Ethan Jewett

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I think it’s worth noting that this is evenly distributed precinct level data. The dots are *not* the actual locations where the people who voted live. This probably results in artificially stark boundaries between precincts. I notice some people drawing conclusions based on this artifact.

Someone missed the comms training. 😬

I misspoke. I exhausted the *plus* allocation. Using it for data entry and requirements analysis.

ChatGPT Agent mode is proving to be really useful for certain tasks. To the point that I’ve exhausted the Pro allocation. 😬

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

If you missed my epic SAP EWM talk at ABAPConf in Vienna, the replay is available here: youtu.be/9TblU8tz8_4?...

Presentation slides should be shared soon. Here is a taste. :)

The Gödel posts on AI over on LinkedIn are killing me. Great minds over there interpret the incompleteness theorem to imply whatever they please - and specifically that computers (“formal systems” 🤣) can’t think or be conscious. Proof positive that humans hallucinate too.

AI/mind spiritualists are all up in my LinkedIn feed. They are so sure that humans are special. I’ve been a materialist for a long time. Human cognition is amazing, even awe-inspiring, but I don’t think it’s special. It has its faults as well as its close parallels in the natural world.

Hey, yall thought I was harsh when I said this over the years. I said what I said.

Do you still think it's harsh now?

Some of y'all think you are somewhat safe but you are not, because you are surrounded by unreliable people.

It's better to have a smaller group that will not cash you in.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Still a banger: harpers.org/archive/1941...

6. Biggest Polestar 2 design flaw remains the single cup-holder design. 🤣

7. Pilot assist & radar cruise control have been pretty solid. Only conked out once not due to rain/fog. I continue to be a bit unhappy with the level of oversteering. It does require constant supervision, but it helps.

5. ABRP is pretty conservative about efficiency (estimates car is about 25% less efficient than it actually is). Means that I need to get more aggressive about state of charge. Only arrived at one charger under 20%, which is not the most efficient way to go.

3. ABRP has been really helpful for planning, but is buggy as &@#% and pretty terrible UI for navigation. Better to use it for planning and then use your preferred app for navigation.

4. CarPlay is so much better than vehicle UI/apps. And Polestar has a good built-in system, relative to comp.

Polestar 2 (2024 RWD LR) roadtrip observations:

1. Really like the experience of enforced short breaks. I estimate about a 10% increase in travel time.

2. Charging has been a non-issue. Electrify America has been solid and the Tesla adapter works fine if needed.

Guess Becka forgot her Popper. They might want to read up on the “paradox of tolerance”. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Quality AI training input right there!

You cannot effectively program if you are not capable of building a fully functional computer with a soldering iron and a breadboard. 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️ Kids these days! 👴

Well, I guess this is one way to deal with existential angst. 🤔

Someone at SAP: "Yep, great example, totally better than old stuff. Very clear."

I mean, better to use dependency injection, but test seams are so much better than random conditionals mucking up the code.

That’s filthy. 🤣

But seriously, this is what test seams are for, isn’t it?

@getmozi.bsky.social What would be really nice to help me bootstrap my use of the app (used for 2 months - only 3 people in my network): being able to add people who aren’t on the app. No contact info required - just a name and a city. Help me remember to reach out.

Jacek Woźniczak - [SAP BTP Chronicles #3] CAP framework and HANA Cloud migrations ALTER TABLE t ADD (troubles)

Playing with #SAPCAP and #HANA database schema changes.

I’m reconsidering my photo backup situation now. 🤣

I discounted @tailscale.com for a while because @liss.bsky.social was the only one I’d ever heard talk about it, and let’s be honest, many (most?) of his computing choices are kind of weird. But I did try it and it has unlocked a whole toolkit of options for remote computing. Really awesome product.

Ok, this is amateur hour. I’d expect nothing more from the owner of this monstrosity, but for the rest of you:

1. Don’t turn the wheels

2. Rock back and forwards to clear a long path

3. Only once you can get up speed do you turn out as you hit the end of the path you cleared

The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen Cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it

Molly White on the crypto de-banking sham. Really good, detailed overview. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-indus...

Backs up my running theory that bankers are at least as dumb as the rest of us.