John Maxwell

@jmax
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Reluctantly aging geek.
LLMs are a scam.
I miss you, Hobbes and Tux. You were the Best Cats.
Been playing D&D since 1980.
Adopt the Juicero or be left behind.
Corporations are not people.
Lisps are the one true programming language family, Scheme is it's purest member, and Emacs is its temple.
@BlueDot @_L1vY_ Consider that no one left the NSA, CIA, or NSC in the summer of 2001, including the people who were convinced that an attack was not only in the works, but coming soon.
It may be a useful frame for comparison.
- Mr. Fish (Dwayne Booth)
For non physics types, the quark names "up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom" are completely arbitrary and mean nothing, they're just placeholder names. Which is annoying, cos top and bottom were originally truth and beauty, which I prefer.
The also come in colours, and are far, far, far smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Again, an arbitrary name.
Lesson to all you physics coders, dumb variable names can stick if you're unlucky. Don't predict the "YourMomHadron".

The SAVE act is a simple and direct attack on American democracy. It simultaneously imposes a poll tax and a "literacy test" on American citizens. It is a return to Jim Crow, and an effective abolishment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

It is the next step in the oligarchs' ambitious effort to reinstate American slavery.

Everyone who advocates for it is a liar, a fascist, a racist, a sexist, a mercenary, a transphobe, a coward, and a raving-mad anti-American.

RE: https://sfba.social/@kwleslie/116246513983093292

The prevailing belief that the Old Normal™ will be voted back into existence is like a snug, warm comfort blanket.

The hidden beauty of vibe coding

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

The Register

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

Yes
No
Poll ends at .

K, So:

- "Look! Iran! Nukes! Ignore the Epstein files!"
- "Look! Cuba! Can't fight back! Ignore the Operation Epstein Fury debacle! Ignore the Epstein Files!"

Um. No.

EPSTEIN FILES!