Quoll

RIP Walter Koenig. I will always remember fondly his request to be shown to the “nuclear wessels”.

My son is doing the Physics GRE tomorrow. He has put in a lot of work, and I know he is stressed… but I am as anxious about this exam as any I have sat for myself. There is so much I want to say or suggest, and instead I am keeping my mouth shut. He doesn’t need me making things harder for him

PhD research while having a drink. That's bound to go well… right?

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

I wonder what the current opinion is of the older man who *screamed* at me, “God put that man in the White House, and you have NO RIGHT to try to remove him!” 🤔 (A nice lady representing the GOP had to stand between us to get him to back down)

No one weather event can be blamed on the climate, but it seems way out of the ordinary around here to have a 29℃ day followed a frost advisory that night

On or around my daughter’s campus: Gunfire on Saturday 10/3 Gunfire on Thursday 10/8 Gunfire on Friday 10/9 Gunfire on Saturday 10/10 Shooting on Monday 10/12 People accept this as “normal”?!??

Right? Not just ignoring climate change, but actively trying to supercharge it...

Grateful that my daughter is home for the weekend. Because there’s been more gunfire again. At least this time it’s a few blocks to the West. That’s better, right?

Gunfire reported next to where my daughter lives at college. I hate this

Aside from threatening neighbors with annexation, invading Venezuela, and starting a war, I don’t understand how a person who credibly threatened a country with genocide could ever believe he was eligible for such a prize. It would make a mockery of the award www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Young people have grown up in a world post Scott McNealy’s 1999 quote: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” People were angry about it at the time, but we apparently didn’t care enough to do anything about it

Several people have said hello to me at Clojure/conj today, saying that they follow me on BlueSky. Hi 👋 And hi to everyone else who follows me too 👋

When I say, “AI is going to kill us all,” I don’t mean that it will act to harm us. Rather, I’m saying that those trying to develop AI will burn so much fossil fuel as to irretrievably push us past a point of catastrophic climate change

This article points out that the ad is likely a violation of the Hatch act. It’s so cute that they still think this matters

While filling the car with fuel at a local place today I noticed a Nazi sticker posted on the pump. Lovely. 😖

Polio vaccine conspiracy theories are promoted by Big Iron Lung. Because the manufacturers of those machines want to revive their business model. Wouldn’t it be cool to see iron lungs become popular again?

@scalzi.com I laughed aloud during Red Shirts. Thank you. I cried quietly during the Codas. Thank you. Also, I don’t think I’ve heard @wilwheaton.net being more expressive. Thanks to him too

Babysitting a computer overnight (6pm-6am) as it ran billing queries for a telecom company. If something went wrong, I had a number to call, and the person on call would fix it. I spent my nights reading. Also, I worked on a chicken farm for a while. That was… interesting.

Hi again Oslo. Why so wet this time?

I usually like listening to The Daily, but suddenly hearing the personal details of a suicide in the middle of today's story was not what I was expecting.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll vibe code it." Now they don't know how many problems they have.

My attempt to puzzle through macro-writing-macros in an age where AI could have just done it for me dev.to/quoll/macro-...

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

It’s not actually about religion for many people, is it?

The 1979 “Buck Rogers” series had a Computer Council running things. Not something I was expecting the US to start adopting any time soon

This is supposed to be a satirical publication

This morning I warmed up with a short, brisk 2.5km run, and then HIIT. I haven’t done HIIT for about 10 years, and OMG… I’m dying.

Do we really? Or are most of our storytellers incapable of writing a tale that does not personify these forces?

Sounds good, until you consider… what type of power will they provide for themselves? If it’s generated by gas turbines (GTs) then the pollution concerns are enormous. I’d hope that “provide their own power” included limits on the types of generators

I feel a bit guilty that I can track all the phones in my family (though any of them can turn this off if they want). I justify this to myself by remembering that I pay for high data plans for everyone. Unexpectedly, I’ve been told that they all feel reassured knowing that their parents can see them

You know what protects against many deadly pathogens? Vaccines