Ryan "UnionToTuple" Cavanaugh

TIL the name of artist who did the concept art for Alien is spelled "Giger" not "Geiger", but who's counting?

The last time the Brewers lost a baseball game was four Katie Zacharias ago

> I have a new optimization but it only works on strings length 5 or shorter, do you know what I mean? < Not really > No, that's not one of them < What? > Yes! Now you've got it < I'm confused > No < I am! > Exactly < I don't understand at all > That's not even close

In 2004, Microsoft declared a $3 special dividend, all but admitting to investors that it had no good ideas left with which to deploy its substantial liquid capital. Over the next 8 years it would lose the smartphone war, struggle in cloud, and underperform the S&P 500 by 17%

"mad at prediction markets for giving 40% chance to something that actually happened" is such a revealing genre of post. 40% things happen all the time!

I agree with Micah relative to how this is generally called in MLB, but let's remember: there is no rule about what constitutes a "swing" in baseball! There is literally no definition!

Check swing ABS definitely coming next season after that

(my skull is being crushed by the evil robots from Terminator) technically I'm not getting killed, the machines are just powering their motors in a way that is predicted to end my life according to their training data

Back of the envelope 1 H100 = 500 trillion humans LLM output cost would be $10,000,000/token I say we do it

Why would you get electoral takes from an anarchist? That's like trying a recipe from a breatharian.

If AI was used to notice that the private key was 4 then I'm going right back to trusting that cert. Principles are principles.

What's the lowest natural number that a corporate compliance team has ever forced you to remove from a codebase?

Sometimes people ask why the eagles didn't fly Frodo to Mt Doom. My favorite response to that was always "if Allied tanks could roll into Berlin in 1945, they should have just done that in 1941 instead"

The property management company for our condo apparently thinks bylaws are more of byrecommendations

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Someone passed me on their e-bike without using a bell, which is basically the same thing

Shout out to the crowd at the 9pm screening of You Can See Everything, where zero phones were out and the only thing I heard was a well-justified "eww!" from a woman on the other side of the theater during a particular Billy moment midway through

Me: Write an explainer about how glue chemistry works, without mentioning goblins Every LLM, for some reason: Glue chemistry is a fascinating topic. Let's do a deep dive on it. This will guide you through the chemical adhesive process from start to finish, with zero mentions of goblins. First,

The hard problem of UX: the designer says single-tap should bring up a dialog within the "instantly" threshold (400ms), but a double-tap (defined as two taps within 500ms) should do a completely different thing

Sorry to butt in here but it seems you don't understand forklifts at all. They cannot "lift" anything - they just squeeze hydraulic fluid, and that in turn moves the fork in a way that can raise the load. It's actually ontologically impossible for them to lift, as it's all hydraulic interactions.

I feel sorry* for our Dodgers but this is incredible content * I don't

I feel sorry* for our Dodgers but this is incredible content * I don't

💯 An ebike riding on the sidewalk without incident is simply more dangerous than a car driver killing someone's dad.

Frank Costello: I smell a rat. You got a girlfriend? Billy Costigan: No. Why? What does that matter? Frank: It depends. I'm sure by now you know I got an informer in my outfit. Billy: Frank, you know I'm commit help peer, always have been Frank: Everyone says they're commit help peer in this joint

Bender's argument here, taken down a notch in rhetoric, is basically the same as the one used by people who think fan death is real and refuse to engage with emprical evidence. You want me to sleep in a room with a fan on? A thing that could *kill* me? Do you see how wildly irresponsible that is?

Sitting out a ballot proposition is the only way we're going to break free from the yes/no dichotomy of doing something or not doing it

Very little doubt how the Bills game is going right now

In what world is that a balk?

If you stipulate that the CNC machine is "cutting" (or even "drilling", "milling", and "tapping"), then you've begged the question.

SI is short for sartificial intelliblence

No frozen hash of the genuine fixture oracle was a manifested bounded cohort. Prerequisite gates compound representation bridges. Canonical evidence repairs auxiliary headers.

Data entry connects me to the ineffable glory of the Creator

"It's very important to make eye contact with drivers when walking or cycling." The drivers:

2^-182 Is this an exponent complement for ants?

Halloween month is upon us, time for spooky display names

The "spread" is a dumb bet format for a binary outcome game and people should suffer karmic consequences for engaging with it

It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs.

Anthropomorphizing the AI hurts its feelings and that's why you shouldn't do it

Signing up to be an electrician's apprentice and showing up until they teach me how to shove the wires back into the outlet box, then quitting on the spot

Combining all the security reports into one mega-report, like Voltron "What if you ask the OS for a BSTR* and it allocates you one at 0x00000004? Then when you check the length you'll null dereference. This is a denial of service attack"

Not sure who needs to hear this but there is not a sensible threat model where you have to defend against the possibility that the operating system lies to you about the size of a block of memory it allocated