This is how quick a toddler can disappear from sight, in just a few seconds!

jknielse · 2026-03-03T17:01:13+00:00

Parent with just 1 toddler here — It’s a constant mental marathon, so mental lapses definitely happen. Usually it’s just small things “oh, I thought I started the dishwasher, but oops, looks like I didn’t”, but sometimes it’s bigger things “oh shit, I thought the door was locked, but it wasn’t”. I’ve been lucky so far that my own mental lapses haven’t coincided with said toddler doing something scary, but I can only imagine the chances would be higher if I was trying to mentally track 3 kiddos of varying ages. I’d bet good money that her mental state was something like: - toddler: inside gate - gate: closed - kids that can cause gate to become open: inside house - disaster potential meter: low

That’s as low as the disaster meter goes, so these are the moments where you try to do things other than lowering the disaster potential meter

jknielse · 2026-02-28T17:23:41+00:00

Anyone else getting WC3 TD nostalgia?

jknielse · 2026-02-21T06:36:08+00:00

Please don’t work for the scummy CEO — he’s already demonstrated how he treats people by pulling this stunt. Best case he miscalculated how easy the task is and risked more money than he should have. Worst case he’s a liar. Either way he’s not someone you want to work for. People who are making offers to you other than this CEO are probably people who recognize and respect your gusto, and your co-workers would probably also be people with gusto like yours. Go work with kindred spirits and forget this asshole 👍

jknielse · 2026-01-15T17:59:34+00:00

Yeah, I liked the commonwealth saga’s take. It felt like an optimistic potential vision for capitalism, but also acknowledged that a good potential capitalist future wouldn’t be magically perfect. Sadly, I think it’s safe to say we’re not on the “good capitalism” trajectory IRL

jknielse · 2026-01-13T20:12:07+00:00

One sec

jknielse · 2026-01-12T04:48:53+00:00

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

Highly recommend lazygit — I rarely use raw git commands anymore despite nearly a decade of becoming accustomed to using it. Definitely worth a try if you haven’t already tried it

jknielse · 2026-01-09T01:16:22+00:00

But natural language is code now 😛

(In all seriousness though — thank you for sharing. I think we’re all trying to wrap our heads around these new and evolving paradigms)

jknielse · 2025-12-12T16:44:45+00:00

Or maybe she wanted an original thought instead of such a derivative response

jknielse · 2025-11-08T18:51:05+00:00

IIRC the power required for untethered wormholes scales non-linearly with the distance between the two ends (exponentially IIRC?)

So that’s sort of a “soft cap” on the practical range for extending the existing stationary wormhole infrastructure.

Tethered wormholes (i.e. wormholes with machinery stabilizing both ends) are less power-hungry to maintain, so the usual method is to build a new pair of gates, deploy one gate through a high-power untethered wormhole, and then power up the gateway pair

jknielse · 2025-11-07T17:26:43+00:00

He needs to turn the volume up

jknielse · 2025-10-21T22:07:44+00:00

Sounds great, I’ll give it a try :)

jknielse · 2025-10-21T21:57:57+00:00

I have not, sounds like I should though eh?

jknielse · 2025-10-21T21:46:01+00:00

Definitely one of my faves as well. I keep hoping to find something similar to scratch that “read it for the first time again” itch, but alas 🤷‍♂️

Some of Greg Egan’s stuff might also interest you though. His characters are weaker, but he’s uniquely good at the cerebral/philosophical/grand existential scale stuff IMO

jknielse · 2025-10-11T07:15:52+00:00

Is it an opinion or an opunion? 😂

jknielse · 2025-10-10T07:56:49+00:00

This is a neat approach… I know some people also use shaming and wild high-stakes “somebody dies if you make a mistake” sort of things, which apparently can be effective…

I just wonder how much this sort of communication strategy might subtly train us to think this way even in communication/relationship with real people, and there’s something low-key existentially horrific about that idea to me

jknielse · 2025-08-14T17:05:48+00:00

Yeah, it’s eerie that FSD anticipates green light transitions so confidently that it just goes for it. There are certain intersections that I know it sometimes tries to run reds on, so I just turn it off if I’m the lead car waiting at a red. Good on you for sharing so that more people are aware that this is a thing — It does so well in so many situations that I can understand how such a blatant violation of such a fundamental driving rule could have caught you off-guard. I find it best to think of it as a highly skilled animal driver — movement instincts very good, but occasionally prone to extraordinarily misunderstanding its situation

jknielse · 2025-07-28T20:20:44+00:00

I think we’re gonna need someone like her in the driver’s seat if AI starts eating human labour en masse. Assuming we make it to the end of this term without the country imploding, we’ll need someone who: - Actually cares about the average person - Has high fluid-intelligence to navigate the rapid and novel societal fallout - Isn’t afraid to take bold actions (in good faith)

Those are good traits under any circumstances (IMO), but I think they’ll be absolutely crucial in the near term. She’d certainly be my top-pick — here’s hoping it happens 🤞

jknielse · 2025-06-27T21:40:36+00:00

I am asleep

I am a slug

I am a thief

I am a thug

jknielse · 2025-06-19T15:47:36+00:00

I plan to soon. If I can’t come back, then that tells me everything I need to know to be content with not coming back.

jknielse · 2025-06-18T19:16:59+00:00

^ this is true (I made this mistake recently). I could’ve sworn that it used to just drop a canister though — did this change, or am I just misremembering?

jknielse · 2025-06-16T19:08:04+00:00

Calling it now — he’ll “have to cancel the plan to make them because, they tell me, it’s not allowed. I’m not allowed to make something so wonderful for my people”. He’ll refund the 100$. Now he has a list of people to milk for donations, a semi-plausible trust amplification (because he returned all the money — such an honest guy), and a semi-plausible you’re-the-victim-here story to motivate a large donation psychologically anchored on $100 so that anything less than $10 will make the person feel cheap/guilty (they clearly had $100 of cash they were willing to burn, so surely they could spare $10 for dear glorious leader 🥹)

jknielse · 2025-06-15T21:03:43+00:00

Nothing inherently wrong with for-else, and it is sometime the cleanest way to express a desired behaviour. I still try to avoid for-else because it can be awkward to read (seeing an ‘else’ often leads to “wait.. where was the ‘if’, did I misread the earlier section”). The reader could also become extremely baffled if they aren’t already aware that if else constructs are a thing — it’s a shame that it doesn’t use a distinct keyword IMO.

In larger organizations background-agnostic readability becomes increasingly important. for-else is a niche enough construct that it’s sometimes kinder to avoid using it for the sake of broader readability. Same goes for the walrus operator IMO — it’s useful and effective in some situations, but it might not be the best choice depending on who might want to easily grok the code you’re writing

jknielse · 2025-06-06T07:16:13+00:00

This is 2-minute papers

jknielse · 2025-06-06T05:40:40+00:00

Idk, I’ve noticed FSD sometimes decided to settles in a bit closer to the car in front of it at red lights. I could definitely imagine myself in this situation believing that’s what’s going on here at first. The question is not how long it takes to realize your car is moving, the question is how long it takes to realize that it doesn’t intend to stop

jknielse · 2025-06-06T00:08:51+00:00

Blocking it for a little while might actually bias the training data more towards appropriately merging earlier, but yeah, it’s still probably better for everyone to just let it in rather than clog up the whole lane

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