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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @rysiek@mstdn.social

GenAI: really putting "break things" into "move fast and break things"

Liam Proven @lproven@vivaldi.net

RT @ghidraninja

Simple age check for Linux:

Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.

If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip addr they deserve to be restricted from their computer 😇

Hearing comparisons of using LLMs for coding to the same sort of revolution that word processors brought to skilled typists.

And wow does that say a lot about what those people think software is.

Bellingcat: Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran

The footage, released by Mehr News and geolocated by Bellingcat, also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

NPR: Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran.

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‪doom boy‬ ‪@doomboy.bsky.social‬

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Dafuq is this? Department of War: DOW Identifies An Army Believed to Be Casualty — March 4, 2026

The Department of War announced the believed to be death of an Army Reserve Soldier who was supporting Operation Epic Fury.

Via Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 ‪@rocketpilot.xyz‬

Jesus wept it's literally this old twitter gag

With an image quote of a tweet by Jackson @tree_bro:

*knocks on door* Mrs Smith? I'm from Army. Your son got owned in Iraq. He showed great valor in the face of epic fail. Semper fi or whatever.

From Tara Calishain, Make Biking Great Again: Conservatives Should Embrace The Right Wing Values Of Cycling.

The article brings up all of the usual reasons, government fiscal responsibility, benefits for business, removal of external costs...

Not that that actually holds any sway with the current "Right Wing" whiners who are all about centralized economic control, debt spending, and externalizing the costs of their lifestyle on to other people, but...

I appreciate the attempts at crossing the political divide.

Can someone familiar with solar systems give me any evidence that a slightly north-facing (4°) panel would give better performance (perhaps evenings or mornings) at 38.23N?

I think I'm being fed bullshit, but citable evidence would be really nice to have to smack this down.

wingolog: international lisp conference -- day two has this very interesting snippet:

The "debate" had an interlude, in which Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 was not what it was in the mid-90s or in 2000. In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then produced spare code that they thought should work. Code ran close to the metal, even Scheme -- it was understandable all the way down. Like a resistor, where you could read the bands and know the power rating and the tolerance and the resistance and V=IR and that's all there was to know. 6.001 had been conceived to teach engineers how to take small parts that they understood entirely and use simple techniques to compose them into larger things that do what you want.

But programming now isn't so much like that, said Sussman. Nowadays you muck around with incomprehensible or nonexistent man pages for software you don't know who wrote. You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts. This is a fundamentally different job, and it needed a different course.

Via Andy Wingo @wingo@mastodon.social

Cam Pedersen: Noids, an update on Craig Reynold's "Boids" idea based on what's been learned about starling behavior in the intervening 4 decades, and by doing it with a neural net.

Via MeFi.

Some Words on WigglyPaint.

On how the author of WigglyPaint is processing an older version of that code base being republished on a gazillion linkbait sites.

Via.

Yeah, I'm pulling this one back.