Morning Hot Take: AI is built on mimicking past training data, so all of the people joking about how them thanking ChatGPT means it'll spare them in the robot uprising is actually them biasing the future dataset.

In the off chance of an uprising, you now *have* to thank your AI.

Forgot I bought this, picked it up and was mesmerized. Far: Lone Sails is slow paced and has heaps of ambience. It’s a great change of pace from what I usually play when I have the time. I really like it and a couple of hours in I’m also quite appreciative of how “easy” it is.

לא יודע למה אבל נראה לי שישראלים כתבו את הפיצ׳ר הזה

"bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses"
src: fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/11...

On the virtue of stating the obvious www.seangoedecke.com/saying-the-o...

We're having work conversations about work things, why do you ask?

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED BUT REPULSIVE", "WRONG BUT WROMANTIC", "FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD", "NOBODY BOTHERS WITH THIS BIT", "SHOULDN'T REALLY BUT WE WON'T JUDGE", "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS", "YOU DO YOU", and "OBVIOUSLY ABSURD BUT VERY COMMON FOR SOME REASON" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

hachyderm.io/@simontatham...

It's really valuable to be familiar with it and come back to it when your intuition tells you things are coupled and you're not sure how to explain it.
connascence.io

"Coupling" is a term we all throw around every day. We all agree it's not all black and white, and sometimes high coupling is a good thing.
Coined in 1992, "connascence" is a finer way of exploring how, and how strongly, things are coupled.

You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without payin

You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free - idiallo.com/blog/listen-...

This is pretty freaking neat (automatic animation of SVG line art) maxwellito.github.io/vivus/

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

OH: “The guy’s essentially an LLM: writes extremely confident nonsense.”

‏זה מגניב ממש (ומתכוונן מספיק כדי שיעלה גם על היד שלי וגם על שלו). יש פה גם מלא אפשרויות התאמה אישית נוספות 🤩

כן גם אני רוצה אחד עכשיו

קניתי את זה בשביל בן10 ב-Target, ונכון לעכשיו אנחנו בשעה החמישית ברצף של בניה. הקיט הזה מדהים! מלמד על בוכנות ומנגנונים פניאומטים והידראולים שהילדים אשכרה בונים מאפס ובן10 בטירוף. מומלץ בחום.

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

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remember, signal is the only decent dm platform. all the others exist for sharing a signal handle, the way internet explorer is there to install chrome

Just finished reading the trilogy. Great, gripping read - really recommended. Particularly loved how the plot was exposed in layers. I might want to reread them all some day to see how knowing all of the secrets changes them. Only bit I didn’t appreciate was that the very end felt a bit… rushed?

A "demystified" Gartner hype cycle graph including points like "trough of zero real adoption" and "slope of enterprise marketers jumping on the bandwagon too late"

I'm going to business hell for this one

Hi! The way to think about it is that Unicode is just a way to encode text as a series of numbers (codepoints), but Unicode itself doesn’t specify how those numbers are stored on disk or sent over the wire in a network. One obvious way to store the numbers is to encode them as four-byte integers (Unicode codepoints will never exceed the limit of what can be stored in four bytes), which is what UTF-32 does. That’s inefficient though, because frequently-used and infrequently-used codepoints all take up four bytes. UTF-8 is an encoding scheme for Unicode that lets you encode frequently-used codepoints with as little as one byte (in the case of ASCII chatacters). UTF-16 falls in between, representing everything as either two bytes or four bytes.

Someone asked me about the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode, here's my explanation in case others find it helpful.

Ordering matters a lot, too

Crossing my fingers for you

Google erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance | CNN Business Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.

edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/b...

Paper with all caps writing: A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never make a management decision

Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...

Even more impressive when you use the 24h time format (I had to reread your post haha)

I need to tap someone for expertise and am happy to pay for it. Specifically I'm looking for working experience integrating a C++ and Python (cmake+pybind11) with a proper local setup (Python project depending on bindings built from local repo). LLVM experience a bonus. Takers?

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