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"He shipped a product, but he didn't learn a trade." I think is the key quote from this article, and encapsulates the core problem with AI agents in any skill-based field.

My laptop hasn't had stickers since a CTO asked why mine didn't have any stickers like the ones on the laptops of his cool cloud team. Personally I've found laptop stickers bad tas…

For me the problem with GenAI is that it erodes away what I enjoy in my job and in my free time. I enjoy learning and eventually understanding methods to solve problems. I enjoy ap…

I donate to XMonad because it is finest of wms and the one I use.

Something like dvtm? https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

I am hoping and waiting for the 80s punk equivalent anti-SoMe counterculture to appear.

The best modern art museum I have ever visited.

The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski), which I have seen perhaps 5 times. I think it is the hidden meaning in old books which draws me to this movie. Videodrome (David Cronenberg) and re…

Very interesting and in depth article. I really appreciate the amount of detail and knowledge shared about how to go about reverse enginnering and patching abandonware like this. T…

Here are some quality photos from Denmark: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/saa-vildt-ser-det-ud-se-nat...

I took one semi successful photo using my crappy beat-down a20e Samsung phone. It doesn't do what we saw justice at all. https://imgur.com/5mlD22W

I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland. It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw…

A possible contributing factor is that people, and especially young people, are drinking less alcohol than the generations prior, which is leading to stronger inhibitions, a lower …

Linux, bash, awk, sed, curl and jq.

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. This book somehow stayed with me for a long time after having finished it. For me it encapsulates how we sometimes get stuck in systems which are…

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Zazu is a prime and obscure example of what I consider to be progrock (disclaimer: I am no proghead). Especially, "Ittsanottasonatta, But It's Close" is a hidden gem of genre. http…

Yes. Intermittently, since yesterday.

Check out https://www.percona.com/blog (filter for MySQL) I have been a heavy user of the Percona distribution of MySQL for many years and highly recommend it. I think that most of…

So when I'm dancing alone, which I do occasionally, I play a game? What game is that?

Write some C for your own pleasure and fun on an undead platform, like AmigaOS. Due to the constrained nature of the undead platform there is no real possibility of decision fatigu…