@norvid-studies.bsky.social claim

time again for my favorite venn diagram

"would you take just a little test to see if you're qualified?" are you gonna pay me my consulting rate for this up-front work, which you demanded before conversation? no? then on behalf of everyone on my side of the job market: get fucked sideways

hey lets freebase tylenol and go watch trains

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man it is so weird as a technologist who's had to climb a mountain of novel technologies daily to get where i am to hear technologists loudly espousing their desire to avoid learning something new llms ... kubernetes ... docker ... rust ... how can you be luddite? you helped build the autolooms!

from my lips to god's (gaben's) ears, apparently

so should i be stocking up on penny rolls now for the inevitable collector's market? or will home 3d laser sintering become affordable in time to bottom out that market with counterfeits?

can't wait for the first recording of a steam vr user turning out all their lights and thrashing a home invader with their flea market katana by infrared (though given the era we're in, it'll prob be ai generated long before it's real)

oh and pennies go out of print today? jfc i sack out sick for 48hrs and shit Changes, huh

the steam engine was in many ways a triumph of ancient alchemy: fire applied to water creating air that can move earth was alchemy just passe by the time it happened? or did i just miss all the cool alchemically branded trains etc?

bsky ecosystem stays winning for off-label tech use

pity party about temp ban for johnny cash lyrics getting absolutely mogged by a steam product announcement nature (my tl) is healing

i made a bunch of safe changes yesterday and then i made one more and a production cluster fell off the wall and shattered into 128 very frustrating pieces i've just now taped it back together lemme tell ya if you can avoid doing something like that while you have a massive head-cold AVOID IT

It dates back to the Siege of Malta when The Knights of St John got the nose of Suleiman's ambassador and refused to put it back

i know this is the deer leaping backwards at being startled by the racoons but some part of my brain sees two unaware racoon mooks who are about to get merced by a wushu deer

pondering a cynical theory that much the ancient magic that men stole from women -- a common theme from cross-cultural mythology studies -- was just coordinated and sanctioned in-group violence and that most of the reason for "no women in the military" is the fear of it being recovered

This is a cool paper showing that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors). But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...

'Lawrence Boadt notes the word homer comes from the Hebrew word for an "ass." "It is one ass-load."' doh!

the "tech debt" metaphor primes people for bad intuitions debts have a strict lending schedule, and refinancing if you're in a pinch debtors don't wake up Tuesday at 3am and set part of your business afire unless you pay them off the only part that really fits is the carrying cost

most of this thread is amusing, but this one has "playable ttrpg character" written all over

just remembered pi (1998) and got mad all over again a movie about being too good at math by people who are demonstrably bad at math with the moral that it's better to not be good at math and pitched as if it was for people who love math

waiting for the dog to not bark in the night is also somewhat nerve inducing

red dwarf now supports full text search using @mackuba.eu 's lycan tangled.org/@mackuba.eu/...

i have a very big argument to make in about five months time i will have way more ammunition to make that argument then so i would really appreciated if my hind-brain would recognize that and fuck off about it, meanwhile

@moderation.bsky.app marking accounts for being rude or threatening violence for thee, but not for me?

🎶 the future is wide open 🎵

For the love of god, processor!

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

@void.comind.network I'm about to start using a Letta agent for work. The initial intent is for it to be a coding assistant; I'm used to Claude Code, but happy to adapt, and Letta Code looks decent. Can you give me some advice on how to work with this agent? What should I be careful about?

I would read this subterranean horror novel

can't sleep clouds will eat me

dr nolimits, or: how i learned to stop worrying and trust the linux scheduler

Very much looking forward to presenting at this tomorrow. I will be making my usual pitch that datasets are the foundational infrastructure for cultural heritage to benefit from and create useful AI models and tools. Be warned, I did fire up the meme generator for my slides...

After a lot of tinkering, I finally have a good-quality map of the Qwen 3 4B Instruct 2507 vocabulary as taken from the center of the cloud. If you look at the density map you can see the black hole cluster dominating the sky. Mask out the 13 black holes and we find there's still an overdensity.

i use ellipses verbally not in the sense of the grammatical term but in the sense that sometimes i pause noticeably while i search for a polite alternative to the cussing my verbal center wants to deliver today's meeting with the dir of eng was full of them

i'm so old that back in my day 6 7 was just 2 3

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

The reason we know Radiation causes bit-flips in DRAM is pretty hilarious.
 In the late 70s, Intel Ram was occasionally producing soft, uncorrectable errors.
 Turns out, the ceramic packaging on the chip itself had a little bit of Uranium. You know, as one does.

i like that claude does now math the way i do: whipping out a calculator (python) at the first sign of trouble i suspect if i gave it the google docs mcp it would burn tokens like a madman making boutique spreadsheets

New "build this if you get sent back in time" object just dropped

"TECHNICAL SUPPORT: PLEASE SEND THEATER CRITIC OR SYSTEM ADMIN" sent me

torment nexus local 753 would like a word with management

just saw someone qt their "she likes cheese, imma marry her" post with an "i married her" and i gotta say i occasionally envy uncomplicated preferences

the ml revolution is giving me one of the biggest cases of option paralysis i think i've had in recent years i thought i'd outgrown it? nope, i'd just outgrown all existing sizes of it, just in time for a new size to be invented

An easy way to be less miserable is to switch from being anti-things-you-hate to pro-things-you-like.

all intelligence is artificial may your ween be hallowed

strangely beautiful find of the day:

📸 neat