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Totally justified for air travel, where you can't even fit a 14" laptop comfortably anywhere

The concept behind the newer VR headsets to give you a computer screen, or a movie theater or whatever, is pretty neat. But yeah the tech has to evolve a long way before I'll actually put it on my face

You're not wrong. I'm at the point in life where I'm like, what's worse eye strain or back strain

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Call me crazy but I just don't want a 14-inch laptop? The industry seems to view that as the standard. Could be my aging eyes but I'll take the extra two pounds to have 16 inches of 4k OLED bliss

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Me, checking my work email in bed right after waking up

Robert Redford in a car in the movie Spy Game. Text: if I'm walking into a shitstorm I want to know which way the wind's blowing

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This is the source of every grey hair I've accumulated over the last three years

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It gets worse lol bsky.app/profile/atau...

Before you think I'm a hero, I should come clean. The document is actually just fodder for AI to help me come up with interview guidelines for AI managers at $DAYJOB 🙈

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Petition to create a licensing process, like driving, that demonstrates you know what good development means before you can use AI tools for it

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Alas I can't share because it's a work thing 🤬

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I just pumped out several pages of outrageously good prose (fittingly, about various management challenges in AI product development), without using AI to write it. Please clap for this dying art. Also it felt really awesome to be a human.

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I need a hotkey that just prints the text "be direct and concise with no claudisms"

Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Somehow both totally useless and absolutely necessary at the exact same time

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Old school R logo at a docker conf??

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

10x engineers bring their own undiluted cold brew concentrate still in the mason jar

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I understand the reactions to this. But maybe there's a bright side: this feature allows us to put structure to practices that were already happening. It could be this makes it easier to parse messy spreadsheets, not harder

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

top-tier memeing right there

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From the Google preorders page it looks like both x86 and ARM architectures are an option. So maybe the difficulties aren't insurmountable, it just depends on which IDE you prefer and also your pain tolerance

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First one to get a working install of rJava wins a millennium prize

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As an inveterate Android user, I'm intrigued by the concept of the Googlebook, especially the emphasis on good hardware and UX. Google indicates built-in Debian. The obvious question: how many problems will we see with installing and using R? #RStats www.theverge.com/tech/997972/...

theverge.com

The long dream of the Googlebook

Don’t call it a Chromebook.

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today I crossed the 1000 mile mark on my commuter ebike. That displaces about 32 gallons of gas I would have used in my car, and at current fuel prices, saves me approximately $94,000

Ebike display showing 1000 miles, with a bike path in the background

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good perspective! Fwiw when I was a regular at the conf I would live-tweet a talk from my laptop to amplify the message. But I can see how that could be a distraction 🙈

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can't handle the grinder downtime so I currently have three backup burr holders in my cupboard 😅

Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

See also bsky.app/profile/atau...

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the chief analytics office at $DAYJOB said you couldn't productionize R and it took everything I had to keep my composure

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We could save years of education across data science and data engineering by just printing t-shirts that say "know what makes a row"

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You sound like someone who never sorted his data columns independently before a regression

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When I was a kid we used the acronym HOMES to remember the names of the great lakes. Excited for my kids to use SHAME

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Treebeard: we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say Corporate America: this is our entire leadership philosophy now

Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Statistician: the top half is clearly missing not at random

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Data analyst: the cup's y-axis is misleading

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I've started telling it to "avoid claudisms" and it's generally obedient, but there's still a smell to it, and Claude just can't purge "my honest read is..." no matter what

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a really cool update

Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

About 85% of analytics delivery problems I've seen in my career come down to a handful of things 1. people say words without knowing what they mean 2. nobody asked why they need the thing 3. the team or org isn't organized for success 4. the incentives are wrong Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I was not prepared for the last part of that headline