Erica Van Houten

The Ever Given could do the funniest thing right now.

terraform apply in production is terrifying. Robots don’t get to do terrifying things.

The curse of the prodigy. Hate to see it happen.

Babies are in fact very bad at napping.

The ‘standard’ in the US is a divided 6 lane road with dedicated left turn lanes and 45-55mph speed limits. Sometimes they even throw in right turn lanes.

Is it a highway? Is it a street? Is it a road? Yes. Yes to all of them.

It would at least be something if the facing of the building was against the street. Having a giant parking between the facing and the street making any pedestrian infrastructure useless is just awful.

If we don’t put a quarter mile of parking in front of this store the people that live a mile away won’t come to it. Because it fronts a 6 lane stroad with a 45mph speed limit. But we need the stroad because otherwise they can’t drive.

Unitarians are everywhere. How do you know? Because every Unitarian for the next 500 years is going to say “Did you know they were Unitarian? Well, they practiced protestant but if you read their writings it was clearly Unitarian.”

Notably lacking is oral.

And it is named “util.dll”.

Part of my resistance to AI is captured in the Foundation series by Asimov. The dark ages were brought about because humans relied on technology without understanding how it worked. They abandoned finding primary sources and just cited summaries of summaries. AI is that, but automated.

Imagine taking the time to understand the technologies you’re using and the problem you are solving, then using the technology to solve the problem. Just a wild concept.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

But I can’t get estradiol enanthate. Cool.

Average human is 60-80kg So anywhere from 120,000mg to 160,000mg of cadaverine to be lethal. Average cum is 1.09g/mL, or 109mg/mL, volume 1.5-5mL. Cadaverine is so little concentration we don't appear to have an average amount for how much is in a single ejactulation. you'd need to eat >1000 to die

Being trans being so shameful also drives the “kids not having the language” to talk about their experiences. Which I suppose is half the reason for making it so shameful, then they can deny it’s very existence.

People get upset when I call my ADHD meds meth. 🙄

Community is sitting in bumper to bumper traffic for an hour on 12 lane interstates. #blessed

This has all been learned in human interface design. Low error rates are almost more devastating than high ones because 5% to a human is the same as 0%! Once you accept the LLM is ‘good enough’ you cease being capable of critically engaging with the outputs.

As a professional computer toucher I say AI can’t code for shit either.

Nothing reveals just what a fundamentally unserious bunch of wreckers NIMBYs are than when they fight to keep parking lots from being developed in Manhattan of all places

Could we please go ONE WEEK without starting a war?

Lidocaine to the balls sounds like the worst thing ever.

Yeah, ‘not NYC’ isn’t really in my range. My other option, Washington State, has much the same dynamic. If you get out of particular urban centers it’s not great.

Being accused of only being married to my wife for 15 years as a “beard” to hide being gay was brutal. People listening to the things trans people say would be fantastic.

I’m looking at New York and the rent/tax situation is no joke. Feeling safe in a place intended for humans is probably worth it though.

Even worse, they used to be hydraulic computers. The nonsense they did to make automatic transmissions go is insane.

The best is hearing a phrase you introduced at a company repeated to you by someone you’ve never met.

My slow moving plans to flee Texas need to pick up the pace apparently.