karlhigley

karlhigley, 5 days ago to random

“Why did Google spend billions recommending gasoline pasta?” is a real and legitimate question people have to ask these days ⛽️ 🍝 🫠

https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493422972172496

karlhigley, 10 days ago to random

C: “What?! What is an offset bread crumb? How can a crumb have a zig-zag?”

Me: “Noooo, offset bread knives”

C: “Ohhhhh, then your knuckles don’t hit the cutting board”

karlhigley, 1 month ago to random

this town will not accommdate the numerical totality of our combined mass

karlhigley, 1 month ago to random

Big plans this evening, we’re going to watch that classic movie about an autistic person whose special interests are relevant to their career: Legally Blonde

karlhigley, 1 month ago to random

Food processors: what are your favorites?

karlhigley, 1 month ago to random

This is your annual reminder that many autistic people consider groups seeking to prevent or cure autism to be eugenicist hate groups and would strongly prefer that any donations you make go to groups that seek to improve the lives of autistic people instead

karlhigley, 2 months ago to random

how does adding an island make the kitchen bigger? what kind of bizarre high-dimensional witchcraft is this?

karlhigley, 2 months ago to random

tfw enchiladas seem too complicated so you make enchilasagna instead

karlhigley, 4 months ago to random

watching two time travel shows, and for maybe the first time in my life, i’m rolling my eyes at the one with the elaborate time loopy puzzle box plot and really enjoying the one that’s just about the characters connecting with their younger selves, reflecting on their lives now, and trying to fix a few things without messing the present up too badly for each other

karlhigley, 4 months ago to random

A very clear way to express the “divide and conquer” software project management fallacy:

“We cannot hunt a part of a bear each. We’re either capable of hunting a bear as a team, or we cannot hunt one.”

https://sollecitom.github.io/software-product-development-blog/posts/2023/2023-12-31-so-you-think-you-work-in-a-team/

karlhigley, 5 months ago to random

My plan (very ill-advised in hindsight) to binge graphic novel series so heavy that the creators had to take a break from making them has come to a screeching halt after about twenty pages

karlhigley, 5 months ago to random

After hand delivering tiny snacks to the dog in her favorite chair, I’m pretty sure she’s concluded that I’m just the wait-staff

karlhigley, 6 months ago to random

In my experience as an autistic person humans are very bad at actually answering questions, so I wouldn’t say that “human-level performance” is a very meaningful benchmark for ML-based question answering systems

karlhigley, 6 months ago to random

I can’t let you remove that, it’s a load bearing organizational delusion

karlhigley, 7 months ago to random

I recently referred to something as a “home improvement project” and C said something like “I’m thinking of them as a subset of life improvement projects. I don’t want to have a nice house just to have it. I only want it if it makes my life better.”

I hereby reject the framing of house work as “chores.” From now on, I only do “life improvement projects.”

karlhigley, 7 months ago to random

I like this new trend where all prestige television is now about autistic people. I, for one, welcome our new #actuallyautistic overlords.

karlhigley, 7 months ago to random

> Rarely, you will encounter engineers who have learned to temper their baser instincts and instead find a sick kind of joy in reading, understanding, modifying and even deleting other peoples' code. We call these odd folks "Senior Engineers."

https://www.dancowell.com/software-engineers-hate-code/

karlhigley, 8 months ago to random

When people deride stand-ups as useless status report sessions, all I hear is “I have no idea how to identify or communicate useful information to my colleagues, and I also don’t collaborate well.”

It’s apparently a very sneaky way of telling on oneself, because not realizing that’s what they’re doing seems quite common.

karlhigley, 8 months ago to random

On some level, I’m just a turntable for the plates our dog wants to clean

karlhigley, 8 months ago to random

Let me remind you this is a list of instructions for how to sabotage organizations, not for how to participate in them effectively

karlhigley, 8 months ago to random

It’s amazing and mind-boggling to me the amount of faith that people have in embeddings and nearest neighbor search. It’s useful and fascinating stuff, but I will never understand why people think there are magical points in space that represent exactly the right thing and none of the various wrong things. Querying with a single embedding is bonkers, and it’s been interesting to watch (parts of) multiple fields figure that out lately.

karlhigley, 8 months ago to random

Spent a significant amount of time this week chasing down a really weird bug, which turns out to originate with three lines of code in an open source library that look like they do something but are actually a no-op. So I found the PR that introduced it, and lo and behold: a reviewer pointed out the issue before it was merged but got blown off.

Reader, the reviewer was a woman, and today I am feeling even more Death To The Patriarchy than usual.

karlhigley, 8 months ago to random

first time someone has stopped me on the street to ask me to open their vodka

karlhigley, 9 months ago to random

I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to put honey in your tea when you’re not feeling well, but now that we live so far north we just use maple syrup

karlhigley, 9 months ago to random

Me: “So I started watching this bad TV show and—“

C: “Is it worse than the last one?”