Adam Chalmers

I found a secret Black Chamber made of crushed Onyx in the deep heart of the Pyramid. I opened the sarcophagus I found inside and took the golden amulet I found inside. But ever since I took it... I've been feeling kinda Normal. actually feeling totally Fine.

it sucks that "radicalized" means "became right-wing". it should mean "heard a really awesome guitar solo"

Does anyone have tips for how to become a natural-born leader

Strongly suggest telling your agents "go through my most used repos, make CI twice as fast"

Met a KCL enthusiast at a party last night who's been using it to design spacers for repairing his 1920s doors

It's called unfiltered sake because you post with no filter

For security purposes I advise upgrading your private key from 4 to a more secure value, like 5

In light of today's security news, I am doubling my key length from 8 to 16 bits.

ok non-tech ppl might be hearing some scary things about "critical vulnerabilities" involving certificates. the main thing you need to know, without getting down in the weeds about it, is that the fourth seal is broken. lo, a rider approacheth upon a pale steed, and his name is Death

Kept working on my prototype new KCL number system. Now it supports fractional exponents so you can do 10mm |> sqrt() |> pow(2) and get 10mm back. github.com/adamchalmers...

Austin Systems meets again this Wednesday! There'll be a talk on audio/video streaming. austinsystems.org has the details (please RSVP so that building security lets you in!)

A new york Core i7 is an everywhere else Core i9

my friend playing Elden Ring for the first time: "is this approach called... uh... "cheesing" the boss?" me: "Listen. The game cheeses you. It is permissible -- in fact, advisable -- to cheese it back."

"monoid" is either some kind of slur, or worse, some kind of haskell

Update on yesterday's post about Anthropic ripping off Mononoke:

Made my first legendary item (a Quality 3 module) and first fusion power in Factorio. Nearly ready to launch my solar system's edge ship.

KCL 3.0 has been out for a week. Time to start work on KCL 4.0.

Thinking again about the guy in New Orleans who wanted to make Louisiana the tech capital of the USA. I wish I had his level of self-confidence.

hey dude yeah the other monks and i are getting pretty concerned about your screeds. yeah we're alarmed about your diatribes. yeah we're concerned about all the codices and periodicals you're authoring. we think the haranguing's gone a bit too far. stop with the polemics.

god I love using my macbook after it's been freshly cleaned. It feels like a completely different machine. It's so good. Makes such a huge difference.

KCL programs are deterministic. Every time you run the same KCL you get the same results. This means your CAD models are stable. Rerun the file file, get the same model. This is possible with Python and JS CAD libraries, but it’s tricky and requires careful discipline.

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

my daughter was sick today so she stayed home from school. watched some Avatar: The Last Airbender. Then tonight we played Aang and Appa (she climbs on me piggyback, says "yip yip" and I fly her around the house)

Someone asked me if I had Starlink. No dude. I'm not a barbarian. I live in a city. I have fiber to my house like a civilized man. I don't live on the mesa five days of hard riding from the nearest village.

gonna organize a speed dating event where, at the end of the night, all the singles get sorted into a Garner Magic Quadrant

Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.

Just noticed that tau.new now supports KCL (you can switch between KCL, OpenSCAD, and a few other CAD languages).

It's machine learning if it answers math questions. It's artificial intelligence if it writes novel math proofs. It's super intelligence when the contract says you have to call it that.

My daughter just learned about email. Now whenever she sees me on my laptop she says "Are you sending an email, dada?"

wow AI sucks, I asked our stupid CAD program for an optimal packing of 17 squares and it gave me this shit

how many social media followers do I need in order to get computer display companies to send me a 6k screen to review

I don't think LLMs can be conscious. But I absolutely know they can have anxiety.