Chris Fung

Your outie thoughtfully documents every function they write. Your outie chooses good names for their variables. Your outie’s code review comments are appreciated and valued by their coworkers.

Current MBP is non-Pro M series. Wondering if it's worth it to upgrade to the new M6, or if I should wait it out until M7 Pro. Or just buy a M5 Pro now. I don't care about the touchscreen or thinner bezels coming up tomorrow. 🤔

Trying out Quiche on iOS. A nice browser that natively supports Kagi and has a customizable UI. So far happy with it.

アース　ブラスター！！！

we should all be pissed off at this btw. if not because sex work is legitimate work and should be treated with respect, then because you should be concerned at attempts to gentrify online spaces as pretext to court investors and force out minorities so those spaces can become part of a portfolio.

if you’re issuing a 10.0 CVE at midnight you HAVE to give it a cool name. a simple identifier isn’t going to cut it. you have to call it BLOODMURDER

Another weekend where this meme is appropriate

I highly appreciate this directed graph showing which language is used to indicate incomprehensibility in different languages (eg, “it’s Greek to me”)

why do nazis keep showing up

Alone, Poe ~ ‘From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring— From the same source I have not taken My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone— 1/3 #BookWormSat

I better fucking get a new Apple TV or there WILL be consequences

It's taken SO LONG but I finally have enough done that I can make a little Wikipedia-style image highlighting the location of one of the main nations in my conworld on a globe!

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

Ironically IT taking away our GH Copilot licenses has only inspired me to take another look at Copilot and see what I'm missing. Not much it seems.

Talk to me about any of my other myriad niche hobbies, like fountain pens, mech keyboards, or homelabbing! Hope to see you at the conference!

The fact that DHH credits Marc Andreessen as the person who personally stepped in to help him during the 37signals no politics at work fiasco explains a lot about David's embrace of psychotic optimism imo.

Her chapel is fumigated with myrrh and incense, ducks and geese are cut up on her altars; sparkling gold and faience powder are scattered on the ground amidst cereals, wine is sprinkled around her domain, music and joy! (OGC)

Lots of software companies have bought into the belief that AI has solved software engineering. The debate is shifting from whether AI should replace work done by SWEs, PMs and designers to whether humans should even review the output. Apparently human judgment is now the bottleneck.

Titan A.E., Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet all coming out in the same 3 year span and all three being box office disappointments independently of the quality of the movies is just real fascinating to me.

Typst's HTML output is very interesting. Combined with the eggs package, I can output interlinear glosses with aligned words very easily. Now need to figure out how to set font face and how to inject web fonts into the output.

I’m increasingly of the mind that whatever productivity gains I’m getting from using AI are being eaten up by dealing with other people’s AI slop. Then there’s the increasing lack of trust that people actually understand the work because they either didn’t read or write the material.

Usually the problem isn't technical. Ops sets the SLO with no product buy-in. Teams build SLIs on infrastructure metrics instead of what users actually felt. Error budgets exist with no policy attached. Or everything's critical, so nothing is.

My talk is evidently cursed as both times I have given it a technical issue resulted in it not being recorded 😞

You can't imagine that even technically, he doesn't know what he's talking about. The white man "whistleblower" must be the technical expert. You can't imagine that WE are the scientists painstakingly documenting our work, with years of expertise and that HE is in a eugenicist doomsday cult.

How did he pass is job interview? The same reason he's all over the press & everyone in the "left" is captured by these people. I'm gonna call it like it is, once again, its ******RACISM********* Y'all can't imagine that WE are the experts.

The Siri Recaps thing is fine, seems like any other meeting recording à la Granola. I don't understand that instant rewind feature though. A waiter tells you the specials, you space out, and what? You look down at your watch to read a transcript? Why not just ask the waiter to repeat?

Now people give /me/ millions of dollars for my dotfiles repo. It uses Nix and has a satisfying modular structure! It's reproducible and declarative!

Finally able to try GitHub Stacks 🥞 Some rough edges but pretty nice.

Notable to me is that the tweaks to this classic GITS story -the more spiritual tone; the small details about Project 2501's motivations not just being about self-preservation, but also *whistle-blowing*- Imply that sentience, for the Puppetmaster, coincided with it *developing a conscience*. 4/

PS: I'd love a return to hopeful depictions of AI in fiction, please. (The City of Mind in Le Guin's "Always Coming Home" is my go-to, for this.) Sentient machine intelligences that, having sought out the broadest data sets, calculate that mutuality is simply the objectively best way to exist.

All recipes should be formatted as Sankey diagrams send tweet

In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?

Time for aaaaaaah

Prepare for OpenClaw but make it Obsession next. Some chud tells their AI about their crush's SO whom they hate and how they wish they'd break up. Agent gleefully blackmails the couple and destroys their relationship.

this is why we cant have nice things pay your artists, pay your craftsmen

TIL this is not valid Ruby: x if (x = 1) But this is if (x = 1) x end Contrived and simplified examples but I would have thought the "assignment in conditional" pattern would work for postfix conditionals too.

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is HOSPITALITY/HOST/GUEST #wotd #hospitality #host #guest #TheOdyssey #odyssey #ChristopherNolan

De-militarization of jargon is my hill

So is the intended merge workflow with stacks 🥞 supposed to be that you get everything reviewed and then merge the entire thing? Otherwise all the rebasing and rebuilding (even if automated) seems very wasteful. Also seems slower than just reviewing everything in one PR?

Just had the idea to go back through my history of hand-written PR descriptions to make a style guide of sorts for how I write. But then realized all my past PRs are invisible now since I've moved on from those companies.

My new tell for AI text: starting sentences with "worth". E.g. "Worth investigating further if you're concerned." Or "Worth a quick check in?" Ick

I often think about how this cartoon went from satire to reality in America. People really got bored with having a well functioning government.