Declining an award because we think someone else deserves it is different from transferring the award after accepting it. The former demonstrates candor, humility, and respect. The latter demonstrates deceit and disrespect.

"His & Hers" is a continuously twisting and twisted TV entertainer after a long time. Highly recommended! www.imdb.com/title/tt3303... #tv #shows #thriller

🤯 awesome! #green #technology #photography #solar #wind e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Today, a friend demoed a web-based product that he and his dev built in two months. They used #ClaudeCode for development/testing, and #GitHub and #Render (instead of #Azure and #AWS) for CI/CD. The demo was slick for four man-month of efforts. A good example of the use of LLM tools. 👏

While the post provides some interesting historical bits about software security, the comical jabs in these bits is pure gold 🤣 #software #security #technology #satire ssg.dev/from-passwor...

It is common in the #cricket world for teams to boycott events or have their matches moved in the face of tensions between countries, e.g., moving Bangladesh's matches out of India in the upcoming T20 world cup. Could it happen in the upcoming #soccer world cup? www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/near...

While we can pontificate "will these possibilities come to be?", the fact that we are discussing these possibilities should be concerning 🚩

👏👏 Indonesia 👏👏 Can India, UK, France, Malaysia, and others please follow suit?

Slapping article about the X app still being available on Apple and Google app stores. Given how stringent Apple app store was to Google, Meta, and others for not being transparent about app permissions, I wonder why the delay (from both) this time. #technology #safety #accountability

Luckey also pointed to younger people who are nostalgic for time periods that they don’t even remember or have any personal connection to. “Why do they think it’s good? ... It’s because they’re recognizing that it is literally better, some of this old stuff.” techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/a...

Why create such gadgets? 🤦‍♂️ #technology #WTF techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/t...

Like India, France, and Malaysia, let's hope more governments will take action against unsafe use of Grok and similar technologies. Having reasonable and effective guardrails to ensure safe use of LLMs will help both users and the development of LLMs. techcrunch.com/2026/01/04/f... #LLM #safety

#LLM related posts by management folks suggest that they have forgotten the basics such as 1. #productivity != gains, 2. #specifications are hard to get right, 3. English (natural language) is less precise than #programming #languages, and 4. gains are unrealized due to chasing wrong goals.

In the context of #LLM #productivity discussions, I wish folks realize "increased productivity != useful gains", e.g., a nail gun cannot help a lot in nailing 10 nails (scale) or with screws (relevance) or in tight spaces (context). 1/2

India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over ‘obscene’ AI content. Nice!! techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/i... #AI #technology #safety #privacy

Hey @washingtonpost.com, is there an option for readers to not receive reports/opinions from certain writers (whose writing and critical thinking abilities are worse than that of a middle schooler)? If not, please add it or do better editing or get better writers. 1/2 CC @postopinions.bsky.social

`A letter of intent is a “concept of a plan.”` Where have I heard this? 🤣 An interesting viewpoint about current "AI" landscape.

For fun, I solved #adventofcode 2022 problems using #clojure. And, I had loads of fun :D I enjoyed the compactness of the language and its library. github.com/rvprasad/adv... #programming #language

For #adventofcode 2025 problems, I cycled through #crystallang, #elixir, #Rust, and #Scala -- each problem in two languages. Looking back, I enjoyed working with Elixir (followed by Scala). I think the pipe operator was a big factor as it simplifies data processing. github.com/rvprasad/adv...

ORM (SqlAlchemy) adds ~20% overhead for Postgresql; 200% for in-memory Sqlite. An id column that is a primary key adds ~10% performance overhead in Sqlite and Postgresql. Maybe, there is room for lighter solutions that enable (type-)safe #database access. gist.github.com/rvprasad/d42...

"Legacy data centers cannot bear the weight of the latest #AI technology. The racks that house computer chips or AI chips are simply too damn heavy for the floors, and they would crack under the weight." #technology #physics www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

From now until the end of the year, you can get Logic for Programmers $10 off! Use the code `hannukah-presents` or just click this link: leanpub.com/logic/c/hann...

As I cycle through languages in #adventofcode, I am finding that #rust code is noisy/ceremonious & overwhelming compared to the same solution coded in #scala, #elixir, & #crystal. Maybe, rust's "ceremonies" are not suited for #AoC kind/size problems. Or, I don't get the "rust" way of #programming.

Lessons learned from the Rust Vision Doc process https://lobste.rs/s/5dp8ox ##rust

Jepsen and Antithesis worked together to write a glossary for anyone building, testing, and operating distributed systems. It covers the basics of concurrency, consistency models and phenomena, faults, and some testing approaches: https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/ […]

The MoreVMs workshop has two submission deadlines this time: Pre-Holiday: 17 December 2025 Post-Holiday: 12 January 2026 We know, nothing happens without a deadline.⌛️💣 So, there you go. You made me do it! 🤣😅 😇 Anyway, pick one and submit! 🧑‍🔬🧪✍️📜 2026.programming-conference.org/home/MoreVMs...

Some of the anecdotes seem downright ridiculous and almost untrue. #AI #human #behavior

I plan to cycle through #Crystal, #Elixir, #Rust, and #Scala for #adventofcode 2025🎄 If time permits, I will try to solve a problem in two languages 😅 This year, I am not using Clojure as solving 2022 AoC problems with #Clojure has been too much fun 😃

ICLR started with the open peer review process: (IIRC) reviews were open but reviewer names were hidden. So, the commotion about the leaking of author and reviewer info for ICLR is funny. I think a fully open/transparent review process would be simpler, more effective, and probably more efficient.

Inlined types and runtime checking are nice. I wonder how typing with LowType compares to typing with Sorbet; specifically, in terms of developer experience.

What's with spam from myatproto.social #bluesky accounts? #bsky

Time to stock them shelves 📕 #ebooks #software #technology

🤦 Executives wouldn't need to ask such questions if they developed solutions that addressed customer issues in customer's context. For example, enabling zero-friction support for calls in Teams vs enabling co-pilot in Teams. #technology

The obstacles, the shit, are the clearest sign you are onto something: randsinrepose.com/archives/the...

Days like today remind me of the Internet from the 2000s when companies hosted their own servers and such wide-scale outages were rare. That said, the frequency of DDoS attacks and the dependence on the Internet were both relatively low back then as well.

Lots of reasons to love using Clojure, but Netflix reminded us of why we don’t want to use anything else… In 12 years, over 7 different versions of Clojure (from 1.5.1 to 1.12.0) they had zero migrations! I don’t know how to express how amazing that is

Not reporting security bugs can harm users. That said, if companies care about the users of an app, then they could fund fixing these bugs, fix the bugs (using AI used to find the bug), or provide an alternative app. Interesting clash b/w ML-based #security & #OSS. thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...

"...[AI] cannot abolish the connection between cost, value and customer need. Lasting value comes from providing genuine benefits to people. The question now is whether AI’s real productivity gains will ultimately justify today’s valuations, as the internet, after a painful correction"

Interesting development in EU in the context of privacy and AI. #privacy #AI #security noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...

Will iRobot/Roomba be the first(?) case study of "what if the company behind your cloud-based consumer product disappears?" #technology #consumer #product #cloud

I think reproducible proof of vulnerability should be a basic requirement for vulnerability reports. Wherever possible, require an executable proof along with descriptive proof. #security

Schrodinger's sandwich, a real world phenomenon and not a thought experiment 😜 🤦 Can we please get back to things that matter?

If Hollywood ever spoofs the #movie "A Few Good Men", these closing remarks (see the next post in the thread) should be in it 🤣🤣

This evening was fun 🎉🥳 Missed it a year ago 😐 Looking forward to it again in 26, 28, 30, .... 😃

A story about how social media played a critical role in the recent revolution in Nepal. Also, a story about old guard vs new ways. Social media enabled transparency and anonymity, which is useful and tricky. Great presentation 👏👏 @wired.com www.wired.com/story/nepal-...

How will #AI coding agent companies improve their agents if/when 1) every relevant #oss project switches to some form of closed source (e.g., authorized access to source) and 2) companies heavily rely on "AI" coding agents to write code? darmstadt.social/@claudius/11... #coding #agents #software

I miss speakers who would speak fluently (albeit slowly) without heavily leaning on fillers like "you know", "and stuff", "okay", etc. Using pauses while speaking seems to be a lost art (as is waiting one's turn to respond).

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

"We would expect people who are AI literate to not only be a bit better at interacting with AI systems, but also at judging their performance with those systems,” Welsch added, “but this was not the case.” 🤦🤦🤦 futurism.com/artificial-i...

Is such a business model legal when we consider how ownership and IP laws apply to in-house processes and practices? techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/h... #business #laws