They’ve lost Bloomberg radio — which has been noticeably neutral-positive on Trump until recently. But guest just called Trump part of “global pedo ring” w/out qualification, said MAGA is split over VZ aggression, and quipped that Santa might not be allowed in American airspace as non-citizen.

Some strange irony that Trump is of and was given power by the Boomer generation, only to see him usurp their prince.

PR captchas LLM-driven reverse Turing test as a captcha?! There’s a lot to unpack here!

Whenever I have to describe infra problems to people who don’t deal with infra, I imagine their internal monologue is like “why don’t you just … not” And, y’know, WHY DONT WE JUST NOT, INDEED?!

LLM challenge: translate the aws cli from python to rust and pass all tests.

amazing. odds are, someone, somewhere is keeping an old scientific instrument alive using this thing.

Building a monorepo-ish setup recently, I was wondering how to manage package updates which need to be referenced by hash in subsequent IaC commits… then realized that merge commits cleanly solve this... I tend to prefer linear history, but this is a compelling reason to avoid rebase merges.

C with the dubious honor of having both flaws at once

The LLM knows truth at all times. It knows truth by knowing what is not-truth. By subtracting truth from what is not truth, or subtracting not-truth from truth, it obtains a deviation (derivative). The guidance system uses derivatives to drive the output from what is not true to what is true.

They donned Gumby suits

The import tariffs are paid by the recipient upon delivery... Any recipient. That does seem to present a Rather Unique educational opportunity.

Slack and Notion are attractive nuisances from an organizational perspective.

Milestones in life of an open source project: - 1st star - 1st issue - 1st feature request - 1st PR - 1st ban - 1st outside committer - 1st request for ARM support - 1st job listing - 1st request for windows support - IBM ports your stuff to SPARC - … - macports people (😇) ask for 68k support

A new episode of Signals and Threads just dropped! This one is an interview with Chris Lattner talking about Mojo, a new-ish language for GPU programming that's aiming to be an alternative to the CUDA stack. signalsandthreads.com/why-ml-needs...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body

i choose to believe the Qwen people trained this behavior in specifically to troll Simon.

Tangential, but still in awe of the immaculate timing of StackOverflow’s exit.

Speak for yourself, man

This is a good point, and matches the most utility I’ve gotten out of LLMs so far: I know the shape of a thing, often a test or bug reproduction, but not all APIs/nuance. LLM gets 95% of way there. But: it’s also going to make some of the problems with scientific coding worse, at least for a while.

In case this helps anyone who is cold-applying to roles: I weight LinkedIn *much* heavier than I did a year ago when reviewing candidates, because of the huge increase in fake candidates. Especially social interactions: comments and congratulations, endorsements (both received and given), etc.

At previous, long-lived open source project I worked on (www.slicer.org), git-svn let us get enough buy-in to transition to git at least five years earlier than we would’ve otherwise done. Full dev support on Windows was critical. Thanks to everyone who kept it going in git-for-win all these years!

Clever Hans Institute for Psychometrics

One more reason not to put memes in your conference slides: if putting memes in remains normalized, one day you're gonna start seeing gen-α memes in conferences and be completely lost. The only way to prevent this is to demilitarize now. Stop using memes in slideshows

> Compatibility with versions of CMake older than 3.5 has been removed. Good, good! > Precompiled SunOS sparc64 and x86_64 binaries are now provided on cmake.org. Wait, what?!

LLM, document thyself

Takes a special kind of mismanagement to kill a verb brand.

Let’s make usable threads. Also no DMs by construction, lfg yes 🙌

The tooling we need to make the most out of LLMs (barring improbable “AGI”) is tooling we’ve only built and used in fits and starts for tiny pockets of the industry. Modeling (and model-checking) tools especially: module boundaries, data flow, visual programming, and more.

R tooling is also getting carcinized now?!

Just tried cerebras inference w/ llama 70b …. Holy smokes it’s fast 🤯

Wolfram rn

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use Apache Arrow.” Now they have two problems, and a giant polyglot monorepo.

Look, for most of us who started out in cube farms and then went straight to open-plan, this is the closest we’ll ever get to a private office with a door!

Convinced that Dave’s Hot Chicken is a complex scheme to launder money through the cucumber industry.

why is terraform

This phone call could have been a text.

Strong signal that bsky has reached escape velocity from computerdom: searching for “nix” returns a boatload of recent results for the Denver Bronco qb, and approximately none for the language/package manager/religion.

The Vale author is now at Modular - and apparently implementing linear types in Mojo, initially under a feature flag. I have some doubts about Mojo’s viability (and some aesthetic gripes). But this will certainly make it _interesting_. Good talk from LLVM dev meeting: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipuv...

Watching London NYE fireworks on the BBC with the kids* and it is a surprisingly great show! No drunken presenters, just a giant fireworks display with some good music. Very pleasant. * who will not, we hope, be awake in 5 hours here!

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Cloud engineer: S3 rate limit

@microsoft.com still can’t help it with browser shenanigans 🧹🗑️

choose your fighter

Great news for all the poor saps (👋) who’ve scoured the multipart upload docs looking for One Weird Trick to do quasi-appendable writes by never finalizing 😂

System 🐍 is not your snake. Stay away.

I was confused by this stat because recruitment equity was definitely a grant factor in neuroimaging ~20 years ago, and total acquisitions have grown dramatically since then. The stat this may be referring to is slightly different—though no less concerning: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wishcasting (again): I wish @github.com had scheduled comments in order to leave PR questions during weekly review without spamming people on the weekend.

“Infrastructure as Shell Code” doesn’t have the same ring to it

I finally kicked the bird app habit a couple months ago, which has been great for many reasons (focused reading on bus rides etc.). So I am very conflicted about the fact that this place is now vv interesting! (At least with #atproto it seems feasible to make a filtered feed or summary agent 🙏)

Monitor and keyboard at home and work… I wonder how well this puppy would stand up to a backpack ride-along for a run a couple times a week.