Michael Herstine

Kennedy Road climb tops Shannon Road rayhosler.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/ken… via @rayhosler

@JimDMiller @mattbencole @zdeborova @giffmana Um... to us non-academics, this is not the dunk you seem to think it is.

I've gotten a lot of comments like this, so forgive me if this isn't very kind, but I'm at my limit. If you're a serious academic, you've spent a lot of time looking at citations, and you know they often contain errors. You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible. Given that this is going on, it's kind of silly to think that we should have a kind of death penalty for having an LLM, hallucination mistake What you're doing is virtue signaling and pretending that citations are somehow sacred to what academics do, when in fact they're mostly just poorly put up window dressing. You're being dishonest. Perhaps with yourself, perhaps with me.

Occasional errors and oversights are part of science. If we lost our driver’s license for a year every time we exceeded the speed limit by 10 km/h, daily life would become unworkable. Many countries instead use point systems, where trust can be rebuilt through good behavior.

@davepl1968 @LukewSavage I think certain realizations about human nature that come with experience play a role, as well.

@LukewSavage Actually, when you're young and have nothing its easy to feel entitled to other people's money. Once you actually HAVE your own, you change your views on that. It's really that simple.

You see recurrent versions of this everywhere, i.e. the idea people get more conservative as they get older. This is broadly true of exactly one generation blessed to grow up with shared prosperity and a welfare state that then decided no one else deserved those things.

@DustinMulvaney Google "Mountain Charlie".

@digitalocean It's been resolved. Thank-you for escalating.

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Hey @digitalocean , I'm locked out of my account because you're demanding a confirmation code that you've emailed me... that I never receive. Frustrating. Please fix your login flow!

@digitalocean Ticket #12202132.

@unwoundstack If you already have a support ticket open for this, please share the ticket number so we can notify the relevant team and have them prioritize your ticket.

@davepl1968 @dhh We're not doing this anymore.

As someone diagnosed with slow processing disorder, I'm not down with the flippant use of "retard". It doesn't hurt MY feelings, but I can see how it would marginalize people of lower intellect to become the standard by which all shitty things are measured. We're born how we're born. Intellect is 85% heritable, and no one gets to choose their parents. No one should try to take credit for innate privilege. Do better, as the pedantic folks say.

Unenforceable and retarded.

LOL... caught someone on Mt. Tam this evening:

@MikeHudema This is footage of the Palisades fire. It was started by an arsonist, and allowed to reach this size through government incompetence (failure to manage vegetation, no water in the mains, &c).

'Historic' fires across Canada 'Once in a lifetime' fires in Argentina 'Once in a generation' floods in Indonesia. All around the world the signs of the climate crisis are everywhere. How many more 'historics' before we do something about it? No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #climateaction

A few notes on the Haskell fixpoint combinator unwoundstack.com/blog/haskell-f…

I'm not sure why Emacs Geiser thinks ten seconds is the appropriate timeout for all computations, but here's how to work around it unwoundstack.com/blog/impatient…

@FFmpeg I agree!

The most interesting and accurate technical responses on X come from anonymous accounts with cartoon profile pictures, pictures of toast or other generic items. The one with corporate headshots and ex-FAANG in their bios usually provide nothing of value.

@juliarturc Artisanal code

We need an official name for not-vibe-coding. My top candidates so far: · boomer coding · chewgy coding · trad coding · Coding with capital C Suggestions are welcome.

@ThisWeekInRust Done in github.com/rust-lang/this…

@unwoundstack Hi Michael! Thank you for bringing that to our attention! Would you mind submitting that link in a pull request here github.com/rust-lang/this…?

@ThisWeekInRust How to build a Rust integration test suite for a binary package that supports fixture setup & teardown and async test functions: unwoundstack.com/blog/integrati…

Read more here: unwoundstack.com/blog/indielink…

I've been working on a new project, github.com/sp1ff/indielin…. My elevator pitch is "del.icio.us in the Fediverse". I hope to bring the benefits of federated web services to social bookmarking to produce a better means of content discovery.

@ZiShoR @jdegoes You don't have to live this way. Get help.

@jdegoes Life is inherently political; it leaks into everything we do, consciously or otherwise. This is especially notable when select groups make other people's lives a political topic. It is impossible to ban 'politics', a fools game, and fight against intolerance is eternal

Having seen and survived more than a decade of political insanity in tech, my recommendations for healthy open-source projects are simple: - No politics in open-source (left or right) - No COC, language policing, political banners, or any other divisive and inherently political symbols and tools of power - No consideration for conduct in other communities; whatever they said on X or BlueSky is irrelevant - Speech and conduct within the project should be professional and focused on the goals of the project - The only valid reason to ban someone is because they are making MORE work for core contributors than their contributions justify (if Stalin wants to submit a good PR, merge it without fuss) - The only valid reason to moderate is because someone can't respect the above, and in such a case, the moderator, moderation decision, and moderated content should be transparent to guard against abuse In a nutshell: Code first. Be professional. Leave politics at the door.

Just reclaimed 127Gb through `docker prune`. JFC, guys...