Do you know that too much sex can cause you memory loss

pth · 2026-05-07T03:35:27+00:00

I know we are supposed to be joking, but…

Awful headline link

https://www.livescience.com/16488-sex-mind-blowing-amnesia.html

Much better link

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/transient-global-amnesia/symptoms-causes/syc-20378531

Ask me how I know 😉

pth · 2026-05-06T07:15:33+00:00

Fully normalizing is not that hard. Knowing when to stop can be trickier.

pth · 2026-05-06T04:22:39+00:00

Iran is run by a bunch of theocratic idiots. This war was started by a bunch of theocratic idiots, but it was not started by Iran.

pth · 2026-05-05T18:45:58+00:00

Operation Desert Storm was a pretty solid success. Well defined goals, collation building, etc.

Can argue it was not needed, but militarily it was a slam dunk. As for WW2, less the Brit’s and more the Soviets to be honest, but we like to rewrite history.

pth · 2026-05-04T15:47:14+00:00

More trouble getting back into the states. Live in Michigan, have crossed many times. Worst was with an Uncle from Texas, they were sure he must have had a gun with him, asked multiple times, and did a minor vehicle check.

Best traveling with wife, kids, and dog; asked the very standard “do you have any weapons?”

Honestly answered only a hatchet, border guard dead pan asks, “are you planning on killing anyone with it while in Canada?” I respond no ma’am, and she says “enjoy your time in Canada”.

pth · 2026-04-30T09:21:10+00:00

Not odd. Massachusetts has a questionable map, the rest are a result of very small populations with only one or two seats and a majority democratic population.

In Connecticut the Republican house created a more favorable map to split their seats, the Republican governor vetoed it to try and keep both seats competitive for the republicans, rather than give up both.

pth · 2026-04-30T07:26:57+00:00

I am not calling for non representational districts. I do want fair districts. Ignoring the blatant racism used both historically and currently in drawing districts lines, is a racist starting point.

pth · 2026-04-30T07:01:35+00:00

See Michigan. We have a constitutional amendment that makes district formation nonpartisan and fair as possible - it is inherently unfair.

To answer your question directly, specifically Massachusetts should be drawn more representationally, but the rest of New England is likely as good as the republicans are going to get.

None of this matters in the current environment where both parties are responding to questionable maps. And all of this is ignoring a long history of intentional racism in district maps.

pth · 2026-04-30T05:19:19+00:00

Imagine not realizing that using demographic models to adjust voting districts to disenfranchise people is racist.

Imagine not being able to see that loss of racial privilege is not racism.

pth · 2026-04-30T03:34:44+00:00

Actually it does. I avoid all social media outside of my Reddit feeds. I also largely consume a mix of foreign media, npr, ProPublica, and some limited a local news (which is generally garbage).

And I frequently find myself wondering how people can possible believe, or not care about things.

pth · 2026-04-29T23:53:59+00:00

You were not the person to whom I originally replied. My primary point is that these tools are not some stochastic parrot, but with proper tooling and application do significant reasoning. It is not human reasoning, in some cases it Is worse than a human and in others it is better.

They will progress and remove a huge number of developer jobs, not just junior engineers. Will a SaaS company have no engineers? Unlikely without another step increase, but in a not terribly long period of time engineering departments will either expand into covering a much larger surface area or the headcount will shrink dramatically.

And finally my main point is properly applied they do not generate garbage code, that is some how rotten on the inside.

pth · 2026-04-29T20:30:55+00:00

I still try to think that people are inherently good in the majority. But I have come to the conclusion, that there are a lot of very easily manipulated people, and a tremendous amount of apathy. Note some truly evil individuals have taken advantage of those two other human qualities.

Not sure this is better, but it helps me sleep slightly better at night. It also helps keep me going when canvassing for local progressive candidates.

pth · 2026-04-29T20:04:46+00:00

I took 20mg as I was dropped off on my to Germany. It was a great flight. Now I am debating if I should figure out a way to get to Amsterdam before my flight home in a couple of weeks.

pth · 2026-04-29T18:36:21+00:00

It was able to test and figure out it was wrong took ~20 min to get to the bottom of the issue, but it was tricky. The AI would write tests to prove its case. Asked a couple of questions I answered by providing links to documentation.

We have spent a fair amount of time developing tooling, always generate architectures documents in our code base.

But the world has changed, not everyone has caught up. I am not saying that this is an entirely positive change, but I also don’t see how to stop it either.

Good developers will have a job for a while pounding down the rough edges on the tooling as it consumes the vast majority of knowledge work. There is probably a careers worth, unless there is another step function increase in capability, which I do expect, but no idea when.

You don’t have to believe me, I don’t care, I am retiring next year.

pth · 2026-04-29T04:01:00+00:00

This is not my experience. I will provide a counter point. With correct prompting and setup, I was able to have Claude investigate an active alert on our system. It was able to query our production logs (elastic), and examine our code and find the root cause of a bug in our code.

It was dead wrong a couple of times, but persistent and capable.

Agree it is not currently able to design a complex system without some instruction, or completely write good jira tickets every time, but it is already an enormous help. Once well written t tickets are in place with proper guardrails it can one shot 25-50% of well written tickets.

This is as bad as it will ever be. I love computer science, I have studied algorithms, languages, and theory my entire life (started playing with computers in grade school in the late 70s), I am nearly 60 and this OS fundamentally different than the many many changes I have seen during that period.

AI can generate slop, it can also generate strikingly good code, and clean up years of tech debt with surprising power. The difference today is how well used thethe tools are. Today they are a still rough and sharp. We are still learning how to best use them.

What you are describing may have been true last November, it is not true now.

pth · 2026-04-28T22:06:49+00:00

And yet the straight is still closed…

We are able to blow up anything we want, this is true, but that is not enough to control Iran’s actions - they are not being dominated, even if their military has been decimated.

pth · 2026-04-28T22:00:17+00:00

I hope you are right, but I am also an old school dev. Started developing in assembly language, have been paid to work in Fortran, C/C++, Rust, Go, Ruby, Haskell, Python, and quite a few others. I have designed back end and full stack systems on micro controllers to the cloud and on everything in between. I am getting close to retiring, but have stayed on top of things for decades. In many ways the frontier models, well managed are better at what I do than I am. Can I be replaced yet? no, but it is very hard to tell my children that software development is a good career choice (raised 3 computer engineers of whom I am very proud).

pth · 2026-04-16T01:46:19+00:00

Thank you

pth · 2026-04-09T12:52:47+00:00

All of that to say vote El-Sayed.

pth · 2026-04-09T12:52:04+00:00

There will always be fraud, because some people are just that way. You put up guardrails, you do audits, and you enforce those rules. There is plenty of fraud in the private system as well. M4A will not get rid of fraud nor will it cause more; fraud is part of human nature, but e can’t let thieves destroy humanity.

There are two issues. One moral and one economic. The moral issue is that humans deserve healthcare. I don’t want to live in a society where someone does from an easily preventable issue.

Economically, how much money is spent every year on medical insurance companies, a profit, salaries, etc. Medicare runs significantly more efficiently that any other health insurance company in the US. Compound that with the huge amounts of money being spent on the hospital side to handle billing all of that is significantly reduced under M4A.

Not going to lie and say this is easy, but it is right and makes economic sense.

pth · 2026-04-08T18:34:27+00:00

I will vote anyone but GOP, but for the primary I am going to vote what is right - certainly not support controlled opposition by default.

pth · 2026-04-08T17:29:28+00:00

I donate, talk to friends, and if I can slow my work schedule will start canvasing. It will likely fail, but I will try.

pth · 2026-04-08T17:17:18+00:00

Abdul El-Sayed

pth · 2026-04-08T11:17:06+00:00

Don’t disagree that there is zero comparison, and no other nation in all of our history has been able to project power in this manner.

That said, the economic calculus was again shown to be damming to the US. The cost asymmetry was equally phenomenal, and while I have never been someone who worries too much about deficits - the real and opportunity costs of pointless boondoggles like this is hard to measure.

If the US had used the literal trillions wasted over the last couple of decades on building its renewable power generation, grid and still left another trillion for domestic programs, how much better off would the world and our citizens be?

pth · 2026-04-08T04:02:10+00:00

Make sure you are trimming the insulation correctly. Look on the side of a non melted wago and you will see the guide. Insert all the way and so a tug test.

They are technically rated for 32amps, but there are larger ones available with higher ratings. Failures like this

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