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Specificity of communication is very important. Words - and shades of meaning - matter. Can you explain what it is that should reasonably be built? Do you know how to recognize a b…

What, hire another person to do that work so they can fire them just like the last one who didn’t agree with them about what they’re doing??

Mmhmm. A talented cataloger in a research library understands where the 'fuzz' in these systems is - where the margins intersect - and they have a process for helping systematize t…

Start with the library of congress classification system. It'll get you 90 percent of the way there for 10% of the effort. (Classification systems are very much an information scie…

Porn link.

I guess we aren’t gonna get a link today…

Maybe, but why? Got a link?

And so Vannevar Bush’s legacy slips away from us all…

Can Spamassassin do this? I can’t remeber anymore. I think I used primal with it last, but I bet you could vibe code up a harness…. Also I think it’s not an LLM in any way, but mar…

Aaaand unfortunately, you don't seem to have linked it.

This looks great, thanks!

This looks like an interesting tool… if it had helm charts for all of the components I think it would be easier to deploy…

The guy if you care about systems performance, in a detailed way, for sure! Someone ask him how many OS kernel bugs he’s found now? He finds the weirdest things… a tally would be “…

Is there a github repo for this? Free to use isn't the same as source-freely-available...

(And now I’m off to search for Backpacker on board game geek…)

This actually amused me for a few minutes - I played Carmen Sandiego last in the very early 90s and I got a nice nostalgia hit from this. OIDC logins and a backend where you can st…

My favorite places as a kid were libraries - they provided the opportunity for exposure and enrichment that I would have otherwise lacked. They are so much oh-holy-shit important, …

Conflation is probably wrong. But librarianship is one of the most hacker-adjacent places I’ve ever worked. I fought pretty damn hard to keep UNIX tooling very directly in the info…

You think people understand corruption? If they did, would they find anything remotely wrong with it? Folks are pretty dishonest about their motivations, overall. I don’t even thin…

My local bbs scene had a ton of qmodem fans; mostly older guys who had been around a while. It was the late 286 and early 386 days for us, and I was in late middle school and early…

Heh, I bet this is actually what killed my dad - glyphosate is what’s in agent orange. He had alzheimers-like symptoms at the end of his life… from what he told me, the air base at…

We should nationalize OpenAI as punishment for the flagrant copyright violation they've taken part in. Either give every aggrieved author points in the company, or fine them for so…

Where is Max Bruning these days?

Sometimes you can get farther with something like a summary statistics table of the different motifs that show up in a dataset. Hairballs are not interesting, but the shapes that s…

Indirect cost, how I loathe thee…