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Daniel Pritchett

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Florida. Programmer. Author. https://dpritchett.net

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Man this is great. Hope y’all are having a blast. Gonna give that 1996 classic album a spin tonight 🍻

26.05.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d like to say that you can at least do some sort of risk assessment (i.e. likelihood x impact) but I can’t argue that such a forecast would ever actually be verifiable *before* the next bad things happen.

21.05.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Significant overlap between folks who used Reader a dozen-plus years ago and folks in a position to influence corporate technology choices today. Forgive? Maybe. Forget? No.

21.05.2025 02:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

19.05.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Time to start ordering better snacks for the break room, bossman.

18.05.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Horse ebooks tried to tell us

18.05.2025 14:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The key difference is that the principal will *usually* have the decency to feel some guilt over the ever-widening gulf between their own day to day and the lived experience of front-line programmers.

18.05.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with a beard is crying and saying `` he can 't keep getting away with it ! '' Alt: a man with a beard is crying and saying `` he can 't keep getting away with it ! ''

Programmers across Bluesky wincing as they realize they’ve found themselves contemplating a Big O(r^2) problem on a weekend.

18.05.2025 13:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History YouTube video by Defunctland

My teen found this on YouTube and it was *fascinating*. youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?...

18.05.2025 03:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of PEOPLE are LOOKING at your profile πŸ™ŒπŸ»

17.05.2025 22:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did he at least turn in a rockstar performance once y’all got moving?

16.05.2025 13:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to the blameless post mortem

16.05.2025 01:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cousin, is Abby a plant?

Is this lady secretly bankrolled by Big Aromatics?

16.05.2025 00:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tree man, on the property walk, next to the stomach bug? It’s more likely than you think.

15.05.2025 23:59 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you ever worry that you’re actually a sock puppet operated by a dozen bsky staffers working follow-the-sun shifts, Weird Twitter style?

15.05.2025 04:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Makes a ton of sense! What I don’t get is how few programmers approach their work with the same mindset. If you don’t have a million personal scripts and custom configs what are you even doing?

15.05.2025 03:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s also an ego-preserving misdirection going on: if people don’t like someone’s AI-generated β€œwriting” it must mean that the LLM did it wrong, not that the operator himself is a bad writer

15.05.2025 01:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New headcanon here is that Elon has a personal text box on his phone he can use to stuff Grok’s global context window with whatever he’s most excited about today

15.05.2025 00:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Big Ditch DJ Icey Β· Catalysts of the Catalog Β· Song Β· 2020

Big Ditch at it again open.spotify.com/track/2Ua8fk...

15.05.2025 00:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My current theory is that LLMs are extra fun for people who think of themselves as too busy to write… or read

15.05.2025 00:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@gork is this true

14.05.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

On a lighter note I regularly revise my work chat posts from β€œseven thoughts separated by semicolons and em dashes” down to a few Real Sentences.

14.05.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We gotta nuke this thread before HHS catches on

14.05.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some sort of β€œI’ll never bother to learn how to do this trivial thing and I mistrust anyone who does” energy

14.05.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah people are scared of anything with even the slightest bit of effort put into presentation nowadays, assuming it’s AI slop bsky.app/profile/dpri...

14.05.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like the kind of guy who’d be super motivated to improve the lives of all the little people out there by trimming federal budgets with a magic wand

14.05.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe he asked the students to provide written instructions for doing something highly illegal.

14.05.2025 09:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s on Wikipedia now guy, keep up

13.05.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The dialog below his exes says β€œWould you like to see more from this poster? [yes] ”

13.05.2025 00:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
40 year old white dad in a hunter orange cap, snug fitting work overalls, and a knit pullover. Moderately fit. Not quite six feet tall.

Everything’s dim and beige. This is a bathroom selfie in a rural South Dakota hotel.

Dude’s appears to be having a good day.

40 year old white dad in a hunter orange cap, snug fitting work overalls, and a knit pullover. Moderately fit. Not quite six feet tall. Everything’s dim and beige. This is a bathroom selfie in a rural South Dakota hotel. Dude’s appears to be having a good day.

10.05.2025 23:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0