So many good quotes:
"If hallucination matters to you, your programming language has let you down."
"Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor costs."
"'But it’s bad at rust' It’s hard to get a good toolchain for Brainfuck, too."
LLMs are good at Go and bad at Rust says a LOT.
I had an hour long conversation with Natasha Zouves from News Nation about the extremely complex topic of the impact of AI on jobs and careers
The video is on YouTube - here's my Claude Opus 4 assisted index of the transcript, with links to key sections
simonwillison.net/2025/May/30/...
what is 2029-01-20?
A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
sometime around 2012 i was forced to rewrite some reports i had created in excel/vb in some way in linux and I experimented with R...it was so nice and easy (somewhat...compared to other languages i knew) that I kept digging here and there...still digging though.
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it is beautiful
take it easy
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(...he and his close circle profit from all this)
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arresting judges is a really bad sign i would say...
@krisajenkins.bsky.social i really enjoy your podcast. The conversation flows are really nice.
A distorted face seen through a pixelated glass block.
A person holding a pixelated glass block in front of their face, creating a mosaic-like reflection.
Left side shows a fire seen through a pixelated glass block; right side shows a cat viewed through the same kind of block, creating a pixelated effect.
A person’s face viewed through a pixelated glass surface, causing a blocky distortion.
PixLens: Reality into 8-bit 🧊📷
blog.adafruit.com/2025/04/25/p...
it all made sense at some point...(ephemeral sense)
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looks fraud to me too...
hehehehehee
wtf
you could add the anottations using ggplot...forgot what geom. Probably would take a few tries before you get the spot you wanted...
what camera and lens did you use for this?
wtf?!!!
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:)
A "demystified" Gartner hype cycle graph including points like "trough of zero real adoption" and "slope of enterprise marketers jumping on the bandwagon too late"
I'm going to business hell for this one
i had heard the story before...but i didnt know it was so recent...this is messed up.
keep making your art. it is beautiful.
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i like to think we are trying to go up on an escalator that is going down (for each context of your life)...if you stop you go down on that context...
+extra $$$ if you want partitioning (was extra until not too long ago...) or some other niceties.
(note that cores in dev or other dbs cost just as much as prod).
the "Our Blessed Homeland / Their Barbarous Wastes" meme, which depicts identical societies with different coloured flags, and labels describing features of "our" side as glorious, noble, etc, and "their" side as primitive, backward etc. i've edited it so the little boats approaching eachother are labelled "our world-changing technology" and "their dangerous copyright infringement"
satelite image with clouds and ocean
