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William Nelson

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The worst programming messes I see at work are when someone tries to automate a process, and they automate it like a human. A script that checks email, downloads a spreadsheet, exports it, uploads to Sharepoint, etc.
Just use APIs and a database. Don't make a human shaped program.

12.03.2026 03:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good luck with college or Venus, whichever one you choose.

12.03.2026 02:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I cut off a former friend for Grammarly related reasons. Short version is he took a right-wing turn, started posting crazy stuff and when I'd tell him it was fake or bigoted or whatever, he'd sometimes post long rambling AI responses. When I confronted him, he said it wasn't AI, it was Grammarly.

12.03.2026 01:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think he's on to something.
Maybe we can just make Tofu the default for all games, and then if there's time add other genders later.

11.03.2026 18:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My "Portrayals of US and Israeli leadership as the 'Epstein Class' is Iranian propaganda" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

11.03.2026 18:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When's International Women's Day, that's what I'd like to know

19.11.2025 21:15 👍 72 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

This is the exact same conspiracy theory as the one for Iran Air Flight 655.

07.03.2026 16:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also, it has at least one misspelled name. I'm assuming this is AI. Either way, it's not too late to delete it.

07.03.2026 01:02 👍 54 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is a very strange image to post. I'm absolutely no fan of any of these wars, but it just seems really out of touch, like it was made by someone who spent 5 minutes looking up a list of people killed in action before making a graphic.

Please try to exercise better discernment in the future.

07.03.2026 00:59 👍 102 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0

I used it as a client and it seemed to work pretty well. I think the only annoying thing was I uploaded a bunch of photos of documents and the names ended up being goofy and I didn't have a chance to give them descriptive names.

No idea how it worked from the other end though.

07.03.2026 00:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa)

BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history.
REGINALD: Wow! What's it do?

BEARTATO: It... what?
REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do?

(Beartato thinks.)

BEARTATO: I don't know.

REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do?

EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this!

(The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet)
MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk!

(Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

06.03.2026 19:03 👍 6761 🔁 1516 💬 33 📌 13

So much of the current admin is combination movie/video-game brain. All focus on the exciting parts, none on the boring stuff.

The cure is better video games, the kind that feel like spreadsheets.

06.03.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meyers parrot sitting in a green bowl looking very excited.

Meyers parrot sitting in a green bowl looking very excited.

This is my Meyer's parrot Quackers.
He's normally not allowed to have what's in the bowl, so he's very excited in this photo.

05.03.2026 02:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If he was sincere or competent, the first we would have heard of the tattoo was a rumor that he'd been getting tattoo removal treatments or a conspicuous coverup.

Like, if you found out you accidentally got a Nazi tattoo, you'd be on the phone setting up appointments that day, right?

05.03.2026 02:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was trying to explain this to my wife, and she didn't understand at first because the premise is so obviously stupid and immoral that she kept re-interpreting it as something less absurd. "like, it rewrites your text in the style of that author?"

AI makes it too easy to implement bad ideas.

04.03.2026 21:54 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I occasionally see you commenting on something and I think "Who does this guy think he is?" And then I realize I own your book, so maybe I do care about your opinion a little.

04.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only at about halfway through the comic I realized this wasn't going to be about the tree.

04.03.2026 15:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh dang, seems fair then.

03.03.2026 23:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe I'm missing something, but why does that seem like vibe coding to you?

03.03.2026 22:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think as you were writing, you had initially written "stay out of the race.it's" before fixing it, and a poorly configured regular expression thought that you were referring to an Italian URL.

02.03.2026 19:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was thinking of this song just a few days ago. Weird.

01.03.2026 03:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel like earlier screenings might be a good idea, and so this is a perfect time to try and figure out some ways to make this more fun.

There's got to be a way to make it into a drinking game.

23.02.2026 04:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you're going to shill for AI, can you at least get AI to read the text in your image and accurately include it in your alt text?

What's the point of having AI if you're only going to use it in stupid pointless ways?

22.02.2026 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's not too late, you can cancel this. Make something up, say that you didn't have a chance to get both sides or something.

22.02.2026 21:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh no, this has a high risk of veering into Doozcourse.

22.02.2026 16:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We checked eyebrows at the entrance

22.02.2026 16:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When I used to work for a casino, there was a list of people banned for drug use, often cocaine but sometimes spice.

And that seems extremely reasonable. Prescience is just not compatible with the entire premise of a casino.

22.02.2026 16:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I get why it's looked down on, but at the same time there has to be a way to make it work, because you're right.

21.02.2026 03:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Clarification: much younger coworkers

21.02.2026 03:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I got a bunch of coworkers to watch the movie Mystery Men and it blew them away, answering so many confusing questions about the otherwise incomprehensible music video for All Star.

21.02.2026 03:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0