shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Of that size, certainly. It's not difficult to write short programs that can demonstrably be proved correct. However, I have had demonstrably correct code fail because of underlying bugs in the operating system or hardware. Even the Apollo software failed due to hardware deficiencies. 1220
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My phone number has ended up in these lists attached to other people (David from Nevada, I see you). I can only assume that people are giving "fake" numbers to get around the "you instantly get deluged with fundraising texts" problem. 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sure, the city police respond to the "incidents", but it's a big city and "well, that's a university problem". 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Every time this came up back when I was going to college (mumble decades ago) the line from the administration was that the frats were not "on" campus, they were private organizations very near but not on campus so they could do nothing. 340
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Friend of mine who is a retired geology prof has some wild stories about people (through public outreach) with wild shit about rocks and the earth. Pebbles that were actually spaceships, or convinced their well went to an underground space where goblins peed. 040
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What does that look like if you plot it as photons per meter square instead of power (watts), given that shorter wavelengths carry more energy per photon? 110
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cops themselves believe ACAB. I have never seen film of a cop doing bad shit where the cop looked around first to make sure there are no other cops to witness. That cop knows that no cop will give a damn about what's about to happen. In many cases there are already other cops around in plain sight! 050
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Anytime something becomes "the gold standard" someone out there tries to pawn off gold-plated lead as the same thing. 000
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Index funds have been very good for me and my husband. Now there's lots of money in them, and some people are trying to game the indexes to shove dodgy investments in them because then the index funds will have to buy them. 210
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is why car dealerships and real estate are such horrid experiences compared to things that we buy week in and week out. 020
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Waiting for the EO declaring the change coming any minute now. 030
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Still leaves out someone having their first attack. 120
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tell Ocean Shores we're not coming back until they get one. 020
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There were a couple days where the AC was nice, but it was overall a blessedly cool summer. 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If a candidate brings a beverage to a job interview the only thing disqualifying is alcohol. 160
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Health care also, something we factored in when deciding what to do on retirement. The best healthcare facilities are in cities, and are also relatively close. Rural healthcare got a shot in the arm with Obamacare, but as that has been targeted, they are losing these vital facilities. 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026She is so down for overthrowing the idiot king so long as she gets her craft room. She'll even use the Minivan to haul the lumber and drywall. 000
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026See, the idiot king promised to finish the basement with a craft room for her, and instead he half-assed it and put a tiki bar in instead, and keeps complaining that her minivan isn't cool and the kids are grown and wouldn't she rather have a Truck With A Pristine Bed instead. 200
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You obviously haven't met Mom With Minivan yet. 130
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 24/09/20262.2 million in a population of 340 million 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yeah, you know, like Oompa Loompas, or house elves, who just love to provide free labor because they just love to work. Out of gratitude. Or something. For free! In Stardew Valley they're called junimos. 000
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Wait till the part with the "free labor". Ooompa, loompa doompety doo! 110
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I played it when it showed up on Apple Arcade. Played through to the end and then bought it on Steam and immediately installed an automation mod. Stardew Vactorio for the win. 020
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I saw the All-American Red Heads perform in the 70's (women's exhibition basketball team), they played against a local men's rec league champion team, and wiped the floor with them. 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You only have to look through the ones from Enumclaw. 002
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1990...archive.seattletimes.comFraternity At UW Is Barred From Some Greek Events Over Hazing Involving Sheep | The Seattle Times 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I was visiting JBLM and took the wrong exit, told the guard I was going to Madigan but took the wrong exit, he told me to just do a uturn and go back out the gate exit and get back on the freeway. Which I did, but he didn't actually look to make sure I did. 050
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Selling for a lower price won't do anything to fix supply problems. In fact, lower prices would stimulate demand and make supply problems worse. 080
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Obviously the human behind it all whacks the agents that don't generate enough income to pay for their compute. You're on the receiving end of one of those "these are this weeks winning lottery numbers" and by gosh, most of those numbers are right, I need to buy in! 001
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This isn't going to happen, but even if it did, money is fungible. I'm sure I can come up with 5K of American goods I would have bought anyway, and then I can enjoy a nice 5K vacation in Canada. 040
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Had a coworker who took the date of the office birthday party to be my birthdate, and kept going off on how I was just like my sign, it was uncanny. Unfortunately for her, the party was held late in the month, and my actual birthday was earlier so... wrong sign. 080
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Mmm... what's the actual text of the steno machine prohibition? Steno machine like functionality on a phone would be okay? Like Swype optimized for court cases. No audio recorded unless you want to say a recording exists in the user's brain. 100
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I would say that since judges don't want transcripts being created, they will just decide the phone transcription is "recording" because that gets the effect they want. There's plenty of history of stuff like that happening. 100
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Is there an explicit prohibition on using a steno machine (I mean the one that has keys like a typewriter, not a recording/transcription device)? Is it that you can't use a device, but can use a pen/pencil? If no devices, that rules out smart phones regardless of the recording issue. 100
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Even in engineering the lines are blurred, because "memory" has become "disk" and "disk" memory. It would not surprise me at all if the law decides as a result of your hypothetical case that all microphones create recordings because they convert sound waves into electrical signals. 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I would say if the judge doesn't care about the transcript, they will go with the SMEs and decide not recording, and if they're pissed about it, they'll decide it is recording, because. Is it okay to use a steno machine to make a transcript? 100
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The clip can be retrieved from the memory (you would have to do that to play it or save to disk), but you can't retrieve the clip from the secure enclave, it's like the processing equipment between the mic and speakers. 010
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In a court case, I would say find out from them what they intended, but as we're just bullshitting I would say an audio clip you "record" to the memory on your computer (goes away if you remove the power) is not "stored", but if you save it to disk, it is. But the lines have become blurred. 210
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Not even if you stick processing equipment between the mic and speakers to manipulate the audio. It is transient, and would never be referred to as "recording". Whether a judge would listen to an audio engineer, or just go by vibes is another matter. 110
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Because it can't be retrieved. Consider a microphone hooked up to speakers, and it transmits the audio to the speakers that then play it. Technically, the data (whether digital or analog) exists for a fraction of a second, but no SME (audio engineer, for example) would say that is a recording. 110
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026From an engineering standpoint I'd say the difference is one of duration, where storage means committed in a durable fashion. 120
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is law, not engineering, and you would know better than I about that. From an engineering standpoint, no recording is made. 120
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I think this is outside the realm of engineering where nobody would say something was a recording if it wasn't stored and therefore retrievable, and into the realm of law, where case law and what judges understand or don't understand about engineering decides this case. 110
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm assuming you mean could they confiscate all the watches, and then bust the secure enclave? If it works as Apple says it does, nothing would remain to be seized. 130
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Perhaps a subject matter definition versus legalistic. If something can't be retrieved, then by definition it isn't stored as a store of something is meant for retrieval in the future. No data storage device or service would go "Psyche! We stored your data, but you can't get it back." 120
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026You could never do anything with any data under that stringent a definition. Passwords are not supposed to be "stored" in plain text, but you have to put the plain text in memory while computing the hash to store that, which counts as "stored" in the same way as "recorded". 240
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I taught my kids when they were little about Boots Theory. 020
shirleydunk.bsky.social @shirleydunk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026That would be dumb. The share of the profits go to the farmers in proportion to how much they supply to Tillamook. TCCA is national now (new ice cream plant in Illinois!), and very little of the milk they process comes from members. Value of a TCCA member farm isn't about its own cows. 100