Kevin
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Kevin
@tam-lin.bsky.social
Two daughters. A sad lack of cats. I keep the worldwide financial system from falling down. Probably closer to death than birth.
I mean, you’ve only been getting reminders about the winter concert for the past three months, before chorus even started.

On the other hand, they’ll announce that your child needs some weird shade of clothing for marmot day the night before, if you’re lucky.
December 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
That’s what people keep saying, but as a software engineer who works on novel problems, they aren’t useful for that, either.
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
If it’s a choice between no vaccine and maybe a vaccine, what do you do?
December 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Which is true, but deeply wrong, too. Why not put data centers deep underwater? Challenges are similar, except you actually can get rid of waste heat that way.
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
That one house isn’t over the top at all, and I’m sure delights children. Look, I don’t like lights, or blow-up things, but my kids are only going to be kids for so long. As long as they don’t leave the lights on all the time, where’s the harm?
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I’m not convinced he thinks other people are real.
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Reposted by Kevin
All I'm saying is that if you believe in yourself and put in the effort, you can do some really stupid things in the name of journalism.
December 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Goddammit, Reese.
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I didn’t get an email at all; is that being fixed too?
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I go with that one too, though I’ll note that the original article suggests that Rudy Gulianni also doesn’t suck shit. So not as prescient as you might think.
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The book is great; I may need to buy another for the office. That said, if we did order last weekend, when should we get sent the PDFs?
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Not from his point of view.
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
No, not when you’re inviting people to to your kids birthday party. Your goal is to get them to come, so you want to make it as easy as possible for them. They have a lot going on already too.
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
No Jerrification?
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I’m generally against these laws, but saying what’s provided with phones is adequate is incorrect.
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
There’s are risks associated with getting an MRI. They’re small, but real. And in Trump’s case, there’s also an opportunity cost, in that he’s going to be tied up in the MRI for an extended period of time. So someone judged that the MRI was worth the risk and costs involved.
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yes, true. I read them as a teen, but were definitely less appropriate than others. One of the SERRATED EDGE books involving an abused child stuck with me. But they’re also incredibly accepting of people, especially for the time. I doubt I’d be as open as I am to such things today without them.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Yeah. I mean, if any nonsense can get you a good grade, what’s the point of the assignment, class, degree? An A from that professor meant something.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
People can get used to a lot. Plus, real estate and rent must be cheap. No cost of living concerns. And a non-zero percentage are henching.
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I wrote a “compare-contrast” paper in high school on Macs vs PCs. I got the paper back with the comment “You need to actually know what you’re talking about.” Hurt at the time, I imagine, but I now think back to the review fondly, and foundational. Someone needs to call you out on bullshit.
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Agreed, but also (and am not directing this at you) misleading, in the sense that it confuses what is happening, which is that LLMs are really good at pattern recognition and search, with what AI people want you to think, which is that the LLM is genuinely “thinking,” also not a well defined term.
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Part of the problem is how you define “works,” and what you mean by AI. A lot of people say “AI” when they’re specifically talking about LLMs. Which work for some definition of “work.”
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM