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Cool! Plz do VJing next

There is an excellent monologue in the middle of The Hateful Eight on this subject.

Well now, you've given me an excellent idea for how to speed up development in my vibecode MUD reboot.

Enterprises running in public clouds have Zero Data Retention policies with the vendor. Routing the ai spend through Azure or AWS usually bring these policies along with it, ie ent…

It’s almost as complex as compiling software for different runtime environments; it requires a knowledge artifact repository and publishing system, e.g. https://github.com/thinking…

…young children have immense neural plasticity while adults, especially 40+, have little.

Congrats! I am also an autodidact who desired a stronger school name on my resume after a long run in startups, so I took a senior engineering role at Johns Hopkins. I'm not affili…

You mean like the British Empire? ....The Spanish Empire maybe? The only modern contender, the Japanese Empire, arose partly by the encouragement of Teddy Roosevelt.

Fun fact: a successful invasion of the North American continent has very little to do with weaponry and more to do with logistics and projection of force across an ocean. There is …

...and if you aren't pronouncing it "Var" you might be one ;-)

It's a fair comparison. There's a fair amount of plausible-sounding bullshit being peddled as a transparent advertisement for an ai-driven "code security" firm.

In a couple of years he will be 60, too. Then 65, then 70. Seniors will be able to stay in the game much longer than before, mark my words.

Not to wade too far into weeds, but the spiritual and temporal authority of Rome (ie what is now called Church and State) were considered separate entities. When the temporal autho…

Yes, make the teachers on $25-35K annual salaries do /more/ work for no extra money. I'm sure that will fix education.

I’m sure the same justification was trotted out in Hungary when they purged the intellectuals there, too.

My 1.8 GPA is literally discriminated-against, too. So unfair!

You might lease a Regus (et. al.) business address for <$100/mo.

The AWS Kiro ( https://kiro.dev ) spec-driven coding harness operates this way in Auto mode which offers the base token rate. Manually-specifying Sonnet or Opus is a multiplier on …

The next % stake will be acquired at a discount, it seems.

Still better than the half-brained man who loves Israel above all else.

Fear not: “As you can all probably tell, I got a lot of criticisms about the way this government functions. But in order for us to make it functional, we’re gonna have to do stuff,…

Athens Greece would blow your mind, friend.

"All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages." — W…

You can buy finer-tipped replacement caps for the mechanical pencil effect. Then there is the second problem: the texture of glass instead of paper.

That is an illustrative failure. It might be absurdly simple 4/4 pattern progressions which a calculator should be able to automate. But inducing a trance requires consciousness; e…