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Not to mention insecure.

lately I've been listening to this on repeat at full volume and the tinnitus is coming back a bit: https://youtu.be/4lzqUe1Qfec but I don't care fuck it

I developed tinnitus in my right ear about 5 years ago. I remember exactly when it started. I was welding up a tailpipe repair on my car, and in the next bay over my brother was ru…

Hemp ropes are quite strong, they've proven themselves for thousands of years in marine applications. You definitely need more thickness to achieve the same breaking strength as dy…

I don't believe there's anything physically preventing the invention of AI. But nobody has done it. Until someone does it, it's some far off future thing. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google…

It would be interesting to scale this design up. Not necessarily in terms of velocity--supersonic velocity for a large trebuchet munition isn't necessarily desirable. What I mean s…

It is the same business model, just at a grander scale. There is no sustainable growth business underneath it, only vibes and hype, and the "future promise" of some miraculous brea…

Isn't venture capital just playing along too, though? They also benefit from all the myth making and hype storms, even if they are technically getting defrauded while funding it. T…

> Wasn't it always seen as a "winner takes all" business? No. It was always a pyramid scheme marketed as a "winner takes all" business. But there's no winning. The only winners are…

There are species of wood that do very well buried. Black locust is known to last 100yr buried. I wonder if you could scale up the effect using a larger grid of black locust 2x8s […

> The worker claimed it was "his first time using AI" and "he didn't know" This is not the defense they think it is.. If your mechanic rotates your tires and improperly torques the…

I think what's interesting here is that they've shipped the product despite these glaring security flaws. I've noticed that in my own professional life, at some point after the pan…

In the case of a nation state actor, the most recent update could well be the attack vector.

That's great! Different take on the opto-isolator.

> normal network security The problem is there's no good way to actually enforce this. Every organization has their own idea of what is "good enough". The NSA has some pretty good …

You can't have both secure infrastructure and Internet exposed infrastructure. I don't know if I'd frame it as incompetence, but it does seem firmly outside the capabilities of cur…

What happens to OpenJDK when Oracle dies? That's looking increasingly likely on a 3-5yr horizon.

Yeah it's true, and the higher up the ladder you go the worse it gets.

"clanker wankers" has a nice ring to it

This just seems like it's shining a light on the omnipresent skill issues in tech leadership. You don't get promoted to leadership positions for thinking critically, analytical ski…

I would not characterize software people as particularly "clear-thinking".. there's a huge buzzing cloud of unexamined cognitive biases and thoughtless herd behavior that swirls ar…

There was some truly crazy shit happening in the late '50s-early '60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto https://en.wikipe…

This is extremely common in urban areas as well, at lower speed. Not necessarily less fatal. The thing that seems similar between flying and riding motorcycles is that even a "smal…

Weird things can happen with big downdrafts and wind shear, but those aren't terribly frequent and probably a spin is less critical to practice than stall recovery. But it's a very…

I wonder what the human factors consequences of having a GPS/chartplotter working almost all the time and then suddenly fail are. Well, I don't wonder that much, but it would be in…