Thomas

omg figured it out

i think everyone should keep making confident strong claims about consciousness on social media. i’m sure everyone has read the prior art, thought about it a lot, and are contributing something novel to the debate

Met an actual train driver who uses a piece of software I made for safety management for the transport authority and that was neat

"system breached by rogue AI agent" is the new "man killed after police firearm discharged" fucking headline

Started reading my copy of LoTR for the first time in at least 20y so many feelings opening up the first book and seeing the illustrations again I do hope I enjoy it. Very curious to see how it reads now

day spent on the most perplexing prod bug where I am convinced it’s not reproducible, handoff to Fable and it also doesn’t find a means of reproducing but it did find 3 other possible unrelated bugs I have no point to make just saying I’m at the “what about a solar flair bit-flipping” stage

The last six books I’ve read. Might need to find something to offset the bleakness

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Not just CS - the vocationilisation of undergrad in Australia ("job-ready!", "industry-backed!") weakens the fundamental value of so many programs

in addition to being both the tallest person on bluesky (5'11) and the youngest (43), i also hold the highest sat score (1000)

Getting suddenly walloped by jetlag two days after returning to Sydney from EU is really something else 😵‍💫

Tell you what, if you want your self-esteem to absolutely crumble (style/fashion) visit Copenhagen

australia’s greatest export is McCafe actually

me whose never seen an opera during act 1: oh they love each other completely I can’t wait to see these characters make logical decisions and live happily ever after! act 4: well fuck

Can’t wait to arrive in Barcelona and immediately try speaking french at the first person to ask me a question

I should have said: computers are really fast when you dont create munted queries

Used Claude to find a genuine 100x perf improve on a hot path due to JDBC mangling some SQL. It will end up being hundreds of hours of compute saved over a year. I don’t know dick-all about SQL really but I do know computers are really fast

omg

if apple were serious about making money they would make a usb-c to 3.5 audio cable for AirPods Max in matching colours and I would have no choice to buy it how can I short the stock

Oh fuck going to Spain for a month (yay!) 6 days from now omg I have so much to do before then (boo!)

Bill Cunningham refused to eat or drink at the fashion events he covered because he felt it would compromise him

one year later... Today I had Opus 5 create a fairly sophisticated new layer in a graph data service and it worked for 40min uninterrupted and I reviewed it in about the same time reducing some request times by 80% in the end to end perf run. My only feedback was some of its comments were excessive

My wife: “eugh… why don’t boys know what their favourite things are? Like what’s your favourite pasta shape? Mines spaghetti obviously but not the super fine stuff” all because I don’t know what my favourite flower is so now we have debated the merits of five different pasta

They also run three fantastic radio stations www.linn.co.uk/linn-radio

My investor told me he doesn't really see the moat in my plan. I explained that's the point. The glacis protects the base of the wall and obscures the ditch entirely. By the time the assault party reaches the counterscarp with fascines, they will be committed and under crossfire from grapeshot

Best thing about setting up a home gym in Covid is how I can superset and hog all the equipment Worst is how dusty it gets

you have a people problem you try to fix it with technology now you have two problems

I am very lazy, so the Arch AUR is great for me... but supply chain attacks seem to suggest I will pay for this laziness. should I... Fedora? Would be great to have uniform system between my MacBook Air and WSL and linux box

web site: would you like to download the app for the full customer experience?? me: wOuLd You LIkE to dOwNLoAd the ApP FoR the fuLl cUStOmeR eXPeriENce? shut up web site i hope you fall in quicksand

belt-and-braces honest load-bearing pathological seam take

Just opened LinkedIn for the first time in weeks… the tone has flipped 180 from ai-to-the-moon-saas-is-dead to ai-causing-enshittification-and-ruining-business

1: You realize AI can do 90% of the work. You’re thrilled! You only have to focus on the last 10%. 💃 2: You realize that last 10% is the hardest, most grueling part of the job. 😰 3: You realize your entire workday is now spent exclusively on the hardest 10% of every project. 🤯 Uh oh... 🫠

One person getting AI to write quality code when they know how to build what they’re building is doable. Consistently getting AI to do that at scale for a whole bunch of people who don’t know how to build what they want? Totally different problem.

I am totally “locked-in” today My wife took both sets of keys so I can’t leave the house

Outstanding post start to finish I started programming after chat-gpt launched and see myself in the critique. Coding with no autocomplete or LSP has been a salve. Now learning set notation: the gap between “I can read this” and “I can describe a system” is enormous. Gotta write from memory.

This seems like exactly the syllabus I want but no online offering bguppl.github.io/interpreters...

Dying for a good online course for PL (as in study of… not vocational style programming courses) Self study is fine but I really miss the opportunity to talk to others and have the shared experience from uni

I have only moderate hearing loss and back this completely. Being in a range of loss that I can take them out and use AirPods Max with Headphone Accommodations to listen to music is tantalising for what could be

I asked Claude for reading recommendations based on the new domain I find myself working in and it suggested two books I already own (unread) instead of new books to buy so AI is clearly anti-publishing industry this is bullshit

we desperately need a certain demographic to stop listening to podcasts, go pick up a book, do an online uni course on literature, or history, or anything

SHIT GPT - dashare.zone ADMIN

i didn’t know a perfect track could be made this much more perfect

another day, another example of where reading the damn documentation cover to cover saved me, and Claude Opus did not (Claude proceeded to create a spike of my hypothesis in 5min which would have taken me a day or two... which also saved me)