Ryan Weaver
@mrcodeweaver.com
Software developer in the Microsoft ecosystem.
AZ-204 & MS-600
AZ-204 & MS-600
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when i was 12, my favorite program was microsoft powerpoint. i went through every menu item and accidentally found a panel with record/play buttons. press record, do something, and it spits out the code automating what you just did. i tweaked the code and it did something different. i bought a book
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
when i was 12, my favorite program was microsoft powerpoint. i went through every menu item and accidentally found a panel with record/play buttons. press record, do something, and it spits out the code automating what you just did. i tweaked the code and it did something different. i bought a book
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for whatever it's worth their article on the jugalbandi was wholesale ripped from Wikipedia's, citations and all
![Fact-checked by Grok 14 hours ago
Jugalbandi
A jugalbandhi or jugalbandi is a performance in Indian classical music, especially in Hindustani classical music but also in Carnatic, that features a duet of two solo musicians.[1][2] The word jugalbandi means, literally, "entwined twins." The duet can be either vocal or instrumental.
Often, the musicians will play different instruments, as for example the famous duets between sitarist Ravi Shankar and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, who played the format since the 1940s. More rarely, the musicians (either vocalists or instrumentalists) may be from different traditions (i.e. Carnatic and Hindustani). What defines jugalbandi is that the two soloists be on an equal footing. A performance can only truly be deemed a jugalbandi when neither musician is always the soloist or solely an accompanist. In jugalbandi, both musicians act as lead players, and a playful competition exists between the two performers.
Hindustani-Carnatic Jugalbandi
Jugalbandi of Hindustani and Carnatic styles has evolved into a relatively common pattern that has the Hindustani artist accompanied by a tabla artist, and the Carnatic artist accompanied by a mridangam artist, and possibly also accompanied by tanpura. The main artists from each tradition present a composition in their own style and then](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcykurfvhhpynm4cwhsnnu4d/bafkreibr7jyg7uwhqt36php2mbdqtyr4xmfn7e7fhyf63tnkyvs4caoroe@jpeg)
![Jugalbandi
A jugalbandhi or jugalbandi is a performance in Indian classical music, especially in Hindustani classical music but also in Carnatic, that features a duet of two solo musicians.[1][2] The word jugalbandi means, literally, "entwined twins." The duet can be either vocal or instrumental.
Often, the musicians will play different instruments, as for example the famous duets between sitarist Ravi Shankar and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, who played the format since the 1940s. More rarely, the musicians (either vocalists or instrumentalists) may be from different traditions (i.e. Carnatic and Hindustani). What defines jugalbandi is that the two soloists be on an equal footing. A performance can only truly be deemed a jugalbandi when neither musician is always the soloist or solely an accompanist. In jugalbandi, both musicians act as lead players, and a playful competition exists between the two performers.
Hindustani-Carnatic Jugalbandi
Jugalbandi of Hindustani and Carnatic styles has evolved into a relatively common pattern that has the Hindustani artist accompanied by a tabla artist, and the Carnatic artist accompanied by a mridangam](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcykurfvhhpynm4cwhsnnu4d/bafkreigmtmvja5ml3a5ca6pejubvgcqsmpl2bdxntltoo7v7m3rydsbccq@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
for whatever it's worth their article on the jugalbandi was wholesale ripped from Wikipedia's, citations and all
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Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
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More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
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Struck by this Orange site comment about gen AI. It seems so obvious in hindsight.
Gen AI cheapens everything. If you expect to be able to sell something produced by gen AI at the same price as something produced by a human, you're delusional.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550...
Gen AI cheapens everything. If you expect to be able to sell something produced by gen AI at the same price as something produced by a human, you're delusional.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550...
CEOs keep taking (mostly misguided) about how GenAI will replace their people. T... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Struck by this Orange site comment about gen AI. It seems so obvious in hindsight.
Gen AI cheapens everything. If you expect to be able to sell something produced by gen AI at the same price as something produced by a human, you're delusional.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550...
Gen AI cheapens everything. If you expect to be able to sell something produced by gen AI at the same price as something produced by a human, you're delusional.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550...
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Awesome, great can’t imagine this having any negative epistemological effects. Like you would always get what you searched for but now they’ve fully automated the confirmation bias machine.
September 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Awesome, great can’t imagine this having any negative epistemological effects. Like you would always get what you searched for but now they’ve fully automated the confirmation bias machine.
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but is bro happy
September 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
but is bro happy
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As I matured I realized responding to feed of most egregious headline and visual captivation was not brave and informed. It was dopamine hits, chemical incentives.
You seek out and witness suffering for emotional activation and involvement. So, what are you doing?
You are just... watching porn.
You seek out and witness suffering for emotional activation and involvement. So, what are you doing?
You are just... watching porn.
September 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
As I matured I realized responding to feed of most egregious headline and visual captivation was not brave and informed. It was dopamine hits, chemical incentives.
You seek out and witness suffering for emotional activation and involvement. So, what are you doing?
You are just... watching porn.
You seek out and witness suffering for emotional activation and involvement. So, what are you doing?
You are just... watching porn.
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THE BEEP BOOP BEEPS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
September 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
THE BEEP BOOP BEEPS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
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*cracks knuckles*
okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?
now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?
now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
*cracks knuckles*
okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?
now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?
now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
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I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
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It’s also wild to me that this person chose to use the word “pervasive”. Most people don’t want their computers to be more pervasive!
August 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s also wild to me that this person chose to use the word “pervasive”. Most people don’t want their computers to be more pervasive!
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I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence
![6. The TXFC observed a post on the Bluesky account stating that his birthday was
June 15th. Additionally, the Bluesky account user self-identified as 38 years old, indicating a likely
date of birth (DOB) of
7. The Bluesky account user made additional posts about being in Cincinnati, Ohio.
8. The TXFC observed an additional post by the Bluesky account user regarding the
death of his on 2025, at the age of years old.
9. The TXFC conducted open-source queries of obituaries matching the date of death
of 2025, and likely location of Cincinnati, Ohio, and observed an obituary for
[REDACTED] with a date of death of 2025.
10. Kelly’s obituary was reviewed, which included a listing of all
grandchildren by name. The TXFC conducted Accurint searches for the last name [REDACTED], DOB of
and location of Cincinnati, Ohio, and returned a match of [REDACTED]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uyqnubfj3qlho6psy6uvvt6u/bafkreibjdjnelpwwouimu63kvtyhi2g6g27brmlc55kcos6eppjvh6rwte@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence
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Funny to look back on the blog posts from AI CEO’s
(This is from 6 months ago)
www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...
(This is from 6 months ago)
www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...
Anthropic's CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of
"And then in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.
www.businessinsider.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Funny to look back on the blog posts from AI CEO’s
(This is from 6 months ago)
www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...
(This is from 6 months ago)
www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...
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And everything you put in is being logged even if you delete it due to a random judge in New York! Everything!
This exact kind of dangerous "dropping tons of sensitive data into ChatGPT" behavior is happening at an absolutely staggering scale right now, all around the world:
I was the Director of IT at an org and one day, found out our CFO was putting all our MOUs into his personal ChatGPT account and HR was having conversations with a personal ChatGPT account to determine what salaries we should be offering staff.
Very concerning!
Very concerning!
August 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
And everything you put in is being logged even if you delete it due to a random judge in New York! Everything!
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The #1 thing that blows my mind about how most people use LLMs: they believe if they ask the LLM a question about how it works or how accurate it is, the LLM will truthfully answer them.
I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.
I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.
i don't think it helps that the llms constantly lie to the user about the capabilities of llms as part of its whole obsequious fawning style of interaction that oversells its abilities and obscures its obvious limitations by fundamentally misrepresenting how the technology works
August 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The #1 thing that blows my mind about how most people use LLMs: they believe if they ask the LLM a question about how it works or how accurate it is, the LLM will truthfully answer them.
I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.
I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.
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the main thing that makes me uneasy about llms is the cultural backdrop of global war on knowledge. the war on knowledge isn’t new but now it’s cheered on from tech too. tools for thought pivoted to slot machines because that’s what people want. “how things work” is buried under opaque indirections
August 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
the main thing that makes me uneasy about llms is the cultural backdrop of global war on knowledge. the war on knowledge isn’t new but now it’s cheered on from tech too. tools for thought pivoted to slot machines because that’s what people want. “how things work” is buried under opaque indirections
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Every tech CEO building AI saying "AI will change everything" sounds like desperation.
"Please put more money into our money extraction machine!"
Feels like the social media boom, which is now universally understood as "useful" but also full of ads, dangerous for kids, and traps our attention.
"Please put more money into our money extraction machine!"
Feels like the social media boom, which is now universally understood as "useful" but also full of ads, dangerous for kids, and traps our attention.
August 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Every tech CEO building AI saying "AI will change everything" sounds like desperation.
"Please put more money into our money extraction machine!"
Feels like the social media boom, which is now universally understood as "useful" but also full of ads, dangerous for kids, and traps our attention.
"Please put more money into our money extraction machine!"
Feels like the social media boom, which is now universally understood as "useful" but also full of ads, dangerous for kids, and traps our attention.
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lol I do use AI sometimes, and I love LMStudio, but I'm an AI Vegan of sorts. I'll eat some stuff, but not stuff with faces.
July 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
lol I do use AI sometimes, and I love LMStudio, but I'm an AI Vegan of sorts. I'll eat some stuff, but not stuff with faces.
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The Internet Roadtrip is now trying to cross Labrador. A 100-foot gap in Street View coverage almost forced them to turn back, but as they approached the break, someone got a friend in Labrador City to drive to the spot IRL and take and upload a panoramic photo to fix it. neal.fun/internet-roa...
Internet Roadtrip
Let's take a streetview roadtrip
neal.fun
July 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The Internet Roadtrip is now trying to cross Labrador. A 100-foot gap in Street View coverage almost forced them to turn back, but as they approached the break, someone got a friend in Labrador City to drive to the spot IRL and take and upload a panoramic photo to fix it. neal.fun/internet-roa...
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... extremely agreeable computers that speak more eloquently than you with the full markings of elite education are going to be a fucking problem
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
July 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
... extremely agreeable computers that speak more eloquently than you with the full markings of elite education are going to be a fucking problem