Ben Hemphill

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we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

Sorry to see Bioware go. but excited to see what the staff get up to next. Vets from Black Isle gave us Obsidian.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

I think sofware engineering should be treated with the *exact* standards any other engineering discipline is held to. Not validating, testing or reviewing a design/code for any reason is bad engineering practice. AI doesnt get you out of that.

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

This is impressive. definitely selecting for maximum resilience over performance but I could see use cases for zero tolerance of downtime workloads.

Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks.

🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.

🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.

I love this framing, but in reality we treat developers of our internal platforms like users, and not customers, because most enterprise developers cannot behave as customers, and are forced to use whatever the platform engineering team gives them.

Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

Election time in Kansas City and surrounds! Here's a link to ballot recommendations. Generally, when in doubt, vote NO all state amendments (MO + KS). Vote YES on ALL City questions. www.facebook.com/share/p/1CnP...

They’re not trying to stand up for anybody. They’re trying to marginalize the many who for too long have been left out. I’m proud to have seen and supported many from all backgrounds on the pathway to success. I’m sad they are trying to close the door to progress for so many of us.

Missouri's Aug. 4 primary election will include several high-profile constitutional amendments for voters to decide. In late May, Gov. Mike Kehoe placed four ballot questions on the August primary ballot. Here's a breakdown of each.

The kids are alright.

A great writing prompt: what world events would have needed to go differently for there to be an Islamic republic of Japan? If the Mongols conquer the whole Asian contenent, and adopt Muslim religion a la the holy roman empire adopting Christianity?

@walgreens.bsky.social bit of a tip, for the love of God, publish your hours to doctors sending prescriptions. Worst feeling in the world to try and get pain medication for my wife after surgery, and then the pharmacy is closed, so I then have to call doctors to send new prescription to new place.

The Org Chart Survivor. Lol. Pretty right on. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

Bleat is the best replacement word for bluesky's version of twitter "tweet".

Juneteenth celebration ideas, go! so far I was just thinking cookout.

@tomgrossi.bsky.social is doing 30 in 30 again!! help make the Chiefs the top fanbase in his mission to get to a million for St. Jude! (or donate against the Chiefs, whatever works for you 😁 tilt.fyi/bWmowC0Dod

When I started my latest job at Stacklok I had a lot of learning and catching up to do. One thing that annoyed and confused me is that we all seem to have a different idea of what an AI "agent" is. Here is my thinking on one way to break this down. joe.dev/posts/nine-k...

Prove the civil war south states still has issues with racism and still needs the voting rights act? *Gestures Broadly at the South*

Gotta Admit, putting the Royals new home in Washington square park next to union station would be pretty dang cool.

Woo first grifting post I've gotten on bluesky :D it's all grown up!

make incompetence shameful again

Happy Worst Day to Be Autistic on the Internet Day! 🥳

It is called LLMFlate and it is the hottest new text encoding protocol. Think of it like gzip or brotly but with a twist. It has taken the world by storm and is already supported by most email clients. Here is how it works

Project Hail Mary at AMC Barrywoods 4dx was an absolute blast. Word of advice, probably enjoy 4dx without spillable snacks. things get delightfully kinetic :) @amctheatres.bsky.social

Doing my part to pressure companies to get off X. If any @siderolabs.com customers or Talos users would like to send a similar email to marketing@siderolabs.com I’d be happy to continue voicing my opinion internally

LLM as an essential tool is a hard sell, but LLM as a tool I'll happily use for the price of free is an easy sell. To me, this means we will absolutely be getting ads in all ai tools, and then it'll be back to a race between the providers and ad blocking, which will lead to less usage.

Just a bit of advice for politicians, don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining.

I'm so scared for all the trans kids. It all just makes me so sad and I just want to give each and every one of them a hug (if they want it).

When kubernetes clusters are built using kubeadm, there is a 5 year ticking time bomb on the self signed CA for the cluster. The more well known 1 year on the api certificates is easily repairable if missed. The 5 year CA is hard to rotate preemptively and disgustingly hard to rotate if you forget.

Maybe unpopular opinion, but bluesky should show country of origin on all accounts. Let's avoid the professional trolls.