skyking
@jkachmar.com
sounding rockets & bad computer programming
formerly Groq, Soostone, NASA Wallops, among others
formerly Groq, Soostone, NASA Wallops, among others
im like the usul of crashing out
im like the lisan al gaib of cybersecurity
January 8, 2026 at 6:57 AM
im like the usul of crashing out
it’s bullshit that the EditLens paper links to a GH repo that’s just a “Coming Soon!” README though
January 8, 2026 at 6:45 AM
it’s bullshit that the EditLens paper links to a GH repo that’s just a “Coming Soon!” README though
full disclosure i know one of the founders; even if i were to be maximally uncharitable i don’t think Max would hawk a bullshit product
January 8, 2026 at 6:41 AM
full disclosure i know one of the founders; even if i were to be maximally uncharitable i don’t think Max would hawk a bullshit product
their EditLens paper is pretty good arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154
EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Text
A significant proportion of queries to large language models ask them to edit user-provided text, rather than generate new text from scratch. While previous work focuses on detecting fully AI-generate...
arxiv.org
January 8, 2026 at 6:39 AM
their EditLens paper is pretty good arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154
it cannot work with 100% accuracy but it can definitely work as a heuristic with increasing confidence as the input text gets longer.
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 AM
it cannot work with 100% accuracy but it can definitely work as a heuristic with increasing confidence as the input text gets longer.
why does he look like you could cast him as the Red Skull
January 8, 2026 at 5:14 AM
why does he look like you could cast him as the Red Skull
honestly whoever‘s running this account is doing a great job capturing the voice
Ideas like a non-partisan military and the rule of law become quaint anachronisms when citizens endure daily sieges: DMV clerks wielding forms like cudgels, retirees crawling ten under in the left lane, self-checkout ambushes, abandoned shopping carts strewn about Kroger parking lots like mines.
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 AM
honestly whoever‘s running this account is doing a great job capturing the voice
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January 8, 2026 at 2:29 AM
This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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I am just so stupendously angry. I didn't know it could burn like this. The incandescence of my hate, like bile in my throat.
January 7, 2026 at 11:13 PM
I am just so stupendously angry. I didn't know it could burn like this. The incandescence of my hate, like bile in my throat.
yea! entirely plausible that somewhere in the vast corpus of all things we will one day find the eigenferris that will just whip out AAA Rust code
January 7, 2026 at 9:56 PM
yea! entirely plausible that somewhere in the vast corpus of all things we will one day find the eigenferris that will just whip out AAA Rust code
my somewhat controversial position is that at best we will get models with the tendency to recommend more defensive patterns in the style of shellcheck or clippy, but i think it’s impossible to mechanize “defensive programming” without becoming a PL sicko which is a totally different ballgame.
January 7, 2026 at 9:50 PM
my somewhat controversial position is that at best we will get models with the tendency to recommend more defensive patterns in the style of shellcheck or clippy, but i think it’s impossible to mechanize “defensive programming” without becoming a PL sicko which is a totally different ballgame.
my biggest complaint tbqh is that there seems to be a tendency among heavy users to stop critically reviewing the code Claude produces which means papercuts compound heavily over multiple turns.
some of this is a problem of taste obviously but after enough time it starts to obscure bugs.
some of this is a problem of taste obviously but after enough time it starts to obscure bugs.
January 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM
my biggest complaint tbqh is that there seems to be a tendency among heavy users to stop critically reviewing the code Claude produces which means papercuts compound heavily over multiple turns.
some of this is a problem of taste obviously but after enough time it starts to obscure bugs.
some of this is a problem of taste obviously but after enough time it starts to obscure bugs.
i would never swear at my machine but i would absolutely use code comments as a medium to swear at myself
January 7, 2026 at 7:27 PM
i would never swear at my machine but i would absolutely use code comments as a medium to swear at myself
there is a negative externality to removing certain forms of social friction and you would think that this would not be a controversial statement in the present moment!
January 7, 2026 at 5:06 PM
there is a negative externality to removing certain forms of social friction and you would think that this would not be a controversial statement in the present moment!
CachyOS & Bazzite are the leading options right now, NixOS seems like it’d be a little fiddly for video james
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 AM
CachyOS & Bazzite are the leading options right now, NixOS seems like it’d be a little fiddly for video james
okay folks what Linus Torvalds Brand Genuine Bonafide Operating System Distribution do i install on this thing
January 7, 2026 at 6:18 AM
okay folks what Linus Torvalds Brand Genuine Bonafide Operating System Distribution do i install on this thing
”if it makes you feel better i’m pretty sure fujoshis have what you might call a noble savage view of men”
- @isabel.kim
- @isabel.kim
January 7, 2026 at 6:12 AM
”if it makes you feel better i’m pretty sure fujoshis have what you might call a noble savage view of men”
- @isabel.kim
- @isabel.kim
it’s fucked up how much this was just “2017 but way worse” and how i just wasn’t prepared for that at all
January 7, 2026 at 5:58 AM
it’s fucked up how much this was just “2017 but way worse” and how i just wasn’t prepared for that at all
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what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip
January 7, 2026 at 5:55 AM
what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip
in a sense, working as a legal drone in the leveraged finance mines is the perfect training for this sort of thing
January 7, 2026 at 5:23 AM
in a sense, working as a legal drone in the leveraged finance mines is the perfect training for this sort of thing
"Uber for Dogs" is OUT "Theranos of <Whatever>" is IN!
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
"Uber for Dogs" is OUT "Theranos of <Whatever>" is IN!
the most important lifestyle of all: being a gamer
January 7, 2026 at 5:11 AM
the most important lifestyle of all: being a gamer
it's true my fiancé is a cool and sexy artistic genius of her time everyone should buy her book so when i age out of software engineering i can continue to enjoy the lifestyle i am accustomed to
@jkachmar.com im an award winning writer and an artistic genius before my time also im very cool and sexy and u have me writing bsky thread fiction smh
January 7, 2026 at 5:09 AM
it's true my fiancé is a cool and sexy artistic genius of her time everyone should buy her book so when i age out of software engineering i can continue to enjoy the lifestyle i am accustomed to
they should let me play as Rufus because it's absurd to make a character's limit break "kill some guy with money" and the not let you play as him
January 7, 2026 at 5:07 AM
they should let me play as Rufus because it's absurd to make a character's limit break "kill some guy with money" and the not let you play as him
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So i logged into my Lucky in Love account (my sockpuppet account, not my real one) to get a feel for how the day's spread would go. Not good. Massive heartbreak everywhere, bunch of old accounts I had thought were totally off the market back online. Good and bad, though.
January 7, 2026 at 5:04 AM
So i logged into my Lucky in Love account (my sockpuppet account, not my real one) to get a feel for how the day's spread would go. Not good. Massive heartbreak everywhere, bunch of old accounts I had thought were totally off the market back online. Good and bad, though.