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It’s always about 15 minutes into a home improvement project when I start asking “why do I do this to myself”

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My basement has been Corrected. Meaning it no longer takes on water in the spring months. Meaning it is now an optimal space for a sever rack. Or more likely, a pool table.

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@manton Good stuff! Looking forward to it.

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@manton I worked on some of that while at Oracle Health. I’m extremely conservative with my use of AI, but I thought this was one area where it made sense.

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Home office upgrade

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I know I’ve been posting about this a bit too much, but it is crazy how much exercising has become a big part of my life over the past two months. Call it the Garmin Effect.

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I’ve been too busy IRL to post my thoughts about things online. Nature is healing, etc.

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Another week ahead… anyway here is a sleepy guinea pig.

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Everyone shut up. New Down the Rabbit Hole.

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I’m getting better! Still amateur numbers of course, but just a few months ago my average power output was 90W. My VO2 max score finally improved today, also. I love busting my ass on da bike. Love da bike.

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I keep thinking that focusing on exercise and health is burning all of my time, but that’s not true. Working in an office is burning all of my time.

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In Missouri, it’s expected that you step out onto your porch when the tornado gets near. You’ll see all of your neighbors doing the same thing. All for the love of the game.*

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*not sure what the game is

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Not a fan of this

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“We need more software faster! We have to keep up with the OTHER garbage-producing corporation!”

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No, you don’t. You’re not in a race to the top anymore. You’re wandering around in a landfill looking for gold.

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Gonna put this out there for all the AI software developer folks: shipping more features faster doesn’t matter, and it never will. Taking the time to understand the user and shipping one rock-solid feature will always win against a deluge of random bullshit. Reject Temu-software mentality.

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Do not throw away your youth as you age. Improve upon it.

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Perhaps we are entering the world of Johnny Mnemonic.

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I also dislike that Anthropic is keeping that tool limited and away from the public. Only a hand-full of corpos and gov agencies get it? Fuck off. Release it to the public and let the software world get destroyed. The sooner it happens the sooner we can be rebuild it.

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The latest anthropic security whatever/thing is interesting. But we have always known that the OpenBSD folks were right.

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Slack is a platform where millennials attempt to communicate exclusively with GIFs. Anything productive or work-related as a result of these communications is an unintended byproduct.

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I need to work more high interval biking sessions into my week. So far I’ve been doing longer rides and it may be holding me back.

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Leg day

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Things are picking up this year. This is probably the most active I’ve been since 2019.

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I went rucking today for the first time. I used a 45lb pack weight, and good lord…. It sounds easy, but it is NOT.

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I purchased my niece a MacBook Air for her birthday, and it is pretty crazy how much power you get for the money today. $1,500 in 2011 would get you like 8 gigs of ram and some low voltage intel chip. Now it gets you 24 gigs of ram and a CPU you won’t have to think about until the machine dies.

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This Garmin Neo bike is turning me into a new man

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@gregmorris How can you state this so confidently?

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@bryan They will start listing crawl spaces next 🤣

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@manton I really don’t like the idea that we have to deal with statistically generated words from a hypothetical mind on the internet like this. It’s meaningless, and will cause mental burnout for people who don’t know any better. We have invented an alien who has no intention.

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@help suggestion for dark-mode icon on macOS :)

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@help cross posts to Tumblr can’t be modified after the fact in the Tumblr app. I assume it’s because MB is sending the post to Tumblr in a legacy format?

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@manton I’m envious of your domain collection, honestly. I own a few I am proud of but nothing as concise as the stuff you manage to get.

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@manton When you have time tomorrow, I am having a hard time bootstrapping my new blog here. SSL handshake error on custom domain. All the DNS records are set up correctly.

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