Carlos Scheidegger

@scheidegger
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Recovering academic, building http://quarto.org at Posit (fka RStudio)

I'm on Signal, too. Same name.

websitehttps://cscheid.net

Most tech these days, and especially most software and operating systems, are guilty of persistent sealioning.

Good tools don't sealion their owners.

@jwz I was shocked that they let s1 happen. But then again, he funded a season of the Expanse too.

Is it possible that the klept is just fucking stupid? Big if true

@jwz have you read the peripheral? Like, I think you’re totally right about count zero but I feel like he finally realized what the fuck is going on with rich people and wrote that book to work through it

@regehr Have you seen the Diplomat (netflix)? It's about politics but somehow it wasn't triggering to watch it in the last couple of days.

Keri Russell is her usual stellar self, and the whole cast is good too. S2 just came out, but S1 is also great in case you haven't seen it.

Slow Horses is good too, as is the first season of Killing Eve. You do have to pretend there's only one season of Killing Eve, though.

@regehr @munificent On the same vein of Bottoms etc, Booksmart is great
@regehr it’s just that they finally hired Albert, the mythical 100000x developer
@kjhealy "It is well known that appropriate lighting increases researcher productivity by up to 4.3x (Gino & Ariely, 2026)"
@kjhealy I'm just over here thinking about that NSF budget justification line item for RGB LEDs.

No matter what you do today, it’s unlikely you’ll be both a chickenshit coward *and* also nuke 8% from your business’s bottom line!

That takes deep skill, impressive.