roland

google ngrams prevalence data for "six-figure salary", showing initial use in the 1940s-50s but really starting to take off around 1970

it is odd that this phrase has persisted unchanged since the middle of the century, when it meant the equivalent of >$1M today, and picked up steam from 1970 ($860K) through the mid-2000s ($160K)

honk shoo theory

there is a reply to this post that i now can't not think about any time i see a picture of this guy

''Steve'' @extranapkins Went to the pump today, saw some major pain. Some major pain there, at the pump #PainAtThePump 2:43 PM - 31 Jan 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20220209044431/https://twitter.com/extranapkins/status/32207450492895232

haha sure! feel free to fiddle with it however you like

terrible jobs report (he's still dead)

Lesser GNU Bisexual Transgender

Lesbian Gay Public License

Wrong Answer Right Answer Easy Question Interesting Not Interesting Hard Question Not Interesting Interesting

at one point @colin-fraser.net posted a table like this and it's really helpful to keep in mind when assessing whether "idk I was able to get it to give me the right answer" is a worthwhile post or not

somehow, Cheer Up The Chatbot returned

cropped, this chart becomes amazing

a large featureless plane sticking out of the hudson river

There's a plane in the Hudson. Crazy.

Great news

it looks more correct than the google maps versions of the chinese subways i looked at

this satellite image (and the view of the south bay and peninsula on the approach to SFO) radicalized me

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________<______________ _________________________ _________________________ ______________>__________ / ] [ ] LIGHTRAIL [ ] || [ ] [ ] [ \ / ] [ ] [ ] || [ ] LIGHTRAIL [ ] [ \ |__] [__] |‾|‾| [__] || [__] |‾|‾| [__] [__| |__] [__] |‾|‾| [__] || [__] |‾|‾| [__] [__| = ___ | | |. ___ || ___ .| | | ___ |x| ___ | | |. ___ || ___ .| | | ___ | |/o-o\______|_|_|_____/o-o\||/o-o\_____|_|_|______/o-o\| |/o-o\______|_|_|_____/o-o\||/o-o\_____|_|_|______/o-o\|

Maybe something like this

Whenever I see some new AI or moderation dustup on here I’m surprised by how disproportionately many users there are who identify as Artists. Ah, fuck, this is just another symptom of this site inheriting the Tumblr user base, isn’t it

just did the math and at this point the moaning about google reader getting killed has lasted 1.6x as long as the product's entire lifespan

the lowercase really makes it. it's not just slop — it's the specific profundityslop cadence that seems to have oneshotted every futurist on here who glued their favorite LLM to the Bluesky API

ahem

no offense to anyone Hiring Their First Product Manager but I feel like this role is pretty much structurally forced to be completely sacrificial jasonevanish.com/2019/04/28/s...

23 E 92nd St, looks like www.google.com/maps/@40.784...

RIP jokes about this screen being impossible to change (2023–2026)

it might look a little something like this

> git pull
Already up to date.

> git push
Everything up-to-date

I wish I hadn't noticed that these were formatted differently. I hope I can forget before it destroys me

Damn what happened to Tony’s hairline

hmm I was thinking wet concrete formed into unreinforced piles at random because it hardens into an unstable mess that you need an army of guys with jackhammers to chip away at but clay that melts when it rains is an interesting idea too

timothée agrees