Dan Lyke (he/him)
@danlyke
Software developer, woodworker, pedestrian & cyclist, former whitewater guide, urbanism activist. Blogger since 1998, software I've written has touched your life.
Apologies for posting slop, but a coworker was typing at ChatGPT on a topic, and it generated this map, and... the more you compare this to actual maps of The Netherlands, the worse it gets. Imagine a few more years of people ingesting confidently wrong but plausible bullshit like this. Wibble.
Dawn, from 400 stair steps into my morning routine, at the top of the Petaluma Quarry Heights staircase
I'm not sure a still picture can capture the sense of "saunter" that's happening with these geese. They own the space, and they are aware.
Woohoo! Knew that trading my privacy for a browser gamification experience would pay off some day!
Portland has malware on bill boards. This is a redirect to Cody(dot)md, a chatbot that... Uh. Yeah. Don't take medical advice from a chat bot.
I recently learned that the city of Petaluma complained about the guerilla garden at the 5th and H St traffic circle because of the height. This is what real cities do for neighborhood traffic circles.
If we can't see its pupils, does that mean we have no eye deer? (A little concerned that this one is still here this late in the morning.)
So remind me again how many trillions AI is gonna have to generate in revenue to pay off the money already dumped in the shitter?
There is, perhaps, a better way to describe that particular product line. One that doesn't leave me giggling like a third grader...
Oh, dear, Facebook. Offering an LLM summary of a Chuck Tingle post to tell me "Why AI Generated Content Lacks Soul" sure is... a thing. If I still believed that companies needed to provide value in order to thrive I'd suggest you short your Meta stock, but I'm too cynical for that.
Went to Santa Rosa YIMBY this evening, came home with a book. Two or three of you are going "oooh, cool", the rest are like "WTF, Dan? This is geekier than when you're on your computer stuff..."
Wanted a key for the garage door. Ace Hardware wanted $44.something for a key switch. AliExpress wanted $1.09 for an ignition lock.
The vendor, CulinarySolvent.com, says this is a quart of 100% ethanol, so this is roughly 1/3 zest. I've stopped zesting because we lent out our citrus juicer and I need to get it back, and I have too many peeled lemons at this point...
Extremely simple little music player display, in Rust. MacBook Pro M2. The egui library is costing me 8.22ms per update (measured over 1k updates). I'm offended by how inefficient this is. Is there a Rust GUI library that's actually practical, or that does minimal repaint/refreshes?
Repeat of yesterday's picture, now with more sky texture. You should be at North Bay Python. #NBPy
You could be somewhere else, or you could be at North Bay Python this weekend. #NBPy
Got a Nixle alert to avoid Petaluma Boulevard South at Mountain View Ave so of course we had to walk down and see. Not sure how this happened, but I think the wheels side is supposed to stay down
Provident decided to shut down our local hospice supporting thrift store, which sucks, but they're selling stock at 50% off. I got some honest-to-god programmer socks for a buck.
Down to Sausalito for the community garage sale this morning, and we're taking the slow way home. Stopped in Roy's Redwoods, first time we've been there since they refinished the trail revamp. Miss the old sense of wandering through forest but, given the increase in visitors, it's really nice.
The best part about this little bit of irony from this thing that's apparently just reskeeting anything with "AI" in it, and is likely just a bad reselling of someone else's LLM API, is that the link on their home page to their pricing is 404.
I don't remember seeing "international inc" as a superlative to that particular exclamation....
Huh. Don't know how I've missed this "Danger! Do not operate! Man on line." tag dated 12/14/24 on this pole that I've walked past a gazillion times, but I hope dude isn't still up there somewhere, he's gotta be getting thirsty. Also, "man on line", what century are we in again?
Went up to Redwood Hill Farm to cuddle with the baby goats, they have a fantastic view of Mt St Helena.