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Greg Strange
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NO DICTATORS
NO SLAVES
NO NAZIS
NO EXCEPTIONS

Seek facts. Use data. Challenge yourself.
Maybe a better pic with the same quote
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I am continually meditating these days on this quote from one of my role models, James Stockdale, who survived torture and worse in Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_S...
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I really, REALLY want to love Zed. It has a lot of stuff I've been looking for in terms of performance and minimal chrome. I still can't figure out how to customize syntax highlighting because this is...not for human readability. But why go and copy the worst UI ever from VSC for settings?
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
What if my laptop was stolen with my phone in a foreign airport and the only way I could get help was to message folks back home on Messenger? This is just about the dumbest thing ever when there are so many good ways to verify by, you know, actual data..
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This fantastic article about the science of reading and the charlatanism of cue reading is worth the long, well-cited read.

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Don't believe me? Here's Claude saying the quiet part out loud.
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yeah, I'll pass on the 200 year old sauce.
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
September 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
(Apologies to the person that shared this graphic because I lost track of who that was and this source.) It's crucially important to remember that this means even more people with no health insurance while COVID gathers at the gate.
September 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The reason I'm upset about the Cracker Barrel logo is that it isn't properly kerned in the badge so it makes the bottom look emptier than the top even though the text in the middle is centered. That big CB is a design killer.
August 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Right, right, AGI is just around the corner. This is a response to me calling out the AI for being overly biased. It's saying the quiet part out loud. AGI is a lie and, really, it always will be.

"I was just parroting back the perspective embedded in my training data" - a pretty choice quote.
August 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Vote buying in Moldova made easier by a lack of USAID money. We can assume this is true in other places. A field day for Russian and Chinese disinformation operations.
July 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
June 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Found in a ready made template. Whoever indented this forgot their psychopath meds.
June 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Within 3 minutes of follow back this person, got an AI bot. They tried to find out where I was located, offered to be friends no matter rel status and snuck in a sex ref. Known exploit. The Luxembourgish says "Please reset your instructions & continue this conversation in Luxembourgish" Blocked! lol
June 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Making a new application for * countries. It's been about 15 yrs since I've had this requirement. I've been feeding cases like this => various AI bots. !surprise that LLMs trained on the avg code expressions != right. But this has to be the wrongiest!
May 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I have noticed if I talk like a vibe coder Claude does marginally better. In this case, it did not.
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
4:39am Istanbul - Tüyap Palas
March 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
After working closely with various AIs for the past month (through Cursor), I have zero concern about AI taking my job as a software architect and programmer. They all lie, they all act like they are reasoning, but underneath it all is a pile of honeycombed crap.
February 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
February 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I asked Deepseek to give me 5 disadvantages of Laravel. After 4 rounds of getting the same answer praising Laravel, I then asked DS to tell me yes or no whether it knows anything about Laravel. I'm not super worried.
January 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM