Doug Simpkinson

Doug Simpkinson

@douglips.com

Software guy. Microsoft AI, Former Googler. Pilot. Cocktail and sunset enthusiast.

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Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

I have flown a mission in my airplane to transport an assembled Lego set from California to Washington. I support this endeavor.

Star Simpson@starstar.bsky.social

Alright-I’m at the point where I have to share this. I’m trying to pull of a special mission. I’m trying to buy the biggest LEGOs ever. But I might need help from the network to pull this off.

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

“Rather than paying a worker overtime to spend a weekend…”

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

When an airline cranks up the price of an itinerary without a Saturday stay, they're using that fact as a proxy for "price-insensitive" business travelers whose bosses can afford to pay more for a ticket, rather than paying a worker overtime to spend a weekend away from home after a meeting.

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

I was in such an uber and immediately I noticed the camera was off center, so I looked closer. Then I thought “The zoom must be wrong there’s no way that Tesla is getting that close.” *crunch*

DilDog 🅅@dildog.l0pht.com

was in an uber recently with a digital rear view mirror and all i could think of was the failure modes

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

Why isn’t it called husbandry?

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social

Mankeeping--serving as a partner's sole emotional support--correlates with women's lower relationship satisfaction & higher relationship burden and burnout and depression, anxiety, and stress. Women with traditional gender role beliefs more likely to mankeep. www.psypost.org/mankeeping-t...

psypost.orgA psychological scale for 'mankeeping' turned up a pattern its creators flagged carefully: women with more traditional views of gender roles reported doing more of it, and more of it went with more bu...A newly developed psychological survey measures "mankeeping"—the unpaid labor women perform to manage their male partners' social lives. Findings show that this effort is strongly associated with rela...
Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

Q. What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mount climber? A. Silly, you can’t cross a vector with a scaler.

apenwarr@apenwarr.ca

I’ve made nerdy jokes before, but this might be my first one that is only funny to polymaths. My posting truly has a niche audience

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

I think by the time your polycule has 60 nodes you need to have some SREs. The target availability is, obviously, 6 9s

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

60-person-polycules are basically just a very pure form of applied network theory

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

I had this exact experience, except it was after successfully finding usembassy dot de was the US Embassy in Germany, I went to usembassy dot ca to get to the US Embassy in Canada. After the twentieth porn popup in 10 seconds I pulled the plug on my Sun workstation in my cubicle at work.

Patrick Matthews@matthewsp.bsky.social

True work story. A 🧵 It's Spring of 2000. I'm relatively new at my job (for an employer I've now been with an improbable 26 years), and at a customer site. As it happens I actually had my own office at the customer site for this gig, thank God, as it turns out in this incident. 1/4

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

If you put a flock camera into a Juicero it spits out a 1.7 pound ingot of copper and a 1 gram gold coin.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social

The Juicero guys were actually also the designers of the Flock camera which is why each one is made with 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold.

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

🧵

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com

I'm not voting for a candidate that wants fascism for trans kids, but safety for me. Don't try to sell me that you're worried about rising fascism, if you think there's enough of a safety margin to throw away the 5% to 10% of anti-fascist votes that you will lose by backing an anti-trans candidate.

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

It would be hilarious if some state agency is able to do a bribery sting on him while he’s in Minnesota.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

in terms of violent confrontations, though, homan won’t be out on the streets stirring that up. he’ll be nestled safely in the whipple building. just as evil as bovino but a different energy.

Doug Simpkinson
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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

* DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES * AKADEMIKERPENSION CIO SAYS US `IS BASICALLY NOT A GOOD CREDIT' @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, harpoon‘s heavy There’s vomit on his sweater already Spermaceti

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social

reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

I was wondering if someone might do this intentionally as a way to “accidentally“ leak it.

Liam Nissan™@theliamnissan.bsky.social

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

"As the server rebooted from a kernel upgrade, it found itself transformed in its rack into a gigantic insect."

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com

We experienced catastrophic Kafka failure in @honeycomb.io's EU instance on 5 Dec, exacerbated by missing automation and safeguards. Recovery is now complete, and we have posted an outline of critical events during the incident. Fuller retro will follow in Jan. status.honeycomb.io/incidents/pj...

status.honeycomb.iostatus.honeycomb.io
Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

Hey, uh, so I know I said we should host our service in the L2 datacenter but I’m getting like 10000 ms latencies on all my requests. No matter how much I optimize the code it always takes 10 seconds. Any suggestions? Also: How much diesel do we have there and what’s the lead time to get more?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...

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Megan Wachspress
@meganwachspress.bsky.social

Replying to @meganwachspress.bsky.social

To put a finer point on it: LLMs are fundamentally incapable of making decisions but are being promoted as tools for tasks that require making innumerable decisions (writing, planning) because the LLM enthusiasts do not perform that kind of decisionmaking and so do not believe it exists

Doug Simpkinson
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Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social

I clicked on this video because I love this production of Merrily We Roll Along, and something so bad happens in the first ten seconds that I am now forming a commission to investigate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAlV...

Doug Simpkinson
@douglips.com

I would love to get this shirt, but objectively, I spent as much time as I possibly could have on the computer when they were fun to use.

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Doug Simpkinson
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Reply All == instant workplace organizing

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

A new round of deferred resignation offers went out to civil servants. The problem is that employees on administrative could not access their work emails. Offers were sent to their personal emails. And then rescinded a few hours later. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...