kiernanmcgowan

Time for cheese curds at the Old Fashioned!

I'm maybe thinking about finding a spot along one of the river walks. Will require more planning around finding the right angle but it should naturally allow for more space for people vs the bridges.

Found an app called SunSurveyor that lets you see the position of the sun in the sky at a specific time from either your location via AR or google street view. Its been enormously helpful in ruling out potential spots.

Also on my way there - I’m curious how packed the city is going to be. I imagine the bridges are going to be absolutely packed

"rm -rf ./" can't be that expensive, right?

My guess are people who want to PC game but don't want to deal with building a PC themselves - there's a decent market of pre-built gaming PCs that this would be competitive with.

https://www.newegg.com/Gaming-Desktop-PC/SubCategory/ID-3742

Such good news - for those looking for a relaxing hobby fly fishing is an excellent sport to get into. You spend all day standing in a river trying to out smart some fish and trout are exceptionally beautiful creatures up close.

Mythos has broken containment

> Champion was acquired from HanesBrands in October 2024 for $1.2 billion...

I was wondering why these shirts went to hell. This was probably my favorite brand in the 2010s. Super durable and thick cotton shirts. I'd still be wearing them if I hadn't gained weight.

Hypothesis: customer says something is bugged

Antithesis: the tests pass with 100% coverage

Synthesis: the bug is a feature

This is, by far, one of the weirdest places I've ever visited. Tonal whiplash is an understatement.

"We have a beautiful moon rise, we're heading right at it" got me a little choked up. Here's to the ever unfolding adventure of mankind.

My biggest road blocks as an engineer has almost never been the authorship of code but everything else around it.

* Getting code reviewed

* Making sure its actually solving the problem

* Communicating to the rest of the team whats happening

* Getting tests to pass

* Getting it deployed

* Verifying that the fix is implemented in production

* Starting it all over when there is a misunderstanding

Slinging more code faster is great and getting unit testing more-or-less for free is awesome but the separation between a good and great engineer is one of communication and management.

AI is causing us to regress to thinking that code velocity is a good metric to use when comparing engineers.

Its tooling like this that really makes golang an excellent language to work with. I had missed that rangeint addition to the language but with go fix I'll just get that improvement for free!

Real kudos to the golang team.

Slight counter point - claude code is basically the only developer tool that ever been happy to pay money for. Getting the entire software industry to give you $200/mo/person is quite the market.

Do you think Margaret Thatcher had Girl Power?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6RF5ChKYQ

MechaHitler now has space launch capabilities

I've read Dune - I know exactly where this is going. Please do not apply sand trout directly to you skin unless you are ready to control the spice.

Out of date and worth an update

https://kiernan.io/

LLMs are really great at copy/pasting answers from stack overflow and fitting them to work in a given system. If your work is outside what is answerable on stack overflow you're going to end up fighting the results constantly.

Front end pages like a user settings page? Done. One shottable.

Nuanced data migration problems specific to your stack? You're going to be yelling at the agent.

> LLM evangelists - are you willing to admit that you just might not be that good at programming computers? Maybe you once were. Maybe you never were.

A bit harsh considering that many of us used knowledge bases like SO for so long to figure out new problems that we were confronting.

It’s also a direct usage tax to support road maintenance. Heavier users of the road ways end up contributing more to the maintenance of the public good.

We had a proxy for that via gasoline taxes but with EV becoming more common we need to find a replacement for that revenue.

Because 18F was from the Obama administration

Gravity's Rainbow - still chewing on it all

Its a funny take because this reddit thread seems to suggest the opposite. Pro se litigants (people representing themselves) are using LLMs to create more lawsuits resulting in more work for lawyers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lawyertalk/comments/1n9cwfv/pro_se_...

I’m working on a burrito artillery system. It’s the ideal form factor for high velocity chorizo but the delivery tends to make a mess.

You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you.

Whats going to be delivered first - Tesla FSD or a space based data center?

Give it a listen! It’s a real gem of a show

This American Life really does live up to its name - its a real slice of American culture / society on any given week. I imagine its going to be a wellspring of understanding our time for future anthropologists and historians.

> After peaking at just more than 1.6 million Americans in 2009

> But a prison is a portrait of what happened five, 10, and 20 years ago.

Is this just a result of the dropping crime rates since the mid 90s, but on a 20ish year lag?

The market can stay irrational longer than Tesla can stay solvent.