AndrewO
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AndrewO
@nonesuch.website
· Jan 24
“…because when you are a [Programmer] of Very Little Brain, and you think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside of you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
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Oh is that right? Is that right????
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Oh is that right? Is that right????
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
Got #Gitlab running from source well enough for some large subset of its unit tests to pass. I feel like I deserve a cookie.
Do I continue and see if I can build out something for those complicated CI automations that can otherwise only be debugged by repeatedly pushing to a real server?
Do I continue and see if I can build out something for those complicated CI automations that can otherwise only be debugged by repeatedly pushing to a real server?
June 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Got #Gitlab running from source well enough for some large subset of its unit tests to pass. I feel like I deserve a cookie.
Do I continue and see if I can build out something for those complicated CI automations that can otherwise only be debugged by repeatedly pushing to a real server?
Do I continue and see if I can build out something for those complicated CI automations that can otherwise only be debugged by repeatedly pushing to a real server?
LLM sycophancy is nothing new, but the latest #ChatGPT personality trait is particularly grating. #ExcellentQuestion
June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
LLM sycophancy is nothing new, but the latest #ChatGPT personality trait is particularly grating. #ExcellentQuestion
If your `-h|--help` is so long I have to scroll to see the options I'll actually use, you need a `man` page. Or better yet, don't do it.
June 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If your `-h|--help` is so long I have to scroll to see the options I'll actually use, you need a `man` page. Or better yet, don't do it.
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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million.
A thread about 18F:
A thread about 18F:
18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.
March 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million.
A thread about 18F:
A thread about 18F:
Sibling: I’ll get one of those “In Case I Die” workbooks …
Me: …and you’ll leave a series of riddles that will eventually lead the keenest of your surviving kin to it!
Sibling’s Lawyer: Please don’t do that.
Me: …and you’ll leave a series of riddles that will eventually lead the keenest of your surviving kin to it!
Sibling’s Lawyer: Please don’t do that.
February 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Sibling: I’ll get one of those “In Case I Die” workbooks …
Me: …and you’ll leave a series of riddles that will eventually lead the keenest of your surviving kin to it!
Sibling’s Lawyer: Please don’t do that.
Me: …and you’ll leave a series of riddles that will eventually lead the keenest of your surviving kin to it!
Sibling’s Lawyer: Please don’t do that.
I’m sad that #StarTrek #LowerDecks never got the chance to give us a “Family” style episode set in a vineyard and call it “The Balance of Terroir”.
February 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I’m sad that #StarTrek #LowerDecks never got the chance to give us a “Family” style episode set in a vineyard and call it “The Balance of Terroir”.
My work notes had the phrase "Adrian Sampson: professor w/ a working skeleton" which made me wonder what exactly I was getting into on a Friday afternoon.
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My work notes had the phrase "Adrian Sampson: professor w/ a working skeleton" which made me wonder what exactly I was getting into on a Friday afternoon.
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PaRappa the Rapper (2025)
January 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
PaRappa the Rapper (2025)
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
January 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
Literally only awake right now because it’s some kind of endurance challenge where I’m the only participant. WTH am I doing.
January 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Literally only awake right now because it’s some kind of endurance challenge where I’m the only participant. WTH am I doing.
“…because when you are a [Programmer] of Very Little Brain, and you think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside of you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
January 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“…because when you are a [Programmer] of Very Little Brain, and you think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside of you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
Reposted by AndrewO
Considering the size and scope of Project 2025, the section devoted to CISA is miniscule — less than 400 words in all. But what that brief section proposes for the agency could have grave implications for the future of elections — and democracy. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-l...
A Little-Known Federal Agency Helps Secure Elections. Trump Wants to Gut It.
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Considering the size and scope of Project 2025, the section devoted to CISA is miniscule — less than 400 words in all. But what that brief section proposes for the agency could have grave implications for the future of elections — and democracy. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-l...
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$500 billion is staggering. CBO reports the deficit is supposed to be $1.9 trillion for 2025. This is a quarter of that.
For a technology everyone hates and that chronically under delivers.
For a technology everyone hates and that chronically under delivers.
President Trump is set to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States, in a joint venture with OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle called Stargate. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
Trump to announce up to $500 billion in private sector AI infrastructure investment
President Trump is announcing billions in private sector investment by OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle to build AI infrastructure in the U.S.
www.cbsnews.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
$500 billion is staggering. CBO reports the deficit is supposed to be $1.9 trillion for 2025. This is a quarter of that.
For a technology everyone hates and that chronically under delivers.
For a technology everyone hates and that chronically under delivers.
TFW you log off of all Meta properties and delete their apps because they make you feel gross:
I should've done this a long time ago
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January 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
TFW you log off of all Meta properties and delete their apps because they make you feel gross:
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Media literacy moment of the day: if a minor is publishing in traditional media outlets (magazines incl) this generally means their parents had the power/connections to make this happen for their kid, and the article should be taken with extreme skepticism at best.
Good parents don't let children publish BS like this: and if the child was really in trouble, they should have lifted her phone. Comparing TikTok to a serious addiction to drugs is just offensive.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...
Opinion | I’m a 17-Year-Old TikTok Junkie. I Need This Ban.
What worries me most right now is the future of my generation.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Media literacy moment of the day: if a minor is publishing in traditional media outlets (magazines incl) this generally means their parents had the power/connections to make this happen for their kid, and the article should be taken with extreme skepticism at best.
This is brutal. There is no joy in the world.
January 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is brutal. There is no joy in the world.
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a really weird thing about american social media right now is that a decade of conservative-driven hysteria about shadowbanning has set people up to not be able to, or simply unwilling to differentiate between ccp-level censorship and kafka-esque western content moderation
January 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
a really weird thing about american social media right now is that a decade of conservative-driven hysteria about shadowbanning has set people up to not be able to, or simply unwilling to differentiate between ccp-level censorship and kafka-esque western content moderation
Can someone check on Delaware and make sure it’s okay?
January 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Can someone check on Delaware and make sure it’s okay?
Look at the beautiful frickin’ unicorn I drew when my kid challenged me to a unicorn drawing contest.
January 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Look at the beautiful frickin’ unicorn I drew when my kid challenged me to a unicorn drawing contest.
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there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
January 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
