Joe Thompson

"A, B, C: A: Always, B: Broom, C: Closing! Always Broom Closing! A, I, D, A: Attention, Interest, Dustpan, Action!"

A lot of Bill Hicks' political diatribes also still work just as well with barely a name change, and his "smoke-filled room" bit is evergreen.

Part of the norms Biden was supposed to be restoring were the independence of the USAG and DoJ from Presidential interference in the conduct of criminal investigations.

Bugs Bunny strutting and saying "This is butiny, Bister Christian!" lives in my head forever.

(Also puts me in mind of that post I saw recently about "why do celebrities look great in t-shirts and jeans while I look like I just grabbed the first burlap sack I ran across?" Answer: every single thing celebrities wear is tailored from scratch, or altered, to fit and flatter them.)

Wasn't it broadly true historically that wealthy people had their clothes made to fit, while the less-well-off typically made their own (presumably also to fit)?

Well of course. Mobile data and wi-fi are never absent or unreliable! Also AWS API calls are never rate-limited and available storage on a server is always infinite.

Once he went back to the very fundamentals and helped her further experiment, she was able to generalize this type of question to other multiples and begin to build the basic mathematical skills she should have had years ago.

Over many sessions he realized she had never been taught the very basics of arithmetic, like multiples. Only by experiment with sets of Cuisenaire rods could she answer questions like "Which numbers of these blocks can you arrange in two equal rows?"

This reminds me of reading "How children fail" in which the author described working with a child who was profoundly mathematically illiterate.

We read to our kids a lot but we also had a lot of those Dr. Seuss "Beginner Books" that are formatted and written in a way that encourages the kid to read them independently or along with the parent as well. "Go, Dog. Go!" was a favorite.

Maybe translate to Latin or French so it looks more literary? I'd drink a Boisson Solo or a Potio Unum.

"'A Story About You' is one of my very favorite episodes of Welcome to Night Vale", you said. "Second-person narration very much like this -- a departure from most of the podcast being first- or third-person, but still related by the narrator Cecil," you explained.

Why the assumption that comic books aren't literature?

OK, I admit I never watched the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies but now I might have to.

He was able to *start* vi-ng, but could never figure out how to write the file and exit.

When I'm speaking at a conference I'm always happy if it's on the morning of the first day because then I get to enjoy the whole conference without my brain barraging me with "just one more update to your slides bro, then they'll be *awesome*!"

Which is part of why it's scary.

"58% of senior developers are considering quitting because of legacy software." Scary stat from Eric Hendricks' talk about burnout at #scale23x.

I visited the Huntington campus last year after SCaLE ended and enjoyed it so much I plan to go back again this year.

Oh hey, if you're around today I'd love to meet you. I'm a huge fan from way back in the day (which would be about 2015).

Cordova Cafe is walking distance from the convention center (northwest corner of Cordova and Las Robles) and opens at 7 AM.

"Modern technological society requires exploitation of an overseas underclass" pitted against "poor people in technological societies can no longer afford the basic necessities of life in such a society".

When it doesn't, society becomes distorted in horrible ways where we now are presented a choice (which I believe is false, but it's the choice we're shown):

I want an iPhone to cost the consumer *what it actually costs*.

And if you propose fixing it by ending or even moderately reducing the exploitation, as like as not you will be subjected to a screech of "DO YOU WANT AN IPHONE TO COST $2000?!"

Further to your point #1, I find it appalling how many people do not understand the deep, stinking well of human exploitation that "same-day Prime delivery" or "a $500 smartphone" sit atop.

Just saw a post presenting a narrative that the current generation of IT cool-kids is comparing notes not on things like "how much did you ship?" but "how many agents are you running?"

In my case the answer is "zero", and yes I do consider that a flex.

Saw a sentence in an old Business Insider profile of Satya Nadella that knocked me back a step: "When something didn't work he was unafraid to ditch projects, such as skipping Windows 9 to go straight to the superior Windows 10."

It always feels weird to get a charity solicitation that is *specifically* about including them in my estate planning. Like they're saying "Hey, we figure there's a decent chance you'll die pretty soon. Make sure and keep that money coming in one last time after you do, eh?"