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by jcims 9mo ago
>The world still needs real engineers to make real software that is suitable for the needs of many, and this doesn't replace that. I think azan_ is demonstrating that shipping products 'suitable for the needs of many' is g
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by jcims 9mo ago
There's one interesting phenomenon that I noticed in myself and others with generating music with AI. You develop this kind of outsized emotional connection with it, even though your contribution to the 'work' was minimal, t
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by jcims 9mo ago
I'm working on a little SRE agent to pre-load tickets with information to help our on-call and I'm already tired of Claude finding 'smoking guns'.
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by jcims 9mo ago
Holy cow, what a mess - https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/6956
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by jcims 9mo ago
Classic perverse incentive. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive "According to the story, the British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every
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by jcims 9mo ago
I thought about it when I posted but it felt like an invitation to dunk on the cultures involved. In one case it was a communication pattern that I found to be very unprofessional by an entire team, the other was nearly instant and *intens
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by jcims 9mo ago
As a gent with some years under his belt, I have to humbly admit that it was quite late in my career before I realized how much culture influences how people operate. Two separate incidents with two different cultural contexts brought it t
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by jcims 9mo ago
Agreed. The writeup could use a little Alice, Bob and Charlie treatment to make that more clear though. The OSINT data seems to be the most likely source of the poisoned content. I guess you could bury that in a social media profile?
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by jcims 9mo ago
Not to be a buzzkill but I think those are planes. The stars show trails so these must be long exposures, and trails of similar length appear to be going in all different directions, eg: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam&#x
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by jcims 9mo ago
I grew up by the assembly plants in Ohio and worked there on various temp jobs in the late 80s/early 90s. There was (maybe still is) a lot of local pride in the product that comes out of those plants, the amount of energy that was put
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by jcims 9mo ago
Same. tgtweak has a good one in here.
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by jcims 9mo ago
There's been this phrase 'passing costs off to the consumer' that I've heard since I was a kid, used as some kind of indictment against companies raising prices when their costs go up. Even as a kid I was confused. Wher
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by jcims 9mo ago
I've wanted something like this numerous times for long flights. I also have recently got into caving, which usually results in 5-50 people camping over weekends in rural Kentucky. No signal most of the time.
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by jcims 9mo ago
This is the best take I've seen in here. I've been tinkering with it for the past two days. It's a very real system for coordinating work between a plurality of humans and agents. Someone likened it to kubernetes in that it
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by jcims 9mo ago
People that spend time poking holes in random vendor claims remind me of folks you see video of standing on the beach during a tsunami warning. Their eyes fixed on the horizon looking for a hundred foot wave, oblivious to the shore in fron
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by jcims 9mo ago
Visited Japan for the first time in December. I stayed at Airbnb's in Tokyo and Kyoto. There were no $4 lunch bowls nearby, but I didn't need that to appreciate that I could walk to six restaurants, two wine shops and three cafes
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by jcims 9mo ago
One way to find out!
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by jcims 9mo ago
Yeah the days before journaling filesystems, a moment to consider your actions as fsck did its best to clean up the mess you made.
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by jcims 9mo ago
I have it on a tshirt. Pretty sure most people think it's just an emotional rant in emoji form.
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by jcims 9mo ago
Reminds me of my rather memorable introduction to special characters invoking functions, seeing this dastardly little quip in the email signature of someone in a mailing list (circa '95 or so). :(){:|:&};: My curiosity piq
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by jcims 9mo ago
Still with pretty low latency (25-35ms) as well (similar to the Standby (aka pause) state you can put the account into for $5/mo)
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by jcims 9mo ago
Nice! Thank you! I just did an experiment yesterday with Opus 4.5 just operating in agent mode in vscode copilot. Handed it a live STS session for AWS to see if it could help us troubleshoot an issue. It was pretty remarkable seeing it ch
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by jcims 9mo ago
Mind if I ask what models you’re using for CTF? I got out of the game about ten years ago and have been recently thinking about doing my toes back in.
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by jcims 9mo ago
As multi-step reasoning and tool use expand, they effectively become distinct actors in the threat model. We have no idea how many different ways the alignment of models can be influenced by the context (the anthropic paper on subliminal l
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by jcims 9mo ago
Most of this physical infrastructure is trivially identifiable in Google Maps.
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by jcims 9mo ago
Whether or not we work at the same place, we work at the same place.
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by jcims 9mo ago
Nice! Thanks!
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by jcims 9mo ago
LLMs have allowed me to start using jq for more than pretty printing JSON.
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by jcims 9mo ago
It feels like there are several conversations happening that sound the same but are actually quite different. One of them is whether or not large models are useful and/or becoming more useful over time. (To me, clearly the answer is y
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by jcims 10mo ago
My thinking as well. How could something so remarkably stable and functionally indistinguishable among its peers also be so complex?

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