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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 19h

If both guards always lied, either could still say “one of us always lies and one of us always tells the truth”

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i suppose if something was a lot smarter than me I might call it super intelligent too.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always found it confusing that “discretion” is the noun form of “discreet” and not “discrete” the noun form of “discrete” is “discreteness” i’m sure there’s some etymological reason involving greek and latin, but it’s confusing nonetheless

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i think my cat thinks that the front and back doors go to completely different places she went out the backdoor, was displeased by the rain, and then wanted to go out the front door

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

if your site shows an image of “<x> with a transparent background” and uses a standrard checkered background behind the image but the thing is a JPEG, because you are demanding some additional step…. youre an asshole.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just read 10 a11y articles about dark mode that seem to think people asking for dark mode support are asking for “Dark Mode for Everyone”, and concluding that users should be given a choice 🙃🫠🤪 OBVIOUSLY Why would you think we want dark mode universally and not just support “prefers-color-scheme”

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thanks internet “content” “creators”. I now hate the Interstellar soundtrack.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The more AI slop comments / posts I see, the easier it’s been to step away from a social media platform and break doomscrolling. So, thanks I guess?

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nostalgia was so much better when I was younger

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s kinda shitty that company apps use the same “allowed notifications” for sending you both important notices (“your bill is due!”) and also spam/marketing messages (“check out this offer!”)

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If your website has a dark mode setting (thank you!), and also a “match browser” setting…. why would you default to “light mode” instead of “match browser”? :staring directly at Jira:

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The more I work with LLMs the more I realize that the (necessary!) human component is the _wisdom_ to complement the LLMs “intelligence”.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“He sounds like he’s leaving a 1 star Yelp review (…) of the idea of high school” - @harvilla.bsky.social on “Popular” by Nada Surf. This is 10000% accurate description of this song. I _chortled_. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Jake Lang has been publicly owned so many times the SEC is starting to ask questions

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“with milk from pasteurized cows” you mean “pasteurized milk from cows”…..right?

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The proof of the putting is in the yeeting

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Both “Obsession” and “Backrooms” are creative, well-produced, and thought-provoking (“Backrooms” especially) Both felt like the right mix of tension and terror. I hope more auteur films are given chances going forward, given the success of these

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

whats with people holding lapel mics in their hand like its a stick mic?

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Everytime I see the decisions Hegseth and Bessent make, it makes me sad that we have top gov’t positions staffed by ideology and not by merit, experience, or qualification.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I know that the “eternal” in “eternal september” effectively means infinitely long and unending, but the past few years of reddit noobs asking for free labor instead of RTFS feels like we’re exploring new levels of “eternal”, like some kind of Cantor thought experiment but more tedious.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

People on reddit really need to be learn how to RTFS before asking questions. It's kind of annoying how often users go on there and, whether intentionally or not, ask others for free labor when the answers are likely already in the sub.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If I am ordering carryout pizza, why am I being prompted for a tip?

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Everytime I see yet another news story about civilians taking down the Private Sector Panopticon, I am reminded of this Red Meat comic webcomics.dualsquirrel.net/comics-redme... -- comic title: "Gabriel's Spit Trap"

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Googling “is my organic spring mix from target recalled because of cyclospora” is not something i would have expected I’d ever have to do

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It is weirdly enraging to be repeatedly told by Spectrum (ISP)'s chatbot that it is a human when it _very clearly is not_. The chatbot also told me that I have "too much time" and "need more hobbies" (which is hilarious if you know me at all; I definitely do not need MORE hobbies).

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When you go to sign a docusign document, it presents different "styles" of signatures. These are all uncanny valley human-looking-signatures. But none of them are your actual signature. What is the point of this? It seems completely performative.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When Musk said “We’re taking SpaceX straight to the moon, and fast!” I thought he meant he expected the IPO to be really successful

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@hasanminhaj.com Love your work, long time fan, but please, I beg you, the slashes in URLs are “slash” not “backslash” / = slash (technically forward slash) \ = backslash when in doubt, just say stash eg:. bsky.app - valid htttps:\\bsky.app - invslid

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Shout out to American Express, who decided that the $17.26 i was charged because of their error was more important to them then keeping me as a client. 👋👋 Enjoy the parting gift of $17.26 i guess?

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

apple needs to get their shit together and not issue updates that require over 20GB of open storage. This is absurd.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

OK this bothers me. I've checked three sources now and they all say the same thing. The Dewey Decimal Classification for books about board game design (NON-DIGITAL!) is "794.8" which is "Electronic games, video games". www.librarything.com/mds/794.8 This feels so wrong.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

OK I fully accept that this is maybe a little odd, but I am currently using a custom Claude skill to organize my collection of literally thousands of ebooks using the Dewey Decimal Classification. I was unsure about this approach at first but so far it's been very effective.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Apple really needs to find a way to reduce the slug size on their update patches. My daughter's iphone requires 21GB of storage to download the latest update patch. Her phone is a 64GB device, ~25GB is used up by iOS and native data. If she deleted _all_ of her media, she'd barely clear it.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“The show finally finds a balance of tones by downplaying the silliness and going harder into the darkness and grittiness” Its like they learned nothing from the original film adaptation. The dialogue also feels so forced and over-explained. www.slashfilm.com/2201116/avat...

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Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 Fails Its Most Emotional Storyline - SlashFilm

The live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender tackles one of the original series' most emotional storylines and, sadly, falls short.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If George Lucas thinks the Luddites were “clinging to horses and carts” he should probably go re-read historical accounts of what the Luddites were actually doing.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

How is it not a HIPAA violation that private companies are sending me unsolicited invitations to use their products, co-branded w my insurance carrier? Can a company pay a carrier to get all contact data for people w condition X?

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The example date that the NY DOL form uses: "Date last employed [ field ] (e.g. 2007)" gives me a _strong_ sense that this is the year it was built. (That, and the clearly antiquated web practices)

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Reddiit allowing brands to pay for promoted posts that appear like regular posts (other than having a tiny ”promoted” label), but having locked comments feels cowardly. Like “i want to be cool and get in the mosh pit, but _nobody is. allowed to touch me_” Cowards.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“God Emperor of Dune” asks the question: “Would you love me of I were a worm? The only one in existence? And also the god emperor?”

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

TIL that CC0 allows for commercial use: creativecommons.org/publicdomain... Being allowed to charge for a work that is ostensibly designated "public domain" feels wrong.

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Deed - CC0 1.0 Universal - Creative Commons

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Sounds like the Knickerbockers won then?

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“Janet” in The Good Place is a surprisingly prescient and accurate portrayal of how LLMs behave. Season 1 aired in 2016. the first LLM transformer (when modern LLMs started) was published in 2017.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I feel like a sound wizard. I have a recording of a field of frogs. There's white noise in the background from a nearby factory. In audacity, you have to give it "room noise" so it knows what to remove when doing noise reduction. I brought in a recording I made of my gas stove. Near perfect.

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

open.spotify.com/track/05LpwA... i havent confirmed it but i STRONGLY suspect this is the dong Union Jack sampled for “two full moons and a trout”

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Vas · Feast Of Silence · Song · 2004

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

On LinkedIn, I tried command-clicking a link to open it in a new tab, and it instead opened in _self -- why do this?

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

IDK if it's always only 2 suggested coaches, but the Strawberry.me site has all this horizontal real-estate that they're not using because they appear to be doing mobile-only display. It would be far more useful to display the coaches side-by-side, if viewport width allows. Responsive please!

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

There are many words you could use to describe the current state of 1600 PA ave. I dont think I would consider “stately” among them

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Aaron H @armahillo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I'm getting good enough at spotting LLM generated text that it's becoming grating to hear / read. The little idiomatic tics it has ("it's not X, it's Y", "Z is real" (or the overuse of "real" in general), some others. Can't say specifically, but if the body of text is large enough, it's obvious

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