Kyer

core infrastructure engineer // synth player for Field Daze in Kansas City

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

And realistically the Gateway Arch shouldn’t really count for this map. Not sure why or how that got classified as a national park

[Dion @2024dion]

this is unironically one of Kansas City's big challenges

distance to the nearest national park

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

@JazHays My daughter is 6 months old and I, for the first time in my adult life, just voluntarily purchased white socks that weren't no-show. I fear the classic dad aesthetic is coming for me sooner than later.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

Democrats: what’s going on with the DSA sweep in New York?

Chuck Schumer: not now kitten, the walls are closing in on daddy

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

I was neutral before, but Fox commentary has turned me into a Messi hater

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

The Telemundo World Cup broadcast clears Fox. Mexico just scored a goal, and the Fox commentators inexplicably sat in silence for like a full minute. Switched over to Telemundo and the guy hadn't even finished shouting ¡Gooooooooooool! yet.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

@JazHays My sometimes both experience: I bought all the tools I needed to change my own oil last year. I get everything ready only to find the drain plug is completely seized. Jiffy Lube might as well have welded it on there. They couldn't get it off either. Had to take it to a mechanic

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

@JazHays Treating higher ed as workforce training also completely misses the point of higher ed. I’m not currently enrolled in a comp sci degree because I feel like I need to learn how to use AI to help me do my work. I’m doing it because I want to learn fundamentals of computer science.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

@PradyuPrasad @tylercowen I hear you, but tbc he’s talking about higher ed, not elementary school. I think that higher ed should look much closer to workforce training, and in the workforce people will be using AI a lot.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

@JazHays The argument to not teach something that will be obsolete Soon ™ has been around long before modern LLMs. The argument is completely short sighted and misses the point of why we teach fundamentals in school. We already have a literacy crisis; we don’t need to make it worse

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

Sirens went off last night and I knew immediately I didn’t have to do anything because I simply looked at the radar and saw the dangerous part of the storm was past me. My first instinct was not to ask Reddit if there’s a tornado.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

Basic weather and radar literacy should be mandatory education for midwesterners. Outdoor warning sirens go off and everyone acts like it’s the first time this has ever happened. Apply your brain and learn about the things that threaten your safety.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

Really annoying thing that happens too often: see a post in some app that makes me want to search the internet for more info, so I switch to my browser app.

When I’m done, I switch back to see the post again. The app refreshes and the thing I saw is gone forever.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

Mamdani is constantly revealing how liberal complacency and capitulation with the capitalist system leaves us with uninspired, unmotivated and ineffective local leaders.

The bar is high for future mayors of cities around the country.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

1,000 World Cup tickets. $50 each. All for New Yorkers.

We fought hard to make the people’s game available to the people — and won.

Let the summer of soccer begin.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

When your party is so popular you have to include half the state in the same district as Kansas City to win

[Mike Kehoe @MikeLKehoe]

The Missouri First Map stands.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

I've seen gas stations stop displaying prices on their signs

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

For decades, UFO disclosure has been a distant object — unidentified and unexplained.

That’s starting to change. I’ll keep pushing until we land on the truth.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

@fox4kc Surely we can do better

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

@fox4kc Surely we can do better

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

One of my strongest-held opinions is computers should be somewhat difficult to use. User-friendliness at all costs ruins technical literacy, independence and curiosity.

[ThioJoe @thiojoe]

I don’t think the Windows run box should be user friendly tbh.

Normies are already getting one-shotted by malicious websites that tell them to run a command that just installs malware.

The design should imply “this box should be rarely used and by nerds only”.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

I’ve never seen a Kansas driver stop before the line at an intersection. They don’t have the technology.

[Kyer @kyerlasswell]

GitHub is a liability for any serious project.

[Kyle Daigle @kdaigle]

Wanted to provide more clarity about this.

Yesterday, we had a regression in merge queue behavior where, in some cases, squash or rebase commits were generated from the wrong base state, making earlier changes appear reverted in branch history. 2,804 pull requests out of over 4M merged on April 23 (roughly 0.07%) were affected. We fixed the issue, we've contacted every impacted customer, and we're expanding our automated test coverage for merge queue operations. The team will be updating the status page with RCA details as well.