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ptdorf··on Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage
His mom's basement.
ptdorf··on Our position on open-weights models
> In fact, the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret and handed only to the People’s Liberation Army for use in drones and the Ministry of State Security for surveillance and repression.

Welcome to bizarro world!

Fist off: "the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret" <-- Says the guy that not only restricts commercial use for some of their models but develops them in utter secrecy. With the pretext of guardrails. Then show us the guardrails you really use by opening the weights.

Second: "use in drones [...] for surveillance and repression" <-- writes the King of FUD, as the US is an an active campaign with the help of their models. And/or OpenAI's.

I am very appreciative of the freedoms of the west but this type of hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is bonkers and it should be called out.

ptdorf··on Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
Depends. If the AI fixes don't introduce new bugs or unnecessary complexity (where bugs like to hide), then yes.
ptdorf··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Innovation? Who cares?? Regulation is where the real value is. /s
ptdorf··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
> I truly don't get Google's move.

Because the goal is not to provide the best answers.

It's for users to train their AI.

ptdorf··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
I wouldn't worry.

The mythical Mythos can't even find Claude code bugs before releases.

ptdorf··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
So... this was a lie
ptdorf··on The vi family
I use vim because it's addictive. And that's the highest compliment I can think of when it comes to user interfaces.

My fingers just love it. Every time I need to jump to a non-modal editor my muscle memory screams: "WTF?!"

ptdorf··on Googlebook
I sooooo want to buy it and have every single keyboard stroke, mouse and eye movement tracked.

I don't know about you but these AIs ran out of internet data to train and I volunteer all my blood, sweat, tears and movements to improve them.

ptdorf··on AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
All sites? No.

IAM? Def. But how critical is IAM, anyway?

ptdorf··on AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
Totally unrelated:

Amazon board: institutional knowledge is the real bottleneck, guys! Let's replace these entitled seniors and staff with juniors armed with kiro. Same difference, right?

ptdorf··on Just Use Go
Go probably wouldn't exist if Java devs went easy on overengineering design patterns.

But overall Java, like Go, IS a boring language. And that's a compliment.

ptdorf··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
First politics. Now businesses. This sounds like a wildly poorly written parody by teenagers.

"reduce Cloudflare’s workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally."

Are they 1) halting all the 1111 interns, 2) keeping the 1111 interns, now armed with AI, to replace mid-level/senior institutional knowledge or 3) a mix?

ptdorf··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Educated AND motivated workforce will do the trick.

All the polish I know that work in IT enjoy handwork as well. They are hard workers.

ptdorf··on GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code
You guys are all ugly and you smell.
ptdorf··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
Keeping your employees on their toes can work in the short term.

On the long term, prolonged stress kills innovation and engagement.

ptdorf··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
The firings will continue until morale improves.
ptdorf··on Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
Another one bits the dust.
ptdorf··on I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit
So SQLite is versioned in SQLite.
ptdorf··on Isseven
$ du -sh node_modules/

371M node_modules/

ptdorf··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
GCP's support sucks compared the quality on AWS. On everything else I find GCP very pleasant.
ptdorf··on Put the zip code first
> A city can also exist in multiple zip codes.

Sure but a zip code belongs to only one city and one state, right?

ptdorf··on Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
I should change my linkedin to vibe coder fixer
ptdorf··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
Same here. Asimov threw a veiled tantrum.

> He did not have the science fictional knack of foreseeing a plausible future and, in actual fact, in almost all cases, the world of 1984 bears no relation to the real world of the 1980s.

Asimov refuses to concede that Orwell beat him at his game. The book is not about predicting future gadgets but societal patterns and operating models.

ptdorf··on An Update on Heroku
The cancer of corporations: bureaucracy.
ptdorf··on Eat Real Food
Red meat is good for you. Animal fat is good for you.

Sugar is the real enemy.

ptdorf··on Google broke my heart
Gotta cut on support to buy those AI GPUs.
ptdorf··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
Holy molly! This was a treat to read and should be mandatory to every senior and even management.
ptdorf··on The future of Terraform CDK
> Terraform CDK is basically TypeScript transpired to HCL

transpiled to JSON

ptdorf··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
You meant: Austria. The lang of Kangaroos.
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