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amazing how many talks at c3, defcon et al boil down to "we looked at the protocol format and it's as though nobody ever thought to do this before"
December 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
amazing how many talks at c3, defcon et al boil down to "we looked at the protocol format and it's as though nobody ever thought to do this before"
very amused by the LLM email sent to rich hickey. genuinely hard to pick any other programmer whose specific sense of taste is more diametrically opposed to the type of output LLMs tend to produce
if you think claude could have designed clojure I have a bridge construction kit to sell you
if you think claude could have designed clojure I have a bridge construction kit to sell you
December 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
very amused by the LLM email sent to rich hickey. genuinely hard to pick any other programmer whose specific sense of taste is more diametrically opposed to the type of output LLMs tend to produce
if you think claude could have designed clojure I have a bridge construction kit to sell you
if you think claude could have designed clojure I have a bridge construction kit to sell you
excited to see what LLMs' tendency to emit way more code than is necessary, and failure to generalise from examples, will mean for web page download sizes
December 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
excited to see what LLMs' tendency to emit way more code than is necessary, and failure to generalise from examples, will mean for web page download sizes
today I learned: String.fromCharCode() can stack overflow for completely inscrutable reasons that seem completely unrelated to the stack size of *your* program or the size of the input
December 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
today I learned: String.fromCharCode() can stack overflow for completely inscrutable reasons that seem completely unrelated to the stack size of *your* program or the size of the input
this article manages to embed a bunch of unsupportable hype for the technology, frames making it safe as "impossible", and fails to mention the guardian entered a partnership with openai in february www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI
New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face unnerving in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could ‘turn on us’
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
this article manages to embed a bunch of unsupportable hype for the technology, frames making it safe as "impossible", and fails to mention the guardian entered a partnership with openai in february www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
coming round to the position that genAI is just as much a scam as cryptocurrency and NFTs, it's just the pool of marks intersects with more people's professional circles, which amplifies the feeling of social proof
December 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
coming round to the position that genAI is just as much a scam as cryptocurrency and NFTs, it's just the pool of marks intersects with more people's professional circles, which amplifies the feeling of social proof
realised today I'd never actually seen raiders of the lost ark, very surreal experience watching a film you've already seen referenced to death, which is why you thought you'd already seen it
December 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
realised today I'd never actually seen raiders of the lost ark, very surreal experience watching a film you've already seen referenced to death, which is why you thought you'd already seen it
"all hands on the bad one" is a christmas album
December 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"all hands on the bad one" is a christmas album
you will be visited by three spirits
December 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
you will be visited by three spirits
free product idea: tiny tim tams
December 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
free product idea: tiny tim tams
there a lot of valid reasons for a story to reference something else but a couple recent examples have irritated me by using a reference to just straight-up tell you what the thing is going to do or be about: the ricky jay poster in "wake up dead man" and the "left hand of darkness" ref in pluribus
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
there a lot of valid reasons for a story to reference something else but a couple recent examples have irritated me by using a reference to just straight-up tell you what the thing is going to do or be about: the ricky jay poster in "wake up dead man" and the "left hand of darkness" ref in pluribus
pretty sure this is a chapter of ulysses
"The miracle of birth is so incredibly beautiful to behold. Do you know the only thing that could make it better? Percussion. Nothing calms one’s stress and eases the pain of delivering a baby more than a little boy standing nearby absolutely shredding on his drum."
This Woman in Labor Is Gonna Love My Drumming
The miracle of birth is so incredibly beautiful to behold. Do you know the only thing that could make it better? Percussion. Nothing calms one’s st...
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
pretty sure this is a chapter of ulysses
maybe usb4 will be better
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
maybe usb4 will be better
I have just zeroed out the drive from my old pc and all the files are still on it
December 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I have just zeroed out the drive from my old pc and all the files are still on it
update: this has now resulted in one of my partner's xmas gifts being spoiled
there's an infuriating bug in google wallet where if a contactless payment fails and you move you phone around to retry it, it will charge a different card to the one you initially selected
December 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
update: this has now resulted in one of my partner's xmas gifts being spoiled
today in heisenbugs:
- usb drive starts connecting as soon as I start watching dmesg
- office chair stops squeaking as soon as I go to buy wd40
- usb drive starts connecting as soon as I start watching dmesg
- office chair stops squeaking as soon as I go to buy wd40
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
today in heisenbugs:
- usb drive starts connecting as soon as I start watching dmesg
- office chair stops squeaking as soon as I go to buy wd40
- usb drive starts connecting as soon as I start watching dmesg
- office chair stops squeaking as soon as I go to buy wd40
at some point I missed that JS string iteration goes by unicode codepoint so you don't need to deal with surrogate pairs any more
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
at some point I missed that JS string iteration goes by unicode codepoint so you don't need to deal with surrogate pairs any more
played "year walk" via the simogo legacy collection. really enjoyed the general vibe but found some of the necessary inputs somewhat obtuse on a controller. not helped by guides not making sense because a bunch of content was changed or cut from earlier versions it seems
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
played "year walk" via the simogo legacy collection. really enjoyed the general vibe but found some of the necessary inputs somewhat obtuse on a controller. not helped by guides not making sense because a bunch of content was changed or cut from earlier versions it seems
probably could have figured this out on paper first but turns out zeroing out a 2tb disk over usb2 takes a looong time
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
probably could have figured this out on paper first but turns out zeroing out a 2tb disk over usb2 takes a looong time
chrome, it's not a popup if I've explicitly requested that a link be opened in a new tab
December 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
chrome, it's not a popup if I've explicitly requested that a link be opened in a new tab
I can be trusted with the lathe owing to the simple expedient that I never sleep
step away from the lathe
bari weiss you would love running a british newspaper
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I can be trusted with the lathe owing to the simple expedient that I never sleep
bari weiss you would love running a british newspaper
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
bari weiss you would love running a british newspaper
clearing out a bunch of old computers and hard drives at the moment; what does it mean if you plug in an external hard drive and it doesn't show up? not just doesn't mount, but doesn't show up in /dev
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
clearing out a bunch of old computers and hard drives at the moment; what does it mean if you plug in an external hard drive and it doesn't show up? not just doesn't mount, but doesn't show up in /dev
Reposted by deli cheval
a small and pretty fast constant time base64 codec in javascript github.com/escodb/buffe...
github.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
a small and pretty fast constant time base64 codec in javascript github.com/escodb/buffe...