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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 30/09/2026

refusing an AI coding agent is peak iMessage green bubble energy

Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 24/09/2026

The number of times a year I get a bill where the pay online option involves more work than just writing out a check and putting a stamp on the reply envelope is too damn high.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 24/09/2026

The interesting part of this article for me was the disabled community wasn't big enough to keep the bar economically viable and during a 3 1/2 conversation, the remaining owner shared how hard it was to keep the lights on and she was met with hostility and brought to tears. Is that part not true?

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 24/09/2026

following you now to stay on top of this

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 24/09/2026

SWEs are still in such denial about AI that they're *still* not seriously discussing forming a union to reject AI while they still have some leverage. have we learned nothing from the dockworkers and the mathematicians?

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 22/09/2026

okay the sick tshirt caught my attention. what's oxide?

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 17/09/2026

a friend calls himself "Claude's secretary" and it stuck with me

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 11/08/2026

Blue coastal elites think they know what hedonism is but they've never spent time in the burbs with a guy smoking a brisket next to his above ground pool

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 09/08/2026

I've worked inside of datacenters, been in charge of datacenters, been in planning meetings to build new datacenters and I cannot parse a single thing this web site believes about datacenters. Your rallying cry is datacenters. Datacenters. Okay.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 09/08/2026

you getting much out of shooting up BPC-157?

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 02/08/2026

99% of what the average programmer does is take input from text boxes and put it into the database all of this other stuff is irrelevant

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 28/07/2026

So, I've worked in grid research. They're different problems. For EVs, distribution has to be built up, but doing it effectively requires being able to forecast which homes will buy EVs; the utility doesn't get to choose. OTOH data centers try to locate where the conditions are already favorable.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 07/07/2026

if you think people posting AI slop PRs to github is bad, wait until you see all of the issues/feature requests people post that 5 minutes with an AI tool could solve

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 03/07/2026

your strict statically typed memory safe language pales in comparison to my language, which recruits the OS to tell me about bugs by sending my application signal SIGSEGV

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 03/07/2026

The only reason to drive a Cybertruck is because I put a bumper sticker on my Model Y that said if you vandalize this I'm replacing it with a Cybertruck

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 25/06/2026

if I sold cordless handheld vacuums I'd definitely own a car baguette holder manufacturer on the side

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 23/06/2026

my dishwasher's firmware updates are cryptographically signed but the power grid runs on Windows XP

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 21/06/2026

big security doors and cages everywhere and like one human staff member per square mile they would feel more comfortable with them popping up in their back yards demanding high resource usage

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 21/06/2026

datacenters are misunderstood. maybe if the general public could spend some time in these loud, dark, cold, cavernous rooms on big campuses with endlessly long rows of computers that look nothing like the computers they have ever interacted with and

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 16/06/2026

the antichrist says "that seam is load-bearing" and the audience nods in unison and says "yes"

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 15/06/2026

degrowther mind virus is too strong

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 06/06/2026

Starbucks CEO comp: $95 million divided by number of Starbucks employees 381,000 equals... $249. Starbucks employees would make less than an additional dollar a day if you eliminated the CEO and distributed their pay. A barista already takes home most of the value per cup of coffee they make.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 30/05/2026

not to victim blame but it's kinda your own fault for being on LinkedIn

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 21/05/2026

this puppy can support a gender change rate of 120hz

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 20/05/2026

I still regularly think about that guy that would solve each week's projecteuler.net problem first, and his posted solution is in pure assembly.

projecteuler.net

About - Project Euler

A website dedicated to the fascinating world of mathematics and programming

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 14/05/2026

historical aside: in OCaml, Lwt won out over Async because the guys at INRIA adamantly insisted any successor concurrency library run on their Windows workstations

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 11/05/2026

how do you bring consistent surreal content day after day for years on end are you even real

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 11/05/2026

oh, that's way worse IMO I use optional and labeled arguments all the fucking time and feel like I have an arm tied behind my back when I have to use a language without them

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 11/05/2026

Yes, though the convention in OCaml if you use optional arguments is to name all of them (required and optional) instead of relying on positions and add a final unit argument so you have a way of closing out the curried forms.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 11/05/2026

How do Haskell and Standard ML do it?

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 10/05/2026

Man, I discovered a worm and my desk situation has been unchanged. Maybe the missing ingredient is an FBI arc

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 05/05/2026

In the US your GP sees the letter from your foreign psychiatrist listing your maintenance meds and says well I'm not a psychiatrist but I trust the letter, I'll re-up you until you find one. In the UK the NHS says lol cool letter, the answer is no. Wait for the psych. Try not to die.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 05/05/2026

Bullshit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 05/05/2026

The fact that you *will* become suicidal if forced to go off your psyche meds does not mean they will write you prescriptions to continue taking the psyche meds you were on in America without first seeing the NHS psychiatrist. Waitlist: 12+ months. You can ask my (now) ex-wife how she knows.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 04/05/2026

the American experience in Britain is actually more like "what do you mean it's a one year wait to see a psychiatrist to transfer my prescriptions over? I'm suicidal now!"

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 04/05/2026

related: pretty weird to look up and realize the street you're on is Drury Lane it's a real place!

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 04/05/2026

though tbh the really great leftist Khmer Rouge intellectuals were more of an oral tradition, since under their literary criticism framework "owns a book" and "wears glasses" were both capital offenses punishable by being beaten to death with a shovel in a rice paddy

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 04/05/2026

yah make sure to also read Lenin, Trotsky, Kim Il-sung, Hoxha, Castro, Ceaușescu, Mengistu, and Maduro really sample the full body count buffet before deciding on a true inspiration

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 01/05/2026

probably only a 1% chance if there's an all-out war between China and the US that all China EVs in the US just floor uncontrollably

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 29/04/2026

Sorry but I just had to ask Claude to produce a C++Now presentation in the voice of Matt Godbolt. I think it nailed it.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 29/04/2026

I saw one parked outside of a friend's party once and I tried to peg which techbro at the party it belonged to and struck out every time. Turns out it was owned by a lady from mongolia 😂

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 28/04/2026

A man of your distinction shouldn't be working with such trash. Throw that table away and consider taking a closet door off its hinges and putting it up on some cinder blocks instead. At least then you'd have honest materials and honest intentions.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 28/04/2026

Well. I was not going to ever think of that until you made me Google it and reminded me. Thanks Randall 🙄

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 08/04/2026

IMO the next non-Trump President will be such a relief that Europe will be eager to wishfully think this extremely weird period in US history is over and that the populist nativist Americans will never find another voice like Trump.

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 25/03/2026

solid choice. why expose yourself to supply chain risk??

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 10/03/2026

every argument on the internet in picture form

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Michael Bacarella @michael.bacarella.com · 08/03/2026

I haven't met an airport yet that can't be managed with a xanax and a glass of red wine so, challenge accepted

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