’m still running my home game in full 2014 mode, and haven’t even picked up most of the 2024 books yet.
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yeah; same here on the first point. I’m still running my home game in full 2014 mode, and haven’t even picked up most of the 2024 books yet.
Well, I’m pleasantly unsurprised to see at least one D&D book in there. I’d have picked the same one.
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Well, I’m pleasantly unsurprised to see at least one D&D book in there. I’d have picked the same one.
Well, today I learned that particular pronunciation exists, and I am very relieved that I get to play my British English card and opt out of it.
If you need me, I’ll be over here with my aluminium and my herbs.
If you need me, I’ll be over here with my aluminium and my herbs.
October 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Well, today I learned that particular pronunciation exists, and I am very relieved that I get to play my British English card and opt out of it.
If you need me, I’ll be over here with my aluminium and my herbs.
If you need me, I’ll be over here with my aluminium and my herbs.
To think, with just one or two billion dollars in funding, the next Juicero could be within your grasp.
October 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
To think, with just one or two billion dollars in funding, the next Juicero could be within your grasp.
Do you deliver to Redmond, by any chance? Because I have found in myself a sudden unmet need for whisky ginger chocolate chip cookies.
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Do you deliver to Redmond, by any chance? Because I have found in myself a sudden unmet need for whisky ginger chocolate chip cookies.
Little-known fact: his full name is Theodore Talkington III, of the Worcester Talkingtons.
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Little-known fact: his full name is Theodore Talkington III, of the Worcester Talkingtons.
Woah, such fluffy buzzy bois! 😍
September 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Woah, such fluffy buzzy bois! 😍
It is. It’s long and painful, and early studies suggest it can persist for decades.
Even worse, sufferers who have children almost inevitably pass it on to them.
Even worse, sufferers who have children almost inevitably pass it on to them.
September 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It is. It’s long and painful, and early studies suggest it can persist for decades.
Even worse, sufferers who have children almost inevitably pass it on to them.
Even worse, sufferers who have children almost inevitably pass it on to them.
I’ve spent a big chunk of time preparing this weekend’s D&D session, because a world in which the good guys can actually fight back is much easier to think about.
September 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I’ve spent a big chunk of time preparing this weekend’s D&D session, because a world in which the good guys can actually fight back is much easier to think about.
They do indeed. I’m sorry today has been one of them.
September 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
They do indeed. I’m sorry today has been one of them.