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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 16/02/2026

eBay is running ads that say “Things. People. Love.” Only one of those is actually legal to buy and sell on eBay.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 29/01/2026

Slackbot says week's over. Pack it up, folks. Good job. See you Monday.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 19/01/2026

Temporary tattoos for kids with their parents’ phone numbers. Is this anything?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 13/01/2026

I think "don't read text in screenshots" might be my new guiding principle.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 06/01/2026

Happy we-didn’t-do-shit-about-it day to those who celebrate. :/

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 05/01/2026

Me: [sips tea, calmly] Clock: [ticks to 9:00am] Slack: HEY IT'S AFTER THE HOLIDAYS HERE IS AN INDIVIDUAL NOTIFICATION OF EACH OF THE 21464863 THINGS YOU PUNTED UNTIL AFTER THE HOLIDAYS

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 27/12/2025

Potter had years to think of a reply to “warped, frustrated old man” and the best he could do was “warped, frustrated young man.”

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 27/12/2025

I agree with your technical assessment that the additional prompt instruction is necessary but I still find myself in despair at their acceptance that they have as much control over their software as a parent has over a teenager.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 27/12/2025

The next trend in billionaire tax evasion (that they’ll call avoidance and which courts will allow) will be somehow claiming to be homeless.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 26/12/2025

A recipe began “¾ egg yolks” and I stopped reading.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 26/12/2025

Industry learned the wrong thing from Windsurf, huh?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 22/12/2025

You don't have to say "at [name of bank], my voice is my passport" in an exasperated tone but it helps.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 21/12/2025

My main rule for AI use is simple: I can’t expect you to read something I couldn’t be bothered to write.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 19/12/2025

I think they are valuable for their original purpose: Side jokes. We called threads “asideholes” as a joke for a while.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 19/12/2025

It should not be possible to start a thread from the most recent message in a Slack channel. Just reply in the channel!

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 18/12/2025

If we had any flying cars one guy would own them all.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 18/12/2025

A meta-problem we can all agree must be solved.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 18/12/2025

Computers taking over writing software would be just as sad as computers taking over making art. (Programming is fun!) Fortunately, the averaging machines can’t write novel programs any more than they can make original art.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 17/12/2025

Pundits on KQED today were saying Warner Brothers Discovery has so much debt that the only sensible path is to pursue a sale. What about going out of business? They seem to be legendarily bad at it.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 16/12/2025

Two-part question: 1. Isn't the vote on ACA subsidies Mike Johnson just canceled _exactly_ the vote promised the Democrats in exchange for caving and reopening the government? 2. WHY WON'T THEY EVER FUCKING LEARN?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 14/12/2025

Complete game-changer. Completely unclear from the settings menu. Thank you!

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 11/12/2025

High crimes (and misdemeanors) on the high seas.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 10/12/2025

We offer much, much bigger that that, in fact! Our largest unsharded cluster has 192 cores, 1.5TiB RAM, and 120TB of locally attached NVMe storage per node.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 10/12/2025

It’s that magical time of year when the leaves have fallen, dusk comes early, the air cools, the ground frosts overnight, and the Republicans deny climate change as if they’ve never heard of winter before.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 08/12/2025

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 05/12/2025

Syntax highlighting in Mergician rcrowley.org/mergician/sy...

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Syntax highlighting — Richard Crowley

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 27/11/2025

You could never start a business called Piggly Wiggly today.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 26/11/2025

“Elphaba” but pronounced like Homer pronounces “tuba.” Is this anything?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 24/11/2025

Can’t decide if this is a pro- or anti-mustache statement.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 23/11/2025

Square biscuits are such a time saver. Very pro.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 22/11/2025

One of my most deeply held inconsequential beliefs is that you should always plug into the bottom of a pair of outlets first. Then it’s much easier to plug in a second thing.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 21/11/2025

US citizens: We just want to go to the doctor. US government: Here is a triple-tax-advantaged investment vehicle.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 20/11/2025

Wind noise at high speed can overpower speech but music is fine. Shokz are excellent quality.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 19/11/2025

Something I've been wondering about LLMs: The Wolfram article and others mentioned how LLMs don't strictly emit _the most_ likely next token. This apparently makes the output more interesting and read more naturally. Does this technique send it down bad paths and cause the hallucinations?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 18/11/2025

OK now recite your USE flags.

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 17/11/2025

Don't be alarmed, I won't be blogging daily, but I did just publish a second article in as many days. Everything is lock-in rcrowley.org/2025/everyth...

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 15/11/2025

Are they called "posts" because you HTTP POST them to the server?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 11/11/2025

Question about Republicans: Are they stupid or evil? Question about Democrats: Are they stupid?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 10/11/2025

Tired of hearing about the risk of electing inexperienced politicians when Chuck Schumer

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 10/11/2025

What’s a Republican promise worth?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 09/11/2025

How to see only Prince library cards?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 05/11/2025

Is 64.7% yes on Prop 50 enough to just paint the whole state blue?

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Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org · 05/11/2025

The short-term solution to gerrymandering is “eat shit, Texas.” I often wonder if the long-term solution is to knock it off with geographically defined districts altogether.

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