At IAGSDC: Two A2 mirror tips dancing to Geo Jedlicka. And I think that, except for Swap Around and the Right And Left Grand, those have been the smoothest squares I've danced with so far.
At the Gay (square dance) Callers Association annual meeting, someone was praising Allan Hurst's efforts in pulling students into caller school, described him as "good at recruiting", and... uh... cough.
Holy shit. With the state of public transit payments, it's a freaking wonder anyone rides. I am hanging so much trouble with the fucking Clipper app today, and don't really want to wait for the 67 people ahead of me in the phone queue. #ClipperCard
I realize I'm ragging on LLMs a lot this morning, and I want to make it clear that it's mostly because I used Gemini for programming yesterday.
And, sure, I now understand the Google Sheets runtime way way better than I did thanks to following all of those dead-ends that I wouldn't have thought to pursue otherwise, but...
It reinforces the notion that I've heard several times recently that "AI" programming assistants work better when you believe in them.
Why is left as an exercise...
Giving up programming because of the advent of LLMs is like giving up woodworking because Harbor Freight introduced a line of guard-less radial arm saws.
This morning's "holy shit, I hope you fuckers are condemned to eternity trying to accomplish the most basic tasks with your IT workflows, but that's too harsh to wish on anyone" go out to the Marriott Bonvoy and ClipperCard Android apps and email processes.
The "Flowmaster is muh heritage, complaining about exhaust noise is hate speech" crowd seems to have gone to "'slow down' signs are a distraction, making me pay attention to stop signs is bad for safety."
(Statements only slightly exaggerated for effect.)
Wow. So I installed the Gemini CLI on my work computer, 'cause work is all in on this stuff, and asked it for some help with Google stuff, 'cause their documentation does not match their tools, and... I am not sure what additional information beyond my prompt is being sent, but the responses indicate that this is a *fantastic* way to leak data to Google, and if you care about keeping anything on your machine from Google you should carefully understand what, beyond the prompt, it's sending.
You know what I fucking love? When the Google documentation for writing Sheets custom functions doesn't match what buttons the Apps Script editor is showing me. That's what I fucking love.
Slack just popped this threat to "Unlock AI for 50% off" in a group that's been migrating to Signal. Which... if their goal is to kick the people who'd set up free social spaces off, this is useful.
Meanwhile, on Facebook, group admins are fighting the Meta spam bot pretty hard.
Ya know, I don't so much mind that there are thousands of requests for non-existent .php files in my blog web server logs, it's that they come from so many different IP addresses.
Honestly, people, either I have an unsecured wp-login.php or I don't, and the first person who gets there is gonna patch the hole. It's wasted effort.
The thing about incorporating quirks in language for online communication in order to muck up automated word sequence generators, is that we're adopting wacky communications patterns just to put gravy in the gears of said token emitters.
Trying to find tips to get crispier friend polenta, and find a recipe suggesting "3 minutes on each side", and...
If you're publishing bullshit like that on the web, you're a psychopath and should be removed from society until you find a way to atone.
The utter fucking incompetence of modern web developers today, from Petco putting me into an infinite redirect loop, to Michael's making autofill of my address completely screwy, drives me insane.
Developers who blindly adopt JavaScript frameworks should be thrashed.
It's been roughly Covid time since my Asus Zenbook stopped charging and they wanted more to repair it than it cost, and I've been getting along with the work MacBook Pros, but I just provisioned a hand-me-down Dell with Mint Linux, and being back on a real environment is a huge breath of fresh air.
Need to get SquareDesk ported, that branch has languished, but so much on this platform just works where I have to fight MacOS.
Sigh. Looks like this year or so old Debian USB image isn't picking up the wifi on this new to me in Dell. Any one got opinions on a modern Linux? I mostly just wanna do SquareDesk dev and other random hacking on it. Maybe ClawsMail so I'm using an email client that doesn't suck again.
I think the last time my legs were this tired, is walked 36 miles. Danced checker at the Sunnyvale caller workshop all day, then called 3 hour square dance for Foggy City dancers in SF. Feels good, in a feels bad sort of way.
Guest at Circle 'n Squares tonight, Helen, 98 years old, who wanted to square dance one last time. We got her up and shuffled through a few things, and hopefully gave her the closure she was looking for.
Turns out I might be a bit of a hypocrite, because if we could take the thugs who are currently working for ICE and repurpose them to drag speeding motorists in my neighborhood from their cars and abduct them to secret prisons where they'd be subjected to indefinite detention in unspeakable living conditions...
Hi, yes, I'm logged in to this platform that supports hardware that I've spent tens of thousands of dollars to acquire, do you think maybe we could dispense with the fucking "accept cookies" banner every time I load the page?
Figuring out provisioning profiles for profiling in XCode is my second favorite activity in MacOS, right behind library and tool management because this platform doesn't have a fucking package manager.
#WhatMilleniumIsThis #MacOS #IWantToWorkInARealOS
I can't tell I should ironically laugh that the shysters who sold us all cryptocurrency and blockchain are now telling us they're judges of what "intelligence" is, or if it's an indication that, yeah, AI really is smarter than the rubes these people have taken in.
Oh dear. Since the NYT bought Wordle, and Queerdle started looping, I've fallen off the daily games wagon. https://www.timdle.com/daily might get me back on, order the historical events correctly...
Thinking about low poly count driving games that involved terrorizing a fictional San Francisco (the "Rush" franchise, Crazy Taxi, etc) and wondering if we can draw any lines to current the horrors that the automated speed ticketing traffic cameras are revealing.
Pretty sure that development software vendors are putting in tweaky little bullshit anti-patterns in order to make us think learning the quirks makes us experts in their particular widget sets and further lock-in.
Looking at Qt's Maintenance Tool in particular... (This GUI app could have been a command-line).
I do the cat water right before bed, and in one room it's got lots of food bits. I've joked that one of them is part raccoon.
Last night Charlene stayed up late to finish a project, about 1AM I hear a frantic "Honey?", and. Apparently the raccoon is smarter than our RFID cat door. Sigh.
South McDowell at Corporate Circle, wide spot (excluding the bulge where the storm drain is) is 66", elsewhere 59". Parking lot adjacent said the area is under video surveillance.
Petaluma Blvd N at Cherry, in front of Mi Pueblo. Sidewalk is 78", have seen people riding bikes on the sidewalk because the road here is so high speed.
"I need you people to pay attention or the Fire Marshall is gonna kick us out."
Slack just popped this threat to "Unlock AI for 50% off" in a group that's been migrating to Signal. Which... if their goal is to kick the people who'd set up free social spaces off, this is useful.
Meanwhile, on Facebook, group admins are fighting the Meta spam bot pretty hard.
And another shot by Hank Winkenwerder of square dancers last night at Foggy City
Hank Winkenwerder for this picture of me calling for the Foggy City square dance last night
Karl Joost got a group picture with Helen at Circle 'n Squares last night, 98 years old, who came to square dance with us one last time.
Fixing image upload again
Fixing image upload
Fixing image uploaded
The homemade tortilla press is getting some pretty good results.
The chaser is Meta's AI completely missing the guillotine part of the heart-hole guillotine stained glass pendant.
The shot is Meta's "AI" offering to explain the heart-hole guillotine stained glass pendant.
Fixing Fair St at Douglas St #4
Ely Blvd S at Lakeville Apt has a bench.
Lakeville at Frates Rd. Pad is 11'2" deep, very long
Eli Boulevard at Washington Creek. Sidewalk is 6', bridge another 44". 92" to ivy, 13'3" total.
Sonoma Mountain Parkway at Maria Drive. 5' sidewalk. Pad is 14'10" total, 92" on wide end, 80" on narrow end, storm drain clean out is 58x47.
Petaluma Blvd N at Cherry, in front of Mi Pueblo. Sidewalk is 78", have seen people riding bikes on the sidewalk because the road here is so high speed.
Western Ave at N Fair, sign post is 67" to water meter edge. House number is 750 Western Ave
Wide shot, 111" sidewalk width.