Rick Altherr

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Pronounced like mischief.

BMC Bandit. Secure boot afficionado. FPGA historian. Quantum computer designer. 🏎️, πŸ”§, 🚜, Corgis.

TAI is time, all else is presentation

They/them
Monroe, WA

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oh right, it's June, time for the prophylactic wards...
@cadey I was thinking of the people claiming things are AI but, yes, the tools are worse because people trust them more than other people
Seeing a lot of "looks like AI" that feels like "I can always tell". Transphobes can't. Really doubt the vocal AI detectors are particularly accurate either.

Staffing the Interim Computer Museum tables at NW Pinball Show tonight and tomorrow night

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@icm/116698777862017397

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Attached: 4 images We’re at the #nwpinball show in #tacoma this Friday through Sunday! https://nwpinballshow.com #pinball #vintagetech

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@pinskia @dalias I'm trying to submit a change that has more lines of test to demonstrate the bug than lines of fix

@gvwilson I recently worked for a company that spoke about MVPs, but to my frustration, what they actually meant were MAFs:

"Minimally Abandonable Features." What can we ship that gets us the press release and blog post and a slide in our sales deck and demo?

But once there... They moved on to the next MAF, ignoring feedback about how these things did or didn't meet customer expectations and needs.

There was no feedback loop.

I hate CLAs. I understand why they exist. I find them obnoxious barriers to getting trivial bugfixes accepted.

Oh honey, no one is telling children they're trans. Trust me. Everyone is telling children that they're cis, repeatedly, hard, insistently, like a chorus of total negation. If a kid manages to figure out that they're trans in spite of every fucking thing in the world telling them they aren't trans, it wasn't because someone told them they were trans. The most they likely ever heard, and it's not all that likely, is that it's okay to be trans.

But you know that already. You don't want anyone to stop telling children they're trans, because no one does that. What you want is for it not to be okay to be trans.

@zev congrats!
Mowed two lawns and cut down three trees today. Gonna pay for this