@benjohnson

Staff Engineer at Prodigy Education. Options my own (and without quality guarantees). Mastodon: @benjohnson@hachyderm.io

 Oakville, Canada
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Joined April 2008
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It’s amazing how fast we’ve gone from “ugh, AI is going to destroy the world” to “ugh, I can’t believe there isn’t an AI that can just do this”.
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The kid: “I’m daring. I’m not afraid of anything. Except cheese strings.”
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For full effect, it helps to read this interview with the Reddit CEO in the voice of Justin Hammer from Iron Man 2. What a terrible communicator. theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762…

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview

“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.”

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You could solve a lot of problems in Star Trek by making the doors manual.
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For the last few years I’ve been crossposting to Twitter (and Mastodon, etc) via micro.blog. But, because of the new Twitter API limits, this will no longer be possible. Will have to decide if I’m willing to keep Twitter.
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Star Trek: Resurgence is a must-play for any Star Trek people. The format fits Star Trek perfectly. A great old-fashioned story. 5/5 would play again. startrek-resurgence.com

STAR TREK: RESURGENCE

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This is the first Apple keynote in more than a decade that I just totally forgot was happening. Can’t tell if that’s because I’m so busy right now or if I’m not excited by the headset. Maybe they finally improved the SwiftUI docs.
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It’s 30 degrees outside and it’s currently hailing. This is totally normal. Everything is fine. There’s no way climate change is a problem. Right?
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A book club where you buy books but you don’t have to read them.
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Remaking Iron Man: benjohnson.ca/2023/05/22/rem…

Remaking Iron Man

My 7-year-old recently watched the first Iron Man movie and part of the 2nd. Afterwards, he was inspired to...

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My 7-year-old is trying to convince us that the only way it’s fair for him to take a COVID test is if his two non-symptomatic parents also have to take a COVID test.
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"“All Perils combines Collision and Comprehensive coverage. With All Perils you will be covered if someone living in your household steals your vehicle.”" That seems… very specific.
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On April 15th I pulled a yogurt out of the fridge. The Best Before date says “MA 18”. Is that March? Is it May? Could we really not shell out for one extra character?
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It named it: “The Calendar Crush Incident”. cdn.uploads.micro.blog/678/2…
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Someone needs to sell placebo kids medicine.
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There’s no way this can go wrong.
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The 7-year-old apropos of nothing: “Who would win in a battle? Moses or Jesus?” Let the Passover and Easter celebrations begin!
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The Beaverton nails it. thebeaverton.com/2023/03/fug…

Fugitive Trump’s attempt to flee to Mexico thwarted by big wall

EL PASO - Recently indicted steak salesman Donald J Trump attempted to flee to Mexico early this evening in order to escape charges awaiting him in NYC, but found it impossible to make it to the...

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“Sorry kiddo, but over the summer I have to work.“ “That’s ok, we can go on vacation and you can go boop boop boop on your computer while we’re there.”
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I wish Intuit would use some of that enormous lobbying budget to get a law in place where all the banks need to provide an API.
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