Rick Gingrich

Truly the dumbest people have been left to productize the cryptic scribbling of AI engineers that have long since “bought the farm” in the literal sense in that they are now growing vegetables

This is one of my favorite murals in Denver. It’s at the Curtis Park Pool, which the city shut down in 2023 and does not plan to reopen until at least 2028 www.9news.com/article/news...

Hell yes

This is very on brand for Denver, unfortunately

My dog Jasper when I’m just trying to sit down and grab a snack

The GWG from Nathan MacKinnon 🚨

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

What is the worst software that you use on a daily basis, and why is it iMessage?

Yo-Yo Ma Finally Works Up Courage To Tell Parents He Quitting Cello theonion.com/yo-yo-m...

This seems pretty damn sloppy for Google tbh… status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow... Google Cloud Service Health

👀 maybe they aren’t being ironic?

It isn’t easy to explain, but this is absolutely wild. If I had done anything similar to this while working on public sector systems I would have immediately been fired and I would need counsel for the inevitable lawsuit.

I cannot understate how dumb this site selection is. A data center this size could easily use around 1 million gallons of water *per day*, not an easy thing to get in CO

This is from a while back. Has the AEA ever been used without egregious violations of constitutional rights? In the words of Scalia: “…you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again”

Let’s be clear: “dems” didn’t flip a damn thing here. Someone recognized and rose to the moment despite dead weight of their party

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

I’ve been using Google’s Gemini lately to help write some documents from an outline and for general programming reference. It has performed really, really poorly so far.

Next time someone mentions that the ssa database is not “deduplicated”, ask them what their preferred method is for handling slowly changing dimensions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_...

One thing to add from my (limited) experience working with public sector tech: you need more than people with software engineering skills to modify these systems, you also need legal experts because many of these programs are essentially a living, operationalized version of statutory law.

The thing with public sector payment systems is that they integrate with hundreds, if not thousands of other systems, some of which might only be used once or twice a year. Even if you are replicating existing functionality, it's easy to break things and not be aware they are broken for months.

Chinese Ai vs US Ai - feels like an appropriate time to share this scene from the show (2018)

Take back your attention.

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Honestly, this is not surprising. In my experience these programs in big tech primarily existed to “add a little coffee to the cream” while preserving the existing power structure in the organization. www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24...

Hell yeah! It's been awesome contributing and watching this tech progress from sorting 100s of objects per minute to tens of tons per hour. ampsortation.com/articles/amp...

People always look at me funny when I say that Denver has good seafood, but it’s true! www.westword.com/restaurants/...

California and Arizona suggest that their upstream neighbors should adopt fremen water discipline to help alleviate the critical shortage of golf courses in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.

I’m a single issue voter: businesses and politicians should not be able to automatically opt people in to fundraising/promo/marketing SMS or Push notifications. Save that shit for email.

Remember when most sites wouldn’t even consider autoplaying unmuted video ads? Pepperidge farm remembers.

oh my god

Absolute goober: