Normally when an investment bank wants to invest in I dunno, say oil, they'll go get an oil guy

At SoftBank though I think they just rip through a baggie of nootropics and watch ted talks at 2.5x

These things get pretty arcane but I'll give it a shot:

Softbank is the name of an investment bank that invests in software companies

anorarks

Nope, too late, I've already decided "IPA" is just LLM slop too

The great thing about generative diffusion models is that I never have to believe an image is real ever again

Rolling out a 2003 website feature while disabling pinch to zoom and expecting everyone to clap, just an incredible team

What's the word for a boat foamer

There are like 650 comments in that thread; how many do you figure are visible to the devs? Like 15 maybe?

When you're running a crypto scam you don't want to spring your competition out of jail

No, but you can catch the bonus stick that falls at the end of multipuck if both zones are clear

I have a paleoanthropologist friend who calls archeologists "journalists," I've never thought to ask what the dinosaur people call him

Ah, the glamorous life of the erosion chaser

I'm no military scholar but the US sure is acting like they don't have enough left in the petty bombs drawer to drop any more of them on Iran

This guy was so easy to ignore before the Democratic strategy weirdos got scared of him, and I miss it

I don't think the Equations People want to go back to a time when we didn't have math machines and the numbers had to be transported on horseback

I mean sure make fun of them, it's easy, but what they're engaged in isn't an exercise in nostalgia

Vivaldi still doesn't have containers that isolate cookies and thus allow you to have two tabs logged into different bsky accounts open at the same time

It's been an ongoing user feature request for like five years now

I just think it's neat that there's a button you can click on somewhere that turns this website into Twitter, and that I don't have to deal with anyone who decides to do that

I didn't even know bats could drive

"Forgot to put the asset server IPs into the cloudflare config" is today's Definitely Not Vibe Coding bug

The process of using privately held equity to obtain cash is more concisely known as "borrowing" with "collateral"

The process of wedging your unprofitable vibe coding editor into someone else's IPO is called "swindling"

Shock Comedy Program Now In Its Fifth Season

Haven't decided who I'll vote for next but I'm leaning toward grievance and score-settling

Yes, please do better. The outage didn't last anywhere near long enough

(the University of Mississippi is still called "Ole Miss")

They are overwhelmingly software these days and have been for more than a quarter century, no amount of nitpicking can change that fundamental reality

What, so Hegseth can fire them, too?

Instant block

Did Musk start Tesla tho

Deeply enjoying the responses of sophisticated military-knowers who would sooner believe an Iranian press release than an AI skeptic

Who would have thought the statistically-most-likely-next-word machine would end up reinforcing the status quo