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(That being said the BP meds I got actually do wonders for the remaining anxiety I had, even though I’m pretty sure my BP is basically measuring the same most of the time — so I’m not complaining much.)

(Obviously totally acceptable numbers until I got diagnosed with ADHD and the numbers stayed the same but are now a concern.)

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(Manual at the time was reliably like 128-132 over 85, so not great but not “imminent danger”)

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This has been the case since I was 20 — I spent a week in the hospital, and a pissed off doctor eventually wrote “Only manual BP” on the whiteboard after one too many “I think our migraine patient is having a heart attack” conversations.

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Even worse when even the expensive automatic cuffs at the hospital don’t work reliably for you… I have to basically tell every doctor or nurse I interact with that the automatic cuffs are going to read me as 165/150 and they need to do a manual read to get the real numbers.

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(Other folks called out other benefits, too.)

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TBH, it seems like “please include a short sentence per image so your blind citizens can engage fully with your content” is a reasonable ask for the social media team of a successful mayor of America’s largest city, esp. one who ran on policies regarding equity.

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

There’s a few benefits, esp. when normalized: - Those who can‘t see (or can’t see well, or who are using a screen reader for some other reason) are able to engage with the content the way the rest of the world is - Helps with indexing/search for the images, if you ever want to find them later

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I think it was also a clear risk management move. If you’re OpenAI in 2023, you have a lot less to lose by releasing something with all the problems chatbots had than Google in 2023. And once someone else has frontrun the risk it’s easier to release a competitor.

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

You’d need a lot of copies of it to get a wheel effect though…

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Can’t imagine working overtime for a completely different company w/o additional pay, couldn’t be me.

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Apparently @nora.zone is Super Rude, since all their posts seem to be getting labeled by the bsky moderation bot…

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Seriously through 2016 the most Fox News pilled person I knew was my grandfather. I’m not sure even he would be down for domestic violence and nazi tattoos, which is apparently what we’re accepting? On our team?

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Like asserting things like “domestic violence is bad” that even like, my very conservative grandfather (who literally used feminine pronouns for me for like, several months as a ’joke’ to complain about my long hair) would have agreed with?

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So, I keep seeing folks just like… whole hog announce to the world that they are Progressives who are So Definitely Good. Except wow, progressives ask for so much.

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Can Washington come too? Please?

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

(Plenty of gun hunters in category 2 as well.)

Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Depends on the bow hunter, but I think you’re right in general. There are bow hunters who only take lethal shots and are very deliberate about it… and plenty who are fine w/a very traditional “hit it and follow til it keels over”

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I mean, just wait for what the FFXIV & adjacent people are probably gonna create next year. :P

Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Probably makes the properties that didn’t count on using a public right of way for private vehicle storage more valuable, tbh…

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Seriously they cost as much as a leuchtturm but with crap paper and construction.

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Sun “No really your troops need to eat” Tzu strikes again…

Like I’m all for fair play… if everyone is playing by the same rules. But don’t come to me after VA in the 2000s and scream about disenfranchised rural votes.

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Like, Charlottesville had to be offset by a huge portion of rural SWVa to make it part of a red district. Richmond area was aggressively split to dilute urban voters. Etc.

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I’m gonna just point out that the Republican majority in the 2000s gerrymandered VA to shit and diluted many urban democratic voters, so… If other states are gonna do it, VA dems shouldn’t be fucking shy about it.

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We are giving you representation now. Please do not resist.

Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Yeah, I mean, we can complain about their memes & content, but we had salad fingers, lolcats, llamas with hats and Charlie the Unicorn. Glass houses and all.

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I sort of agree, but the difference between validating a contract and validating behavior is unfortunately still something they seem to struggle with. Like many others, I am excited about the potential for scaling tools like formal methods.

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I think the observation that taste & architecture remain important is crucial. My experience that it has gotten a lot easier to create code, but that without a lot of guidance agents are not yet good at software engineering (using the defn. of “software engineering is programming over time”).

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Iirc, it was Yu Gi Oh — but I vaguely recall that it was because there was a card that required shaking hands with your opponent (and if you refused you’d lose) so being especially grody could win tournament games.

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Ev @evmaus.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I mean... A big reason it was hard to open source several projects I worked on at Google was pretty much always "it relies on an library that doesn't have an easy drop in OSS replacement". :P The best solution was often "Ask the Abseil team if they'd consider supporting (behavior)".

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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

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(Sure, there’s ways to make sure you aren’t in this situation at runtime, so I wound up doing that to track down reuse in the AST… but now I have to add that test so nobody breaks this assumption that could be in the type system. Or I could rewrite the whole AST library and force immutability...)

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But thats… not exactly how objects in python work. And this makes adding AST modifications to existing code a little fraught.

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I have literally been wishing python had unique_ptr this week because it’s easy to have multiple references to an object and wind up with it getting reused somewhere…. Which is fine in theory, if it’s immutable.

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Yeah, this is absolutely something I could have gotten into at that age, especially if my friends were all doing it. I even tried the stupid multiphase sleep optimization nonsense in college for a bit. TBH I feel like I dodged a lot of bad decisions by going to Seattle instead of the Bay Area…

I haven’t worked in computer security for years now, but last night I had a dream that the AI autocomplete now in my IDE downloaded a malware package and I had to reformat my work laptop. I woke up bemused and irrationally angry at AI. Only I’m allowed to make dumb mistakes like that!