Mark Pauley

At least Charlie died doing what he loved

It’s exhausting to maintain standards when others don’t, but consider: your standards aren’t for them. Your standards are for you, to remain someone you respect.

Ya know, as a matter of fact I wish atlas would shrug.

After getting various answers from ChatGPT that obviously were based on Wikipedia, I asked it if Open AI supported Wikimedia. It found Apple, Google.org, plus individual donors like Omidyar Network did, but not OpenAI. So I asked it to prepare a call for social media. This is it. Let's use it:

I like Bluesky except when people start talking about AI. Like I get it, you don’t like it.

What am I supposed to do now that I'm addicted to heroin? ETA: never mind the heroin kicked in, holy shit being addicted to heroin rules ETA: Disregard my previous comment, the heroin wore off. ETA: woo there's the next rush so like I was saying this rules and

Be me: have one sip of tequila then realize that other people being happy and enjoying their life costs me nothing and feel happy for them

This study is so bad it’s not even funny, and the articles covering it are somehow all worse.

It’s hard to overstate how much the internet has and continues to absolutely fuck up our minds, our politics and our views of the world.

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Oh look: a bunch of people being “right” online

Jesus Christ, if 2025 could just have a seat and chill for a bit while I catch up that would be cool.

Drill baby drill! I yell from the roof of my burning / flooding house.

I watched some of the new Reno-911 episodes and laughed so hard. I feel like it’s been a long long time since I have laughed like that 😭

If you’re making an important choice and you don’t think there are any tradeoffs, then either you’re not paying attention or the tradeoffs have already been made for you. You are either squandering what you have or you’re getting screwed.

It’s absolutely stupid that this hasn’t happened yet in any form that works well. Like I was almost about to quit my job and build this in 2013 but I thought someone big would definitely beat me to it.

I think there is honestly a huge missed opportunity here. I think there is just enough friction for people to pick the wrong choice (takeout over cooking). Someone needs to make an app that helps remove most of the low-dopamine tasks. The problem is what the business model of such an app would be.

People who try to say that everything is shit are going to be right about 90% of the time, but also they won’t have much to show for it other than bragging about how they were right.

My hobby is wood working. Whenever I see someone having a hard time I just walk up to em and say “oh you know what wood work?”

Seeing people unquestioningly repeating this and it's not true. There has never been a single bit of non-circumstantial evidence of Apple using Siri conversations for ad targeting, and the settlement is for Apple sharing recordings of accidental Siri activations with their QA subcontractors.

My musician friends: wow, I made so much music in 2024 Me: wow I made so many bash one-liners in 2024

I have no idea if this is normal, but I added a few new modules to my modular synthesizer and a persistent hum the synth was making went away

This thing is what’s up

I’m a professional log message reader

Kids are messy as fuck

Sometimes I wonder what we could all accomplish if we weren’t always arguing. If we weren’t so worried about whose fault it was and who was better and who was worse. If we weren’t so sure we were right.

Rules for Interrupt Safety: 1. Always Keep Interrupts Vectored in a Safe direction 2. Treat All Interrupts as Though They are Enabled 3. Keep Your Event Sources Disabled Until You are Ready to Handle Them 4. Always Be Sure of Your Vector Target and What’s Beyond It

Score brah 😮‍💨

When I was younger I went raving all night and felt fruit loopy the next day, thinking it was the substances that did this. When I became a parent I learned that no, in fact it’s the sleep deprivation that did most of it. The substances just caused sleep dep.

My dreams have come true... 🎹 tek: A colorful music-making program for your terminal. 🎼 Multitrack MIDI sequencer inspired by Ableton. 🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs ⭐Source: codeberg.org/unspeaker/tek #rustlang #ratatui #tui #music #terminal #sequencer #midi #commandline #linux

Yo the wharf in Santa Cruz collapsed!

Fucking hell it sucks trying to ship something internationally

Part of the problem I have with making music is that it’s physically like 4x as draining as programming, which is also pretty draining.

If you have kids, libraries are ESSENTIAL

Somebody opened my partners package very likely because it was from Apple and looked like it may have had AirPods inside. It was just a power cable but I bet a lot of FedEx bags addressed from Apple are going missing this time of year.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is on the end caps at Target! The book is just so so good.

Luke-warm take: AI should be taxed and the proceeds should go to the members of a union that anyone whose work was ingested and signs onto union membership. Like we used to do with CD-R’s.

I’m behind with advent of code 2024, just finished Day 11. Had to get Claude back on the rails for part 2 but once I did, we were good! I literally said “huh, this is taking a really long time to run, could we memoize?” and Claude did the thing. Blam super duper fast solution.