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New comment by senderista in "Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows"

senderista — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:54:07 +0000

The epitaph for all three (the Encyclopedia Dramatica motto):

And nothing of value was lost.

New comment by senderista in "Claude: System Prompts"

senderista — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:13:39 +0000

What definition of "worthwhile" comments do you include in your prompt?

New comment by senderista in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

senderista — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:01:55 +0000

I have had some luck telling Sol to concisely rephrase Opus 5’s comments.

New comment by senderista in "Monitors for Work"

senderista — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:39:44 +0000

Remember the “Frupidity” wiki page?

New comment by senderista in "Monitors for Work"

senderista — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:37:38 +0000

That’s great! I had to switch to weird stuff like the Swopper.

New comment by senderista in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

senderista — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:32:12 +0000

Even 200 mcg is enough to give me brain fog. I stick with 100 mcg unless I'm really having a hard time falling asleep.

New comment by senderista in "Monitors for Work"

senderista — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:29:27 +0000

If you have massive back pain, maybe you shouldn't be sitting in a conventional chair at all.

Source: I have massive back pain.

New comment by senderista in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:37:59 +0000

Not so much anymore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_knocking

New comment by senderista in ""Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:45:19 +0000

But do the infra team engineers use the infra they're building?

New comment by senderista in "Monitors for Work"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:23:59 +0000

I can't afford a giant monitor that displays text well enough for work use.

New comment by senderista in "Monitors for Work"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:23:20 +0000

The only way to get an extra monitor during my first stint at AWS was to loot one from the desk of a departing colleague (before IT got their hands on it). Fortunately there was no shortage of departing colleagues.

New comment by senderista in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:21:06 +0000

"Shareholder Value Pledge Arena"

New comment by senderista in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:12:43 +0000

Israel will happily flatten a whole apartment complex to get one guy.

New comment by senderista in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:12:03 +0000

Did I ever claim they only killed innocent people?

New comment by senderista in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:10:51 +0000

I admire Aaron Bushnell, but that page unironically uses phrases like "Satanic Talmudic supremacy"

New comment by senderista in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:26:37 +0000

I feel more compassion for the innocent people they killed and it's not even close.

New comment by senderista in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:05:06 +0000

Not sure Five Eyes will outlast Trump, the UK has reportedly stopped sharing some intelligence with the US:

https://www.courthousenews.com/uk-faces-questions-on-complic...

New comment by senderista in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

senderista — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:09:56 +0000

Wow, I want something like that for my company's codebase.

New comment by senderista in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

senderista — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:39:22 +0000

That’s an interesting story to bring up in this context, because I have always wondered how a fundamentally customer-hostile business like Oracle could be so successful. It really puts the lie to libertarian cliches about the invisible hand of capitalism that ends up being philanthropic in spite of itself.

New comment by senderista in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

senderista — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:35:16 +0000

Right? What an absolute cunt (I might be a bit biased because my dad was an arborist).