If you leave it too long and the thing you’re jumping from has gotten intolerably, unusably bad, you’ll be in a hell of a panic and it’ll probably be at a super-inconvenient time. Give the New Thing a good sniff ahead of time and play around with it a bit in a non-vital setting, so that you’re not moving in a horrible panicked rush.

This certainly makes me feel less bad about haphazardly trying new things every now and then!

RE: https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/112496814370830656

I wish I took better notes on why exactly I wound up on Kitty for my terminal. I used Terminal.app for many, many years until recently, but some terminal shenanigans eventually forced my hand to jump to Alacritty and now Kitty.

Pointed to this paper from a column on it: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4464593

Folks in dev psych and elsewhere often talk about girls being underconfident. But how rarely we frame in terms of boys' overconfidence.

"Across a range of countries, contexts, and domains, men have been found to exhibit higher degrees of confidence in their ability than women (Kay and Shipman, 2014). This phenomenon has been particularly salient in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)."

Another fun tale of debugging, this time with docker and signals and lots of nested commands: https://benchling.engineering/signals-shells-and-docker-an-onion-of-footguns-ee592e2b587b

I hate how whenever US liberals defend immigrants they have to say how hard working they are. I just want it to be known that I support immigrants who are just as lazy, if not even lazier, than me.

This August I'm speaking at the last-ever XOXO Festival, revisiting my 2014 talk, "How I Won the Lottery"

https://2024.xoxofest.com/

The 2014 talk: https://youtu.be/l_F9jxsfGCw

The future is now...

‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projections

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/metro/millionaires-tax-massachusetts-generated-18-billion/

WHO'DA THUNK YOU COULD JUST TAX THE RICH AND IT WOULD JUST WORK

I went to the aquarium today and there was a guy in a wetsuit pushing a penguin around on a box, back and forth through the water

someone asked why and he says, "yeah, she kinda just really likes riding on the box"

I'm still not over it y'all

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This joke has probably been made a bunch of times, but...

Python 3.14, not to be confused with PyPI.

#Python

We literally do not have the time to keep it simple.

portraits of the week

@yvonnezlam Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote (@kevlin) … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.

Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

{
  "user_id": "282657081457115136",
  "predicted_gender": "male",
  "probability": 0.8413839340209961,
  "prob_male": 0.8413839340209961,
  "prob_female": 0.11650349199771881,
  "prob_non_binary_gender_expansive": 0.04211260750889778,
  "model_version": "2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z",
  "day_pt": "2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC"
}

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint _over time_! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

This week's discursive thread about magic, AI, and the tricks that language plays on us has been worked into a new piece over at The Interconnected. I suspect it won't be the last…

https://theinterconnected.net/eaton/incantation/

Apple’s attention to detail is INSANE. You can’t watch this and not smile.

They should rename Chief Technology Officer to Chief Migration Officer.

Dune is a spice opera