so do we have any idea why DJB just decided to light his professional credibility on fire after he just spent the last couple years absolutely torching his personal credibility? is it just a case of like… once you get the brain worms you’re fucked for life?

small reminder to anyone using LLMs for coding who isn’t a dipshit: there is no free lunch! having the robot generate a bunch of code for you is a very deeply discounted lunch, but you still need to audit that shit and very probably rewrite most of the documentation that it produced.

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betwe than the paragraph but i’m not exactly sure what this is communicating that the timeline isn’t (which maybe means rendering the timeline isn’t worth it)

this worked shockingly well but also left me with a lot more machinery than i was expecting to have in this library…

riffing on rendering options for state machine tests

VOLITION - Do it for the city. Go. SHIVERS - Do it for the wind. LOGIC - Do it for the picture puzzle. Put it all together. Solve the world. One conversation at a time.

ive put dogs in robots before and they never stop sonic, so i thought i would try putting dog girls in robots but wow they were way too into that

cant believe nyc is not only walkable but climbable

Rust gets ‘em all eventually…

I'm halfway through _Designing Data-Intensive Applications 2e_ and am starting the section on weak isolation levels. it's too late to stop now, I'm read committed

mandalore: i've spotted enemy runners exile: im pretty sure that's a rook kreia: ah, and you think a rook is not an enemy? they hide behind the mask of vulnerability, and they collect the tools they need to topple the dominant. bewa- mandalore: i killed them they had nothing kreia: nevertheless

Wow -- one of the climbers atop the Empire State Building appears to have gotten down on one knee and proposed to the other

if you go to Hacker News and read the birthright citizenship comment thread it’s like getting kicked in the head repeatedly by some of the dumbest people making 6 figures + RSUs a year.

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Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

The thing to understand about Philadephia is that Benjamin Franklin playing guitar with his teeth while dancing with the Phanatic is not unusual. It's just as appropriate on a Tuesday in March as it is now. They are like God and St. Peter, the two most famous things in town.

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you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.

i don't think justin will mind if i post something about it

This is an outdoors equipment store (think like REI in the US) in Ghent, Belgium. It's housed in a former *sewing workshop* designed in 1922 by Maurice Fetú. It was restored for 2M€ a decade ago, during which they got rid of the intermediate floors, re-exposing the skylight.

Another reason to use Rust. This sounds flippant or like a joke, and I’m very serious. This is a good reason not to use C++

the phrase i've been using is "all metrics and no goals"

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lol i just realized i can use my tortilla press to make perfect smash burgers…

I CUT OUT LIKE LITERALLY 50K FROM THIS DRAFT HOW THE FUCK DID I END UP OVER THE ORIGINAL WORD COUNT

the correct remedy for the current regulatory environment and frontier model duopoly is to open source a mythos-level model

Forza: Woo! Haha!! Let’s party!! Let’s go fast!! It’s so fun to be young! Gran Turismo: Alongside the grand piano and the espresso machine, the automobile is one of the most sophisticated inventions in human history. Consider yourself lucky to even be on the same planet as cars, you neanderthal.

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

lmfao can’t believe it looks like this is gonna work, i’ve been looking for an excuse to use F* for years. all of these proofs are pure, unadulterated slop but that’s at least tractable. if the rest pans out i’ll post a diff otherwise assume this cryptic bullshit ended in tears.

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workshopping a title for a blog post on how Conway’s Law means that it is de facto impossible to build apolitical solutions /even on a purely technical level/ once an organization grows above a certain size.

This. So much this. We ran a seminar on it back in the day and I maintain with fervor that it is one of the unrecognized classics of the field. Also helped inspire this, which is about 70% of what I think about these days bactra.org/weblog/699.h...

I think we are going to win the war on LLM writing in basically the most painful way: LLM Voice is going to persist and metastasize uninhibited until people organically begin associating it with pro se litigants, sovereign citizens, local Facebook cranks, etc

the answer is one part nintendo & one part GTA 6 apparently damn

the downside of putting together a profiling harness is that i can see how much i’m hamstrung by particular dependency choices. 250 KB overhead per error report sent to Sentry is probably fine but also now that i can see the margin i wanna fork this HTTP library…

Holy mackerel this is insane. LLMs have a strong bias toward *their own* 'writing' to real writing in sorting tasks. iow human submissions automatically drop to the bottom in LLM sorting tasks. Resumes examined here with jaw-dropping results arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00462

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i used to not really understand wifeposting but damn wow i love my wife!

This week, in Talk of the Town, I went to Hex&Co to speak with @isabel.kim about her debut novel, "Sublimation," evil caves, and indie board games that are more fun to read than play:

If I may be allowed to pitch my (familiar) not-quite-omni-cause: I think modern consumerism and “customer is always right” ideology, which have arisen in the post-war world, are genuine sources of pro-authoritarian sentiment.

i need to provision a VPS so i can host a website to publish a very inflammatory post i have yet to finish writing

see this would work because it would be blood in the water for one of the most depraved classes of white collar professional (civil litigators)