Ben L
@bnej80.bsky.social
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It’s really weird being the same age as old people.
January 21, 2026 at 5:43 PM
It’s really weird being the same age as old people.
Feels like big tech is going hard on taylorism for their knowledge workers.
I'm sure that'll go just as well as maximising SLOC went for IBM.
I personally can think at over 20 thinks per minute. Some of them are about batman though.
I'm sure that'll go just as well as maximising SLOC went for IBM.
I personally can think at over 20 thinks per minute. Some of them are about batman though.
January 16, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Feels like big tech is going hard on taylorism for their knowledge workers.
I'm sure that'll go just as well as maximising SLOC went for IBM.
I personally can think at over 20 thinks per minute. Some of them are about batman though.
I'm sure that'll go just as well as maximising SLOC went for IBM.
I personally can think at over 20 thinks per minute. Some of them are about batman though.
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In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet.
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet.
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
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December 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Such an important piece. Save it. Sums up everything many of us are feeling. I’ve never been as disappointed in Australian media outlets as I am now. Especially the ABC.
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps. Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
theshot.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Such an important piece. Save it. Sums up everything many of us are feeling. I’ve never been as disappointed in Australian media outlets as I am now. Especially the ABC.
I searched google for 650b X 42, which is a tyre size.
It helpfully tells me that's 27.3 kilobytes. I don't think my bike shop will sell me a tyre in that capacity.
Go back to search Google you suck at everything now. No I don't want to turn on Gemini, I would pay you money to take it away.
It helpfully tells me that's 27.3 kilobytes. I don't think my bike shop will sell me a tyre in that capacity.
Go back to search Google you suck at everything now. No I don't want to turn on Gemini, I would pay you money to take it away.
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I searched google for 650b X 42, which is a tyre size.
It helpfully tells me that's 27.3 kilobytes. I don't think my bike shop will sell me a tyre in that capacity.
Go back to search Google you suck at everything now. No I don't want to turn on Gemini, I would pay you money to take it away.
It helpfully tells me that's 27.3 kilobytes. I don't think my bike shop will sell me a tyre in that capacity.
Go back to search Google you suck at everything now. No I don't want to turn on Gemini, I would pay you money to take it away.
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this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“It's ok — Not everyone can be good at math”: Instructors with an entity theory comfort (and demotivate) students
Can comforting struggling students demotivate them and potentially decrease the pool of students pursuing math-related subjects? In Studies 1–3, instr…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Well once again it's good that the internet is decentralised and doesn't have come huge, flare, cloud shaped single point of failure built into everything you use.
Hmmmm.
Hmmmm.
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Well once again it's good that the internet is decentralised and doesn't have come huge, flare, cloud shaped single point of failure built into everything you use.
Hmmmm.
Hmmmm.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
I just had an international delivery turn up, 8 days after it claimed it was delivered, by a different carrier than it said was delivering it, to a different address.
It's lucky that I live there and it's near to where I asked for it to be delivered, and I looked and saw it. Some delivery miracle.
It's lucky that I live there and it's near to where I asked for it to be delivered, and I looked and saw it. Some delivery miracle.
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I just had an international delivery turn up, 8 days after it claimed it was delivered, by a different carrier than it said was delivering it, to a different address.
It's lucky that I live there and it's near to where I asked for it to be delivered, and I looked and saw it. Some delivery miracle.
It's lucky that I live there and it's near to where I asked for it to be delivered, and I looked and saw it. Some delivery miracle.
I thought I was the only one getting so pissed off with Windows that I don't want to use it any more.
But apparently not, lots of people are dipping their toe into running Linux.
Used to be something to worry about only when you bought a PC but now MS wants you to pay for software monthly.
But apparently not, lots of people are dipping their toe into running Linux.
Used to be something to worry about only when you bought a PC but now MS wants you to pay for software monthly.
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I thought I was the only one getting so pissed off with Windows that I don't want to use it any more.
But apparently not, lots of people are dipping their toe into running Linux.
Used to be something to worry about only when you bought a PC but now MS wants you to pay for software monthly.
But apparently not, lots of people are dipping their toe into running Linux.
Used to be something to worry about only when you bought a PC but now MS wants you to pay for software monthly.
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I just love how AI is constantly doing things that would get real employees fired, and people keep using it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I just love how AI is constantly doing things that would get real employees fired, and people keep using it.
Microsoft genuinely believes they can make you pay for additional ms office licenses for the robots that they also will sell you to use
That is why they are pushing copilot so hard, they see a future where you pay them for their software to use their other software.
I don't reckon it'll happen.
That is why they are pushing copilot so hard, they see a future where you pay them for their software to use their other software.
I don't reckon it'll happen.
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Microsoft genuinely believes they can make you pay for additional ms office licenses for the robots that they also will sell you to use
That is why they are pushing copilot so hard, they see a future where you pay them for their software to use their other software.
I don't reckon it'll happen.
That is why they are pushing copilot so hard, they see a future where you pay them for their software to use their other software.
I don't reckon it'll happen.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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Truly a time of unprecedented abundance, so long as one does not need a...<checks notes>....place to live in.
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Truly a time of unprecedented abundance, so long as one does not need a...<checks notes>....place to live in.
“not getting into pointless arguments on the internet is an act of revolution”
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
“not getting into pointless arguments on the internet is an act of revolution”
I was wondering if someone would have already discussed the concepts in No Silver Bullet vs AI development, of course they have.
For fans, the distinction between essential and accidental complexity is key, and software living mostly in maintenance not build.
ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silv...
For fans, the distinction between essential and accidental complexity is key, and software living mostly in maintenance not build.
ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silv...
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I was wondering if someone would have already discussed the concepts in No Silver Bullet vs AI development, of course they have.
For fans, the distinction between essential and accidental complexity is key, and software living mostly in maintenance not build.
ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silv...
For fans, the distinction between essential and accidental complexity is key, and software living mostly in maintenance not build.
ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silv...
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As a software architect, psychology is one of my super powers for this reason. We live in a world where the people building some of the most influential tools of thought are the very same people who refuse to acknowledge the difficulty of the problem or hold the human mind in sufficient reverence
As a psychologist, it's a really, really, really interesting and maddening set of problems here. Software development really exposes for me how we think about people's minds, even though it's an industry that likes to pretend it isn't thinking about people's minds at all.
But it really is.
But it really is.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As a software architect, psychology is one of my super powers for this reason. We live in a world where the people building some of the most influential tools of thought are the very same people who refuse to acknowledge the difficulty of the problem or hold the human mind in sufficient reverence
There are two kinds of software - the kind everyone hates, and the kind no-one uses.
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
There are two kinds of software - the kind everyone hates, and the kind no-one uses.
Finished rustlings.
Rust is such an opinionated language.
It's like a type checker and the most opinionated developer you know implemented as a compiler.
Rust is such an opinionated language.
It's like a type checker and the most opinionated developer you know implemented as a compiler.
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Finished rustlings.
Rust is such an opinionated language.
It's like a type checker and the most opinionated developer you know implemented as a compiler.
Rust is such an opinionated language.
It's like a type checker and the most opinionated developer you know implemented as a compiler.
LocalSend is so good. Your devices should always be able to talk like that if it's on your network!
And it's so quick when you don't have to shuffle stuff onto an internet service!
Anyway RMS was right all along.
And it's so quick when you don't have to shuffle stuff onto an internet service!
Anyway RMS was right all along.
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
LocalSend is so good. Your devices should always be able to talk like that if it's on your network!
And it's so quick when you don't have to shuffle stuff onto an internet service!
Anyway RMS was right all along.
And it's so quick when you don't have to shuffle stuff onto an internet service!
Anyway RMS was right all along.
Now realising I have gigabytes of photos in Google photos and I don't like it. 🥲
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Now realising I have gigabytes of photos in Google photos and I don't like it. 🥲
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my algorithm don't
my algorithm don't
my algorithm don't want none unless you got O(log n)
my algorithm don't
my algorithm don't want none unless you got O(log n)
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
my algorithm don't
my algorithm don't
my algorithm don't want none unless you got O(log n)
my algorithm don't
my algorithm don't want none unless you got O(log n)
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The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
disconnect.blog
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.