Chris Drost

@HDCares Hey looks like I might have got through to a human on website text chat, thank God

@HDCares Of course you would send me this with your DMs turned off you evil evil company you

Hey @HomeDepot you f#$king THIEVES give me back my money

@vincent_koc @PGE4Me I was on the border of the outage, like literally this traffic light is on, that one is off. We just got power back 5 or 10 minutes ago, looks like a lot of people still don't have, but at least it's shrinking

@PGE4Me Ngl this is a PR fiasco. Just keep people updated. First time people are hearing from someone. Im doubtful power will come back tonight

Update: #SanFrancisco Outage

@ITjanitor @elikohlenberg @FabianS71504699 @ellegist Indeed what I am presenting to you is basically just the gospel and it agrees with you that “God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong” It IS naïve. It is also Truth

@crdrost @elikohlenberg @FabianS71504699 @ellegist What a pathetically naive outlook on life.

@headinthebox Of course the Lambda itself is in Python, but I claim that the amount of thought that had to go into those changes “if env variable has text parse it as a JSON array of ARNS and send there” are eclipsed by thinking through the TF code. (end rant)

@headinthebox This all revealed that each bump to this infra bump all our databases individually and the Lambda has an ignore list which will need periodic updates, so then I refactored THAT to the same place that the queue lives. Similar but aws_secretsmanager_secrets gives all the ARNs.

Enlighten me. Where is the *code* in "infrastructure as code"?

@ITjanitor @elikohlenberg @FabianS71504699 @ellegist “He never owed her anything” so this is the thing about, like, life… we have this terrifying ability to make promises and shit, we build shared realities… but when we do that we *do* owe our good-faith to our friends, that's the common currency of friendship

@elikohlenberg @FabianS71504699 @ellegist He never owed her anything. This is the same kind of logic loser incels use to demonize women after their ex dumped them. "She wasted my time!" It's arrogant presumption to believe you are entitled to anyone else's love or devotion in exchange for your "precious" time.

@TaliaRinger The worst part is that the cortisol from the hit then goes straight to baby's skull, can you imagine that this is how he/she becomes an adrenaline junkie for life? It's all so cray how everything depends on everything else

Baby has learned to kick my bladder from inside me FML

@huuman1985 @TaliaRinger The take isn't intrinsically bigoted, like in a different context it'd be taken differently However drop in the thread y'see the context is misapplication of right-wing identity-politics (and there's left IP too not judging) to label someone IDed as a woman from birth, as a man

@TaliaRinger How is this a bigoted take?

Of course he's a bigot lol

@thesephist The thing is, it's not really two different modes! It's all one llm-ish random-mode that happens to be able to lay out extra hysteresis on its environment, one smaller LLM that “struck gold” is able to coach another to follow its steps at first.

@thesephist So you look at two random ants on a clean table, they are in random mode, very llm-ish. Explore the space, find something. But trace how they got there, it was a follow-mode line: out this tunnel, over this sidewalk, up that storm drain, into that screw hole, along that joist…

i'm losing hope rather quickly that reliable multi-hop reasoning could be solved by LLMs alone without some kind of deterministic logic engine the LLM interacts with. multi-hop reasoning is fundamentally not what LLMs are good at, and training it to do feels asymptotically limited

@DaveNewellPhoto @rrvogel4 @elonmusk Hi! This is a common physics misconception where folks implicitly assume fuel is picked up from “at rest” in space (vs traveling with you). Because this is wrong, reducing the forward velocity of a packet of fuel from v0 → { 0 < v1 << v0 } does still increase the rocket’s speed.

@rrvogel4 @elonmusk How does velocity exceed thrust? It cannot without gravity. And 250,000 miles from Earth, there is no gravity that can assist in increasing velocity beyond the expulsion of propulsion.

Raptor 3, SN1

@FreyaHolmer The structure of most mortgages is that the first payments barely touch the principal—getting out of that rut is in theory v important. OTOH the purpose of money is to make memories and the memory of “oh yeah it used to be that half my paycheck disappeared to rent” is only one.

it's like, either I can do [one of the many things I've been holding off on doing because it's "too expensive"] or put the money into the [ v o i d ] bc "it's nice to start paying it off" so that I can get a 0.0001% cheaper monthly mortgage payment and maybe one day pay it off

so I'm bad with money and I have this anxiety around sitting on loans - I deeply feel like I should amortize and pay off the mortgage, whenever I can, but, should I? it kinda seems like most people never pay it off, and instead use any extra money for,, more fulfilling things

@milaelena546 This video seems like a good place to start: youtu.be/l0cXQcr3w5o?si…

@milaelena546 You do not need a shuttle or crochet hook to start, don’t even need two threads (when you first make the loop it will basically have a short end and a long end leading to a spool, you can just use the spool like a shuttle as the freer end.) … Just need some embroidery floss lol