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Social networks are criticized when they carry lies from race-haters and fascists, but the major news orgs do it all the time. It's ridiculous that there are two standards.

This story about Microsoft and nuclear power underscores how big a deal AI is:

If approved by regulators, Three Mile Island would provide Microsoft with the energy equivalent it takes to power 800,000 homes, or 835 megawatts. Never before has a U.S. nuclear plant come back into service after being decommissioned, and never before has all of a single commercial nuclear power plant’s output been allocated to a single customer.

Love it or hate it, AI is not just a new feature, like a revamped Clippy. It’s going to have a profound impact on computing.

Finished watching the WordCamp Q&A from Matt Mullenweg. Very unique this year, largely dedicated to calling out WP Engine as taking more from the WordPress community than they’re giving back, based on Matt’s blog post here. I don’t have strong opinions on this, but it’ll be something to follow.

To my programmer friends, how long would it have taken to answer this question using Google and StackExchange. There was a bug in this one line of code, a call to new Date () in JavaScript, that was behaving as if months were not 0-based, which they are known to be. The problem: I was specifying the day as 0 and month, correctly, but the day had to be 1 in order for it to work and without thinking I had specified it as 0.

The iPhone Pro 16 Max is my first “huge” iPhone. So far I’m liking the size. It’s a little awkward but doesn’t feel too big. I wanted to try this size as a sort of very, very small iPad, for reading and (sometimes) actual work.

Afternoon session outdoors

Special shout-out to the UPS driver who delivered my new iPhone while I was out of town for a day. Not only did they hide the box on our porch, they moved a potted plant in front of it to make it even harder to see.

Frilly’s Seafood Bayou Kitchen, in Denton.

I wrote a bit more on Lee Wittlinger / Silver Lake and WP Engine over on WordPress.org: WP Engine is not WordPress.

Kíla!

Evening session

[Matthew Hutson at Nature] "Beyond the ability to fine-tune open models for focused applications, Kal’tsit says, another advantage of local models is privacy. Sending personally identifiable data to a commercial service could run foul of data-protection regu...

Since I'm about to turn 70 (next May), and because my body is getting old in ways it never has before (of course) -- I've become a more active participant in the health care system. One thing I've learned is it can be hard to get the attention of the doctors. And once you s...

If I were paying more attention – and had planned any part of this trip – I would’ve known that today is the opening day of the exhibition, and that she was there to give a talk about her work. Free admission, too.

Nevermind, today I discovered an artist whose work is right up my Straße, possibly inspiring a new side-project. Bought the exhibition catalogue as eager to dig deeper and learn more.

At Stuttgart Kunstmuseum to see the Sarah Morris exhibition All Systems Fail, and saw actual Sarah Morris. 🤩

Morning session

Wayward Coffee. ☕️

Has anyone attempted to make a higher level language on top of SQL? It's taken me a few iterations over years to finally (I hope) figure out how to design a table to take advantage of the features that evolved into making SQL efficient for the applications people really deploy. If this were machine language, it would be time to start thinking about the HLL that it inspires. Actually long past time imho.

Evening session outdoors