Chris Mikkelson

@CheyCab I hear they have good cheee next door in Wiconin.

Is there anything cool to do or eat near Minneota?

@d_feldman @jmwallach Australia's great, but fails the "direct flight from MSP" test, as do most sunny European (i.e., Mediterranean) destinations. Puerto Rico would be a good option.

@d_feldman Tuba / Sousaphone for me, if space isn't an issue.

@d_feldman I presume it's a spread between "writing down words" which LLMs excel at and "writing down thoughts" which LLMs don't have.

@d_feldman This sounds like the opening line of a seriously sinister sci-fi short story.

@MattB75593644 @CubeApril If you have .9999... cents and want to buy a dollar's worth of something, how much more do you need?

@CubeApril If you have .9999999 repeating cents in your bank account, and something you want to buy online costs 1, will it let you buy it?

please help settle this mathematical debate between myself and my precocious 11-year-old boy. are .999999999999999 (repeating forever) and 1 equal to each other?

@IanColdwater ls -tral

@IanColdwater It's funny enough I almost let that slip past me there. #dontchaknow

@troutgirl @rakyll Googlerang?

@rakyll Is there no term for a returning Googler?

I’m a Googler, Noogler, and Xoogler this week.

@IanColdwater This cracks me up every time I fly out of SEA

@CubicleApril This is like asking me to pick my most disappointing child...

it’s been a wild year for terrible desktop OS features, but which one is the WORST? • Apple dropping balloons when you wave your hands a certain way during your therapy sessions or • Microsoft taking screenshots of everything you do, all the time, including the pornography

@CubicleApril @joetheequeer I presume it's at least half as famous as Riverside Plaza.

@joetheequeer proud to hear that people outside of the cities know about this

@IanColdwater Evergreen tweet

@CubicleApril How'd you swing that?!

those who don’t live in the Twin Cities will find this to be complete gibberish and also extremely weird but I finally acquired my holy grail: a genuine tile from the Spruce Tree Centre

@GrantSlatton In practice, an engineering team can have up to 62.5% of the team unfamiliar with hash tables before spending unacceptable amounts of time searching for a member who knows them.

Back when AWS did a phone screen before onsite interviews, the first technical question I would ask, regardless of level, was “tell me what you know about hash tables” You would be blown away by the number of allegedly-senior devs who don’t know a thing about them — around 50%

@d_feldman Most of them, in my experience. Jira, if you need to consume months.

@patiomensch Bad Boys: Civil Forfeiture

#BadBoysRideorDie is the first Bad Boys movie where I wondered, “How do you guys afford these amazing cars and houses?” Do they have sponsorship deals on top of being cops? Suspension of disbelief struggling in a 40+ brain.

@realcyberpanda ICMP started as a distributed integer comparison service aimed at massively parallelizing postal sort workloads. An early skeleton implementation simply echoed the first few bytes of the request packet, but proved useful enough that the final implementation was abandoned.

What is ICMP used for in network communications? Wrong answers only.

@IanColdwater I knew this, but in a fake barn sense, where I figured it was some old Boomer's tale predating modern house construction or something.

@CubeApril I always say "cow". The cows can say "moo" but not the name of their people (cattle?) so I figure it's proper to help them out

suppose you’re driving down a rural road and encounter some cows grazing in a nearby field. what do you say?