Notices by pmonks (330ppm) (pmonks@sfba.social)

Protea in the mist. #BloomScrolling #AustralianNatives #BlueMountains

@hey Welcome! I’m sorry that other dipshit ambushed you upon arrival.

@ai6yr “But I’ve got all-season tyres on my 4WD emotional support truck!! How was I supposed to know going 70MPH in the snow would cause me to spin out?!?!?!?!?12”

@me @ai6yr I drive a lot on 88 (have a cabin in the Amateur County foothills) and when the kids were little we used to play a game in winter called “count the Subarus in ditches”.

@skinnylatte I for one am going to buy the shit out of your seemingly inevitable combo cook book / grocery store list / Bay Area restaurant guide. The framing of “here’s how to make X properly, here are the good stores to get the right ingredients, and here are the restaurants that make it well” is 👨🍳💋.

@skinnylatte On the upside, they hold the record for most manslaughter convictions of any company in US history!

@jbaggs @skinnylatte That one was over 10 minutes ago though? 🤔

@jbaggs @skinnylatte Jayzuz was that another one?!?

@jbaggs @skinnylatte Oh wait there were 2 in the same place, 10 mins apart. Looks like this is the one I felt: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75283011/executive

@douglasvb @ai6yr The code that “AI” generates is usually trash, and takes just about as long to review and correct as it would have taken to just write it by hand in the first place. It also has more subtle issues like inconsistency / non-repeatability - give it the same prompt twice and it’ll shit out two different results. That’s not how you get quality software.

@swannodette @nikitonsky This isn’t news to me, fwiw, but I am continually shocked that no one seems to care about the (imo concerning) implications that has for the future of the language. A bus factor of 1 has long been understood to be a huge risk for any kind of software.

@swannodette @nikitonsky This risk:

> if Rich doesn't like it, it ain't gonna happen

Dialects aren’t a great answer since they’re basically equivalent to a fork, which fragments both the user and maintainer bases. And “strictly compliant” dialects (like ClojureScript) have the exact same problem @nikitonsky is referring to: slow improvement gated on Rich.

First finger lime of the season!! 😍😍😍 #UrbanFruit #SanFranciscoHellscape #CitrusEdition

@ai6yr Delicious! It’s a pretty distinct citrusy flavour that’s probably closest to a true lime, yet still quite different. The real highlight is that the individual cells are spherical and look like pale green caviar. They’re quite tough, so I cut the fruit open lengthwise and scoop them out with a spoon (they don’t crush anywhere near as easily as the teardrop shaped cells in orange, lemons, etc.). Then when you eat them, the cells pop, releasing the tasty juice - it’s like eating pop rocks or something!

Awesome on fish and in cocktails!

@Carolee @ai6yr Mine’s about 5 years old and after producing just a handful of fruit last year seems to have taken off this year.

It desperately needs pruning though, and I kind of left that too long, so if I can offer one tip I’ve learned the hard way, it’s to start shaping the bushes now, before they start producing and before they turn into a thick, tangled mess of gigantic stabby thorns. 😬

Here’s one guide I found that talks specifics: https://www.nature-and-garden.com/gardening/pruning-finger-lime.html

@Carolee @ai6yr Exhibit A: 😬😬😬

@mcc Do you happen to have a preferred alternative browser that you’d recommend? I see lots of folx here recommending Vivaldi, but I’ve also heard that the founders have a bit of a dodgy history with Opera (which they allegedly also founded).

@mattly 🚨🚨🚨

@skinnylatte @ai6yr That’s exactly how I know that area too! Did the naturalist talk about “the march of the manzanita”?

@ai6yr @skinnylatte POOPENAUT DOME!!!!11 😍😍😍

Love that place, in no small part due to the awesome name!