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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 23h
Unpopular opinion: squashing commits when merging pull requests is a major mistake.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 27/09/2026
Something I think people don't say often enough about Hawking radiation: There are no known black holes anywhere in the universe that are actually evaporating. Any black hole more massive than the moon has a temperature lower than the cosmic microwave background, so they absorb more than they emit.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 24/09/2026
There should be a Nobel Prize in science communication.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 21/09/2026
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Voldemor: Sourire Maléfique
Alt: Ralph Feinnes as Voldemort
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.
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peptostate @peptostate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
George Lucas: "It's like poetry, they rhyme..." Vin Diesel, nodding: "Vin Diesel."
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 18/09/2026
The Beaverton never misses
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 08/09/2026
Why does every sushi place seem determined to put fricking avocado in everything? If you don't like avocado, spicy sauce, or vegan options, a lot of these places have pretty much nothing left on the menu. (For the record, I like all of the above, but I order for people who don't.)
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 02/09/2026
I wish I knew why more Canadians aren't outraged by the CPP investment board. They manage our retirement pension fund, and they also choose the criteria by which they are judged.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 01/09/2026
It's striking that most of these phones look about the same size. Between 500M and 10B years after the big bang, objects at those distances all have about the same angular size in the sky. Closer than that, things look bigger; farther than that, things also look bigger! xkcd.com/2622/
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Angular Diameter Turnaround
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 30/08/2026
We have a rule in this house: when a band name is plural but doesn't start with "the", we substitute "some". Some Eagles Some Scorpions
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/08/2026
Depressed guy just wants to be left alone.
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Children Of Men Theo Faron
Alt: Children Of Men Theo Faron on a bus looking bored
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 24/08/2026
Has anyone found a way to make DeepSeek v4 Flash stop using the word "honest"? It's so grating. It drives me nuts.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 20/08/2026
Obviously, the interesting question is what came first: the chicken or the chicken egg?
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 16/08/2026
If money is power, the existence of billionaires is undemocratic.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 12/08/2026
Today in random songs stuck in my head: Band On The Run by Wings. Yesterday: Christmas Time by Bryan Adams. Why do brains do this
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 30/07/2026
My kid pointed out that I've been spelling it "woah" for years when I knew full well it was spelled "whoa" and that broke my brain.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 30/07/2026
Anyone still under the impression that he's basically a good guy? apnews.com/article/minn...
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Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology
Elon Musk’s company xAI is suing Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/07/2026
Unpopular opinion: the IAU has no official authority to define the term "planet". The rest of us have no obligation to use their definitions. I think a planet is a place made round by its gravity, but not massive enough to be a star. Is Pluto a planet? Yes, and so is our Moon.
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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
That clip is Fox News in a nutshell: one idiot stammering through a question because he knows it's bullshit; the other idiot stammering through an answer because he knows it's bullshit, and both knowing they have to do it because the guy they're talking about is an idiot who's extremely wealthy.
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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I think people are very optimistic about the lives of their hypothetical billionaire selves
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 24/07/2026
Obviously they don't know basic forest maintenance, just like Canada.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 23/07/2026
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We Didn't Start The Fire Billy Joel Meme
Alt: We Didn't Start The Fire Billy Joel Meme
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 22/07/2026
The confusing part is not that the robots fail: robots are hard, I get that. The confusing part is that so many people are so incredibly overconfident about what they can do that they present their failure onstage for all to see.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 21/07/2026
FFS can we just quit it with the political dynasties?
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 21/07/2026
Did I miss something? Is Trump allowed to do tariffs now?
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 21/07/2026
isaiprofitable.com
isaiprofitable.com
Is AI Profitable Yet?
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 15/07/2026
That's what we need: more AI takes from people who know nothing about AI.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 11/07/2026
They were put there by a fox
Peaches in a box on a kitchen counter
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 10/07/2026
No, I'm not disabling my ad blocker for your website. The "we use ads to support our website" rationale makes no sense. I ignore ads and spend no money, so my ad views aren't actually worth anything to anyone. You're just asking me to help juice your numbers to get more money for nothing.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 08/07/2026
AI will never compete with humans for shitposting
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/06/2026
One day soon, tossing an LLM at any and all problems is going to be seen as ridiculously brute-force.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/06/2026
We accidentally got jumbo raisins for my oatmeal. They are strangely off putting. I now totally get why some people don’t like raisins.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 18/06/2026
@drbecky.bsky.social - have you discussed the idea that Sagittarius A* might be fermionic dark matter rather than a black hole? Is there anything to it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tRw...
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Sagittarius A* Might Not Be a Black Hole
YouTube video by Astrum
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 17/06/2026
The term "end-to-end test" doesn't actually mean anything.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 17/06/2026
Million dollar idea: Quadriscuits. Who's going to settle for Triscuits when they could have Quadriscuits?
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 17/06/2026
LLM context compaction is a knowledge transfer. The LLM writes a summary of everything it knows, and then the work proceeds with no context other than the summary. It's like a new employee took over the work started by someone who left the company.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 10/06/2026
If you can't wait six months after your IPO before being listed in the S&P 500, I gotta ask: what's the hurry?
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 09/06/2026
I've seen some questionable "everyone knows" statements in my time, but...
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 08/06/2026
Until this very moment, I thought Claude Shannon was French. Am I The Idiot?
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I think about this cartoon daily
Man at a climate summit saying "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" cartoon.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 05/06/2026
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 02/06/2026
this is my kind of company motto right here
18 wheeler with one back door open splitting the company’s tagline into “if we can’t / we won’t“
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 25/05/2026
Every software developer values simplicity, yet almost every software developer mistakenly believes that complexity arises because their colleagues don't value simplicity.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 18/05/2026
GO ROCK GO
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 08/05/2026
About 25 years ago everyone decided homes are primarily a financial asset and evaluated every government policy from the perspective of its effect on property values.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 05/05/2026
Does anyone use ChatGPT for coding? I find it intensely annoying and verbose. Claude seems soooo much better.
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Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 04/05/2026
Is there an accepted software term for a test that you run before all the others, and if it fails, you don't bother running the rest because they're doomed anyway? I've been calling such a test an "ante test" as a poker metaphor but I'd rather use existing jargon if it exists.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 01/05/2026
Sweating Doug Ford announces plan to fill Lake Ontario with beer
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Sweating Doug Ford announces plan to fill Lake Ontario with beer
QUEEN’S PARK — After a poll announced yesterday that Doug Ford’s Conservative government was trailing behind the Liberals for the first time in almost a decade, a visibly sweating Ford held a press co...
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