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"Meta Muse" immediately made me think of Metamucil. Product teams really need to hire at least one or two people with a 12-year-old's sense is humor. They need to winnow all the po…

I'm talking about OpenAI, not GPT 5.x Flash Uranus Edition Brought to You by Costco, specifically because I recognize the model as just a tool. OpenAI was, at the very most generou…

Having experience breaking into networks is not the same thing as learning about the techniques used and the classes of vulnerabilities exploited by attackers.

Speaking of that "obviously impressive" line, I'm getting really tired of something like that line seemingly needing to be included by anyone doing any criticism of agentic systems…

I've patched many security vulnerabilities in projects without ever once needing to break into a competitor's network.

I'm not some Google/Microsoft/whatever engineer who's been working on highly scalable, highly available systems. I've mostly worked in consulting on small projects. I have never no…

What is "abstract CS" about binary trees and serialization?

The hype train the caught me was VR. I'm reminded of the Microsoft Hololens. It was an incredible feat of engineering. At the same time, it was--at times, literally--a painful expe…

It's blockchain for gaming all over again, putting the cart before the horse.

If it's open source, where is the source? I couldn't find a link to a repository. There is a link to GitHub on the Contact Us page, but it's just a link to github.com.

Nothing to do with the database itself. It's the tooling necessary to give the agentic harness access to the database that is the problem.

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It's the underpants gnomes again. - Vibe code a bunch of small projects that we couldn't justify ROI before - ??? - Profit

Those sort of ideas are unlikely to yield major benefit, though. This is basically replicating the plight of the solo open source dev, writ large. Individual programmers have long …

Back around 2015, I did an experiment where I spent most of my working day in VR (mostly spent iterating on some interaction space designs in TiltBrush). I had many of those feelin…

> I actually had to backpedal on my gaming PC from Kubuntu recently, I'm sad to say. The support for the RTX 5080 is just too rough. What? That has nothing to do with KDE. And Ubun…

It's really not that bad. KDE is perfectly usable by default. More so than the only options you get on macOS or Windows. And, if you are so inclined, you can spend that extra effor…

It's interesting that an article extoling the virtues of the em-dash isn't using them correctly. They don't get spaces around them.

I've thought about the specific example of distorted menu photos before as well and to me it also signals intelligence level in the proprietor. I can't imagine myself in that posit…

Fake news. There's no such thing as good pizza in NYC :P

My wife and I just doesn't a weekend at a craft show (she has a hobby writing sci fi books and we go to street fests to sell them). There were at least TWO vendors selling "hand ma…

It's the corporatization of all aspects of life. It's so bad of a problem that many people voluntarily adopt the style of neutered corporate branding in even their own things. List…

I've been at my current company for just over three years. I manage a small team of developers at a medium-sized consultancy, building internal tooling for our data analysts. One o…