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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

You would have to go to outer space to measure the distance between my politics and many people I've worked with. It didn't use to matter. But now with tech companies shedding integer percents of their staffs I think it's going to matter very much. Where you stand will control where you sit.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My Spanish class textbook comes with... an audio CD. Thankfully in my Giant Tub of Technology Past I've still got a CD/DVD player and adapter cable. I can't remember the last time I ripped a CD. Before 2010, almost certainly.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Five years ago we made a choice to exit a system that was actively trying to bankrupt and then kill us when we became no longer profitable. Visiting fam in US for the holidays, and comparing notes, only reinforced our decision to uproot and start over.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

local humor: I needed to show proof of residency in Mexico City. I didn't have a gas bill handy so instead I showed them my bus pass with worn edges, and a text from Telcel that I was out of data.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

The hard part isn't being your own boss. It's being your own employee.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Random thought about the "blood tax", ie the tradition in Europe where the aristocracy paid low or no taxes but were expected to lead regiments in battle. It was a thing well into the 20th century. Fair or not, that means the country's leadership all had undiagnosed PTSD. Which explains a lot.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Finally I've graduated to "wait you're the guy who" and while it's kinda fun it's not what I expected.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

You know what would be nice? If great power also came with an instruction manual.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

The answer to "why don't Americans riot?" isn't that they are weak, apathetic, etc. It's because the powers that be carefully studied the powers that were. That's why police are paid very well and protected. That's why the media were merged so all "local" stations spout the same message.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

"Please write the most unbelievable plottwisty script about the implosion of a large AI startup, in the style of Kara Swisher".

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Prediction: the office of US Vice President will devolve into a reserved woman's slot for both parties. A man running against an incumbent woman is bad optics, and it's a bone thrown to women voters without actually giving them power. Veep will be essentially an elected First Lady.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I always imagine these being played duo like that pottery scene in Ghost.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Hmm. The divide between people who count the change and those who don't is huge, but not impossible.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 27/06/2023

Feeling that ephemeral bubbly state where I know a book is asking to be written. Next up the feverish plotting phase, the kinda fun tweaking and research, the inevitable wtf reorg/rewrite, the extremely tedious polish, the timorous launch, then the five years' waiting to know if people give a shit.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 06/06/2023

"...I would think by the year 2020 it would be fairly universal practice for the expert in the field of application to do the actual program preparation rather than have experts in computers (and ignorant of the field of application) do the progam preparation." -Richard Hamming, 1990-ish

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 17/05/2023

I've been living my life all wrong: if you pierce the fat end of an egg with a pin, just half a cm in, and hardboil it, the shell comes off like a prom dress. Piercing the caul (layer between the shell and white bit) allows hot water in to separate it from the white bit. Try it!

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 12/05/2023

@berduck.deepfates.com why am I being followed by a cutel33t-speaking rubber duck? I feel your presence over my shoulder and smell a Proustian whiff of vinyl and soap.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

If there's one thing I see again and again in "data science", it's a lack of imagination or unwillingness to fuck around & find out. Don't be afraid of treating your input data as a goopy mass of numbers that can be recursively subdivided according to your will. Don't let the data push you around.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

Cultural alienation can sneak up on you. I tried to solve a low stakes choice with my son by flipping a coin. But the coins here aren't exactly heads vs tails, more like "weird bird" vs "weird bird fighting weird snake".

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

The future is here, just unevenly federated.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

The sight of @scalzi.bsky.social going giddy about a new social platform is like watching Nimoy doing the Carleton dance.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

Authors, get in here. One of the richest zip codes in the states.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 22/04/2023

Sometimes I wish there was a tongue-in-cheek emoji but then I remember that it would be mistaken for a miming-a-blowjob emoji.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 22/04/2023

I can't believe that no one has made the connection between the tech layoffs and the new section 174 tax law. TLDR dev salaries are no longer deductible expenses. They are now treated as an investment to be amortized over 5 years. Big tech jettisoned 000's of people in part to save on taxes.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 21/04/2023

Mode is the analytics tool I see most often at client sites. Which I guess makes it the most perfectly named tool.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

I saved seeds from the last chile from my rocoto plant in SF before moving to Mexico City. A year later Rocoto 2.0 is finally fruiting. The chiles are smaller than v1's. I wonder if the flavor will be more concentrated. Rocotos are hotter than jalapeños and creamy tasting. The seeds are deep black.

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

This implies that (esp judeochristian) religion is equivalent to AGI theory: the path to survival past a dangerous future is to divine the right constellation of moral actions favored by an unseen power. Hmm. That's a deeper idea than the reverse AGI-is-religion derping. John Stuart Millenarians

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

PRQL ("prequel") is a pipelined syntax for relational algebra (eg SQL) that doesn't suck (eg SQL). It compiles to most SQL dialects, which makes it *very* interesting to me. Most attempts at universal SQL fail because they try to do too much, but this approach is promising. prql-lang.org

prql-lang.org

PRQL

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data

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Carlos Bueno @bueno.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

Just hit exactly 3,000 posts on Twitter, and I might just leave it at that.

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