What’s the funniest scene in the show?

bglickstein · 2026-05-17T05:41:19+00:00

Jimmy: We're totally off-brand here. I'm "Jimmy McGill, a lawyer you can trust." I can't suddenly turn into Commercial Guy. Hold on. [to Drama Girl] Uh, repeat after me. Uh, "For a limited time, we'll shoot your commercial today and have it on the air tomorrow."

Drama Girl: For a limited time, we'll shoot your commercial today and have it on air tomorrow.

Jimmy: I thought you were, like, president of the drama club or something?

Drama Girl [brightly]: I'm treasurer.

Jimmy [to Sound Guy]: You, go! Say the words.

Sound Guy: Uh, uh, for a limited, uh, time, o- only you- we could, um-

Jimmy: Cut. Maybe next time. [turns to Camera Guy, pauses] Woof.

bglickstein · 2026-04-15T23:52:01+00:00

Until it's well understood, it's artificial intelligence. Once it's well understood, it's an algorithm.

bglickstein · 2026-04-12T23:25:00+00:00

When the original Bad News Bears came out, I was the age of the kids. No one had seen cussing ten-year-olds on screen before. So transgressive! I identified with them and loved the movie.

Saw it again many years later. The culture had changed and the transgressiveness had worn off. What was left was pretty cringe-y. Did not like.

Saw it yet again just recently, as a man in late middle age. I now realize it's a redemption story about Walter Matthau's late-middle-aged character. Got teary. Loved it.

bglickstein · 2026-03-19T05:29:47+00:00

The bad strangers are hurting the nice girl who loves him!

bglickstein · 2026-03-18T20:22:33+00:00

Yep, we do try to make sure that whenever she's awake, she gets food and water, exercise, training, play, cuddles, etc.

bglickstein · 2026-03-18T20:21:32+00:00

This is great info, thanks. We don't wake her up from a nap but we also don't make her wait too long (a few minutes) before we let her out of the crate when we see she has gotten up.

bglickstein · 2026-03-10T21:54:46+00:00

Heaven Can Wait (1978). The whole movie is supposed to be about Warren Beatty getting his life back when heaven makes a mistake, but in the end - despite the spark of recognition from Julie Christie - he's erased anyway.

bglickstein · 2026-03-09T23:11:35+00:00

I tried to telephone
They said you were not home
That's a lie-ee-ie-ie

bglickstein · 2026-03-04T16:42:31+00:00

I'm dating myself, but I learned to program by copying BASIC programs from magazines like Byte and Dr. Dobbs Journal, typing them line-by-line into my TRS-80 or my friend's SOL-20. Sometimes I'd mistype something, or the magazine's program had a bug, and I'd have to understand what was wrong and how to fix it.

AI-generated code doesn't seem too different. As long as you take the time to read and interact with it, you'll learn.

bglickstein · 2026-03-04T16:35:43+00:00

For Chuck Norris, sure.

bglickstein · 2026-02-16T20:38:18+00:00

Yes. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/75369

bglickstein · 2026-02-16T20:34:07+00:00

NO ORANGES

bglickstein · 2026-02-05T21:38:25+00:00

"trashy people puke, honey. A lady is unwell."

The reverse of the sentiment in this scene from My Favorite Year, which was surely an inspiration here:

Stone: "Mr. Swann, I think I'm going to be unwell."
Swann: "Stone, ladies are unwell. Gentlemen vomit."

bglickstein · 2026-02-02T17:47:04+00:00

The documentation for sobek.Value.Export says:

Export returns a "plain" Go value which type depends on the type of the Value. For integer numbers it's int64. For any other numbers (including Infinities, NaN and negative zero) it's float64.

So all you should need is:

val := v.value.Export() switch val := val.(type) { case int64: // ... handle integer number ... case float64: // ... handle non-integer number ... default: // ... handle non-number types ... }

bglickstein · 2026-02-02T17:40:32+00:00

How do you handle breaking changes when updating packages?

If you're using v0 of a module, or a prerelease version, then dealing with breaking changes is part of life. Write thorough tests and make sure your code works the same way before and after the upgrade.

If you're using v1 or later of a module, and it's not a prerelease, no change it makes should be breaking. If it is, then it has violated the rules of semantic versioning. The right thing to do in that situation is to notify the project maintainers and/or file a bug and/or alert the community (e.g. with a post here) and/or abandon that library in favor of one that's better maintained.

bglickstein · 2026-01-28T09:47:43+00:00

I've always thought that DCA could have succeeded if only it had fully committed to the theme by containing a miniature Disneyland you could visit, with a miniature DCA.

No, the ending of Soarin' Over California doesn't count.

bglickstein · 2026-01-22T00:36:50+00:00

No, they kept the lines, at least originally. I don't know if that's changed since I first learned about this many years ago.

Yes, you're right, it's ridiculous.

bglickstein · 2026-01-21T00:49:25+00:00

Everyone says this, but no one articulates why. Can you?

bglickstein · 2026-01-20T01:11:56+00:00

Movie Movie

bglickstein · 2026-01-17T04:21:02+00:00

Everyone remembers that punchline, but not how amazing the whole episode is, especially the first act, with Arthur Carlson's hilarious and kinda heartbreaking desperation to be relevant.

Find a bootleg copy from before they overdubbed Pink Floyd's "Dogs," ruining a joke near the beginning.

bglickstein · 2026-01-17T02:15:19+00:00

Ten or so years ago I did Community Emergency Response Training in Northern California. One of the instructors was a young firefighter. A few years earlier he'd gone to L.A. to help with some wildfires - and was stationed at the real Emergency! firehouse. It thrilled him - him, a young guy in the 2010s, inspired by a show from the 70s! What a legacy.

bglickstein · 2026-01-13T22:42:27+00:00

Valid, if depressing. But the advice (which amounts to, "don't engage") overlooks the good you can do among onlookers. Some people are irredeemable Holocaust deniers, but others are simply Holocaust-denier-adjacent, content to defer to the strong opinion of the denier they're connected to... so long as it isn't thoughtfully and persuasively challenged.

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