Aaron

@aaronpetry
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A guy who's just been a little more lucky than most. Developer, Dad, history buff. Alignment: CG. All content is my own foolery.
The new "Across the Spiderverse" trailer looks awesome and I can. Not. Wait for it.
New, from me: The Inflation Reduction Act asked IRS to explore creating a free, electronic tax reporting system.
The private tax preparation industry and right-wing anti-taxers are coordinating to kill it.
Classic case of private interests vs. public good. https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/will-the-irs-finally-create-a-good
Will the IRS finally create a good free tax reporting process or will the tax preparation industry win again?

A crucial test of whether the American political system can deliver administrative capacity to serve the public

Can We Still Govern?
Yoga is just solitaire twister
I honestly can't tell if this is an April Fool's joke or not. We had anecdotal evidence they were tweaking the algorithm based on if Musk felt enough people liked him...err were interacting with his posts. He has his own fields in the metrics calculations though? Wow. That is even more narcissistic than I took him for, which is saying a lot. #BillionairesShouldNotExist #ElonMusk #twitter
github.com/twitter/the-algorit…
the-algorithm/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala at main · twitter/the-algorithm

Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm - the-algorithm/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala at main · twitter/the-algorithm

GitHub
This tweet remains undefeated.
It's just like Les Misérables, except Jean Valjean is worth $200 billion and he wasn't stealing bread to feed children, he was stealing employees' charitable donations to fund his failing vanity project.
Oh, man. So... I'm trying to replace cursors in SQL Server agent jobs. Obvious win for everyone. But the thing that sucks is that I have to wait for the cursors to run to build up what they're going to do and put what they're going to make into a temp table. I have to do this because I have to make sure that the set based solution I'm trying to implement will make the same thing. So I have to wait an hour for a cursor to run to make sure my 1.5 second fix does the same thing.

I think, from time to time about the golden age of con men. Like from the 1870s to the 1940s, when people like The Keystone Kid and Ben Marks ran big store cons that took in $50,000. And then ran wire cons in the 20s and 30s that took in 100s of thousands of dollars.

And then I look at crypto today and the legions of con men sending messages saying "Please deposit to this account instead of our SVB account, I swear I am who I say I am." And I realize... Now is the golden age of con men.

The difference between a bank failure and a crypto project failure is that when a regulated bank fails, you aren’t able to get your money back right now.

When a crypto project fails, you aren’t getting your money back.

A lot of SVB hot takes think banks are like crypto schemes.

i've come to realize that "programmable money" is code for "i'm about to say the most dystopian shit you've ever heard"